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A quotation from Molly Ivins

Friends, soulwise, these are trying times. Now is the time for all good citizens to come to the aid of our country, and it won’t help if you all cower in places like Madison and the Upper West Side, having hot fantods over the approach of fascism. To the barricades, team. And for Lord’s sake, don’t leave your sense of humor behind.

Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (2005-03), “Use It or Lose It,” The Progressive, Vol. 69, No. 3

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A quotation from Molly Ivins

Friends, soulwise, these are trying times. Now is the time for all good citizens to come to the aid of our country, and it won’t help if you all cower in places like Madison and the Upper West Side, having hot fantods over the approach of fascism. To the barricades, team. And for Lord’s sake, don’t leave your sense of humor behind.

Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (2005-03), “Use It or Lose It,” The Progressive, Vol. 69, No. 3

More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/85094/

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A quotation from Cicero

There are greater forces and means for attacking than for defending the State. The reason is, that reckless and abandoned men need only a nod to set them moving, and their own natural disposition incites them against the State; while honest folk somehow or other show less activity, neglect the beginnings of movements, and are aroused to action at the last moment only by simple necessity; so that sometimes, owing to their hesitation and indolence, while they wish still to enjoy peace even with the loss of dignity, through their own fault they lose both.
 
[Maioribus praesidiis et copiis oppugnatur res publica quam defenditur, propterea quod audaces homines et perditi nutu impelluntur et ipsi etiam sponte sua contra rem publicam incitantur, boni nescio quo modo tardiores sunt et principiis rerum neglectis ad extremum ipsa denique necessitate excitantur, ita ut non numquam cunctatione ac tarditate, dum otium volunt etiam sine dignitate retinere, ipsi utrumque amittant.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Pro Sestio [For Publius Sestius], ch. 47 / sec. 100 (56-02 BC) [tr. Gardner (Loeb) (1958)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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A quotation from Cicero

There are greater forces and means for attacking than for defending the State. The reason is, that reckless and abandoned men need only a nod to set them moving, and their own natural disposition incites them against the State; while honest folk somehow or other show less activity, neglect the beginnings of movements, and are aroused to action at the last moment only by simple necessity; so that sometimes, owing to their hesitation and indolence, while they wish still to enjoy peace even with the loss of dignity, through their own fault they lose both.
 
[Maioribus praesidiis et copiis oppugnatur res publica quam defenditur, propterea quod audaces homines et perditi nutu impelluntur et ipsi etiam sponte sua contra rem publicam incitantur, boni nescio quo modo tardiores sunt et principiis rerum neglectis ad extremum ipsa denique necessitate excitantur, ita ut non numquam cunctatione ac tarditate, dum otium volunt etiam sine dignitate retinere, ipsi utrumque amittant.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Pro Sestio [For Publius Sestius], ch. 47 / sec. 100 (56-02 BC) [tr. Gardner (Loeb) (1958)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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A quotation from Hannah Arendt

As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Life of the Mind, Part 1, sec. 3, ch. 18 (1977)

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A quotation from Hannah Arendt

As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Life of the Mind, Part 1, sec. 3, ch. 18 (1977)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/46319/

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A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

Let us not be afraid to help each other — let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933–1945)
Speech (1938-07-08), Northwest Territory Sesquicentennial, Muskingum Park, Marietta, Ohio

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A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

Let us not be afraid to help each other — let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933–1945)
Speech (1938-07-08), Northwest Territory Sesquicentennial, Muskingum Park, Marietta, Ohio

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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

   In a self-governing country the people are called citizens. Under a despotism or autocracy the people are called subjects. This is because in a free country the people are themselves sovereign, while in a despotic country the people are under a sovereign. In the United States the people are all citizens, including its President. The rest of them are fellow citizens of the President. In Germany the people are all subjects of the Kaiser. They are not his fellow citizens, they are his subjects.
   This is the essential difference between the United States and Germany, but the difference would vanish if we now submitted to the foolish or traitorous persons who endeavor to make it a crime to tell the truth about the Administration when the Administration is guilty of incompetence or other shortcomings. Such an endeavor is itself a crime against the nation. Those who take such an attitude are guilty of moral treason of a kind both abject and dangerous.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Essay (1918-04-06), “Citizens or Subjects?” Kansas City Star

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A quotation from George Carlin

   So maybe it’s not the politicians who suck; maybe it’s something else. Like the public. That would be a nice realistic campaign slogan for somebody: “The public sucks. Elect me.” Put the blame where it belongs: on the people.
   Because if everything is really the fault of politicians, where are all the bright, honest, intelligent Americans who are ready to step in and replace them? Where are these people hiding? The truth is, we don’t have people like that. Everyone’s at the mall, scratching his balls and buying sneakers with lights in them. And complaining about the politicians.

George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian
Book (2001), Napalm & Silly Putty, “Don’t Blame the Leaders”

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A quotation from George Carliln

   In the midst of all my bitching, you might’ve noticed that I never complain about politicians. I leave that to others. And there’s no shortage of volunteers; everyone complains about politicians. Everyone says they suck.
   But where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky; they don’t pass through a membrane from a separate reality. They come from American homes, American families, American schools, American churches, and American businesses. And they’re elected by American voters. This is what our system produces, folks. This is the best we can do. Let’s face it, we have very little to work with. Garbage in, garbage out.
   Ignorant citizens elect ignorant leaders, it’s as simple as that. And term limits don’t help. All you do is get a brand new bunch of ignorant leaders.

George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian
Book (2001), Napalm & Silly Putty, “Don’t Blame the Leaders”

More info about this quote: wist.info/carlin-george/79693/

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https://www.newsletter.peoplepowerunited.org/p/dont-look-away-our-government-is

Don't Look Away: Our #Government Is #Abducting People and Stomping on the Rule of #Law
🗽A well informed #citizenry is the best defense against #tyranny. Throughout history, #Americans have faced corruption, injustice, and #authoritarian overreach. And every time, we fought back.

..."DACA is our nation's promise—a recognition that children should never be punished ...

Virtual Vigil for Dignity Not Detention – We Stand with Dreamers"...

The story of sortition (Losverfahren) / The story of democracy

By Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvGFVyqKxUE

#Democracy #Essence #EssenceOfDemocracy #Participation #Citizenry #Power #Political #Government #Democratize #Democratization

The story of sortition (Losverfahren) / The story of democracy

By Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvGFVyqKxUE

#Democracy #Essence #EssenceOfDemocracy #Participation #Citizenry #Power #Political #Government #Democratize #Democratization

A quotation from John Adams

But this is an unalterable Truth, that the People can never be enslaved but by their own Tameness, Pusillanimity, Sloth or Corruption. They may be deceived, and their Symplicity, Ignorance, and Docility render them frequently liable to deception. And of this, the aspiring, designing, ambitious few are very sensible. He is the Statesman qualifyed by Nature to scatter Ruin and Destruction in his Path who by deceiving a Nation can render Despotism desirable in their Eyes and make himself popular in Undoing.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Diary (1772, Spring), “Notes for a Oration at Braintree”

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/77256/

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A quotation from John Adams

Sometimes Kings have courted the People in Opposition to the Nobles. At other Times the Nobles have united with the People in Opposition to Kings. But Kings and Nobles have much oftener combined together, to crush, to humble and to Fleece the People.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Diary (1772, Spring), “Notes for a Oration at Braintree”

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/77176/

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A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Letter (1940-01-09) to William Allan Neilson

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A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Letter (1940-01-09) to William Allan Neilson

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

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A quotation from John Adams

As the Happiness of the People is the sole End of Government, So the Consent of the People is the only Foundation of it, in Reason, Morality, and the natural Fitness of things: and therefore every Act of Government, every Exercise of Sovereignty, against, or without, the Consent of the People, is Injustice, Usurpation, and Tyranny.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
“A Proclamation by the General Court of Massachusetts” (1776-01-19)

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A quotation from John Adams

As the Happiness of the People is the sole End of Government, So the Consent of the People is the only Foundation of it, in Reason, Morality, and the natural Fitness of things: and therefore every Act of Government, every Exercise of Sovereignty, against, or without, the Consent of the People, is Injustice, Usurpation, and Tyranny.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
“A Proclamation by the General Court of Massachusetts” (1776-01-19)

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A quotation from Jefferson

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Letter (1816-01-06) to Charles Yancey

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A quotation from Fletcher Knebel

The trouble is that democracy works only when a good majority of citizens are willing to give thought and time and effort to their government.

Fletcher Knebel (1911-1993) American author
Seven Days in May, “Tuesday Afternoon” [Lyman] (1962) [with Charles W. Bailey II]

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A quotation from Lincoln

By the frame of the Government under which we live this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance no Administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four years.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1861-03-04), Inaugural Address, Washington, D. C.

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A quotation from Thoreau

What is wanted is men, not of policy, but of probity, — who recognize a higher law than the Constitution, or the decision of the majority. The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls, — the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Speech (1854-07-04), “Slavery in Massachusetts,” Anti-Slavery Celebration, Framingham, Massachusetts

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A quotation from John Adams

Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents and trustees for the people; and if the cause, the interest and trust is insidiously betray’d, or wantonly trifled away, the people have a right to revoke the authority, that they themselves have deputed, and to constitute abler and better agents, attorneys and trustees.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Essay (1765-09-30), “A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law,” No. 3, Boston Gazette

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A quotation from John Adams

[The people] have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Essay (1765-09-30), “A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law,” No. 3, Boston Gazette

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A quotation from Lincoln, Abraham:

«
The people — the people — are the rightful masters of both Congresses, and courts — not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/lincoln-abraham/39417/

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A quotation from Roosevelt, Franklin Delano:

«
But the future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-delano/4855/

#quote #quotes #quotation #citizenry #government #leadership #politics #publicopinion

The need for symbolic logic:
#logic #symboliclogic #mathematics #rationalthinking #citizenry
🤓

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-s-should-teach-kids-to-think-logically/

https://peoplepowerunited.substack.com/p/you-do-not-get-to-complain-if-you

You do not get to complain if you are unwilling to do the work to make #change happen
A well informed #citizenry is the best defense against #tyranny.
PEOPLE POWER UNITED #uspolitics

Elections are not a year of work; they are years of building grassroots and coalitions.
the choice:
Waste time and resources on a candidate with zero chance of winning
Help to get out the vote for the best candidate and push them hard for reforms we need
Side with a fascist
Do noth."...

"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference."

- Wangari Maathai

#quote #quoteoftheday #quotestoliveby #Citizenry #ItsTheLittleThings #MakeADifference #BeingHuman

A behavioural crisis is driving ecological overshoot and threatens the fabric of complex life on Earth

"We explore three drivers of the behavioural crisis in depth: economic growth; marketing; and pronatalism. These three drivers directly impact the three ‘levers’ of overshoot: consumption, waste and population...The evidence indicates that anthropogenic ecological overshoot stems from a crisis of maladaptive human behaviours...We have in place to deliver a framework for shifting social norms and other necessities for addressing the behavioural crisis."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00368504231201372

"Where discussion of climate often centres on carbon emissions,
a focus on overshoot highlights the materials usage, waste output and growth of human society, all of which affect the Earth’s biosphere. Just one-quarter of the world population is responsible for nearly three-quarters of emissions...Solutions that do not tackle the underlying drivers of our growth-based economies will only exacerbate the overshoot crisis."

"The system is driving us to suicide. It’s conquest, entitlement, misogyny, arrogance and it comes in a fetid package driving us to the abyss.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/13/human-behavioural-crisis-at-root-of-climate-breakdown-say-scientists
#overshoot #material #footprint #consumption #waste #eneergy #renewables #population #reproduction #growth #FossilFuel #climate #BehaviouralCrisis #attention #marketing #PR #InvisibleGovernance #status #habitus #SocialNorms #desire #msm #education #renewables #citizenry #ScienceDisconnect #SystemicChange #AnthropoTechnics #transformation #SocietalBreakdown #MaladaptiveBehaviour #ethics #biosphere #HabitablePlanet #BiodiversityCrisis

A behavioural crisis is driving ecological overshoot and threatens the fabric of complex life on Earth

"We explore three drivers of the behavioural crisis in depth: economic growth; marketing; and pronatalism. These three drivers directly impact the three ‘levers’ of overshoot: consumption, waste and population...The evidence indicates that anthropogenic ecological overshoot stems from a crisis of maladaptive human behaviours...We have in place to deliver a framework for shifting social norms and other necessities for addressing the behavioural crisis."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00368504231201372

"Where discussion of climate often centres on carbon emissions,
a focus on overshoot highlights the materials usage, waste output and growth of human society, all of which affect the Earth’s biosphere. Just one-quarter of the world population is responsible for nearly three-quarters of emissions...Solutions that do not tackle the underlying drivers of our growth-based economies will only exacerbate the overshoot crisis."

"The system is driving us to suicide. It’s conquest, entitlement, misogyny, arrogance and it comes in a fetid package driving us to the abyss.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/13/human-behavioural-crisis-at-root-of-climate-breakdown-say-scientists
#overshoot #material #footprint #consumption #waste #eneergy #renewables #population #reproduction #growth #FossilFuel #climate #BehaviouralCrisis #attention #marketing #PR #InvisibleGovernance #status #habitus #SocialNorms #desire #msm #education #renewables #citizenry #ScienceDisconnect #SystemicChange #AnthropoTechnics #transformation #SocietalBreakdown #MaladaptiveBehaviour #ethics #biosphere #HabitablePlanet #BiodiversityCrisis

@shawnwegner It's sad that I'm happy about this, because it underscores how a #billionaire's whim is so much more important than me, a #Florida citizen, going to school board meetings to protest book bans and writing opinions to the newspaper to expose #hypocrisy.

#Citizenry be damned in the presence of #oligarchs who "support" (prop up, buy outright?) our politicians!

“On Lying and Politics” - #Arendt explores the affinity between lying and politics, and reminds us that the survival of factual #truth depends on the testimony of credible witnesses and on an informed #citizenry. https://www.penguin.com.au/books/on-lying-and-politics-9781598537314

“On Lying and Politics” - #Arendt explores the affinity between lying and politics, and reminds us that the survival of factual #truth depends on the testimony of credible witnesses and on an informed #citizenry. https://www.penguin.com.au/books/on-lying-and-politics-9781598537314

We've added our new @pixelfed instance to the #Citizenry services offered.

https://privagram.com

We've added our new @pixelfed instance to the #Citizenry services offered.

https://privagram.com

Elon Musk = Twitter
Facebook = Instagram
YouTube = Google
WhatsApp = Facebook

None of the above = privacy, objectivity, or portability

#Citizenry #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Future

Elon Musk = Twitter
Facebook = Instagram
YouTube = Google
WhatsApp = Facebook

None of the above = privacy, objectivity, or portability

#Citizenry #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Future

@nick
A few things in the last century have tipped the scales in favour of an accelerated #plutocracy.

1913-29: The formation of #centralBanking and the switch towards cultivating a #consumeristSelf over an active #citizenry,

1960-70s break from gold that coincidences with onset of "#neoliberalism" and interestingly, a #TransparencyMovement, opening votes of #policymakers up to the public, but ultimately a primary tool exploited mostly by #lobbyists.

Abuse of tech ensues.

@davew @atomicpoet