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@petebuttigieg.bsky.social, I respect you, but I don't trust you because I haven't heard you and @democrats.org declare absolute dedication to making the US, and Michigan, more nearly a democracy. Fighting for power without holding to principles makes @democrats.org equal to Republicans.

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social and #MichiganDemocrats, once I read of @democrats.org in the state doing those things, when you all demand that state and national governments are operated to fulfill the promises of the Declaration of Independence, I will believe that you are all doing "the hard work."

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social, are #MichiganDemocrats demanding that power be truly handed to the people of Michigan, with all governmental activities conducted in the open, and with absolutely no decisions of any sort being made on the down low without full consultation with Michigan residents?

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social, are #MichiganDemocrats demanding that the @democrats.org take responsibility for failing to advocate for these kinds of principled changes, and for having instead protected their leaders when they lied to the American people about having committed criminal acts?

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social, are #MichiganDemocrats advocating for a review of their State's and the US Constitution, aimed at moving both the Michigan and the US Federal Governments toward democracy and away from rule by a small, usually rich, set of political Elites?

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social, are #MichiganDemocrats advocating for enlarging the US House to at least 1000 members and ensuring that all votes from all states are absolutely equal?

#stoplookingforsaviorsanddemandrealpowerforthepeople

We Americans deserve a Constitution that implements the policy statement about inalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence, not a document written to ensure that rich, white, male, landowners maintain power; and as Jefferson advocated for, we need a Constitution that is regularly revised.

And most assuredly, the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 must be replaced with an appointment scheme that increases the size of the US House to at least 1000 people, ensures vote parity for all voters in all states, and forces House Members to stay in their districts rather than swanning in DC.

And think about how we might limit the ability for people with power to abuse that power. For instance simply requiring all persons elected to public office to offer disclaimers of opinion, when they lie about government systems, operations, or policy; and send them to jail for violations.

Read up on the discipline of Enterprise Risk Management, and consider how its principles might, should, be applied to both the systems and management of our actual government as well as to its operations, as OMB Circular A-123 requires of managers of Executive Branch entities.

It's this search for a hero by @democrats.org that makes me want to emigrate. What I want to hear from @democrats.org is a commitment to making the US Federal Government more nearly democratic and far less the domain of #ProfessionalPoliticians. We need everyday Americans deciding.

Yes. The next thing they should demand is a rescission of the Reapportionment Act which has limited Congress to a bribable number and limits services and funding. We need 1 Rep for every 30k pop like the Constitution said: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reappor...

@krassenstein.bsky.social, hold @democrats.org responsible for their failure to look into the future and assess the risk to democracy inherent in our clearly anti-democratic Constitution, before you spout off about Hatch Act violations. You'll do Americans a much greater service.

@democrats.org and @pelosi.house.gov have known for decades that allowing politicians to lie to Americans was rotting away the fabric of what little democracy Americans enjoy, but they never did anything to fix the problem, because they wanted power more than they wanted a democratic USA.

And while on the subject of lies told by Presidents, why is it that we live in a country where we just accept that politicians lie to us all the time? @democrats.org could have offered solutions to Americans, limiting the right of persons with elevated privileges to make false statements of fact.

@democrats.org, protected a sexual predator who should have been impeached for lying to the American people, and thrown out of office, and now we live under the thumb of a man who is probably a rapist.

@krassenstein.bsky.social, hold @democrats.org accountable for their failure to demand real democracy over the past 50 years, and you will be hitting the right buttons for the US, right now. @democrats.org defended Bill Clinton, so who's going to trust them when it comes to Epstein?

No one cares about the Hatch Act anymore. We blew past that one back in February, and until we see @democrats.org fully embracing real democracy, with a little "d," and promising to move the federal government closer to the promises of the Declaration of Independence we live in Neo-Fascist hell.

Writing "This is absolutely a violation of the HATCH act and must be investigated immediately," without also holding @democrats.org and their last leader, @pelosi.house.gov, accountable for their failures to head tRump off at the pass makes your post seem performative at best.

Why don't you ask @pelosi.house.gov why she didn't work to close down any of the threat vectors tRump and his minions have exploited since taking office again? She could have backed a bill to expand the size of the US House, which might have limited tRump's ability to control what goes on there.

@krassenstein.bsky.social, and your point would be? Why didn't @democrats.org do something to mitigate the risk that these kinds of violations of law wouldn't happen when they held power during the first two years of the Biden Presidency. They could have do a hell of a lot more.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov, you fail us by posting that we all must resist, when you and other #DemocraticElites fail to admit that they participated in the slide into autocracy we are really feeling right now. #DoTheRightThing #EndYourLustingAfterPowerAndOfferUsRealDemocracy

@govpritzker.illinois.gov, #DemocraticElites ceded the moral high ground by protecting a sexual predator when they refused to #ImpeachClinton, and today we live under the boot of another sexual predator.

Fixing the mess that is the US Federal Government is what we all need, @govpritzker.illinois.gov. Americans deserve much better than what they have received from #Democrats over the last 4 decades. We need #Democrats who recognize just how damaging to the nation protecting #Clinton was.

And, @govpritzker.illinois.gov, you all need to agree that it is time to enlarge the US House to at least 1000 members, with every voter in every state given the same power as their peers in less populous states. Just taking power does nothing for your constituents and the county as a whole.

At least, @govpritzker.illinois.gov,you and your fellow #DemocraticLeaders could admit that you failed us, miserably, and you could start to admit that if given the chance, you will review and revise the Constitution to remove the threat vectors that tRump and his minions are exploiting today.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov, the hell we are living through was completely predictable if you and your fellow #DemocraticElites had completed even rudimentary risk management analyses and worked to disallow the many paths towards autocracy that are clearly available to any President.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov, we put our trust in you to protect our democracy, and you all failed us by trusting your fellow Elites to "act respectfully and responsibly" and to "respect the rule of law," and those people behaved as people will, and they threw convention and precident out the window.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov, when are you and the rest of the leaders of the #DemocraticParty going to admit that you all have failed us by failing to attempt to mitigate the risks, inherent in the Constitution, that tRump and his minions are now exploiting with such apparent ease?