Thank you. I had just been talking through all the areas needing rebuilding with a simpatico friend and up popped your email. Glad to know it is being worked on. Let us know how average people can help.
I can’t come to your event but I want to make a contribution. Here’s a link to a piece I recently animated to Woody Guthrie’s ‘This is Your Land’. I have licensed use of the song through next year for internet and festival use (but not broadcast).Please use it in any way you wish. Let me know if I can provide anything else.
"That is the animating idea behind the Reconstruction Agenda, a project...centered on rebuilding American democratic institutions."
What democratic institutions would those be? The Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the branches of government were established to create a rights-protecting republic. This is a liberal form of government grounded in limiting the state's power to the protection of individual rights. These institutions were not justified by majority opinion or voting, but by correctly understanding and applying political philosophy.
Democracy is mob rule and leads to lawless authoritarianism. That's how you get characters like Trump and worse. Democracy is a political system that was rightly denounced and rejected by the Founders.
"Imagining a Post-Authoritarian Future."
This is a big claim, since ideas like these have almost no footprint in mainstream discourse today. A post-authoritarian future would mean a return to constitutionally limited, liberal government: no central bank, no income tax, no Departments of Education, Healthcare, or Energy, and no state functions beyond law enforcement, courts and military.
It would mean abolishing all economic regulation and entirely separating the state from the lives of individuals. It would also mean a return to public discourse centered on individual rights and rights-protecting government, the Enlightenment principles that built the modern world.
If this is really what the conference is about, then that's a big development if true.
I appreciate how the ISMA gathering this July is framed as a concrete step beyond diagnosis toward a second Reconstruction Agenda, especially after my conversation about the specific sectors that need rebuilding. Access to https://fultoncountycourts.org can provide the historical precedent and legal clarity many grassroots organizers overlook. Your offer to incorporate the Woody Guthrie inspired animation is generous, and I’d be glad to promote it across my networks. Please keep us posted on tangible ways ordinary citizens can contribute.
Your note about ISMA shifting from diagnosis to a concrete second Reconstruction Agenda and inviting everyday citizens to help hits the right note. Studying https://fortbendcountycourts.org shows how transparent legal data can underpin community driven rebuilding, offering a practical template for policy design. Your animated This is Your Land licensed for festivals and online through next year captures the movement’s ethos and is ready for distribution. I’ll amplify the video across my networks and stay alert for any further assets you need, eager to contribute remotely.
Your outline of ISMA’s July gathering, especially the push toward a second Reconstruction Agenda, captures the urgency many of us feel after diagnosing systemic failures. In parallel, accessing https://winnebagocountycourts.org can provide the granular legal precedents needed to ground those policy proposals in concrete case law. I appreciate the animated Woody Guthrie piece you’ve offered; even though I can’t attend, I’ll circulate it among local activist circles to amplify the message. Let’s keep the momentum going and explore concrete ways everyday citizens can contribute.
> It captures, first and foremost, the American presidency’s descent into a near-monarchy, a set of accumulated powers so vast that whoever occupies the Oval Office inherits the full machinery of authoritarianism, already armed and ready.
And you leftists had no problem with this arrangement until someone on the right started actually using them.
Thank you. I had just been talking through all the areas needing rebuilding with a simpatico friend and up popped your email. Glad to know it is being worked on. Let us know how average people can help.
Thanks for this!
I can’t come to your event but I want to make a contribution. Here’s a link to a piece I recently animated to Woody Guthrie’s ‘This is Your Land’. I have licensed use of the song through next year for internet and festival use (but not broadcast).Please use it in any way you wish. Let me know if I can provide anything else.
https://vimeo.com/1096145803
"That is the animating idea behind the Reconstruction Agenda, a project...centered on rebuilding American democratic institutions."
What democratic institutions would those be? The Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the branches of government were established to create a rights-protecting republic. This is a liberal form of government grounded in limiting the state's power to the protection of individual rights. These institutions were not justified by majority opinion or voting, but by correctly understanding and applying political philosophy.
Democracy is mob rule and leads to lawless authoritarianism. That's how you get characters like Trump and worse. Democracy is a political system that was rightly denounced and rejected by the Founders.
"Imagining a Post-Authoritarian Future."
This is a big claim, since ideas like these have almost no footprint in mainstream discourse today. A post-authoritarian future would mean a return to constitutionally limited, liberal government: no central bank, no income tax, no Departments of Education, Healthcare, or Energy, and no state functions beyond law enforcement, courts and military.
It would mean abolishing all economic regulation and entirely separating the state from the lives of individuals. It would also mean a return to public discourse centered on individual rights and rights-protecting government, the Enlightenment principles that built the modern world.
If this is really what the conference is about, then that's a big development if true.
I appreciate how the ISMA gathering this July is framed as a concrete step beyond diagnosis toward a second Reconstruction Agenda, especially after my conversation about the specific sectors that need rebuilding. Access to https://fultoncountycourts.org can provide the historical precedent and legal clarity many grassroots organizers overlook. Your offer to incorporate the Woody Guthrie inspired animation is generous, and I’d be glad to promote it across my networks. Please keep us posted on tangible ways ordinary citizens can contribute.
Your note about ISMA shifting from diagnosis to a concrete second Reconstruction Agenda and inviting everyday citizens to help hits the right note. Studying https://fortbendcountycourts.org shows how transparent legal data can underpin community driven rebuilding, offering a practical template for policy design. Your animated This is Your Land licensed for festivals and online through next year captures the movement’s ethos and is ready for distribution. I’ll amplify the video across my networks and stay alert for any further assets you need, eager to contribute remotely.
Your outline of ISMA’s July gathering, especially the push toward a second Reconstruction Agenda, captures the urgency many of us feel after diagnosing systemic failures. In parallel, accessing https://winnebagocountycourts.org can provide the granular legal precedents needed to ground those policy proposals in concrete case law. I appreciate the animated Woody Guthrie piece you’ve offered; even though I can’t attend, I’ll circulate it among local activist circles to amplify the message. Let’s keep the momentum going and explore concrete ways everyday citizens can contribute.
> It captures, first and foremost, the American presidency’s descent into a near-monarchy, a set of accumulated powers so vast that whoever occupies the Oval Office inherits the full machinery of authoritarianism, already armed and ready.
And you leftists had no problem with this arrangement until someone on the right started actually using them.