As a Democrat, I know how hard it would be for former MAGA to adapt any aspect of that moniker. So I would like to encourage them to rebrand as #ConstitutionalConservatives so they can stand against Trump violating both of those principles.
Unfortunately, a huge part of the Felon's success has been in trashing the Constitution, so that too is almost certainly seen as normal. Schooling is a good piece for children currently learning, but reining in the disinformation (not mis-, bc it's intentional, not accidental!) by requiring "news" outlets to be something approaching truthful could work IF we could get states to agree. Because of the broad coverage of the First Amendment, unless we can change/refine it, we're stuck trying to pass those requirements in state governments. We all know how that's going to go.
No matter what, it's going to be a long, hard fight to get our government back. Part of that, I believe, lies in kids in their teens and twenties. Votersoftomorrow.org and Leaderswedeserve.com are both dedicated to educating and accurately informing young voters, as well as registering kids to vote. Malcolm Frost, the youngest Congressperson sitting, is very active in Southern Florida. All these groups need funding all the time, and they take their jobs very seriously. They see and understand young people and what we're fighting, right there on the ground! (Unlike me. I'm 60+ and furious about our "leaders," their wishy-washy refusal to take any position against Trump early in this term when it could have been stymied.) Thanks for reading! 💙💙💙
I saw Frost speak at the progressive conference in Chicago during the Democratic Convention week. He's brilliant, and represents just what our future leaders need to look, feel and sound like.
Excellent! I've never seen him in person, sadly, but I was so impressed with him when he ran the first time, I've kept track ever since. He really is brilliant, and is kind and ambitious too. He'll be a leader in a few more years, along with wonderful youngsters like the Justins in Tennessee (of TN 3 fame) and David Hogg and Bayley (don't know her last name) of Leaders We Deserve and Voters of Tomorrow, respectively. These are smart, ambitious kids who are driving the new Democrats, and I couldn't be more thrilled!
Thanks so much for replying. I get so tired of old folks saying how "kids these days" are lazy and entitled. Sure, some are, but that's been true of every generation EVER. Ours included. And old folks don't want to see anything else, too often. Thanks so much for renewing my faith in us old folks 😏😁!
👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻❣️ Me too. I was always going against the grain, even (especially?) as a child in the sixties and seventies. I know there are lots of us! I think we get shouted down sometimes. We had such momentum there for a while, then so many of us bought into that "make money even at the expense of our souls) kind of BS. Thank you for keeping the faith 🤩
Later on reflecting I came to think of Vietnam as the glue that held the uneasy coalition together and when the draft ended and then the war the door was wide open to the 80s , Reagan and coke and the
I thought the same, but with cable news, we can't use the same wording. Cable uses private systems (cable) so can't have the public use doctrine. The airwaves were ruled public, and we can't do that with privately financed systems. Now if the government bought the cable systems, or declared all systems public use only, we could legally pull it off, but billionaires own all those. It would be wildly unpopular bc billionaires would lie the public about the "damage" it would do to whatever if it was public property... Not an easy solution, but there are people working on it.
What we need desperately is a public push to solve the problem, pressure on lawmakers. That's tough at present bc ppl don't recognize how damaging it is.
It's possible that INTERNET news could be seen as publicly owned and subject to the Fairness Doctrine, that might actually work! But again, we need a BIG public push toward declaring public ownership.
For years, policy decisions in several states have undermined the foundation of public education by restricting discussions on civil rights, history, and LGBTQ+ issues. The consequences of this retreat from comprehensive learning are now playing out in public life through heightened hostility, political polarization, and a decline in critical reasoning. Protecting rigorous, inclusive education is essential not only for accurate learning, but for preserving civil discourse and a functional democracy. When young adults resort to abusive language, racial slurs, and hostility rather than reason, it points to a critical collapse in education and media literacy.
Maxwell Frost was instrumental in getting Alligator alley concentration camp for immigrants shut down, and the press has not given him the credit he deserves.
Trump is trying to change that by saying that Fox is no longer news, trying to divert viewers to Newsmax. So now Newsmax will be the mega-speaker for the young ones who don't know any better.
The real problem is we all sit here and whine that SOMEONE (other than me) needs to fix this. As Smokey the Bear say: ONLY YOU can prevent forest fires.
I totally agree- you can't yell "fire" in a theater....The spin and lies are not ok.And I think it is spreading > to me they are "satire/entertainment".
tRumpf shut down Radio FREE Europe●I believe he lost the suit- & reopened it😐
That is so very good! For a woman of 84 years old, it is so hard for me to believe that a culture of young folks have been so lied to and has fallen for it line and sinker! Please can some one somewhere stop this maddening circle of life we are living in today! We need more some 40-60’s strong willed, educated and with integrity to step up to the plate to bat as it looks like we are in the 8th inning of the game!
Isn't it funny how the most critical opponents of the Orange Menace suddenly have epiphanies and "realize" he's the Second Coming? JD Vance was so hostile to his candidacy in '16 he called him "America's Hitler". Now he couldn't get his nose any further up Trump's ass if he tried! Charlie Kirk was a hustler who made a shitload of money seducing our children into the Nazi cult. He, too, was a hypocrite of the first order! Even Elon was known to feel disdainful of the Trumpster before he was elected, then all of a sudden, realizing those fat govt. contracts were in Trump's control, he was his BFF!
Donal J. Trump APPEARS ONE MILLION TIMES IN THE Jeff Epstein FILES!!!! Donald J. Trump and all pf the Maga republicans and republican abettors, administration, enablers judges, lawyers, large businesses, large corporations, politicians including Jared Kusher, Donald Trump, Jr. Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, Barron Trump, Tiffany Trump, Melania Trump, Ghislaine Maxwell, Todd Blanche, Russel Vaught, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Usha Vance, Aileen Cannon, Vivek Ramaswamy, Ken Paxton, Mehmet Oz, RFK. Jr., Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, Kash Patel, Ted Cruz, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas. Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavnaugh and John G. Roberts will Be Held Accountable, Impeached, Disbarred Forever if judges or lawyers and Fired in 2026!!!!
Oh Bryan, I just finished your 2nd book: The Day After and I loved it even more than Shameless. What I really like about The Day After is that you don't just point out all that is wrong you offer understandable and sound possible solutions, if just the powers that be would take heed and do them and not just say they are good suggestions and pay only lip service to them. Thanks for all you do from this Canadian.
thanks for the guest article, that is a disturbing perspective, hard to believe that people don't remember when both sides of the aisle shook hands and got things done
I’m just hoping after all this said and done and it may not be until 2029 that we will have more of us than of them and they’re going to have to either change or face the consequences. What I mean by change is not indoctrination or brainwashing it’s just making them see what they believe is so fundamentally wrong! All of their beliefs are based on hate, pure unadulterated hate, and that is what is wrong with what they believe!! And all the lies that they’ve been told on top of it by their dear leader, they’ve been indoctrinated and brainwashed, so it’s going to have to be like a de-programming, and a major intervention, but I think we can do it! And it won’t be with violence it will be with love!!
The left sucks at messaging. The right excels at it. Until the left learns to be as good at messaging as the right nothing will change. Also officials of both parties are so beholden to corporate interests. Nothing will change until we get the money out of politics. And for that we need to overturn Citizens United.
There are some candidates currently running for office who seem to be getting through the noise. I do agree that the right has been good at this. The left is getting better though.
...and can we please remember that the North American "left" is more centrist than a polarized, two party system would lead you to believe. Any civilized democracy is going to want to provide the citizenry with universal national health care, education and training opportunities, a wise and compassionate immigration system, and a robust social safety net.
It is not clear how we reorient young folks. I am far from young. But it was College that truly opened my mind. I had friends in high school who were more aware than I, but talking politics was not in the forefront until makes started getting draft notices and lottery numbers
Information channels are so narrow now and I have seen young man torn (not literally but emotionally) between bro culture and empathy. Some did not survive to make an informed choice
I honestly do not know what a country can do outside of education and that won't help much as states or an administration try to rewrite history especially in public schools.
If democracy is to survive or, more hopefully, thrive children have to be encouraged to think for themselves. That has been a difficult for some parents and educators, but it is perpetually important.
The American public education system needs a thorough overhaul. But the Arts can help by providing inspiring movies, music, television, plays, sculptures and paintings.
There has to be hope, a belief that your life can make a Difference, and admiration of all those things that make for simple human decency and compassion, in communities where we take good active care of one another.
I agree! I am 70 and an active player in 2 concert bands. The music and fellow music nerds help keep hope alive. I have to travel further for art and sculpture but it keeps a heart pumping, too. I settle for books when travel isn't possible.
As a Democrat, I know how hard it would be for former MAGA to adapt any aspect of that moniker. So I would like to encourage them to rebrand as #ConstitutionalConservatives so they can stand against Trump violating both of those principles.
Unfortunately, a huge part of the Felon's success has been in trashing the Constitution, so that too is almost certainly seen as normal. Schooling is a good piece for children currently learning, but reining in the disinformation (not mis-, bc it's intentional, not accidental!) by requiring "news" outlets to be something approaching truthful could work IF we could get states to agree. Because of the broad coverage of the First Amendment, unless we can change/refine it, we're stuck trying to pass those requirements in state governments. We all know how that's going to go.
No matter what, it's going to be a long, hard fight to get our government back. Part of that, I believe, lies in kids in their teens and twenties. Votersoftomorrow.org and Leaderswedeserve.com are both dedicated to educating and accurately informing young voters, as well as registering kids to vote. Malcolm Frost, the youngest Congressperson sitting, is very active in Southern Florida. All these groups need funding all the time, and they take their jobs very seriously. They see and understand young people and what we're fighting, right there on the ground! (Unlike me. I'm 60+ and furious about our "leaders," their wishy-washy refusal to take any position against Trump early in this term when it could have been stymied.) Thanks for reading! 💙💙💙
I saw Frost speak at the progressive conference in Chicago during the Democratic Convention week. He's brilliant, and represents just what our future leaders need to look, feel and sound like.
Excellent! I've never seen him in person, sadly, but I was so impressed with him when he ran the first time, I've kept track ever since. He really is brilliant, and is kind and ambitious too. He'll be a leader in a few more years, along with wonderful youngsters like the Justins in Tennessee (of TN 3 fame) and David Hogg and Bayley (don't know her last name) of Leaders We Deserve and Voters of Tomorrow, respectively. These are smart, ambitious kids who are driving the new Democrats, and I couldn't be more thrilled!
Thanks so much for replying. I get so tired of old folks saying how "kids these days" are lazy and entitled. Sure, some are, but that's been true of every generation EVER. Ours included. And old folks don't want to see anything else, too often. Thanks so much for renewing my faith in us old folks 😏😁!
If you ever want to hear someone lunch out on the boomers have a conversation with me I'm 71 and was a paying attention witness to the mess we made .
👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻❣️ Me too. I was always going against the grain, even (especially?) as a child in the sixties and seventies. I know there are lots of us! I think we get shouted down sometimes. We had such momentum there for a while, then so many of us bought into that "make money even at the expense of our souls) kind of BS. Thank you for keeping the faith 🤩
Later on reflecting I came to think of Vietnam as the glue that held the uneasy coalition together and when the draft ended and then the war the door was wide open to the 80s , Reagan and coke and the
"He who dies with the most toys wins "
ethos .
We could solve the news problem by reinstating the Fairness Doctrine.
I thought the same, but with cable news, we can't use the same wording. Cable uses private systems (cable) so can't have the public use doctrine. The airwaves were ruled public, and we can't do that with privately financed systems. Now if the government bought the cable systems, or declared all systems public use only, we could legally pull it off, but billionaires own all those. It would be wildly unpopular bc billionaires would lie the public about the "damage" it would do to whatever if it was public property... Not an easy solution, but there are people working on it.
What we need desperately is a public push to solve the problem, pressure on lawmakers. That's tough at present bc ppl don't recognize how damaging it is.
It's possible that INTERNET news could be seen as publicly owned and subject to the Fairness Doctrine, that might actually work! But again, we need a BIG public push toward declaring public ownership.
Let's shoot the billionaires into space ,
one way .
It needs rewritten for the technology we have now it did not even cover cable so Fox propaganda channel was hatched.
For years, policy decisions in several states have undermined the foundation of public education by restricting discussions on civil rights, history, and LGBTQ+ issues. The consequences of this retreat from comprehensive learning are now playing out in public life through heightened hostility, political polarization, and a decline in critical reasoning. Protecting rigorous, inclusive education is essential not only for accurate learning, but for preserving civil discourse and a functional democracy. When young adults resort to abusive language, racial slurs, and hostility rather than reason, it points to a critical collapse in education and media literacy.
Maxwell Frost was instrumental in getting Alligator alley concentration camp for immigrants shut down, and the press has not given him the credit he deserves.
Of course not! He's a young Black man in Florida, and the media is who the media is. They support the FELON, FFS. 🤦🏾♀️🙄
Just think about the hatchet job they did (STILL do) on Biden and Obama.
Trump creates NEWS; normal presidents create news. "If it bleeds, it leads," and the Felon-In-Chief bleeds constantly.
You speak the truth.
So the question isn’t if America has an appetite for Nazism after 10 years of Trump, but rather that is the appetizer?
Something’s gotta be done about Fox calling itself news. Invariably the misinformed and underinformed get their views from Fox.
Trump is trying to change that by saying that Fox is no longer news, trying to divert viewers to Newsmax. So now Newsmax will be the mega-speaker for the young ones who don't know any better.
Maybe someone will take it in their own hands!
The real problem is we all sit here and whine that SOMEONE (other than me) needs to fix this. As Smokey the Bear say: ONLY YOU can prevent forest fires.
I totally agree- you can't yell "fire" in a theater....The spin and lies are not ok.And I think it is spreading > to me they are "satire/entertainment".
tRumpf shut down Radio FREE Europe●I believe he lost the suit- & reopened it😐
They are normalizing CHAOS.
Thanks, respectfully 🌐🗽🫡
That is so very good! For a woman of 84 years old, it is so hard for me to believe that a culture of young folks have been so lied to and has fallen for it line and sinker! Please can some one somewhere stop this maddening circle of life we are living in today! We need more some 40-60’s strong willed, educated and with integrity to step up to the plate to bat as it looks like we are in the 8th inning of the game!
If you are old enough to remember the Smokey the Bear ads from the 70’s(?), Only YOU can prevent forest fires!
Isn't it funny how the most critical opponents of the Orange Menace suddenly have epiphanies and "realize" he's the Second Coming? JD Vance was so hostile to his candidacy in '16 he called him "America's Hitler". Now he couldn't get his nose any further up Trump's ass if he tried! Charlie Kirk was a hustler who made a shitload of money seducing our children into the Nazi cult. He, too, was a hypocrite of the first order! Even Elon was known to feel disdainful of the Trumpster before he was elected, then all of a sudden, realizing those fat govt. contracts were in Trump's control, he was his BFF!
Sell out early, beat the rush.
Donal J. Trump APPEARS ONE MILLION TIMES IN THE Jeff Epstein FILES!!!! Donald J. Trump and all pf the Maga republicans and republican abettors, administration, enablers judges, lawyers, large businesses, large corporations, politicians including Jared Kusher, Donald Trump, Jr. Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, Barron Trump, Tiffany Trump, Melania Trump, Ghislaine Maxwell, Todd Blanche, Russel Vaught, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Usha Vance, Aileen Cannon, Vivek Ramaswamy, Ken Paxton, Mehmet Oz, RFK. Jr., Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, Kash Patel, Ted Cruz, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas. Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavnaugh and John G. Roberts will Be Held Accountable, Impeached, Disbarred Forever if judges or lawyers and Fired in 2026!!!!
Nice affirmation to repeat to ourselves daily!
Oh Bryan, I just finished your 2nd book: The Day After and I loved it even more than Shameless. What I really like about The Day After is that you don't just point out all that is wrong you offer understandable and sound possible solutions, if just the powers that be would take heed and do them and not just say they are good suggestions and pay only lip service to them. Thanks for all you do from this Canadian.
Sarah’s right. Trump is just the current imbecile.
There's never just one roach.
Biological fact.
ALOHA. From the COCONUT WIRELESS. ......... More then ever. We need the MAN for the task.
Appoint Pete Buttigieg to the Speaker of The House..................... ALOHA..
And Marc Elias attorney general .
thanks for the guest article, that is a disturbing perspective, hard to believe that people don't remember when both sides of the aisle shook hands and got things done
I’m just hoping after all this said and done and it may not be until 2029 that we will have more of us than of them and they’re going to have to either change or face the consequences. What I mean by change is not indoctrination or brainwashing it’s just making them see what they believe is so fundamentally wrong! All of their beliefs are based on hate, pure unadulterated hate, and that is what is wrong with what they believe!! And all the lies that they’ve been told on top of it by their dear leader, they’ve been indoctrinated and brainwashed, so it’s going to have to be like a de-programming, and a major intervention, but I think we can do it! And it won’t be with violence it will be with love!!
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut
The left sucks at messaging. The right excels at it. Until the left learns to be as good at messaging as the right nothing will change. Also officials of both parties are so beholden to corporate interests. Nothing will change until we get the money out of politics. And for that we need to overturn Citizens United.
There are some candidates currently running for office who seem to be getting through the noise. I do agree that the right has been good at this. The left is getting better though.
...and can we please remember that the North American "left" is more centrist than a polarized, two party system would lead you to believe. Any civilized democracy is going to want to provide the citizenry with universal national health care, education and training opportunities, a wise and compassionate immigration system, and a robust social safety net.
The GOP is paid to win elections. They DEMs are paid, by about the same folks, to lose them.
🎯 after 1984 the democrats sold out to Wall Street , they took the money but it also lead to their future irrelevance to working class people .
It is not clear how we reorient young folks. I am far from young. But it was College that truly opened my mind. I had friends in high school who were more aware than I, but talking politics was not in the forefront until makes started getting draft notices and lottery numbers
Information channels are so narrow now and I have seen young man torn (not literally but emotionally) between bro culture and empathy. Some did not survive to make an informed choice
I honestly do not know what a country can do outside of education and that won't help much as states or an administration try to rewrite history especially in public schools.
If democracy is to survive or, more hopefully, thrive children have to be encouraged to think for themselves. That has been a difficult for some parents and educators, but it is perpetually important.
The American public education system needs a thorough overhaul. But the Arts can help by providing inspiring movies, music, television, plays, sculptures and paintings.
There has to be hope, a belief that your life can make a Difference, and admiration of all those things that make for simple human decency and compassion, in communities where we take good active care of one another.
I agree! I am 70 and an active player in 2 concert bands. The music and fellow music nerds help keep hope alive. I have to travel further for art and sculpture but it keeps a heart pumping, too. I settle for books when travel isn't possible.
That is why they are steering the young men away from college.
Stop the bullshit!!! Vote 🔵🔵🔵
It’s rotten to the core and needs to be removed from the office.
These people are sick. They are all about enriching themselves