About Andy Hailey
Vietnam Vet, UT El Paso Grad, Retired Aerospace Engineer, former union rep, kid of a WWII WASP, Vet for Peace, universist, web admin, blogger - helping to expose America’s growing Authoritarianism.
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/the-wawg-blog.org
On the one hand, patriotism divides citizens into multiple factions based on variable notions of a nation and its history. On the other, a citizenship oath could more effectively unify voting citizens with all the others in our democratic election process to focus citizens on forming a more perfect union. Continue reading →
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Posted in Authoritarianism, Powerful Nationalism
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Voters have witnessed a long history of peaceful Executive leadership change. However, we’ve just seen, 1/6/2021, how fragile that transition can become. In addition, steps are being taken to completely break that change process. Continue reading →
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Posted in Avid Militarism, Obsession with National Security, Obsession with Punishment
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Tagged Unitary Executive
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This is about the need for national efforts to stop enabling haters (individuals and political parties) from optimizing their hunting of human ‘game,’ local and international. Continue reading →
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- Related Web Site: <a href="https://marchforourlives.com/forces/" alt="The Five Forces Fueling Gun Violence - March For Our Lives">A New Framework for Ending Gun Violence</a>
- Supporting Articles: <a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/sunday-excerpt-the-hidden-history" alt="Re-interpreting the Second Amendment">The Hidden History of Guns and the 2nd Amendment</a>
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Posted in Avid Militarism, Enemy/Scapegoat, Obsession with Punishment
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Tagged Fascism - Here?
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In 2030, the entire world is condemned to extreme inequality, slavery, baby farms with women dressed in red and world domination as originally planned in 1997. Continue reading →
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- Related Web Article: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/03/us-rightwing-dictatorship-2030-trump-canada" alt="US could be under rightwing dictator by 2030, Canadian professor warns | US politics | The Guardian">US could be under rightwing dictator by 2030, Canadian professor warns</a>
- Supporting Articles: <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-american-polity-is-cracked-and-might-collapse-canada-must-prepare/" alt="The U.S. is becoming increasingly ungovernable, and some experts believe it could descend into civil war.">The American polity is cracked, and might collapse. Canada must prepare</a>
Posted in Authoritarianism, Avid Militarism, Church/State Unification, Corporate Intrusion, Election Fraud, Human Rights Abuse, Media-Info Control, Rampant Sexism
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Tagged Mega Rich RWA, Single-party State
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Any nation with either an authoritarian political system or an authoritarian economic system, like predatory capitalism, is susceptible to totalitarianism. Continue reading →
- Supporting Video: <a href="https://www.democracyatwork.info/eu_what_marx_marxism_offer_us_today". target="_blank" title="What Marx & Marxism Offer us Today">Workers Create Surplus for All</a>
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Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion, Human Rights Abuse, Powerful Nationalism, Rampant Cronyism/Corruption
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Tagged Mega Rich RWA
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Waking up before it’s too late as the pattern of authoritarianism enfolds us. We should be alarmed, but the stealth plan of the authoritarian movement, the odd normalization of its aberrations, has not triggered those limbic regions of our brain that signal us to action. Continue reading →
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Posted in Authoritarianism, Election Fraud, Media-Info Control
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Now we are in a forth plague that could “bend the arch of history” and “upend core economy structures.” We can do better than capitalism. Continue reading →
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Posted in Environment
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Democratic Socialism is about social responsibility for all citizens through expansion of democracy in both our political and economic systems. Continue reading →
- Related Web Article: <a href="https://www.epi.org/publication/a_long_and_persistent_middle-class_squeeze/". target="_blank" title="Workers have suffered a persistent stagnation or even decline in real earnings">A long and persistent middle-class squeeze</a>
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Posted in Protect & Empower
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Contriving to limit rights is about control and power over others. It’s about arrogance and imaginary supremacy over others. It’s about maximizing inequality! It’s about destroying our democracy! Continue reading →
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Posted in Authoritarianism, Human Rights Abuse, Media-Info Control
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We need to break authoritarian driven cycle & prevent any future authoritarian coups. We need more democracy in our political & economic systems. Continue reading →
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- Supporting Video: <a href="https://www.democracyatwork.info/eu_lessons_from_crisis_year_2020" target="_blank" title="ECONOMIC UPDATE WITH RICHARD D. WOLFF">Lessons From A Crisis Year 2020</a>
- Supporting Articles: <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/what-we-get-wrong-about-americas-crisis-of-democracy" target="_blank" title="The interesting question is not what causes authoritarianism but what has ever suspended it.">What We Get Wrong About America’s Crisis of Democracy</a>
- Related Web Article: <a href="https://www.laprogressive.com/moderate-rot/" target="_blank" title="With few exceptions, Biden’s current policy positions are destructively corporate, deferential to obscene concentrations of wealth, woefully inadequate for meeting human needs, and zealously militaristic.">The ‘Moderate’ Rot at the Top of the Democratic Party</a>
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Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion, Media-Info Control
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Tagged Mega Rich RWA, Single-party State
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Andy Hailey