Category Archives: Nurturant State

The end of “you’re on your own.” Government of, by, and for the people requires both
– a government with the moral purpose to equally protect and empower all the people for maximum success and minimal inequality, and
– active participation of the people to maintain such a government.

Tracking the Growth of American Authoritarianism

“Can There Really Be Fascist People In A Democracy?”
Libertarians are stealthily taking over America.
Since the 1971 Powell Memo, America has moved closer and closer to Fascism.

 

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA

Posted on October 14, 2025 by Andy Hailey

I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massive economic inequality with obscenely wealthy oligarchs who have taken over our federal government. Democratic socialism can end … Continue reading →

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Replacing Authoritarian Capitalism With Democratic Socialism

Posted on October 3, 2025 by Andy Hailey

I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about replacing authoritarian capitalism with democratic socialism. Just as authoritarian capitalism replaced authoritarian feudalism, what would a democratic economic system that replaced authoritarian capitalism look like? Some nations have been more egalitarian and better at equally … Continue reading →

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What Socialism Is, Has Changed

Posted on March 18, 2021 by Andy Hailey

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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Replacing Current ABNORMAL With an IMPROVED NORMAL

Posted on July 7, 2020 by Andy Hailey

We need a new and BETTER NORMAL that not only re-establishes what we’ve lost since the mid twentieth century, but includes FDR’s Second Bill of Rights (6.), and more. Continue reading →

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Fiscal Conservatism Has It’s Place – Just Not at the Federal Level

Posted on March 2, 2020 by Andy Hailey

If the federal government were forced into fiscal conservatism and had to balance its budget instead of balancing the economy, our economy could not be rescued or protected from another financial crisis nor could it help solve national problems like it did after other Great Recessions, or needs to do now to minimize the Sixth Great Extinction. Continue reading →

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American Socialism – Equally Empowering and Protecting All US Citizens

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Andy Hailey

(A cycle of building, destroying, and now renewing/expanding) Even before FDR’s socially responsible New Deal and laws passed since, corporations and excessively wealthy individuals have been stealthily working to put our democracy in chains by neutering the Federal government, eliminating … Continue reading →

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As a progressive, am I too extreme?

Posted on November 25, 2018 by Andy Hailey

Am I too extreme to want representatives who will unabashedly speak out against all forms of economic injustice spawned by right-wing extremists and their belief that only the wealthy deserve government aid? Am I too extreme to want representatives who … Continue reading →

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Modern Money Theory/Practice – Fixing an Under-capacity Economy.

Posted on December 26, 2017 by Andy Hailey

From Intro To Modern Money Theory: “Modern Monetary Theory is partly a description of how our modern fiat, floating exchange rate currencies actually work, and partly a prescription of what we ought to do with this knowledge. MMT realizes that … Continue reading →

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What I Would Teach a Child in My Care

Posted on November 29, 2017 by Andy Hailey
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Growing Our Democracy, Economically, Is Key to It’s Survival!

Posted on November 6, 2017 by Andy Hailey

This growth must go beyond reversing voter suppression, improving public education, and expanding civic participation. Maximizing the rule of democracy for our government of, by and for the PEOPLE must also include democratizing our economy. Record economic inequality must be … Continue reading →

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