What Next!?

The America I grew up in and have known is gone. My mother’s America is gone. And President Donald Trump’s second term administration is moving fast to change “The American Way.”

For details on what this administration has planned you can read the Project 2025 plan titled “Mandate For Leadership – The Conservative Promise.” For analysis on the impact of these policy actions read the news and talk to your family members.

The latest “Big Beautiful Budget” will kill thousands of Americans starting almost immediately. Yes, I said kill. I’m fascinated at the way journalists reporting on this point out the forthcoming cuts to Medicaid, the estimated number of Americans who will loose their healthcare, prescription drug coverage, and their SNAP food subsidy checks, but fail to even vaguely reference how many seniors and sick patients will die. This kind of deliberate omission is indicative of the current culture.

So what can we do?

Well, right now we have government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.

This is not a democracy.

We must take back our government. Government has control of the tax dollars we pay. We must support a strong public government that we work in, and that represents us. The good news is we know how to do that. In fact we’ve done it before.

There are three important focus areas right now:

1) 3 key Questions we need to stay focused on and create answers to:

1. What do we want the role of Government to be in our society?
2. What is the role of a Business (Corporation) in our society?
3. What do we want the priorities to be in these areas of our society:
   1. Health
   2. Finance
   3. Food & Nutrition
   4. Education
   5. Housing
   6. Law

I listed Law last because I find it interesting that, in what we call a free society, we make a law for everything we want to do. I think that in a free society we need only make a law for the things that we don’t want done (because they harm us and slow progress towards doing what we want to do).

2) Know the 3 key Issues that stop us from making needed changes:

1. Wealth Inequality
2. Getting Corporate Money Out Of Our Government & Elections
3. Electing “Progressive” Candidates (who work for the People)

3) Know and support the 7 key Agenda Items that affect our lives:

1. Return Control Of The Government To The People
2. Climate Change
3. Healthcare for All
4. Public Finance
5. Public Housing
6. Public Education
7. Public Services

I believe that if we do the work, answer the 3 questions, and stay focused the 3 focus areas, we can make the best of this pivotal moment and make the world we want to live in.

What do you think?