Satre would certainly agree Patrick. I was telling my Political book club that we should read the Butterfly Revolution, although I have a few other books I would like to add to our list first. We have a Signal chat group (No Hegseth is not on it), and we discuss things between our weekly meetings. After reading Project 2025, we have read the Constitution and two books explaining ideas of freedom. A friend in the book club was saying that we should be working on defining our idea of what we want our country to be and putting it out there. I think that is a marvelous idea. I think I will write about that in my Substack. Why should only the sick and twisted haters be developing world orders. She is getting this idea from the book On Freedom that we are reading by Timothy Snyder. We are going to discuss the last part of the book this Tuesday.
On Wednesday we have invited Historian Jefferson Cowie as a guest speaker on Zoom at Democrats Abroad. His Pulitzer Prize winning book Freedom's Dominion was our read before. We attended a talk he gave and things in his book and his talk intrigued us, so we asked if he would talk to Democrats in general. Not only is he discussing the type of Freedom that Tech Bros, Trump and Putin believe in, which is for [rich] white men to have dominion over others, but also that without the federal government voting rights do not get enforced and that populism is the kind platform that wins the presidency. He advocates the good kind of populism.
I wrote a piece about his book and a talk he held in Berlin.
I think we should all be writing our versions of Populist Project 2025, for 2026 and 2028, and give guidance to others on what the world can be like. To be honest, one reason I retired to Germany because I wanted to be sure to have health care throughout the remainder of my life. I think a lot of countries are a lot closer to the kind of country I would like to see the US be, than the US is right now. However, the US has potential to be more, if it can overcome Trump, the MAGAs and its racism.
If you are interested in his talk, it is going be at noon EST, so that those of us in other time zones around the world can attend.
Excellent idea Linda, although hell on earth is likely the Butterfly Revolution we’re on a path towards, as you’ve poignantly shared in another post!!
Satre would certainly agree Patrick. I was telling my Political book club that we should read the Butterfly Revolution, although I have a few other books I would like to add to our list first. We have a Signal chat group (No Hegseth is not on it), and we discuss things between our weekly meetings. After reading Project 2025, we have read the Constitution and two books explaining ideas of freedom. A friend in the book club was saying that we should be working on defining our idea of what we want our country to be and putting it out there. I think that is a marvelous idea. I think I will write about that in my Substack. Why should only the sick and twisted haters be developing world orders. She is getting this idea from the book On Freedom that we are reading by Timothy Snyder. We are going to discuss the last part of the book this Tuesday.
On Wednesday we have invited Historian Jefferson Cowie as a guest speaker on Zoom at Democrats Abroad. His Pulitzer Prize winning book Freedom's Dominion was our read before. We attended a talk he gave and things in his book and his talk intrigued us, so we asked if he would talk to Democrats in general. Not only is he discussing the type of Freedom that Tech Bros, Trump and Putin believe in, which is for [rich] white men to have dominion over others, but also that without the federal government voting rights do not get enforced and that populism is the kind platform that wins the presidency. He advocates the good kind of populism.
I wrote a piece about his book and a talk he held in Berlin.
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/is-populism-the-way-to-go?r=f0qfn
I think we should all be writing our versions of Populist Project 2025, for 2026 and 2028, and give guidance to others on what the world can be like. To be honest, one reason I retired to Germany because I wanted to be sure to have health care throughout the remainder of my life. I think a lot of countries are a lot closer to the kind of country I would like to see the US be, than the US is right now. However, the US has potential to be more, if it can overcome Trump, the MAGAs and its racism.
If you are interested in his talk, it is going be at noon EST, so that those of us in other time zones around the world can attend.
https://www.democratsabroad.org/freedom_or_power_the_fight_over_america_s_future