VOTE BLUE: THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF YOUR LIFE

VOTE BLUE AND BE ACTIVE IN THE CAMPAIGN 

is our answer to Republican $ AND the Republican obstructionist agenda!

Flooded NYC subway. (photo credit: Ken Brown)

Runaway global warming is on our doorstep – if the U.S. does not act decisively in 2017, there will be no second chance – nothing that humans do will stop the warming from increasing at a rate that will create more and more disasters to which the world CAN NO LONGER RESPOND EFFECTIVELY. 

Don't let our world become a wasteland!

~The U.S. will not act decisively on global warming if the Republicans win, including a Republican POTUS!~

In 2000, George W. Bush had 271 electoral votes to Al Gore’s 266 – Bush would not have won if he had lost Florida. In Florida, Bush received 2,912,790 votes to Gore’s 2,912,253 – a difference of only 567 (.0095%) votes more than Gore. The long time public advocate/ corporate critic Ralph Nader received 97,488 votes – no question that had Nader not run Gore would have been President – and we could have had policies to slow global warming, no invasion of Iraq?, no permanent war in Afghanistan?, no endless fractured regional war in the Middle East?,   no “Great Recession” worldwide (that has not truly ended)…

Please...do NOT let history repeat itself! Do NOT VOTE FOR A "WRITE-IN" CANDIDATE! This practice will weaken the chances for DEFEATING A TRUMP/PENCE ticket!

 VOTE BLUE AND BE ACTIVE IN THE CAMPAIGN 

is our answer to Republican $ AND the Republican obstructionist agenda!

(For more info, visit Global Warming 2016 Legacy)

2016 Republican Candidates: More Wealth to the Wealthy, Fear in the Streets, Prejudice Against Women, Blacks, and Many Immigrant Groups - PLUS an Authoritarian Presidency

Latino protesters - We need all voices, all votes for a Democratic win!

The 2016 Republican candidates, including the GOP POTUS candidate, are running based on:

1. A Party Platform that advocates GREATER WEALTH FOR THE WEALTHY. 
2. The Republican Presidential campaign emphasizes FEAR OF CRIME (thus, the need for “law and order”) – stereotypically committed by illegal immigrants, blacks, and Islamic terrorists. 
3. The Republican Presidential campaign clearly and PROUDLY RESURRECTS AND PROMOTES PREJUDICE against women, blacks, various ethnic and religious (immigrant ) minorities. 

Probably even more important a problem for American democracy, the Republican Presidential campaign has raised the possibility of a demagogic President who has expressed views of Presidential power “above” the Constitution – closer, in fact, to authoritarian or even DICTATORIAL power.

The election of a DEMOCRATIC POTUS and a 

Democratic Congressional MAJORITY is CRITICAL! 

We MUST ALL #uniteblue and #VoteOutGOP by voting in Democrats! 

NO WRITE-IN VOTES THAT WEAKEN THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE AND INCREASE THE GOP CHANCES OF WINNING!

The Supreme Court - after the 2016 election

Actively working for and voting for a Democratic President & Senate, in particular, is critically important!

Beyond the more recent partisan decisions of the Supreme Court like the 2010 Citizens United decision and the 2013 decision weakening the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the post 2016 Supreme Court will have the opportunity to influence America’s future in many different ways.

US Supreme Court - 2015

Therefore, the new President and majority in the Senate will have historic influence. While a replacement for Justice Scalia will be the first step in changing the reactionary direction of the Court, it is important to note there are likely to be additional changes in the Court in the near future since Justice Ginsburg is 83, Justice Kennedy is 80 and Justice Breyer is 78 and, thus, at least one additional appointment is virtually certain. 

               

Again, actively working for and voting for a Democratic President & Senate, in particular, is all the more important! 

These "right wing" Justices gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Be aware that a Democratic President, Senate majority and  House majority are essential to pass absolutely crucial legislation to slow global warming emissions as well as a wide range of legislation that benefits the general public, the 95%+, rather than only the very wealthy. 

VOTE FOR A DEMOCRATIC POTUS 

& A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL MAJORITY!

We must do our work! We must not become complacent! 

All Democrats MUST UNITE to DEFEAT TRUMP!

All Republicans, Independents, Liberals, etc., who see that TRUMP IS DANGEROUS to the USA and to the WORLD must VOTE BLUE to DEFEAT TRUMP!

Not voting or writing in a candidate WILL ELECT TRUMP as the next POTUS! THIS CANNOT HAPPEN!

VOTE FOR A DEMOCRATIC POTUS
& A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL MAJORITY!

VOTE BLUE - The Republican Party Stands for Inequality

VOTE BLUE!

Democratic POTUS & Congressional Majority!

Senator Sanders has forced a greater public discussion of the “exceptional” inequality in America. Whether we measure inequality by...

• the extraordinary concentration of wealth in the hands of so few
• an extremely regressive tax structure (including sates taxes etc.)
• the extreme (for rich nations) percentages of persons living in poverty
•  the exorbitantly high cost of health care and higher education

 ...inequality in America is a result of the policies aggressively and openly promoted by the contemporary Republican Party.

In particular, the public position of the Republican House majority is to:

• radically reduce corporate income tax rates (from 35% to 20%)
• radically reduce individual income tax rates for the wealthy (from 39.6% to 33%)
• reduce individual income tax rates for capital (investment) profits and dividend income at less than 50% of the rate for wage income

The Republican Party even argues for the elimination of the estate tax. All of these changes overwhelmingly, disproportionately benefit the extremely wealthy.

At the same time, the result of Republican tax policy changes, starting with President Reagan, has been to:

• increase the overall tax burden on the, at least, 95% of Americans with lower incomes 
• squeeze/reduce Federal spending that would reduce poverty, reduce health care (especially drug) spending, reduce the cost of higher education 
• and, most notably, to reduce the effectiveness of corporate regulation – INCREASING NUMEROUS RISKS TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.

It is CRITICAL that we VOTE & VOTE BLUE!

A VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS IN 2016 is a VOTE for INCREASED INEQUALITY in America - in ALL ITS FORMS!

UNITE & Vote BLUE!

What kind of future does humanity face?

Runaway Global Warming, Politics, & Our Future

Since the Republican Party leadership and the U. S. media, as well, give little importance to the increasing of global warming and actually denies/ignores its existence, it is all the more important to reach any and all who will listen to the scientific community about the urgency of avoiding runaway global warming.

Runaway global warming means that whatever humanity does:

1. It will no longer be able to slow the pace of warming 
2. The world will not have time to adapt with less harm to humanity from the many changes brought by increased warming

And those changes include

Drought stricken soy bean field.

– increased sea level rise, more frequent intense storms & flooding, greater droughts, more wildfires, increased food crop loss, fresh water loss, more widely spread disease carriers, increased human migration, increased conflicts, etc.

Bleached coral due to global warming - Great Barrier Reef

The science suggests that we are on the verge of runaway global warming. At the same time, the on-going research continues to yield findings that the earlier assumptions about the seriousness of the impacts of warming and about the contribution of positive feedback loops (increasing warming) were serious underestimates of the speed of change due to global warming.

So, the 2016 election is our hope that we can begin to implement policies that will slow global warming and permit adaption with less harm to humanity. 

In other words, whether the 2016 election will yield a Democratic Presidency and Congress that can make global warming slowing policies is the answer to WHAT KIND OF FUTURE HUMANITY FACES.

I ask that you please share this post with the hope that as it is shared, you can encourage others to join this fight for our very lives.

A fight against climate denial and inaction to slow global warming.

A fight on all levels of government: Federal, State, and local! All voices and votes are essential for a Democratic win! Thank you!