Path to abolition of Reaganite Republican Party

December 2017: Yes , if the Republicans lost Trump's fanatical followers the Democrats could win veto proof majorities in 2018 ; and of course President in 2020. Republicans are losing their non-Trump fanatics steadily and Independents, because of Trump.So, they're sort of damned if they do and damned if they don't , between a rock and a hard place . If they start losing some of the 32% of fanatics, too, we can do it. Only 25% for tax scam may mean some Trump suckers are leaving the Republicans. October 2020 : yes we are the Majority. Republicans can only win by cheating, especially a vast system of voter repression and gerrymandering, out and out election stealing in 2000 has allowed them to impose minority rule or oligarchy. Clinton won a majority nationally . If we defeat trump , I think our liberal majority is now conscious enough to create permanent Democratic control of Presidency and Congress , and move to controlling more state governments. CB: Republicans are waging biological warfare on Us in the Majority , Democrats. They have disease , suicide “bombers” infecting us with poison breath . Campaign for Democratic votes everyday some kinda way ! The struggle continues; more victories are certain; freedom is a constant struggle. Sent from my iPhone@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@?????????? ?? ???? @@@@'@&''@''@@$:(($&&$)53(&& Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Charles Brown Date: January 13, 2016 at 6:35:32 PM EST To: "" Subject: Trumpism is a species of the genus Reaganism. Trumpism is a species of the genus Reaganism. What is Reaganism in 2016-20? It is rightwing government continuing the War on the Poor, neo-White Supremacy, escalation of the nuclear arms race and warmongering, union busting. It was initiated by Reagan's Presidential leadership , but politically metastasized among millions of Americans , and was continued after Reagan's Presidency in the Gingrich Gang in Congress with its Contract on America; Bill Clinton's ending welfare as we know it, even, sadly; Bush's Crimes Against Peace in Iraq and Afghanistan and tax cuts for the rich;the tea Republicans and all current Republican Party Presidential nominees, and most Republican politicians with power , and Blue Dog Democrats for 35 years . One of Obama's greatest political achievements is halting and reversing the federal War on the Poor with the first War on Poverty program since LBJ: Obamacare and opposing tax cuts for the rich. Obama has UNstayed the Reaganite course in the Presidency; Reagan's action was only in the Presidency at first; there were Democratic majorities in Congress for all his term. Reaganism spread to Congress and the states later. Reaganism is all around anti-99% policies of government fraudulently presented as pro-working class; it is tragically successful demagogy.

Post -2016 election analysis/ future projection

DEMOCRATS FOR MAJORITY RULE Sent from my iPhone On Feb 16, 2019, at 11:20 AM, Charles Brown wrote: From: Charles Brown Date: December 22, 2016 at 9:09:54 PM EST Most Bernie supporters were not Left intellectuals , especially among young people . Most were not against Clinton as a neo-liberal or oligarch or Establishment Democrat ( well maybe some ; smile). They just liked Bernie's socialism , frankly, ! at least his vigorous anti-Wall Street stance . Rachel , a 30 year old friend of mine from Bert's, said she thought Clinton should have picked Bernie for VP. Maybe that was Clinton's main error. Anyway , Rachel evidently supported Bernie , but was not hostile to Clinton. Bernie won the Michigan primary because of a new mass of progressive , but not ultra-left, voters, not activists ; especially in 85% Black majority Detroit. Rachel is pretty much apolitical most of the time , not a leftie. She's a proletarian. This is a political silver lining in this political weather of storm trooper -clouds . Our task is to nurture this new mass political vanguard. I would like to found a Caucus for a militant Constitutionalist Democratic Party for majority rule. This is needed because at least since Bush and the Republican majority on the Supreme Court stole the electoral count with a minority of national popular vote the Republicans openly and aggressively , extra constitutionally arrogate minority rule, racist minority rule. It's a large minority , but they know they are stealing control for minorities over majorities against the very fundamental definition of democracy , majority rule; majority of the whole People. This violates popular sovereignty and all power deriving from The People, We , the People , as a whole the most fundamental principle of US democracy . Sometimes it's the whole people of a state as in the Michigan referendum on the Emergency Financial Dictator Law. The People repealed the law and the Republican governor and legislature ignored the Will of We, the People, who are the highest authority in US democracy. I was a Bernie voter, but I spoke in support of both Clinton and Sanders. I had been supporting Clinton from before Sanders got in the race. I did not criticize either one . I canvassed for Clinton for six weeks , and phone banked for her. All criticisms of Clinton as the _cause_ of her loss boil down to that she was not perfect , thus running afoul of the fundamental logical principle that NOBODY is perfect. She was not a bad candidate because she won the majority of the popular vote. There was nothing she could have done differently during the campaign to appeal to that problematic voter Midwest economic victim. She rejected TPP ! Took up all of Bernie's main issues such that he loves the Democratic platform. Most of them are lying that Trump was more trustworthy on economics and jobs . They pretend that Obama has done nothing for them when he saved their a----. Including steel workers , whose jobs depend on auto companies buying lots of steel. Obama won enough of the rural vote to win two national electoral college majorities. The Democratic Party platform has Bernie's fingerprints all over it. We must stay the Democratic Party platform , Obama-led course; it has essential appeal for the only rural proletarians who are open minded. Comey's slanderous innuendo fake news in the middle of voting was the main cause of Clinton's loss out of all factors ; it was the culmination 30 years of Republican and monopoly media fake news smears of Clinton. In other words , the proximate cause of the Democrats's loss was not an error by the Democratic Party. She still won the popular vote , so the Democrats shouldn't change from twice successful Obamaism or their platform that Bernie loves. Demographic trends still favor Democrats. Party must organize mass youth voting machine computer scientist security guards; a youth army who can check voting machines. The majority of the working class voted for Clinton. Working class is those who do not employ anyone else to make a major part of their revenue; wage -laborers. We r the 99%!We r the 99%! More people like that voted for Clinton than Trump. Once Clinton won the nomination , all of the left should have followed Bernie's lead , and campaigned , canvassed , phone banked , door knocked for Clinton. I voted for Bernie in Michigan's primary , which with hindsight , I criticize myself for , because the momentum of Bernie's vigorous attacks on Clinton in the primaries, was not done taking account of its effect in the general if Bernie did not win the nomination. I remember criticizing Bernie for going too hard for too long. And once Clinton won I vigorously supported her , canvassed for six weeks in Macomb County, Reagan Democrat country central (which actually we weren't changing any votes; we should have been placed in Detroit by Planned Parenthood; not Clinton campaign ); phone banked . Part of Obama's legacy is no war on Iran , and reducing foot soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan from 180,000 to 12,000. He earned that Nobel Peace Prize. Obamacare will be his legacy , too, because even if the Republicans repeal it they will beget a backlash from those millions who lose it . Furthermore, repealing it will cause a crash in the insurance industry, which will trigger a larger recession. This recession will further hurt the Republicans; that big hit on the Republicans will be part of Obama's legacy. Thereby , Obamacare will remain part of his legacy . The Republicans know this , and may not repeal Obamacare because of that. Another part of Obama's legacy will be all the cures for dread diseases discovered because he lifted Bush's ban on stem cell rea search. This desperate Trump election is a very big political crisis for the bourgeoisie ; it will beget a 9.0 Economic Crisis, The Big One. Mothers grab yo children. Chauncey says : "David Over 90% of Black women voted for Clinton as did a little over 80% of Black men voted for her as well. "A lot" of African Americans did not do some sort of protest vote." Black people are the current political vanguard section of the US working class; especially Black women. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/black-women--hillary-clintons-most-reliable-voting-bloc--look-beyond-defeat/2016/11/12/86d9182a-a845-11e6-ba59-a7d93165c6d4_story.html?client=safari You can look at the exit polls themselves, too: http://www.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls/national/president https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/black-women--hillary-clintons-most-reliable-voting-bloc--look-beyond-defeat/2016/11/12/86d9182a-a845-11e6-ba59-a7d93165c6d4_story.html?client=safari Black females are the demographic with the highest percentage vote for Clinton. "Ain't I a woman. " -Sojouner Truth Over 8 million voters in CA voted for Hillary. She actually outperformed President Obama this year in terms of percentage gain over the GOP opponent. We have a state with one of the higher union membership. 75% of the electorate here voted, which is astounding. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/20/why-californias-voters-were-so-anti-trump-that-some-republicans-dont-want-to-include-them-in-2016-totals/?utm_term=.146c33fe62f7 Sam says : "Look at the breakdown of the vote, and bear in mind that the working class includes more than white workers; huge majorities of workers of color supported Hillary, and along with their white brothers and sisters they demonstrated good working class and democratic sense. As for the white workers who supported Trump, I believe that racism, misogyny, and anti-immigrant feeling figured into their voting calculus to one degree or another. To suggest otherwise is dangerous in my view. And those who do in the name of defending the working class are helping no one." There were several causes, as in many legal torts; "but for " causes . The 30 year Republican media smear culminating in Benghazhi, emails fake scandal , culminating in Comey's slanderous innuendo was probably the proximate cause complex. These made it close enough that the ultra-left , Bernie energized movement ( "political revolution" against the DNC ! Bernie was a guest in the DP, having vigorously always insisted that he was not a Democrat; comes in trying to do a bum rush takeover of the party apparatus ) may have been a but for cause, a necessary condition . Trump was able to demagogically echo Bernie's attacks on her on TPP ; pretending to be against TPP. Trump might not have been as effective as he was on this if Bernie had not been shouting about the issue up so much in the primary . Too vigorously attacking all along. Not taking account that he was attracting support from ultra-leftists that he wouldn't be able to control. Allowing his followers to attack the DNC as if it was the way ultra-left's slander it. Fundamentally disrespecting the Obama Democratic Party: ultra-left racist criticism of Obama, racist because it doesn't take account of how powerful was the white supremacist wall against Obama; typical white people's RACISMBLINDNESS. NAFTA was a minor factor in Midwest job loss. Plants were running away from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan , Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois ten years before NAFTA, especially steel plants. Obama , the Democrat , saved the auto ( and therefore steel) industry from economic Armageddon by the Republicans. Digital tech revolution destroyed more jobs than NAFTA. Clinton didn't do NAFTA, her husband did. Clinton rejected TPP. Midwest Trump supporters are , white supremacist , fake victims of Democrats. By voting for Trump , they are victimizers of themselves and the Rest of their class. Suicidal class traitors. ... ignoring the elephant in the room that blocked him at every turn,and evidently are one of these people who doesn't have high school level civics knowledge of the what a President can and can't do with a Congress that won't support him and then vigorously and unconstitutionally opposed him as on the last Supreme Court appointment. What a philistine. Someone political dullard had said: "Yeah, and I could give you a long list of less-than accomplishments. The most inspiring day for me in my life was the first Obama inaugeration though I already knew the gig was up with the appointments of Geithner and Summers. Still all those folks on the mall (and around the country) with "hope" was pretty damn impressive Alas......much of it was squandered. I guess will just have to agree to disagree and let history judge." "http://samwebb.org/rural-america-turning-foe-to-friend/ The Recasting of Rural America DECEMBER 16, 2016 In election post mortems, I have been a little suspicious of commentary that gives too large a role to globalization in accounting for what happened on election day. It has a role for sure, but it can be easily exaggerated. And to the degree that it obscures or hides the role of political and cultural factors, it’s more hindrance than help. Take the overperformance of Trump in rural and small town America. Globalization, if we understand it to mean corporate disinvestment from domestic locations in favor of investment in far flung regions and countries of the world, sheds little light on why Trump did so well in these communities. In fact, if pursued, it ends up in an analytical dead end. For it wasn’t the flight of capital from huge swathes of rural and small town America across the Midwest and Plains states that set the stage for Trump’s showing among voters in these communities. It was, actually, the opposite – the inward and massive flow of giant agricultural and commercial capital into every nook and cranny of rural America over the past four decades that did. As General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler were fleeing Detroit, Flint, and other auto centers in the last decades of the 20th century and relocating south of the border and elsewhere, corporate giants like Cargill, Monsanto, Du Pont, Archer Daniels Midland, International Harvester, Tyson Foods, WalMart, McDonald’s, Target, and CitiBank were descending on rural communities with the destructiveness of swarms of locusts. In this descent, small producers on the land and in the towns were ousted, long-standing social networks were dissolved, new technologies replaced living labor, familiar landmarks disappeared, and people were atomized. Furthermore, the family farms and small businesses left standing after this convulsive whirlwind found themselves operating in the shadows and under the thumb of the new corporate gunslingers who quickly came to dominate every phase of the production and distribution process and much more. If, to paraphrase the famous lines of the Communist Manifesto, all that was solid didn’t melt into air, it is also fair to say that no more than a thread remained of a way of life that earlier seemed timeless and eternal. http://samwebb.org/rural-america-turning-foe-to-friend/ Obama won enough of the rural vote to win two national electoral college majorities. The Democratic Party platform has Bernie's fingerprints all over it. We must stay the Democratic Party platform , Obama-led course; it has essential appeal for the only rural proletarians who are open minded. Sent from my iPhone

Republicans : Let them eat cake

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http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2015/03/as-far-as-republicans-capitalist-party.html

http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2017/10/premeditated-mass-murder-fascist.html

http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2022/01/gop-has-merged-with-kkk.html

http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2021/05/abolish-gop-before-they-kill-us-all-i.html

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Republicans damned if they do and damned if they don’t support Trumpy

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2022/2/25/2082335/-Ohio-GOP-Senate-candidate-J-D-Vance-goes-from-not-caring-about-Ukraine-to-suddenly-caring-very-much

Democrats stop Republicans’ anti-choice bill

abortion ban and bills from passing in Colorado Aysha Qamar Daily Kos Staff 2022/02/25 · 17:14 44 17 Comments 17 New Pro-choice activists supporting legal access to abortion protest during a demonstration outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, March 4, 2020, as the Court hears oral arguments regarding a Louisiana law about abortion access in the first major abortion case in years. - The United States Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear what may be its most significant case in decades on the controversial subject of abortion. At issue is a state law in Louisiana which requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) RSS PUBLISHED TO Aysha Qamar Daily Kos This Week in the War on Women TAGS Abortion AbortionBan Bills Colorado Democrats GOP Health HealthCare HumanRights MaternalHealth Pregnancy Pro-Choice PublicHealth ReproductiveRights Republicans Women WomensRights mybodymychoice Share this article As the country awaits the Supreme Court decision regarding the Mississippi law that has the ability to limit abortion rights across the country by overturning Roe v. Wade, states nationwide are introducing their own versions of the 15-week abortion ban. But while some GOP states have succeeded in having the anti-abortion bill pass, Democrats in Colorado defeated three anti-abortion bills on Wednesday during a meeting of the Colorado House’s Health and Insurance Committee, The Colorado Times Recorder reported. The three bills included a bill to ban abortion, a bill to collect and report data on abortion, and a personhood bill. The personhood bill, titled “Abolishing Abortion in Colorado,” defines a “person” to include “an unborn child at every stage of gestation from fertilization until birth.” According to the bill sponsored by Reps. Dave Williams, Kim Ransom, Ron Hanks, and Shane Sandridge, the state would have to enforce homicide and assault provisions on those who have abortions and those who provide abortion-related medical care, because abortion would be considered the murder of a person. It also authorizes the state to disregard any federal court decision that would forbid or void the requirement. Further, it subjects Colorado judges to impeachment or removal if a judge purports to enjoin, stay, overrule, or cancel the condition. Under “Induced Termination Of Pregnancy State Registrar,” aimed at collecting the data of those who have abortions, providers would have been required to report their patients’ demographics, any prior abortion history, and why they received the treatment. If the providers refused to do so, they could face losing their license to practice medicine. All three bills were voted down, 4-7, with speakers in favor of the bills comparing abortion to the Holocaust and slavery. According to The Colorado Times Recorder, bill supporters also misquoted information about Margaret Sanger and Black abortion rates. Those in favor of the bills advocated forcing women to carry pregnancies to term, including those conceived through rape. “Tonight was truly disgusting,” Rep. Kyle Mullica who voted against the bill said. He emphasized the lack of an exception for women who have been raped. “I’m disgusted at the thought of that.” Supporters of the bills were more concerned with the rights of life an “unborn child” has than the person carrying the pregnancy. “We must abolish child sacrifice,” Susan Sutherland of Colorado Right to Life said. Members of the organization also said that they vow to hold elected officials accountable for their positions on the issue of abortion. According to a survey conducted in 2020, 76% of Colorado participants agreed with the statement “when it comes to ending a pregnancy, a woman should have the power to make decisions about her body.” Despite this, Colorado limits public funding for abortion and requires a parent or guardian to be informed of a minor’s procedure. Today, 87% of state counties don’t have an abortion provider. “With the Supreme Court likely to strike down Roe v. Wade, it’s more important than ever that we defeat these extreme Republican bills that would ban abortion in Colorado,” state Rep. Susan Lontine, chair of the Health and Insurance Committee, said in a statement after the hearing. “Coloradans have said time and time again that we trust women to make their own decisions and we don’t want to imprison doctors or ban abortion. We won’t let Republican politicians take us back to a time when women died while trying to seek the care they need.” Reproductive rights are fundamental human rights. No one should be coerced or gaslit into making a decision that may not be what they want for their body and health. Additionally, policies that ban or limit abortion do not decrease the number of abortions, as some GOP officials believe. Instead, they restrict a woman’s right to her bodily autonomy and increase the number of unsafe abortions and maternal health problems that occur.

Campaign for Democrats everyday some kinda way

CB :Led by Democrats of course , FDR, LBJ. Canada has a social democratic third party. Third parties have been proven unviable in practice in the US . Reaganite Republicans have reached fascism . “Neo-liberal “ is bullshit ultra-left/ academic slang for Neo-CONSERVATIVES/Reaganites ; who do you think you’re foolin. You don’t know what a fascist is. in response to Marxist thaxis list piggy leftist: BELOW oink___________________________________________________








"Look if FDR and LBJ are your heroes, fine. But it doesn't belong on M-T. Fascist is as fascist does. Obomber destroying Libya and Syria--and running a coup to oust the elected president of Ukraine in 2014, is what fascists do. Again, I understand. You love the DP. Now fuck off. It does not belong here. "

Biden better than Trumpy

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2022/2/25/2082297/-Welp-it-s-just-so-clear-that-Joe-Biden-is-simply-Destroying-America SARCASM : Welp, it's just so clear that Joe Biden is simply "Destroying" America! Feb 25, 2022 11:13am EST by Frank Vyan Walton, Community 240 416 So a member of my anti-disinformation Facebook group Army For Truth decided to drop this little nugget on us all. Joe Davola Trump is strong, patriotic, smart and I can't wait for 2024 so he can fix AAALLLL the f-ups the Biden administration are responsible for. Trump handed over a strong economy, enemy's that kept quiet and respected America (China, Russia, N. Korea), the Southern Border was as strong as ever. Under the Libtards we have ZERO respect around the World, inflation is skyrocketing, the schools are a huge mess, Covid was a sham, Afghanistan lololol WHAT has Biden done right? What good for America has come from having this incompetent, corrupt, IDIOT in charge. Wow, I never really considered that perspective before. Trump is the GOOD GUY??! Biden is a shambolic senile mess? How could I have missed it? It’s becoming all so clear now. The scales have fallen from my eyes. Over the jump is my response. Democratic Rep. Kathleen Rice will retire after prominent career in Long Island politics Frank Vyan Walton Author Joe Davola Sure, Biden's responsible for Inflation - even though it was created by supply chain issues [and corporate greed] due to Trump blowing the initial response to Covid, and it's because of all Biden's spending except that Trump's [two] stimulus packages were almost twice the size of Biden's. And oil and gas prices rising are Biden's fault, except he only canceled the issuing of new leases on public lands and there have now been far more drilling permits issued on the existing leases. Oil production actually went down in 2021 due to covid but has so far recovered to where it was in 2019. Oil-Production US Oil Production from 2017-2022 [Notice that the dips match the peak rise of Covid infections] GDP-1990-2021 GDP 1990-2021 Absolutely Trump left us with a great economy after he improved unemployment under Obama from 4.2% all the amazing way to 3.5% - a massive improvement of 0.7% - and it only took him a short three years to get there. Then he finally left us with unemployment at 6.3% once the pandemic hit. After that Biden only improved unemployment from 6.3% to a measly 3.9% - which is only three times as much as Trump's improvement - while re-creating 6.6 million jobs and having an average GDP of 5.7% when Trump's average GDP for his entire time in office was 1.7%. Unemployment.jpg Unemployment in 2021 And Biden's responsible for the Afghanistan pullout that was negotiated and planned entirely under Trump who wouldn't let the Afghan government be involved so it promptly collapsed as their Army — who had been doing the bulk of the fighting since 2014 — dissolved in 19 days.And sure, besides conducting a historic airlift that brought 125,000 people out of the Kabul airport it’s tragically unfortunate that still many of our translators and allies were left behind — but that probably wouldn’t have happened if Trump hadn’t implemented a bigoted Muslim Travel Banthat prevented them from being removed previously. Sure, Biden's responsible for the invasion of Ukraine because Putin is doing it largely to undermine NATO and previously he had Trump available to do that for him by doing things like ordering our troops out of Germany. It’s just too bad that dumb ‘ole Biden canceled and reversed that order. And those Javelin missiles that Trump wouldn't give to Ukraine until they ginned up a fake investigation of Biden's son were finally delivered by Biden - so that must have pissed Putin off. And right, we have "zero" respect around the world except that every other country is going along with our sanctions on Russia, even Germany who actually do need the natural gas from that Russian pipeline, but they agreed to cancel the deal anyway. Yeah, if only they respected Biden who told them to do that. And Biden is responsible for increased migrants at the border because he practically didn't change any of Trump's previous policies including immediate expulsion under Title 42 Covid protocols or "Remain In Mexico" which is still in place. [Thanks to a right-wing Trump nominated Judge] And Biden is responsible for Covid, except that it started under Trump after he had dismantled the Pandemic response group that Obama had made part of the National Security Council, and also dismantled the pandemic fast response teams that had been put in place all over the world, and then threw away the pandemic response plan. Then Trump did "Operation Warp Speed" even though the first company to deliver a vaccine - Pfizer - wasn't part of that program, and Trump did a great job delivering the vaccine to 2 million people before he left DC without leaving a distribution plan so Biden had to improvise and get the vaccine to 240 Million Americans all by himself. Yep, clearly, Biden is the problem here.

Transportation Carbon Footprints

Comparing the Carbon Footprint of Transportation Options by Tyler Durden https://www.zerohedge.com (February 17 2022) As concern about climate change has grown, individuals are becoming increasingly conscious of their impact on the environment. Transportation emissions often make up the largest portion of our individual carbon footprints. For that reason, as Visual Capitalist's Govind Bhutada details below {1}, evaluating transport options is a natural place to start, whether it is for a daily commute or a leisure trip abroad. So, what's the most eco-friendly way to go from one place to another? https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/carbon-cost-of-transportation-ds.jpg The above infographic charts the carbon footprint of transportation per passenger kilometer for different vehicles based on data from the UK Government's methodology paper {2} for greenhouse gas reporting. Editor's note: Because the original labels in the study are very UK-specific, we have changed the copy of some of the labels to better suit an international audience. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: How Carbon Footprints Compare The carbon footprint of transportation is measured in grams of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalents emitted per person to travel one kilometer. This includes both carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases {3}. Here's how the carbon cost of travel compares for different means of transport: https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2022-02-16_16-07-49.jpg Flying on a short flight or driving alone are the most carbon-intensive travel methods. However, adding one more passenger to your car ends up cutting the emissions {4} in half, making driving more efficient. Specifically, it's worth breaking down categories of flights more, as their emissions depend greatly on their route length: * Short Flights: For example, domestic flights within a European country, or flights within a US state have the highest individual carbon footprint. * Medium Flights: For example, international travel within Europe, or between US states, has a significantly lower carbon footprint per person. * Long Flights: Flights over 3,700 kilometers (2,300 miles), about the distance from Los Angeles to New York, have the lowest carbon footprint per person. Why are longer flights far more eco-friendly than short-range flights? It's because take-off uses much more energy than the 'cruise' phase of a flight. For short flights, the efficient cruise phase is relatively short-lived. Shrinking Your Travel Footprint As the world works to mitigate the impact of climate change, people may want to identify and potentially reduce their daily carbon footprint. And choosing your method of transportation is one way to do so. Of course, walking, biking, or running are the lowest-carbon ways to go from one place to another. But car-sharing can also reduce emissions, as can switching to electric vehicles {5} or public transport. Over medium-to-long distances, trains are the most eco-friendly option, and for short-range domestic travel, driving is better than taking a flight. But as some countries are bigger than others, always consider the total distance you need to travel, and the breadth of options you have available. Links: {1} https://www.visualcapitalist.com/comparing-the-carbon-footprint-of-transportation-options/ {2} https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/greenhouse-gas-reporting-conversion-factors-2019 {3} https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/a-global-breakdown-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-sector/https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/a-global-breakdown-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-sector/ {4} https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-global-per-capita-co2-emissions/ {5} https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-global-electric-vehicle-market/ NEVER MISS THE NEWS THAT MATTERS MOST ZEROHEDGE DIRECTLY TO YOUR INBOX Receive a daily recap featuring a curated list of must-read stories. https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/comparing-carbon-footprint-transportation-options https://billtotten.wordpress.com/ https://www.ashisuto.co.jp--- To unsubscribe: List help:

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Black Liberation is Central to US Working Class Struggle

Subject: For Black History Month 

Comrade ,

The below from the 1975 CPUSA National Convention is 100% valid for US Marxists today . White supremacy harms _white_ workers , not just workers of Color ; it lowers all wages ( see the late Comrade economist Victor Perlo’s books on racist super-profits; https://www.amazon.com/Economics-Racism-Ii-U-Inequality/dp/0717806979/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1644171550&refinements=p_27%3AVictor.+Perlo&s=books&sr=1-1 ) . More importantly, It critically divides the working class preventing it from uniting ( workers of all countries and races , unite !) , and winning the class struggle ( See Comrade Gus Hall’s _Racism : The Nation’s Most Dangerous Pollutant_).

This harm to white workers by their own racism is center stage today in the tens of millions of workers who in their racism vote for the white supremacist Republican Party that then passes anti-working class laws and blocks pro-working class laws . This has been dominant in US politics since the election of the racist Ronald Reagan , who aggravated the Nixonian racist Republican Party Southern Strategy (https://www.history.com/topics/1960s/ask-steve-southern-strategy-video ; https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/05/donald-trump-richard-nixon-southern-strategy )

Today’s Left current which reduces the struggle against white supremacy to a so-called identity movement is racist and fundamentally anti-working class .

Solidarity !

Charles

From “Toward Peace , Freedom and Socialism” Main Political Resolution 21st National Convention, Communist Party, U.S.A., 1975

The Black Liberation Movement A unique feature of US capitalism is the extent to which, in addition to its basic system of class exploitation, it has spun a web of special systems of racial and national oppression and exploitation. The purpose of these is to squeeze out corporate super profits. Over 40 million people are victims of the special systems each with a special features. Their keystone is the white supremacist suppression of the 25 million Black Americans, hence, the struggle for Black liberation is a central factor in all struggles for social progress in this country. It is the cornerstone of the struggle against all forms of racial and national oppression.

Most of the 40 million are workers in basic industries, and manufacturing and agriculture . This fact presents a special task for the working class, for the antimonopoly movement, for the progressive movement and for our Party.

It is not only the Black and other minority people who are the victims of racial and national oppression. _White people are also it’s victims, economically socially , morally_ ( emphasis added -CB) . Only the monopoly corporations profit from it at the expense of all the people.

Racism , by lowering the wages of Black workers, also results in lowering those of white workers. Racism, which compels Black people to live in grossly substandard ghetto housing and astronomical rents, also leads to deterioration of housing and skyrocketing of rents , also leads to deterioration of housing and skyrocketing of rents for white working people. Racism, which has brought about the utter deterioration of education in the ghettos, is giving rise to the destruction of the entire public school system throughout the country and so it goes with every aspect of life. To all this must be added the morally corrupting effect of white supremacy on whites, a process which begins in the earliest grades of school and which has placed a hideous moral blot on the white population of our country .

So long as white working people can be made to believe that the interests of Black people are opposed to their own, they will continue to pay the price of racism — that of their own increasing exploitation and the growing deterioration of their own conditions of life. And so long as they fail to see the Black and white workers have a common interest against a common enemy, against whom they must unite , so long therefore as they do not fight against national racial oppression, they will be unable to make any serious advances in the field in the fight for their own interests. The working class cannot unite ranks without taking the lead in the struggle against racial and national oppression. There can be no victorious antimonopoly movements or struggles without a fight against the racist policies of the monopolies. There can be no successful struggle against reaction and fascism unless there is a struggle against the racism that divides the ranks of the forces which must be mobilized against reaction. There could be no successful fight for Socialism unless there is a struggle the burn out these this pervasive ideological influence that diverts , divides and confuses the forces of for Socialism. What must be brought home to white masses and particularly to the white workers therefore —- concretely, graphically , convincingly — is that racism is _their_ enemy , that it can destroy _them_. This is the central task.

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Reaganite white supremacy wounded the New Deal

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Understanding the racial roots of colorblind “free market” capitalism will help us transition to a better future for everyone.

Introduction The United States is clearly a capitalist country. But its version of capitalism — its political economy — has looked different at various points in American history, changing when a confluence of three factors collide: an economic crisis — or crises — occurs that reveals the flaws or deterioration of the previous economic system; expanded public support for a changing role for government in the economy; and a victorious political coalition that supports the change. For the past 40 or so years, America’s political economy has been largely based on a free-market ideology promoted by economist Milton Friedman. Central to this ideology is the economic principle that markets of all kinds are self-correcting, so much so that the government should not play a role in regulating the market or provide a social safety net for those whose needs are not met by the market. Much of these ideas were based on late 19th century liberal economic thought, which is why Friedman’s free-market capitalism is sometimes called “neoliberal” capitalism. Politically, free-market capitalism became ascendant with the conservative coalition brought together by Ronald Reagan in 1980 after the economic crises of the 1970s. Prior to the rise of neoliberalism in the late 1970s-early 1980s, America’s system of capitalism was based on the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes. Keynesian economics supports a role for government in the economy, including deficit spending, to stabilize the overall economy, prevent recessions, and support full employment. It was the primary approach of the federal government under the New Deal regime ushered in by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his political coalition, first as a response to the Great Depression but then especially so after the United States entered World War II.

Both are systems of capitalism, yet each is based on very different approaches for the role of government in the economy and for whom the economy should work. The difference in economic outcomes for Americans is telling: During the New Deal era the federal government established Social Security, minimum wages, and jobs and housing programs to financially support people at the lower income levels. After World War II, the GI Bill helped build a solid middle class, and taxation policies and support for unionized labor helped ensure that a broad swath of Americans benefited from the steady growth of the economic pie. This era — 1945–1973 — is often called the Golden Age of Capitalism for its economic prosperity alongside high and sustained levels of productivity growth.

The shared prosperity that was seen in the three decades following World War II is long gone. Wages started to stagnate in 1973, even as productivity continued to increase. But the gap in income and wealth between the top and bottom deciles began to grow rapidly after 1980 when Reagan’s new political coalition took office. Based on the theory of “trickle-down” economics that posited that money in the hands of wealthy people would lead to increased investments, which would then lead to more jobs for people on the lower-income rungs, a new political economy was established. As a result, over the past four decades, the before-tax incomes of the top 1 percent of America’s households have increased nearly seven times faster than the bottom 20 percent. Now the United States sees the greatest concentration of wealth since the Gilded Age, as an estimated 40 percent of Americans are poor or low-income.

The racial wealth gap is also stunning. White families hold an average of 10 times more wealth than Black families. The homeownership rate — the main source of family wealth in America — is nearly 30 percent higher for White families than for Black ones. And the gap between the two is bigger today than it was in 1960 when discriminatory housing and banking practices were still legal.

The social, economic, and political upheaval of 2020 accentuated the pain of the Friedman paradigm for many people and instigated a growing awareness among White people of the persistent racial inequality ingrained in our economy. The calls for more shared prosperity helped Joe Biden win the Presidency, with the support of a strong multiracial coalition. Together with congressional Democrats, Biden is pushing for broad investments in America and Americans. Indeed, investments will be the largest since the New Deal programs of the 1930s and the Interstate Highway Act of the 1950s — both times when a majority of Americans supported an activist role for government in the economy. It appears that the three factors required for a change in America’s political economy are in place. Could we be on the cusp of a new chapter for American capitalism?

As the country looks to rebuild the American economy in the post-pandemic era, it’s important to understand how America came to accept four decades of neoliberal, free-market capitalism that did not work for a lot of people for a long time. What changed in Americans’ attitudes around the role of government in the economy that led Americans to support it, even with its uneven economic outcomes, especially for Black and brown Americans? Considering that the last political and economic realignment happened in the wake of the civil rights era, what role did race play in ushering in and maintaining America’s neoliberal political economy? Understanding the role of race in the transition from Keynesian New Deal capitalism to neoliberal free-market capitalism can inform how America can now more successfully transition to a more shared prosperity model.

FDR Builds A Tenuous Multiracial Coalition The 1932 election was a watershed moment for America. Twelve years of conservative Republican rule, including laissez-faire economic policies, led to the disastrous stock market crash in October 1929 that triggered the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover’s tone-deaf calls for “rugged individualism” at a time when Americans were looking to the federal government to find some relief for their economic woes led to a dramatic political shift towards the Democrats. Many folks who voted Republican throughout the “Roaring 20s” joined the traditional Democratic voting base of urban northerners and Southern segregationists to give Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt the White House — and with it a mandate to tackle the troubled economy.

FDR did not disappoint. As soon as he was inaugurated in March of 1933, he kicked off an activist approach to governing that helped build a regulated economy with a social safety net that put guardrails on American capitalism. Social Security, unemployment insurance, the abolition of child labor, minimum wage and the 40-hour workweek, the right to join a union, were all established, alongside market and banking regulations, housing programs, infrastructure investments, and jobs programs. Through institutions, regulations, and new economic relief programs, FDR’s policies established a new social contract with the American people, a New Deal that established a role for the government that redirected American capitalism towards a shared prosperity model.

Roosevelt’s policies were also drawing Black voters to his coalition from their historic home in the Republican Party. Ever since the end of the Civil War, most Black voters were aligned with Republicans as the party of Lincoln, the Great Emancipator. Indeed, in 1932 between 2/3rds and 3/4ths of the Black vote in northern urban cities went to Republican Herbert Hoover.

Two main factors drove a pronounced shift in Black Americans’ political party affiliation after FDR instigated the New Deal. First, the Republican Party consistently refused to pursue civil rights for Blacks, especially during the 1920s when Republicans courted wealthy industrialists. Second, as more African Americans fled the white supremacy of the segregated South to northern industrial cities, they had access to the vote in their new homes. Finding greater opportunities in areas dominated by Northern Democrats fueled many Blacks to switch parties. By 1936, the shift was complete, with Blacks squarely in FDR’s New Deal coalition, even as New Deal programs extending economic relief to struggling Americans reached disproportionately fewer Blacks than Whites. For the next 30 years, the unlikely coalition that FDR forged under the banner of the Democratic Party proved formidable. Its main components were lower-income groups in the great cities — African Americans, union members, and ethnic and religious minorities, many from recent immigrant groups — and the traditional source of Democratic strength, White segregationists in “the Solid South.” What kept these seemingly oppositional groups together was an economic platform that allowed for regional peculiarities (read: local implementation of programs that didn’t challenge Southern Jim Crow segregation). But as the movement for civil rights grew, tensions within the New Deal coalition grew, eventually delivering it a fatal blow by 1968, ushering in a new political and economic order that shredded the commitment to shared prosperity.

The Post WW II Civil Rights Movement and the Dixiecrat Revolt of 1948 When war came to America in December 1941, millions of Americans enlisted, including 1.2 million Black men and women. Black Americans were motivated to sign up for many of the same reasons that compelled Whites: to fight for democracy abroad, even as they were subjected to racial segregation at home. Once the war was over, Black soldiers returned to the United States and found themselves still treated as second-class citizens at home. Some Black GIs were even advised to not wear their armed forces uniforms in public in order to avoid being the victims of violence by Whites who targeted them. This blatant hypocrisy kicked off a new civil rights movement wherein many Blacks demanded equal access to the rights and privileges of American citizenship. Civil rights advocates led campaigns to end discrimination in housing and employment, among other issues. The movement achieved several victories in 1948. In May of that year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Shelley v. Kraemer that racially restrictive housing covenants could not be enforced by the government. In July, President Harry Truman issued an Executive Order directing the desegregation of the armed forces. Within that same week — at the Democratic National Convention where Truman would receive the official nomination for re-election — the Democratic Mayor of Minneapolis Hubert H. Humphrey and other Northern Democrats pushed for the Democratic Party to adopt a civil rights platform, calling on members to “get out of the shadow of states’ rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.” The narrow adoption of the civil rights platform by convention delegates outraged Southern Democrats, leading delegates from Mississippi and Alabama to walk out and establish their own pro-segregation Dixiecrat Party. The Dixiecrats went on to nominate South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond for President as an alternative to Truman. The Dixiecrat Revolt drew the longstanding tensions within the New Deal coalition between the Northern liberals and Southern segregationists into the open. Generally, Southern Democrats had long believed that FDR’s Democratic coalition was their only path to be a part of a national majority party. But they also had a shaky relationship with the New Deal. They were able to protect the white supremacist social order in the South as the federal government passed national New Deal programs by demanding that many of the programs be implemented locally. This allowed them to extensively limit access to many New Deal benefits to Whites only, or implement them in racially segregated ways. Still, many of them were worried about the expansion of federal power at this time, concerned that an expanded federal government could lead to a loosening of their one-party rule over the political, social, and economic order in the South. Especially their racial system of Jim Crow segregation and white supremacy.

Protecting the existing Southern racial hierarchy and white power was at the heart of the revolt. The Dixiecrat’s eight-point platform affirmed their support for “segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race” and their opposition to “the elimination of segregation, [and] the repeal of miscegenation statutes.” Their agenda also included support for anti-labor union “private employment” arrangements over intrusion by the federal government and other conservative economic principles.

Dixiecrats (and other Southern Democrats who supported their ideology but not the strategy) began to realize their cause would be strengthened if they shifted from explicitly racial language to using more race-neutral tones. “The South’s fight is not being waged on the theory of white supremacy,” Thurmond insisted, “but on the theory of State sovereignty.” It was a lesson that many white racially conservative Americans would learn as the civil rights movement advanced. Despite the tumult within the Democratic coalition in 1948, Truman famously won reelection with the narrowest margin. In the end, Truman owed his victory to two of the New Deal coalition’s staunchest members: Southern Democrats who stayed with him despite the Dixiecrats’ efforts (the Dixiecrats received only 20 percent of the popular vote in the Southern states where they were on the ballot), and northern urban African Americans who voted for him in increased numbers in parts of Chicago and Cleveland, giving Truman narrow victories in Illinois and Ohio. Brown v. Board of Education and Setting the Stage for the Nationalization of the Massive Resistance One of the most impactful civil rights

Brown v. Board of Education and Setting the Stage for the Nationalization of the Massive Resistance One of the most impactful civil rights movement’s victories came on May 17, 1954, with the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The ruling declared unconstitutional the legal doctrine of “separate but equal” that had until then defended the Jim Crow system of racial segregation. Most notably, the ruling called for the desegregation of America’s public schools.

Reaction in the former Confederate states was considerable, leading the white supremacist U.S. Senator from Virginia Harry Byrd to coin the term “massive resistance” to describe the reactions by Southern Whites. Several Southern states passed bills outlawing desegregation and conforming to the court order. Local communities across the South resisted orders to racially integrate their public schools by disbanding their public school systems and selling their properties to newly formed Whites-only private schools. Over 250,000 Whites joined local White Citizens Councils (WCCs) to fight school integration and integration of other public facilities in their local communities such as public pools and libraries through political, economic, and social intimidation.

The civil rights movement was increasingly successful at toppling Southern segregationist policies and practices. As a result of its success, it spurred a nationalization of the White backlash that would go on to undermine the movement’s goal of racial equality. It did so in two important ways: reframing the defense of legal racial segregation as a race-neutral issue of constitutional “states’ rights”, and bringing the fear of integration to de facto segregated communities in the North.

First, while some massive resisters used explicitly racial language in their defense of racial segregation and the white supremacist racial order, other anti-integrationists began to amplify their defense through the use of race-neutral language. “Home rule,” “local control,” “states’ rights,” and even the newfound constitutional right of states’ “interposition” became race-neutral rationales for stopping the implementation of desegregation orders. As some Southern Democrats and their allies became more and more concerned with the increasing power of the federal government working to “end their way of life,” they began to build relationships with Northern conservatives to amplify the defense of Southern segregation using race-neutral language. In 1957, the conservative New York-based National Review wrote in defense of the Southern racial hierarchy as being about “whether a central or local authority should make [the] decision” about educating their children, not the federal government, even calling a decision to deny Blacks equal rights as “enlightened” if a majority of voters supported it.

The seeds were being planted for a future political realignment marrying traditionally Republican Northern economic conservatives with traditionally Democratic Southern racial conservatives, using race-neutral language in defense of policies that directly supported a racial social hierarchy.

Second, even though Northern communities didn’t have the explicitly white supremacist Jim Crow laws and social order of the South, they did have their own forms of legal and racial discrimination that kept Whites and Blacks separate and unequal. Much of the North’s racial segregation was established in response to the Great Migration when Blacks began to move North seeking economic opportunity and an escape from racial segregation and violence. As Blacks were arriving in Northern cities starting in the early 1900s, local zoning laws, racially restrictive covenants attached to residential properties, and significant anti-Black violence by Whites limited where housing was available to Black families. New Deal federal housing programs refused government-backed mortgages to redlined communities where Blacks could live. Then post-war programs for returning GIs supported suburban homeownership for White families but denied it to Black ones. Further, the federal interstate highway system was being built to assist the transport of suburban residents to downtown jobs, often through disinvested Black neighborhoods. The impact of these policies was to segregate cities by design, with Blacks living in aging urban areas with extremely limited opportunities to build wealth through homeownership, while Whites moved to new suburban communities with the support of the federal government.

As legal segregation was being dismantled in the South through court orders, and Blacks were winning more legal rights and access to public facilities, White communities in the North became fertile ground for racial anxiety.

Race-Neutral Anti-Civil Rights Defenses Marries Free Market Anti-Government Views The shifting political rhetoric of Southern opponents to Black civil rights — initially from explicit support for white supremacy to racially neutral calls for “local control,” and “states’ rights” — matured to center and prioritize individual economic rights. In this way, the movement for a continuation of a racial order that advantaged Whites intertwined with the neoliberal movement for a free market political economy that sought to remove the government from economic policies that supported middle-class Americans. As the civil rights movement continued to advance, U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater from Arizona emerged as a critical national voice of the white supremacist message wrapped in an emerging neoliberal economic rhetoric. Before becoming the 1964 Republican Presidential candidate, Goldwater published his book, Conscience of a Conservative in 1960. Ghost-written by a Republican Party activist who was seeking to bring together Northern businessmen with Southern segregationists in a new conservative movement, the book was both a commercial and messaging success. It included not only defenses of school segregation (“the Constitution does not permit interference whatsoever by the federal government in the field of education”), but also presented a values-based argument for “economic freedom”, including arguing that economic freedom and political freedom were “inextricably entwined.” Until this reframing, many Americans still associated economic conservatism with the soulless corporations that caused the Great Depression. Goldwater himself was more of an economic conservative than a racial conservative. He personally supported many desegregation efforts. But as the Republican Party’s candidate for President, Goldwater found that he won more support through the party’s increasingly stronger stance against civil rights than its conservative, anti-government economic platform. His campaign marked an important step in the development of the modern conservative movement that combined conservative free-market economic beliefs with being against equal rights for Blacks. Alabama Governor George Wallace was another political figure who practically perfected the use of race-neutral “racial coding” rhetoric of racial resentment on the campaign trail, expanding the messages of White grievance beyond his Southern state into Northern communities. Running as a Democrat in the 1964 Presidential primary in Wisconsin, Wallace carefully avoided explicitly racial matters, instead of attacking the government itself for its “overreach” and other aspects of the impending civil rights legislation. He warned middle-class suburbanites and White working-class ethnic voters of attacks on private property rights, federal encroachments on individual market freedoms, union job protections, their children’s schools, and other ways President Lyndon Johnson’s racial liberalism would threaten their safety and economic status. While Wallace didn’t win, he made a surprisingly strong showing in what the Harvard Crimson called “The White Revolt.” He earned one-third of the votes cast in the primary, reflecting that his racially coded anti-government messages were tapping into white voters’ increased racial anxiety as Congress was on the verge of passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

President Johnson still won the 1964 Presidential election — indeed, by a landslide — proving the staying strength of the New Deal coalition and the Keynesian economic model that government can increase prosperity by playing a role in the economy. But the ties between the Democratic Party and its traditional voters were loosening, including support for its economic platform. An electoral shake-up was coming, one that was driven by the transition in the country’s racial order from Jim Crow segregation to “color blind” legal equality. This transition to a new post-civil rights racial order would buttress the new economic order based on the free-market principles advocated by Goldwater and Wallace in 1964. (continued)

Inheritance of ADAPTIVE acquired characteristics

“But some research suggests that events in our lives can indeed affect the development of our children and perhaps even grandchildren - all without changing the DNA.”

The issue of events in an individual’s life affecting their children and grandchildren is only part of the dogma against inheritance of acquired characteristics. There must also be a natural selection action . Both Darwin and LaMarck have theories of natural selection.

So , the context of the event in the individual’s life that affects offspring must be that there is an adaptive problem. Not only that : the adaptive problem must be the event that affects the change in the individuals body that is passed on to progeny ! AND the change must be the solution to the adaptive problem. That’s what happens in the giraffe stretching it’s neck fictional hypothetical. How did the giraffe evolve a long neck ? By solving an adaptive problem : it was naturally selected for . LaMarck had an evolutionary Natural selection theory , too. Darwin dabbled in LaMarck’s theory ; Engels too in “The Role of Labor in the transition from Ape to Man”.

The dogma against inheritance of acquired characteristics came about with the discovery that new phenotypes arise due to genetic mutations ( of course, Darwin and LaMarck did not have the theory of DNA as the method of inheritance and variety of types in a species) And that mutations that give rise to phenotypes that adapt to a problem in the struggle for existence occur _randomly_in relation to the adaptive problem they solve . Here , I finally figured out, randomly means they are not caused by the adaptive problem that they solve. .

The giraffe example contradicts this because the adaptive problem-food being too high up to reach with a short neck- causes the giraffe to stretch its neck ; the problem causes its own solution, so the solution does not occur randomly in relation to the problem it solves. None or very few of the epigenetic examples even mention an adaptive problem . The ones that do don’t clearly prove their claim. Some say the new phenotype seem to be generally maladaptive .

The dogma’s name should be changed to inheritance of _adaptive_ acquired characteristics .

Charles Brown

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