America Is Democracy: A List of What We Do Now
A list of actions we can take to thwart an organized crime ring from taking over the United States of America
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In anticipation of being on The Thom Hartmann Program this morning, I had prepared a list of actions we can take and demands we can make of our leaders to stop the billionaire-led decapitation strike of the US.
A couple minutes before we were set to go live, I could hear Thom’s producer, Shawn, in my ear: “Thom wants to discuss your new book.”
So instead, we chatted about my 2016 Election Attack ebook.
What an honor. Also, perhaps unsurprising, the 2016 election attack related to our original topic of ‘what we do now.’
Since I spent time with my RadPod partner HiFi this morning prepping for suggestions on actions to stop the organized crime takeover of America, I thought it might be useful to share them with you. As always, if you find any of this helpful, please share with your networks.
Since no one is coming to save us, it’s gonna be up to us and what we do.
A New Deal for the Defense of Reality
I have been writing for years that we need a New Deal for the Defense of Reality. We are a country at war in a time of global upheaval. We are not alone. Look throughout the world and see how other countries are rebuking oligarch control.
So here is what I came up with this morning, with inspiration from RadPod’s High Fidelity and Jim Stewartson:
What We Need to do Now:
Deal with actual treason — there is no such thing as a peaceful transfer of power to a crime syndicate — we need Biden to be a leader not a bureaucrat. We need our enforcement agencies to arrest foreign enemies and domestic traitors trying to overthrow the United States of America. Demand they do.
Use better words — We are witnessing a decapitation strike of America by billionaires who are part of an organized crime ring who installed Trump to stay out of prison. When we refer to anti-vaxxers or vaccine skeptics, we need to call them by their proper title — ‘kid killers’ — as Timothy Snyder tweeted recently. J6 plotters and law enforcement delayers are traitors and should not be rewarded with government positions. Remove soft propaganda words from the lexicon immediately. This is war, and there are no rear areas.
Protect us from billionaires — Remove the power of billionaires and corrupt government officials by arresting them for trying to overthrow the government. Again, that is called treason. Brazil just showed how it can be done by indicting Bolsonaro and his allies in an attempted coup plot.
Denaturalize foreign enemy agents — In the past, we stripped foreign enemies of their citizenship, incarcerated, and deported them. We sent Fritz Kuhn — the leader of the German-American Bund — back to Germany, after denaturalizing and incarcerating him.
Prosecute billionaires for their ties to foreign governments and their propaganda campaigns — Twitter was used as a campaign contribution for Trump, paid for with Saudi and Russian money. That’s illegal. As a federal contractor, Elon Musk blatantly interfered with the election — seize his assets as we would any other criminal oligarch.
Flood the Supreme Court — we have men sitting on our nation’s highest court who took bribes from billionaires, who then benefited from their decisions. We can’t have criminals deciding our fate, so add judges now. Norms will not save us.
The State Department said that ‘covert influence activities are not journalism’ so demand the takedown of Russian-funded media on Rumble/Twitter — Peter Thiel and JD Vance promote Russian propaganda and radicalized hate speech on their Rumble platform — Elon Musk promotes Russian propaganda on Twitter. France just arrested the CEO of Telegram for officiating crimes on his platform. Musk is criming on his platform in plain sight. We know this. Our enforcement agencies need to follow France’s lead. We banned RT — why not ban Truth Social, Telegram, and Rumble, which function like Russian-state television in America.
Look to Romania — Romania just nullified the first-round of its presidential elections because of Russian hybrid warfare — we’ve been a target nation for a decade, and Romania just showed how to fight back.
Release the list — Demand the release of the list of 600 names of US-based politicians, businessman, reporters, comedians, academics, think tank analysts, military veterans who work for Russia — give people an opportunity to see that they’ve been taken for a ride.
Demand a crackdown on organized crime — we need to destroy what Robert Mueller called the Iron Triangle of the mob, politicians, and businessmen.
Demand Biden address the nation on information warfare — People can’t fight what they don’t understand. Other nations lead by admitting the problem. Here’s a letter:
Demand an investigation of bomb threats linked to Russian interference targeting the November election — as I noted, Romania nullified the first round of their elections due to Russian hybrid warfare.
Look to the country of Georgia for inspiration — bodies have hit the street and stayed there.
Look to South Korea for inspiration — the people rebuked martial law.
Protest IRL — while Joe Biden is still president, we can make our voices heard with non-violent protest, but we cannot be naive about provocateurs and saboteurs. Read The Ukrainian Night to inoculate. (See ‘book club’ invite).
Arm Ukraine — help the Ukrainians defeat Russia, which is already weakened. Biden authorized Ukraine to strike Russia with US missiles so I think he understands why this matters. The propaganda that we are giving money to Ukraine needs to be reversed so Americans understand that supporting Ukraine supports the US economy and US jobs and might just save Europe.
Lies are brittle things and can be broken with truth.
We are going to see all kinds of awful in coming weeks, and we stop it by demanding arrests of high-level traitors.
Joe needs to get in front of the nation — tell us we are under attack, let people know Vladimir Putin is our enemy for waging war against us, let Americans know there was a judicial coup by billionaires. Be honest.
Instead of deifying billionaires who are working with foreign enemies, protect us from them.
“They are not figures to be emulated,” Dr. Nancy MacLean told RadPod. “They are figures to be controlled for the survival and the well being of the rest of us. I also like the phrase — ‘our capitalist overlords.’ I think that's a good one. These people are riding us. They've got a saddle on. They've got the spurs and the reins. And the question is, are we going to overthrow them, or are we going to let them ride us into perdition?”
Let these words of inspiration from my Augenblick post wash over you.
“We might as well start with the breakup of the Soviet Union, which is 1991, although that really only makes sense in the context of 1989 and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the fall of the Berlin Wall. And what I would emphasize here is that it was something that most people never thought they could imagine seeing in their lifetimes until the very moment that it happened. And there's a historical lesson there, which is that many things seem absolutely impossible until the moment when they happen, and then they retrospectively seem inevitable…The Soviet Union was supposed to last forever, and then suddenly it was over.”—Dr. Marci Shore, The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution
“One of the things that has always helped progressive forces to advance in the United States, going back to the days of the fight against slavery, is the anti-democratic elite will always overstep and misuse its power. And those are the moments that people have to be ready for to use to the fullest in order to expose them, take away their power, and built alternative power centers. So that's something we should all be prepared for going forward — they will overstep.”—Dr. Nancy MacLean, Democracy In Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America and Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
“One of the many things that fascinate me about revolution is that you never really know when you get that mysterious cocktail of elements that will produce a tipping point. You need a critical mass of people at the same time with a clarity about values, willing to cross to the other side of fear at the same time. And then what you really need are people from the security apparatus to defect…
“There's always some mystical moment when it's that one additional person. And what is that cocktail that produces that? That, to some extent, is in the realm of the spontaneous. And think about Romania. Think about, Bucharest — Ceausescu in December 1989. That regime was brutal. They had crushed everybody. And suddenly, there's a rally of support for Ceausescu, and the one guy who starts shouting ‘Boo.’ And just at that moment, the people around him catch on, they cross to the other side of fear, and suddenly, after decades of brutal repression, it's over in the next 20 minutes.”—Dr. Marci Shore
“I do take heart from what we just saw in South Korea, where the president tried to declare martial law, and the people who were older, who went back to the days of the dictatorship, said, ‘No, you're not getting away with this.’ And they came out on the streets en masse.”—Dr. Nancy MacLean
“I cling to the story of the Maidan, which was so important to me at the time, and if anything is only more important now, because it was what in German they call that augenblick — that blink of an eye, that flicker of a second in which you see that human beings are capable of something better.”—Dr. Marci Shore
“Will the Right succeed? The answer depends on the American people.”—Democracy in Chains
“You weren’t afraid of the titushki?” I asked them. “Why be afraid of them?” Ruslan answered. “We’re tough, too.”—The Ukrainian Night
We’re tough, too.
Just as Ukraine is Europe, America is Democracy.
Reject the billionaire decapitation strike of America.
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Foreign interference in our election...again, election irregularities and lack of an official investigation. I cannot accept Donald John Trump as Commander in Chief along with his criminal cabal! Why are we not in the streets?
Heidi: I would have liked to seen the book printed, published and sold in bookstores. Some folks are not into ebooks. In my view, having it available in both formats might help more people consider your message. BTW, thank you for appearing on Thom Hartmann’s Program. It was informative.