"At this point, the debate shouldn’t be whether Trump is in decline. The debate should be how much longer the country can pretend he isn’t". HELL YES DAVID! Perfectly said.
Yes, Bonnie, you are correct--the stakes most certainly are international in scope. Because of Trump's ineptitude, ego, and greed, all of which are exacerbated by his rapidly progressing dementia, the US is no longer a stable democracy and has lost the trust of our longtime friends. Our failing economy will have devastating repercussions around the world. The US has lost favor with most, if not all, of our closest allies worldwide, and Russia has felt ever more emboldened in its war on Ukraine, the Middle East is more destabilized, and Venezuela, Trump's "new target", may well become the next war torn country. Only when Trump is out of office, can our country and the rest of the world begin to heal.
I encourage all reading you David, to contact the Governors who speak this truth and express your support. I emailed both Newsom and Pritzkers offices to express gratitude for speaking forthright. They need to know we are behind this truth telling!
The people around him know he's in decline but they are using it to advance their own agenda. And while Dementia Don is out to lunch, JD is off on another Vaca so that he can assume plasable deniablility. Moses Mike is unaware of anything going on (that's his standard remark for everything). So its not their fault if The Don burns down the house along with the whole country. We have the rich, apartheid crew to swoop in and take over. We need even more Governors to stand up!
I haven't been whispering anything. I spent a good part of last summer watching the campaign rallies. I told everyone he was out of his mind, he doesn't speak intelligently, he talks about fictional characters as if they were real, he lies about things that are common knowledge and when he shouldn't have been truthful he was revealing to those few of us that were listening, his evil plans for our country l told everyone that if he was my Grandpa I would be taking the keys away from that lunatic.
Aberrant is a good word instead of the tired and overused - not normal which in my opinion was never a strong enough term! Can anyone else think of a good and dramatic word or term that clearly describes the abhorrent and criminal activity we are watching?
I use the word fascism. That is the abhorrent and criminal activity we are watching. People seem to think that word is a slur. ??? It is a perfect word that describes a central leader who holds power (plenary authority- ooops, Miller said it out loud) surrounded by totally faithful "rods" who carry out his agenda.
Exigent and acute analysis, David. The danger of Trump’s mental deterioration is even worse and more perilous than people think. In other words, we must not miss perceiving the forest of Trump’s long-term but rapidly worsening and decompensating mental disorder of psychopathy -- more specifically malignant narcissism and kindred anti-social personality disorders -- for the trees of his visibly accelerating cognitive decline, namely dementia. The admixture of these two aspects of brain and characterological abnormality potentiates his risk to human life and well-being everywhere. Forensic and social psychiatrist and violence expert Dr. Bandy X. Lee (who posts on Substack) and her eminent psychiatric colleagues have been warning about the danger of a mentally debilitated Trump as president for the last decade, and those warnings have now reached a crescendo of urgency as his hubristic power aggrandizement intensifies on steroids.
I did write a comment. It was incorrect. I don’t watch DT speak. I’ve long been unable to tolerate his voice& juvenile remarks. I said I thot his problem is more a personality disorder. After reading this post from David, I agree his decline is far more serious & dangerous than I believed. How do we enact the 25th Amendment? It must be done to save our democracy.
I totally agree. However, having the two most biased Democrat governors calling out Trump does not move the needle. What the US needs is for a few Republican governors to do the same.
I do not hold much hope that any Repubs have the courage to do it. Whatever happened to the land of the free and the home of the brave. I think they moved to Canada.
THANK YOU. Plainly said. Accurately described. The moral somnambulism of the GOP/MAGA crew of cruelty apparently has too many marbles in the wager basket to face THE TRUTH. They would rather dissimulate? Stand by for utter destruction? Abysmal behavior More people with platforms must call it what it is. Not allow the charade to continue unchallenged. Ro Khanna on daily beast put a bow on the whole sorry shebang in a YouTube interview. His analysis: all of this debacle ties to entrenched power protection maneuvering to evade accountability for the rampant pedophilia - AKA Epstein files.
We, in the rest of the world, watch with horror what is being allowed by Congress to be done to each and every citizen of your country. We have been telling you AND RETELLING YOU what has been so obvious for so long, only to be told, rudely, to mind our own business. We'll it IS "our business".
So two prominent Democrat politicians now say, publicly, that his cognitive and moral decline is too obvious not to be acknowledged? And they are heroes for doing so? TWO?!?! Out of ALL the elected officials in the Divided States of America? What does that say about the moral spines of the other greater than 99%?
I hope that your October 18th protests provide some moral fiber to your elected officials, if only for the crass reason that they realise that the electorate just might not re-elect them if they don't get with the programme.
So sad for you. So worried for you. STAY STRONG and STAY SAFE!
As another Canadian I too watch in horror as your country is destroyed by a madman. He has a funny idea that all of Americans should go through hell before getting to heaven. That a paraphrase of what he says. Trump has some shady “business” dealings going on in Russia (Georgia) right now in the billions of dollars. So he can’t hurt Putin. There must be a legal way to swear in the New Democrat.
It must be a hellacious torture living inside the felon’s mind.
He’s always been one to compulsively project, and now he’s unable to make even a slight effort to control it.
He repetitiously mocked, and still mocks former President Joe Biden for the very things he suffers from himself.
But for whatever reason the Congress allows it.
A mentally ill, brain diseased man who is acting as president has no real power. It’s like giving a two year old the job, he is out of place. He is a danger to the nation, to the world.
He needs to be removed. And not just impeached but convicted. Immediately.
There was no need to be condescending to David, Carole Whoeveryouare. It might have been helpful to all concerned if you had shared some of your obviously superior knowledge.
Of course there are regulations and licences. I am fulky aware of that and didn't deny that. Canada did not block NBC; NBC blocked Canada. Maybe NBC was late with their payment to the CRTC. Or maybe there is a glitch in whatever robot is responsible for the conduit of visuals to Canada. Maybe the glitch will get fixed. I don't really care. I was merely providing a heads up so that other Canadians wouldn't be shocked if the same thing happened to them. There was no need to be condescending to me..
So, now that WE know the truth, how do we convince others. It brings no value to us to be told something we already know. How do we help others see what we see? How do we reach a person who watches Fox? How do we reach people who do not watch any news?
Once we get their attention for a moment, how do we help them answer the questions we have gotten them to ask?
Screaming in their faces will not help. Neither will telling them to 'do their research' because they may go to Q to ask their questions, or watch Fox for their answers... We need a better process than just telling ourselves stuff we already know.
agreed but not sure how you change the minds of many in tRumps cult. then there are the republicans who, I'm sure, see this but sit back and in fear and nothings. The selfish billionaires who sit in their wealth comfort doing NOTHING. there is corporate media doing nothing. Scary times...No Kings 10/18.
So we start with the ones we can reach then the others will eventually hear the word. But right now all we are doing is preaching to the choir. it is Trump himself who is persuading those that used to support him or simply 'went along' with him to walk away from him. What are we doing to make it easier for them to tell the difference between what we say and what Trump says?
We could scream at them that it's 'obvious', or that they should 'look it up on the internet' or just call them names and assume they will never change. That works real well. Or we could create a resource where evidence lives, where all the crimes are counted and listed and evidence provided. Where all the evidence of his ill health and dementia is laid out with time lines and progression of disease... Where all the evidence of his power grab and rush towards dictatorship has proceeded according to his plans. Because I watch the news a LOT and I can tell you, while individual actions are easy to find, the pattern is mostly hidden in all the noise that Trump creates daily.
Yes. While this is not evidence of crimes it does point to "The Dunning-Kruger effect which is a cognitive bias where people with low ability or competence in a specific area overestimate their own knowledge".
The vast collection of them indicates he has no comprehension of the very concept of skill, expertise, competence and as such is inherently unable to make use of the competence of experts on his staff making him dangerously mentally impaired for the position.
If his job was to cheat at golf, he would have significant experience, but not really much skill, since he gets caught doing it all the time. He only gets away with it because he is rich / powerful and mostly plays on his own golf courses.
Douglas: please read this entire comment. I agree completely about his tactic of creating "noise" constantly. The natural tendency is to get distracted by the noise.
Senator Schiff recently did a very good job of listing his crimes against your people committed in the past 9 months and he did it in 9 minutes. It was really the first time that I have seen him so impassioned. He blended fact with passion in a way that others would do well to emulate. It was an address to your Senate. You can find it on YouTube if you search "9 months in 9 minutes" I think. You have probably already seen it, Douglas, so I am mentioning it here for others to explore it too. He can still improve his effectiveness, but I was delighted to see the change in his delivery.
You may see it as yet another example of preaching to the choir and for those who access these comments it probably is that. But it is a whole lot more than that if you take it as an example of a potentially good strategy. What has been lacking in so many Democratic speeches and commentaries is the pairing of passion with facts. Your general public does not respond to facts; they turn off when presented with facts; they do not want to be lectured to and will respond quite viciously if they feel that they are being lectured to.
Analyse and think about what he (not Schiff--the one whose name I will never again utter) does in his messaging that works with "the masses". Short "catchy" phrases (like MakeAmericaGreatAgain) delivered with passion. Repeated endlessly so that they become slogans. (I doubt that the "No Kings" slogan is very effective for the audience you need to capture.) Unfortunately his messaging is peppered with lies. So you have to pepper with facts. With truths. With passion. Use his strategy but use it with integrity. Tricky but do-able.
Passion alone is ineffective. When David Pakman interviewed a woman from your Congress recently she answered him with passion but it did not come across authentically; she was no doubt sincere, but the delivery was--in my opinion--disorganised, scattered. The style was definitely "off message". I also found myself saying "You didn't answer David's question!" My point here is that NOT EVERYONE is suited to be a spokesperson for your cause. Some ARE capable of changing their style however. I was actually almost shocked by the way that Senator Schiff is beginning to become more effective in his messaging. Shocked in a good way. He used facts, but not in a pedantic (quite frankly boring) way. He expressed outrage, but wasn't hystrionic. He still needs to bring it "down" to where people LIVE. I think that they could care less about philosophical ideals or even about constitutionality (SEVEN SYLLABLES? are waaaaay too many); they want to know how they are going to feed their kids, how they are going to get their meds, how they can get to the grocery store without being violently deported to a country they've never even heard of. They are miserable and they need someone to blame. WE know that it isn't the immigrants who are to blame. WE know that it isn't the migrants who are to blame. WE know that it isn't the brown/yellow/red/black people who are to blame. WE know that it isn't Obama who is to blame. WE know who IS to blame. Tell them, over and over and over again who is to blame. Just one syllable does it! Which reminds me, keep sentences very short (unlike in my response to you). Try for one syllable words in those short sentences; at the most two syllables if possible (e.g., "food" "meds" "safe").
To get academic on you for a moment, consult and apply the research on the psychology of crowds.
Borrowing shamelessly from his slogan, you need to MASA--Make America SAFE Again. "Safe" in so many areas--safe from Putin, from starvation, from homelessness, from illness, from local mass shootings; from Qatar, from tyrants (forget kings--it is TYRANTS you need to be safe from).
Understand that even the unredacted E-files are not going to make you safe again. But by all means use the E-files as noise to distract him. He is using intimidation and fear on you; use ridicule and disrespect on him--but know that that, of all things, will trigger him the most dangerously.
I do like your new slogan. It is short and honest.
You don't do safe, apparently. At a certain level that is admirable of you. On another level that is shall we say, to be polite, counter-productive. By safe, I don't by any means mean "not bold". Should one of your goals be to live as long as I have, it would be wise to be constantly aware of your surroundings in order to ensure that your body survives. Your body "encases" that mind of yours and is rather essential. You are very impressive and your particular mind is capable of being very helpful to the cause of making america yours again (except that I am not at all sure that it ever was yours to begin with--or at least not withn the past 100 years ...). So, without being paranoid about it, please do take care to safeguard the body that encases and nourishes that brain of yours. All the best to you and may MAY prevail.
Thank you for your very kind comments. Notice I did not use the word 'again'.
We are at the tipping point where we need to restructure the government, which will be easier following the destruction Trump is causing. Not for my preferences, but because that is what the american people are clearly demanding. Many people voted for Trump because of his big promises, many voted because he would tear it all down, because they had no faith it would ever change otherwise. While I opposed that strategy, because it was too high risk, blind to the dangers of a broken government, but now that we have it, it would be stupid to not take advantage of the opportunity to 'build back better' by refocusing the agenda, to seize the populist moment and focus the mission on making the people the center of, the purpose of the government, to remove the wealth from the levers of control.
MAY we hope Democrats are smart enough to seize the opportunity, brave enough to not play it safe, because the people showed us they had no patience for the excellent work Biden had done, it was not enough. Biden was too much an 'institutionalist'. The people could see that he was not making big enough changes.
Most people cannot vocalize these concerns, but remember the "Occupy Wall Street" movement. It also was never clearly defined, happened everywhere, focused on the foundation of our economic system. It was the canary in the coal mine, an early warning.
Obama briefly mentioned, in his last 'state of the union' speech, the issue of the ongoing, escalating 'industrial revolution' and the disruption / problems it brings, but he lacked the courage to do more than the brief mention as he moved on to the other more standard concerns.
"At this point, the debate shouldn’t be whether Trump is in decline. The debate should be how much longer the country can pretend he isn’t". HELL YES DAVID! Perfectly said.
Excellent article! I am happy you have shone a light on Newsom and Pritzker. I am so thankful they are here, among the leaders of the fight.
Actually, I think the stakes are international.
Yes, Bonnie, you are correct--the stakes most certainly are international in scope. Because of Trump's ineptitude, ego, and greed, all of which are exacerbated by his rapidly progressing dementia, the US is no longer a stable democracy and has lost the trust of our longtime friends. Our failing economy will have devastating repercussions around the world. The US has lost favor with most, if not all, of our closest allies worldwide, and Russia has felt ever more emboldened in its war on Ukraine, the Middle East is more destabilized, and Venezuela, Trump's "new target", may well become the next war torn country. Only when Trump is out of office, can our country and the rest of the world begin to heal.
Bonnie, you are absolutely correct!
They are also intergalactic when you take the new space force into consideration.
I encourage all reading you David, to contact the Governors who speak this truth and express your support. I emailed both Newsom and Pritzkers offices to express gratitude for speaking forthright. They need to know we are behind this truth telling!
The people around him know he's in decline but they are using it to advance their own agenda. And while Dementia Don is out to lunch, JD is off on another Vaca so that he can assume plasable deniablility. Moses Mike is unaware of anything going on (that's his standard remark for everything). So its not their fault if The Don burns down the house along with the whole country. We have the rich, apartheid crew to swoop in and take over. We need even more Governors to stand up!
I haven't been whispering anything. I spent a good part of last summer watching the campaign rallies. I told everyone he was out of his mind, he doesn't speak intelligently, he talks about fictional characters as if they were real, he lies about things that are common knowledge and when he shouldn't have been truthful he was revealing to those few of us that were listening, his evil plans for our country l told everyone that if he was my Grandpa I would be taking the keys away from that lunatic.
Aberrant is a good word instead of the tired and overused - not normal which in my opinion was never a strong enough term! Can anyone else think of a good and dramatic word or term that clearly describes the abhorrent and criminal activity we are watching?
I use the word fascism. That is the abhorrent and criminal activity we are watching. People seem to think that word is a slur. ??? It is a perfect word that describes a central leader who holds power (plenary authority- ooops, Miller said it out loud) surrounded by totally faithful "rods" who carry out his agenda.
Exigent and acute analysis, David. The danger of Trump’s mental deterioration is even worse and more perilous than people think. In other words, we must not miss perceiving the forest of Trump’s long-term but rapidly worsening and decompensating mental disorder of psychopathy -- more specifically malignant narcissism and kindred anti-social personality disorders -- for the trees of his visibly accelerating cognitive decline, namely dementia. The admixture of these two aspects of brain and characterological abnormality potentiates his risk to human life and well-being everywhere. Forensic and social psychiatrist and violence expert Dr. Bandy X. Lee (who posts on Substack) and her eminent psychiatric colleagues have been warning about the danger of a mentally debilitated Trump as president for the last decade, and those warnings have now reached a crescendo of urgency as his hubristic power aggrandizement intensifies on steroids.
I did write a comment. It was incorrect. I don’t watch DT speak. I’ve long been unable to tolerate his voice& juvenile remarks. I said I thot his problem is more a personality disorder. After reading this post from David, I agree his decline is far more serious & dangerous than I believed. How do we enact the 25th Amendment? It must be done to save our democracy.
I totally agree. However, having the two most biased Democrat governors calling out Trump does not move the needle. What the US needs is for a few Republican governors to do the same.
I do not hold much hope that any Repubs have the courage to do it. Whatever happened to the land of the free and the home of the brave. I think they moved to Canada.
THANK YOU. Plainly said. Accurately described. The moral somnambulism of the GOP/MAGA crew of cruelty apparently has too many marbles in the wager basket to face THE TRUTH. They would rather dissimulate? Stand by for utter destruction? Abysmal behavior More people with platforms must call it what it is. Not allow the charade to continue unchallenged. Ro Khanna on daily beast put a bow on the whole sorry shebang in a YouTube interview. His analysis: all of this debacle ties to entrenched power protection maneuvering to evade accountability for the rampant pedophilia - AKA Epstein files.
We, in the rest of the world, watch with horror what is being allowed by Congress to be done to each and every citizen of your country. We have been telling you AND RETELLING YOU what has been so obvious for so long, only to be told, rudely, to mind our own business. We'll it IS "our business".
So two prominent Democrat politicians now say, publicly, that his cognitive and moral decline is too obvious not to be acknowledged? And they are heroes for doing so? TWO?!?! Out of ALL the elected officials in the Divided States of America? What does that say about the moral spines of the other greater than 99%?
I hope that your October 18th protests provide some moral fiber to your elected officials, if only for the crass reason that they realise that the electorate just might not re-elect them if they don't get with the programme.
So sad for you. So worried for you. STAY STRONG and STAY SAFE!
As another Canadian I too watch in horror as your country is destroyed by a madman. He has a funny idea that all of Americans should go through hell before getting to heaven. That a paraphrase of what he says. Trump has some shady “business” dealings going on in Russia (Georgia) right now in the billions of dollars. So he can’t hurt Putin. There must be a legal way to swear in the New Democrat.
It must be a hellacious torture living inside the felon’s mind.
He’s always been one to compulsively project, and now he’s unable to make even a slight effort to control it.
He repetitiously mocked, and still mocks former President Joe Biden for the very things he suffers from himself.
But for whatever reason the Congress allows it.
A mentally ill, brain diseased man who is acting as president has no real power. It’s like giving a two year old the job, he is out of place. He is a danger to the nation, to the world.
He needs to be removed. And not just impeached but convicted. Immediately.
Some of the GOP sees it as an opportunity to manipulate Trump... ie. Stephen Miller.
Something that you may not know is that NBC just BLOCKED Canada from viewing videos! Like WHAT?
I mean it isn't as if viewing NBC videos is a NEED or even in most cases a want, but how childish and, ultimately, short-sighted of them.
I only accidentally discovered this about 10 minutes ago (around 2:45pm Eastern).
Wow! The mainstream corporate media is even more complicit than I thought possible. Not surprised though, unfortunately.
Do some research- nothing to see there…
There was no need to be condescending to David, Carole Whoeveryouare. It might have been helpful to all concerned if you had shared some of your obviously superior knowledge.
Not accurate. There are inter- country regulations and licenses- not that NBC is negariously blocking Canada
Did you mean nefariously?
Of course there are regulations and licences. I am fulky aware of that and didn't deny that. Canada did not block NBC; NBC blocked Canada. Maybe NBC was late with their payment to the CRTC. Or maybe there is a glitch in whatever robot is responsible for the conduit of visuals to Canada. Maybe the glitch will get fixed. I don't really care. I was merely providing a heads up so that other Canadians wouldn't be shocked if the same thing happened to them. There was no need to be condescending to me..
Compulsive Lying Conman Narcissist + Dementia = the nightmare we're living now. Time to 25 47. But first we march, cuz it pisses him off:
OCT. 18th
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For more info, see https://www.NoKings.org
Check often for new locations as they're added.
So, now that WE know the truth, how do we convince others. It brings no value to us to be told something we already know. How do we help others see what we see? How do we reach a person who watches Fox? How do we reach people who do not watch any news?
Once we get their attention for a moment, how do we help them answer the questions we have gotten them to ask?
Screaming in their faces will not help. Neither will telling them to 'do their research' because they may go to Q to ask their questions, or watch Fox for their answers... We need a better process than just telling ourselves stuff we already know.
agreed but not sure how you change the minds of many in tRumps cult. then there are the republicans who, I'm sure, see this but sit back and in fear and nothings. The selfish billionaires who sit in their wealth comfort doing NOTHING. there is corporate media doing nothing. Scary times...No Kings 10/18.
So we start with the ones we can reach then the others will eventually hear the word. But right now all we are doing is preaching to the choir. it is Trump himself who is persuading those that used to support him or simply 'went along' with him to walk away from him. What are we doing to make it easier for them to tell the difference between what we say and what Trump says?
We could scream at them that it's 'obvious', or that they should 'look it up on the internet' or just call them names and assume they will never change. That works real well. Or we could create a resource where evidence lives, where all the crimes are counted and listed and evidence provided. Where all the evidence of his ill health and dementia is laid out with time lines and progression of disease... Where all the evidence of his power grab and rush towards dictatorship has proceeded according to his plans. Because I watch the news a LOT and I can tell you, while individual actions are easy to find, the pattern is mostly hidden in all the noise that Trump creates daily.
A resource of evidence... Like this?
Trump:
"I know more about Isis than the generals do."
"I know more about weapons than just about anybody."
"I know more about steel workers than anybody."
"I know more about drones than anybody."
"I know more about politicians than anybody."
"I know more about technology than anybody."
"I know more about ethanol than anybody."
"I know more about wind than you do."
"Nobody knows consultants better than me."
"Nobody knows more about trade than me."
"Nobody knows the system better than me."
"Nobody knows the banking industry better than me."
"Nobody knows more about environmental impact statements than me."
"Nobody knows more about it than me."
"Nobody knows it better than me."
"I know this menu better than you do."
"Nobody knows more about campaign finance than I do."
"Nobody knows more about construction than I do."
"I understand money better than anybody."
"Nobody knows debt better than me."
"I know more about renewables than any human being on Earth."
"I know more about courts than any human being on Earth."
Yes. While this is not evidence of crimes it does point to "The Dunning-Kruger effect which is a cognitive bias where people with low ability or competence in a specific area overestimate their own knowledge".
The vast collection of them indicates he has no comprehension of the very concept of skill, expertise, competence and as such is inherently unable to make use of the competence of experts on his staff making him dangerously mentally impaired for the position.
If his job was to cheat at golf, he would have significant experience, but not really much skill, since he gets caught doing it all the time. He only gets away with it because he is rich / powerful and mostly plays on his own golf courses.
Douglas: please read this entire comment. I agree completely about his tactic of creating "noise" constantly. The natural tendency is to get distracted by the noise.
Senator Schiff recently did a very good job of listing his crimes against your people committed in the past 9 months and he did it in 9 minutes. It was really the first time that I have seen him so impassioned. He blended fact with passion in a way that others would do well to emulate. It was an address to your Senate. You can find it on YouTube if you search "9 months in 9 minutes" I think. You have probably already seen it, Douglas, so I am mentioning it here for others to explore it too. He can still improve his effectiveness, but I was delighted to see the change in his delivery.
You may see it as yet another example of preaching to the choir and for those who access these comments it probably is that. But it is a whole lot more than that if you take it as an example of a potentially good strategy. What has been lacking in so many Democratic speeches and commentaries is the pairing of passion with facts. Your general public does not respond to facts; they turn off when presented with facts; they do not want to be lectured to and will respond quite viciously if they feel that they are being lectured to.
Analyse and think about what he (not Schiff--the one whose name I will never again utter) does in his messaging that works with "the masses". Short "catchy" phrases (like MakeAmericaGreatAgain) delivered with passion. Repeated endlessly so that they become slogans. (I doubt that the "No Kings" slogan is very effective for the audience you need to capture.) Unfortunately his messaging is peppered with lies. So you have to pepper with facts. With truths. With passion. Use his strategy but use it with integrity. Tricky but do-able.
Passion alone is ineffective. When David Pakman interviewed a woman from your Congress recently she answered him with passion but it did not come across authentically; she was no doubt sincere, but the delivery was--in my opinion--disorganised, scattered. The style was definitely "off message". I also found myself saying "You didn't answer David's question!" My point here is that NOT EVERYONE is suited to be a spokesperson for your cause. Some ARE capable of changing their style however. I was actually almost shocked by the way that Senator Schiff is beginning to become more effective in his messaging. Shocked in a good way. He used facts, but not in a pedantic (quite frankly boring) way. He expressed outrage, but wasn't hystrionic. He still needs to bring it "down" to where people LIVE. I think that they could care less about philosophical ideals or even about constitutionality (SEVEN SYLLABLES? are waaaaay too many); they want to know how they are going to feed their kids, how they are going to get their meds, how they can get to the grocery store without being violently deported to a country they've never even heard of. They are miserable and they need someone to blame. WE know that it isn't the immigrants who are to blame. WE know that it isn't the migrants who are to blame. WE know that it isn't the brown/yellow/red/black people who are to blame. WE know that it isn't Obama who is to blame. WE know who IS to blame. Tell them, over and over and over again who is to blame. Just one syllable does it! Which reminds me, keep sentences very short (unlike in my response to you). Try for one syllable words in those short sentences; at the most two syllables if possible (e.g., "food" "meds" "safe").
To get academic on you for a moment, consult and apply the research on the psychology of crowds.
Borrowing shamelessly from his slogan, you need to MASA--Make America SAFE Again. "Safe" in so many areas--safe from Putin, from starvation, from homelessness, from illness, from local mass shootings; from Qatar, from tyrants (forget kings--it is TYRANTS you need to be safe from).
Understand that even the unredacted E-files are not going to make you safe again. But by all means use the E-files as noise to distract him. He is using intimidation and fear on you; use ridicule and disrespect on him--but know that that, of all things, will trigger him the most dangerously.
So MASA, but STAY SAFE in doing so.
Safe is boring, I do not think it will addresss their anxieties.
Plus we need to make BIG and BOLD promises while clarifying we need their support to make it real.
Perhaps:
Make America Yours = MAY
MAY we fix the Economy so it is fair for You
MAY we fix the laws so no one is above them
MAY we make sure everyone has good health care
MAY we make elections secure and fair, getting rid of gerrymandering
MAY we let our people vote, giving the citizens in DC and Puerto Rico 'representation'
MAY we make Education free for everyone, trade school or college
MAY we stop hating each other
MAY we make housing affordable
MAY we have clean air
...
MAY you be right! (as in CORRECT)
I do like your new slogan. It is short and honest.
You don't do safe, apparently. At a certain level that is admirable of you. On another level that is shall we say, to be polite, counter-productive. By safe, I don't by any means mean "not bold". Should one of your goals be to live as long as I have, it would be wise to be constantly aware of your surroundings in order to ensure that your body survives. Your body "encases" that mind of yours and is rather essential. You are very impressive and your particular mind is capable of being very helpful to the cause of making america yours again (except that I am not at all sure that it ever was yours to begin with--or at least not withn the past 100 years ...). So, without being paranoid about it, please do take care to safeguard the body that encases and nourishes that brain of yours. All the best to you and may MAY prevail.
Thank you for your very kind comments. Notice I did not use the word 'again'.
We are at the tipping point where we need to restructure the government, which will be easier following the destruction Trump is causing. Not for my preferences, but because that is what the american people are clearly demanding. Many people voted for Trump because of his big promises, many voted because he would tear it all down, because they had no faith it would ever change otherwise. While I opposed that strategy, because it was too high risk, blind to the dangers of a broken government, but now that we have it, it would be stupid to not take advantage of the opportunity to 'build back better' by refocusing the agenda, to seize the populist moment and focus the mission on making the people the center of, the purpose of the government, to remove the wealth from the levers of control.
MAY we hope Democrats are smart enough to seize the opportunity, brave enough to not play it safe, because the people showed us they had no patience for the excellent work Biden had done, it was not enough. Biden was too much an 'institutionalist'. The people could see that he was not making big enough changes.
Most people cannot vocalize these concerns, but remember the "Occupy Wall Street" movement. It also was never clearly defined, happened everywhere, focused on the foundation of our economic system. It was the canary in the coal mine, an early warning.
Obama briefly mentioned, in his last 'state of the union' speech, the issue of the ongoing, escalating 'industrial revolution' and the disruption / problems it brings, but he lacked the courage to do more than the brief mention as he moved on to the other more standard concerns.