Missing in Action… A Democratic Party Action Plan

 

With the Republican Senate’s passing of “Trump’s Most Cruel Bill” and soon the Republican House’s reconciliation, close to 12 million Americans will lose healthcare coverage. There will be $1.2 trillion in spending reductions, mainly targeting Medicaid and food stamps. It’s estimated that 40% of nursing homes and rural hospitals will close. And the federal deficit will expand by $5 trillion over the next decade.

Today, it’s become the norm to see masked, heavily armed goons abducting people off our streets, handcuffing them and disappearing them into unmarked vehicles... no visible law enforcement identification and no warrants. Next stop? El Salvador or perhaps Florida’s newest, the Ron and Don “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Everglades swamps.

Trump’s bill also contains a13-fold increase in ICE’s budget making it the largest secret, masked, police force in the US. It also includes nearly $100 billion to build detention facilities like “Alligator Alcatraz” throughout the nation.

In only a few months of the Trump administration, we literally have devolved into one of those despised, lawless, South American “Banana Republics” we ridiculed in the past. Due process, equal protection under law, freedom of speech, all disappeared and have become just memories from the old days, with solidification of Trump/MAGA authoritarianism now the norm.

Sadly, many of us, regardless of age, gender, ethnic origin or even political party, remain blissfully ignorant of the disaster which is overwhelming us all.

Where is our vaulted defender, the fourth estate... the traditional Media? They remain voiceless, kowtowing to Mr. Trump as though he’s just another law-abiding president, knowing that asking a probing question will mean ridicule and banishment from the White House Press Corps.

And what’s with the Democratic Party?

While the Senate and House Democrats are fighting their best, the party itself remains a spinless mess of silly putty. No leadership. No spirit. No plan to block the Trump/MAGA dissolution of our Constitution.

With so much dependent upon manifesting courageous leadership, the Democratic Party presents as a big inspiring zero. I have yet to see a compelling outreach message to convince me to vote for a Democrat.

Look at the Party’s website. Does it represent all American voters? Does it present convincing text, graphics, photos and videos and speak convincingly to All Americans, regardless of age, gender, ethnic origin or even political party?

A few weeks ago, a letter surfaced via former Sec. of Labor and University of California Professor, Robert Reich. It was supposedly written by former Rep. Liz Chaney to the Democratic Party.

She didn’t write it. It was supposedly written by someone named Dr. Pru Lee.

Still, the message is prescient. If it or something similar were implemented it could catalyze the spinless Democratic Party into a new Super D Party… coordinated, effective, decisive… for all the American people… no one left behind.

Here’s hoping for a transformative miracle to prevent a Trump/MAGA authoritarian catastrophe.

And here’s Dr. Pru Lee’s post: