Democrats need apologize for nothing in ’28 election

 Democrats need apologize for nothing in ’28 election

Alexander Heffner in The hard truths a Democrat must tell to win in 2028 (Chicago Tribune May 29) wasted nearly 1,100 words demanding Democrats embark on an apology tour during the ’28 election. Doing so will not gain them a single vote, whether from the MAGA faithful or disillusioned progressives.

In 2016 and 2024 they faced demonic demagogue Trump who trash talked every decent, nurturing element of Democratic governance under first Obama, then Biden, to gain the presidency. Then he used that first term presidency to begin unraveling of the social safety net to enrich his billionaire class donors. He also followed thru on his threat to not leave office by instigating a coup which nearly succeeded, albeit injuring over 150 police defending American democracy of which 5 died shortly thereafter.

Instead of apologizing Trump bragged about his treasonous criminality. He ratcheted up the trash talking which inexplicably resonated to an even larger vote total than his two previous campaigns. Trump’s base loved his refusal to own up to his rampant criminality and destructive governance.

What we patriotic Americans have learned to or horror, is that a one off, charismatic traitor to American democracy, displaying a cruelty never before experienced in American presidential politics, has a solid base of 46% of the electorate. Combining that with an Electoral College tilted to their advantage made the two Trump triumphs possible.

Democratic losers Clinton and Harris talked sensible substantive policy to build on the solid accomplishments of their predecessors. Neither had a thing to apologize for. Had they ran against anyone but Trump, they’d have had a decent chance of winning..

A Democratic apology tour would be counterproductive, unseemly and provoke endless Republican ridicule on the utter weakness such a tour would display.

Heffner did make one important point. Democrats need a candidate with more charisma than that of their two losing candidates. A poorly educated, short attention span electorate makes candidate charisma, one dedicated to uplift rather than societal degradation, more important than ever.

With Trump gone in ’28, Democrats will be able to run on the pledge to restore the rule of law, .for the Constitution, rebuilding the shattered social safety net, implementing tax reform on the billionaire class, resuming the desperate quest to control global warming, among other critical societal needs ignored or degraded under Trump.

And no apology necessary for running on that platform and vision. Self-flagellation never won an election…never will.

Germany’s Merz ratchets up threat of nuclear war over Ukraine

Germany’s Merz ratchets up threat of nuclear war over Ukraine

By provoking the Russian invasion three years, three months ago, the US and NATO put the world at greater risk of nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis 63 years ago.

Biden and his UK counterpart Keir Starmer recklessly crossed Russian red lines by allowing Ukraine to fire US ATACAMS and UK Storm Shadow missiles respectively deep into Russia.

Russia’s response was to warn the US and UK that such attacks would be perceived by Russia as putting it at war with NATO. It could possibly provoke Russian attacks against NATO facilities in Europe. The fact that Russia has not so responded has led US and NATO strategists to claim that Russia’s threat is toothless. That is a prescription for igniting nuclear war.

One ray of hope to ending this madness has been President Trump’s early statements that the war must be ended forthwith. But he’s done virtually nothing to make that happen, demonstrating his near total incompetence to achieve his stated goal.

Now Germany’s newbie Chancellor Friedrich Merz just tossed fuel on the possible nuclear fire by greenlighting Ukraine to use German Taurus missiles with a 310 mile range, somewhat longer than US ATACMS and UK Storm Shadows.

Merz and his two fellow crazed pro war colleagues UK’s Keir Starmer and France’s Emmanuel Macron are determined to keep this lost war going even if Trump does manage to wind down US participation. They’re doing this while the Ukraine military is disintegrating before their lying eyes.

Every day those 3 promote continued war costs more death to Ukraine’s dwindling military, more lost land and more shattering of Ukraine’s economy.

Now the escalation announced by reckless Merz that heightens nuclear tensions makes ending this war without delay more critical than ever.

 

America....Arsenal of Genocide in Gaza

 America....Arsenal of Genocide in Gaza

Israel is nearly 600 days into their genocidal ethnic cleaning of Gaza.

Upwards of a hundred thousand are dead. All of the remaining 2,200,000 Palestinians there are approaching death from starvation, lack of medical care, no housing, no sewage facilities, no nothing. Most buildings in Gaza have been pulverized into dust, forever burying thousands of the dead.

Israel is totally incapable of conducting this dastardly genocide on their own. They simply do not have the grisly resources to do so. But they have a Sugar Daddy, make that a Genocide Daddy, to engage in the most grotesque genocide this century.

The United States of America.

The military weaponry and resources America has provided are staggering. The Israeli Defense industry reported that yesterday, May 27, the 800th plane of US weaponry arrived in Israel. 140 ships of death weapons have also arrived. That amounts to over 90,000 tons of bombs, guns and military equipment to utterly destroy sustainable life in Gaza’s once barely livable 130square miles.

During WWII America became known worldwide as the Arsenal of Democracy. The world’s largest arms maker, built by America’ Greatest Generation, defeated the Nazi purveyors of the worst genocide on the 20th century.

Today, America has become known worldwide as the Arsenal of Genocide. Still the world’s largest arms maker, but now built by America’s worst generation of leaders, America sustains the Israeli purveyors of the worst genocide in the 21st century.

From the Arsenal of Democracy to the Arsenal of Genocide in 80 years; a horrifying descent into moral degradation for the self-proclaimed Greatest Country on Earth.

Trump’s role in provoking Russia’s destruction of Ukraine should not be ignored.

 

Trump’s role in provoking Russia’s destruction of Ukraine should not be ignored.

 

Russia invaded Ukraine under President Biden’s presidency, beginning its destruction as viable state. Biden directly provoked the invasion in several ways.

 

He refused to promote implementing the Minsk II Accords which would have given the Russian cultured Ukrainians in Donbas independence and security from Kyiv nationalists killing them since 2014. He kept pushing for Ukraine to join NATO, a red line guaranteeing eventual Russian intervention. Seasoned US diplomates were apoplectic about that to no avail. He kept arming the Kyiv neofascists to complete victory over the Donbas separatists and further isolate Russia from Western Europe.

Worst of all Biden essentially told Russia to ‘piss off’ when they begged Biden to consider Russia’s valid security concerns over NATO expansion and sabotaging Minsk II. For Biden, Russia’s security concerns were simply “not subject for discussion.”

 

Trump campaigned for re-election charging the Russian invasion was solely Biden’s fault.

 

Big lie.

 

Trump spent his entire term keeping alive eventual Ukraine NATO membership. Worse, Trump set the stage for Biden’s duplicity by revering predecessor Obama’s prohibition on arming the Kyiv regime to both destroy the Donbas separatist movement and prepare for possible war with Russia. Trump didn’t interfere with Germany, France and UK using the promise of Minsk II independence to stall for time allowing Ukraine to build up its military capability mainly provided by Trump.

 

Trump now finds himself bollixed up from his stupid promise to end the war in one day. On day 127 he’s completely outmaneuvered by Russia which holds all the cards for completing their takeover of the eastern fifth of Ukraine, administering a crushing defeat to US plans to weaken/destroy the Russian regime while bringing Ukraine into NATO.

 

Historians will assign Biden’s unhinged Ukraine policy and dismissal of Russia’s security concern as the primary causes of America’s failed proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.

 

But they should include Trump’s reckless, duplicitous Ukraine policy preceding Biden’s igniting the invasion in their history of this totally, senseless, unnecessary war.