Tim Boudreau

Running on some out-there, but implementable, proposals and a genuine intent to implement them - to actually SOLVE problems - is the path out of the wilderness for democrats.

Mamdani in NYC is an example of how effective that can be.

The other thing is, Democrats will not win on a platform of “we’ll go back to the familiar forms of corruption” or being the party of “you’re screwed with us too, but at least we’re not bigots.” Which ought to be obvious, but it’s what donors and fundraising-whale-driven political consultants want.

And the deterrent effect of that on people who have no business in public office alone would be useful.

In an era of conspiracy theories, the best defense is if citizens can simply look and see what actually happened. Not through FOIA requests but in real time.

There are other possibilities. Like, living in a fishbowl: If you are elected to office, you and your familiy’s and businesses bank transactions must be published in real time for the next ten years. In exchange for the power to make decisions for others, you give up some privacy.

If we limit ourselves to tinkering at the margins and adamantly refuse to think outside the box, we will get more of the same.

My point is that we need to break out of the frame that what is is all there could be. Congress was created to solve several problems, some of which don’t exist anymore. The point was to make good collective decisions.

And as with any system of rules run for a long time, it is thoroughly hacked.

Why not a system where I delegate my vote on climate-related matters to someone I know personally who is an expert in that, whom I trust to represent my interests?

If your problem is that representatives quickly become the Walmart of corruption, decentralize.

The main benefit of having permanent representatives at all is they mitigate the time it takes to get to DC on a horse. Does the person exist who can make equally WELL-informed decisions about industrial policy, military oversight and housing policy, to name a few?

I’ve seen this and other articles like it. They make a decent case that there was *opportunity*, but not that it was actually *done*. Which isn’t to say that it wasn’t, but nobody’s proving it was.

They Warned Us in 1945: Fascism in America Would Look Like Patriotism How MAGA Became the Psychological Blueprint They Described

Worth reading, though it stops short of addressing what to *do* about it:

therationalleague.substack.com/p/they-warne...

Someone translated my viral post about this on FB to here:

From @kablosna.bsky.social (posted on FB):

“About the whole DOGE-will-rewrite Social Security's COBOL code in some new language thing, since this is a subject I have a whole lot of expertise in, a few anecdotes and thoughts.

Some time in the early 2000s
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YouTube video by Tim Boudreau Mixen beta pre-announcement

Looking for a few beta testers for an iOS audio organizer/player app aimed at musicians and particularly Logic Pro users:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=VbAf...

Opinion | Elon Musk's brilliance starts with letting his lieutenants run the day-to-day of his most valuable properties, whether that's Linda Yaccarino (X), Gwynne Shotwell (SpaceX), or Donald Trump (United States of America).

YouTube video by Tim Boudreau Birds Aren't Real

In these conspiratorial times, a good conspiracy theory should have an anthem. So I wrote and recorded one. Birds Aren’t Real - the song.

youtu.be/msynggFC0wQ?...