Category Archives: Protect & Empower

Equally protecting and empowering all citizens is morally correct.  Protecting and empowering a subset of citizens, incrementalism, is immoral.

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.

 

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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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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Bashing Loses – Speaking Values Wins

Posted on April 16, 2017 by Andy Hailey

Complaining about the idiocy of the opposition is such a distraction – a waste of time – and provides little incentive for Democratic voter turnout. Democrats need to talk about how they will address the massive economic, social, racial, and … Continue reading →

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Protection, Empowerment, Freedom from Injustice, and Participation – Rebuilding the Middle Class

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Andy Hailey

As an American Baby Boomer, I’ve lived under two different systems of government: Post depression/post WWII and pre 1980s government: Government of, by, and for the People requires: Government with the moral purpose to equally protect and empower ALL the … Continue reading →

  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.galvnews.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/article_ac423f7f-4655-52b2-bb33-59f232c1ed7b.html" target="_blank" title="Original, but word limited, version">Government should be for all the people</a>
  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/life/history/2017/06/james_mcgill_buchanan_s_terrifying_vision_of_society_is_the_intellectual.html" target="_blank" title="The Future According to Koch">What Is the Far Right’s Endgame? A Society That Suppresses the Majority.</a>
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Two Definitions of Government – Progressive vs Corporate

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Andy Hailey

This was a response to part of business editorial on DJT’s “Wheeling and Dealing” over the Carrier jobs. _______________________________________ I agree that DJT’s approach to governing is frightening. What I take issue with is this statement from the editorial: “The … Continue reading →

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