On The Eve Of Destruction...

I hardly know where to begin. I feel like the country just threw its best hope in the trash. I want to write about it, but every time I try my teeth grind. 

Just remember, DNC, you had a generation of Progressivism on your doormat knocking. 

You closed the polling places. You failed to count the ballots. You purged the voter rolls. You changed the rules by chicanery, and you wrote the emails. 

You don't deserve the likes of Bernie Sanders. That man has more class in one hair on his head than you do in your entire party. 

Enjoy the karma.

Dan 

Fwd: [So Cal!] Join Bernie Staff in Southern California

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Zack Exley, Bernie 2016" <info@berniesanders.com>
Date: Nov 12, 2015 9:55 AM
Subject: [So Cal!] Join Bernie Staff in Southern California
To: "Daniel Stafford" <aquarianm@gmail.com>
Cc:

Dear Daniel,

Bernie is giving us a real shot at taking our country back from the billionaire class. Now the only question is: will we, Bernie's millions of supporters, actually do the work that wins presidential campaigns? Californians have played an increadible role in past campaigns contacting voters in the early primary states that we must win for Bernie to have a chance. We believe you're ready to surpass what past presidential campaigns have only dreamed might be possible. 

Come get started with national campaign staff in person in Beverly Hills, Santa Ana, North Hollywood, Inland Empire, and San Diego. (Details below and more cities to come!)

We'll also talk about how to keep your amazing local organizing moving, so that we never stop bringing new people into this movement.

Click the city nearest you below to RSVP:

BEVERLY HILLS » Saturday, November 14th - 10:00 a.m. - noon
Ahrya Fine Arts Movie Theater
8556 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90211

ORANGE COUNTY » Saturday, November 14th - 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.
The Frida Cinema - Santa Ana - Organizing meeting followed by Debate Watch Party!
305 E. 4th Street
Santa Ana, CA 92701

NORTH HOLLYWOOD » Sunday, November 15th - 10:00 a.m. - noon
Laemmle NoHo7 Theater (North Hollywood, CA)
5240 Lankershim Blvd
North Hollywood, CA 91601

INLAND EMPIRE » Sunday, November 15th - 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
El Prado Golf Course, Banquet Room
6555 Pine Avenue
Chino, CA 91708

SAN DIEGO » Monday, November 16th - 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Grassroots Oasis
3130 Moore Street
San Diego, CA 92110

Please don't miss this important meeting. Many of you have been doing so much incredible work already and now we want to meet you in person. We are here to support your efforts. And the rest of you who are looking for a way to get started, here it is! We're looking forward to meeting you.

In solidarity,

Zack Exley
Bernie 2016

 

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Responding To "Why Are Middle-Aged Whites Dying?" On "The Weekly Sift"

Article Link

Quoting the article linked above:

In 1990, the death rate for American whites aged 45-54 (USW) was within the normal range of similarly aged people in comparable countries, and similar to the death rate for middle-aged American Hispanics (USH). In all the other countries, death rates continued their centuries-long trend of dropping, with USH tracking the United Kingdom rate almost perfectly. But starting in 1998, USW turns up.

A good summary of this new study is in The Atlantic. The upshot is that about half a million American whites are dead who would be alive if USW death rates had followed the downward track of other first-world countries. The effect seems concentrated in the less-educated classes, and the cause is a sudden jump in the rate of what are called “poisonings” — mainly deaths related to alcohol and drugs — as well as an increase in suicides and other causes related to not taking care of yourself. Atlantic concludes that middle-aged whites “are dying of despair”.

 My response:

The entire issue goes right back to income inequality derived from corporatism. It is harder to be successfully middle-class every year.

In addition, most corporate jobs are requiring longer and longer hours, longer commutes due to inner-city gentrification, and with ever-greater workloads after layer-upon-layer of layoffs in the past three decades, with the worst of it over the past 15 years.

I can attest to it first-hand, I saw it in my own industry, and nearly everyone I knew in every other industry I could imagine were reporting the same things: wave after wave of mergers/buyouts, each followed within months by layoffs.

I can't tell you how many offices I worked in Chicago, each with 15-20 desks, most with only one or 

three still in use.

The combination of abandoning anti-trust enforcement and adoption of pro-corporate trade agreements has made worker stress on the job and off a Made-In-The-USA product,  where few still exist.

Workers in union shops are barely protected from this. Those of us in non-union shops have been mercilessly abused. The vast majority of the US workforce has the employee equivalent of battered-spouse syndrome. 

They stay, because they see no way out. Once they pass the age of 50, it is triply-so. Age discrimination is never admitted, but constantly practiced.

I know this because I personally lived it. I know friends and former colleagues who are STILL living it. I know the rampant exhaustion and depression

The only way many can maintain any sense of pride or status is by pointing to those in even more dire circumstances than they are. It certainly doesn't come from a sense of having done "a good job" when the corporate rule is multi-tasking at all levels, and at all times.

Nowhere in the spreadsheet calculations of "efficiency experts" accounting for the time it takes to keep accurate records amidst constant interruptions. They do not take into account travel time between offices. They do not take into account combative competition in the multiple work requests coming in from multiple requestors in many different departments dispersed all over the globe. They do not take into account any variation from the "laboratory" conditions under which they observe tasks being done.

What we really need in this country is a mass exodus from corporate employment into entrepreneurial employment, which would shut down the corporate illusion factory. Couple that with technology-assisted barter...which I like to call "Techism."

What Bernie Sanders proposes will go a long way toward helping youth achieve a better future. It will help the environment. It will drive up economic activity and jobs, and it will solve many infrastructure issues. There are a lot of positives in Bernie's plan.

Still, it leaves the issues of corporate personhood and the abandonment of anti-trust investigation and enforcement. It also leaves the existing workforce with a form of PTSD on a national scale.

We have a long, long way to go in this country before any real respect for human values and needs like rest, exercise, and social bonds are respected in actual fact, and not just given lip service.

Globally, we also face the looming spectre of automation breathing down Labor's neck. There is no mechanism built into traditional Capitalism to deal with this. Everyone knows the robots are coming, yet few are talking about it. Capitalism only relates labor to money, and has no means built into it to provide for the needs of those who are displaced from work by automation as it will be in thirty years or so.

This is why I believe that we will need to have a global paradigm shift in the ways we use to allocate resources based on both human and societal needs.

The only answer that makes sense is something that I call "Techism," for lack of a better term. We need to use technology to track resource needs globally, and administer resource distribution. We need to remove money from the equation and base it on a hierarchal series of values:

1. Environmental sustainability.
2. Human needs and values.
3. Obsolescence due to technological improvement.

Capitalism as it currently stands both drives and hinders improvements in technology:

• Newer, smaller companies attempt to disrupt and displace their way into a competitive capitalist market.
• Older, established companies use every means possible to avoid being displaced and to wring every dime from existing capital infrastructure. 

 Clearly the latter players in this game have the money and resources to fight change through every means available. They clearly have financial incentive to do so.

The only way to speed newer and more sustainable technological adoption is to remove finance from the picture, and simply base re-tooling and technology adoption on testing for more successful resolution of a given engineering problem.

As for motivation, we need to culturally change what we see as status from the accumulation of wealth and material goods to the accomplishment of innovation.

We need to change the ground under society's collective feet, and we need to give the abused everywhere a reason for hope.

Bernie is the first step down that road, laying the first few paving stones...if he is not blocked by the same forces of capitalism that are abusing and blocking the potential of billions around the globe.

We have many psychoses in modern culture; Corporate capitalism drives most of them, and uses them to perpetuate itself.

With hope,

Dan

2nd Dem Debate Watch Party Hosted By Lake Elsinore For Bernie - All Voters Welcome

Event Links:

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/192259034443581/

Bernie Events RSVP Link: https://go.berniesanders.com/page/event/detail/debatewatchpartynov14th/4vgls

When: Saturday, November 14th - 5pm to 9pm PST

Host: Angela Derrick

 

Location:

Azteca Grill (Lake Elsinore, CA)

31701 Riverside Drive, Suite D
Lake Elsinore, CA 92530

 

Maps:

• Google
• MapQuest
• Yahoo!

Directions:

From Highway I-5 North and South: Exit Central Avenue (Hwy. 74). Drive west on Hwy. 74 for 2.5 miles. Restaurant is on right, between W. Lakeshore Drive and Grand Avenue. It is almost across the street from the Lake Elsinore Recreation Area and approx. 3 blocks east of Lakeside High School. Their phone number is (951) 245-8822.

Description:

Please join us for the second Democratic Debate from Des Moines, Iowa.  We are pleased to host this event at Azteca Grill, a new restaurant in Lake Elsinore.  This location has three TV screens and a projection system to ensure good viewing and audio capabilities.  Great Mexican food and drinks will be available for purchase, and parking is plentiful.  The exact debate broadcast time is still unknown, but please come early to meet and dine with your fellow Bernie supporters.

We believe that Bernie Sanders is the most consistent and best qualified presidential candidate to address our challenging national and global issues. 

Mark your calendars for this important event, and be sure to invite your friends and family to help us cheer for Bernie!

Real Change

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Here's Why You Should Vote Bernie Sanders vs. Hillary Clinton (Youtube)

Just the two candidates speaking. No sub-titles, no narration. You decide who's being honest with you.

Bernie Sanders Full Speech at Iowa Democratic Party Jefferson-Jackson Dinner (Youtube)

Media Edits Out Key Bernie Sanders Rant - Young Turks Youtube

Ellen Sits Down with Bernie Sanders (Youtube)

Full Berniec Sanders Student Townhall (Youtube)

#FeelTheBern,

Dan

Nailin' It For Bernie

Bern those nails!

Nails That Feel the “Bern” 

National Student Town Hall TONIGHT!

RCC National Student Town Hall Live Stream

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/935304853224331/?ref=4&action_history=null&source=4

Today, October 28th, 3:30 PM · Riverside City College

In this election, young people have the power to play the deciding role. In the 2014 election, 80 percent of young people didn’t vote. And if that trend continues, we will not see progress on the most important issues facing the nation. But if young people are engaged and do turn out to vote in this election, there is nothing we can’t accomplish together.

Bernie is hosting a special live town meeting online with students and young people, which will focus on the issues most important to the next generation, like tuition-free higher education at public colleges, climate change, women’s rights, money in politics, racial justice, and much more.
Members of the Riverside City College community (as well as other students from nearby high schools and colleges) are invited to our live stream of the National Student Town Hall.

PLEASE RSVP ON THE OFFICAL BERNIE WEBSITE AT
https://go.berniesanders.com/page/event/detail/nationalstudenttownhall/4vgvx to get the exact location.

Bernie Sanders Rally in Los Angeles 10/14/15 (Youtube)

October 11th Bernie Sanders Meet The Press FULL Interview (Youtube)

Request For IE Phone Banking Support From National campaign - Iowa

Glenda Barillas:

Hey guys! I'm throwing out feelers for something I've got coming up: how many of you can, and would be willing to, phone bank to Iowa? Quick responses would be greatly appreciated. I'm in Fontana, but depending on the responses I could try to manage a location more central to the majority. Thanks!

Contact: ie4bernie-At-gmail.com (date & time details pending )

Bernie Sanders Is Slated To win The Presidency

http://schatziesearthproject.com/2015/10/24/bernie-sanders-is-slated-to-win-the-nomination-and-presidency/

Sanders to Host National Student Town Hall - Bernie Sanders

https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-to-host-national-student-town-hall-2/

Sanders' Not-So-Katy Perry Concert During Iowa Campaign Swing - ABC News

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sanders-katy-perry-concert-iowa-campaign-swing/story?id=34696802