Why the Non-Wealthy Dems Will Keep Losing.

The rich can afford to buy their way out of situations. The poor cannot. They live in reality where consequences are king.

True change in society does not come from protests or riots in the streets.  At best, they serve to bring attention to an issue.  Then the educated, those in the know, the players with smarts step in.

Sadly, while anyone can earn a degree, true education and critical thinking, and reading, skills are devalued in our entertainment culture days.  Want to help your child to succeed?

The birth through age three or four years really are crucial.  Be with your child.  Attend as best you can to his needs.  Teach them.  Turn off the television and limit screen time.  That's not reality, even if you choose strong programming.  They need to learn to listen, observe and speak in their own voice in reality.

When you see little ones at those early ages talking, asking questions and narrating what is happening around them, you know they are growing.  Then, with schooling, choose places that respect their ability to learn.  You start this process in college... it's too late.

Students who get stuck with teachers "teaching down" should get out.  Quickly.  Nothing good can come from a dissatisfied person stuck in a role where they don't put their students first.

Do you not like what is happening in society around you?  Look to those whom you do find successful (hint: today, it is often not the ones with the titles or the wealth or the career slots) and IMITATE them.  Learn about their backgrounds and how they got to be where you want to be...

Often, it is higher education.  But again, if a person hasn't mastered the ability to read, to sort through the dreck to find the quality materials, they must rely on others to guide them.  The wonderful thing about the age we are living in, almost all of the quality work from the past is easily accessible and does not cost much in America to find.

Chanting in the streets, making glitter posters, bonding with other like-minded souls... it might be fun, but it doesn't get the job done.  Look at the current Supreme Court.

It's not that they are racially superior, as well-educated whites.  It's that someone taught them to value scholarship, and they learned that decisions about the people lower on the social rungs are made by those with a voice that is credible, confident and most of all, competent.

Consequences: teach consequences by not denying reality, but learning from mistakes, trying to avoid them, and quickly adapting your approach to reality.

Want to win, Dems?  Start with the seeding.  Choose a healthy child, and then invest in him or her.  Often, this is untouched "immigrant" stock who are tabula rasas in American society.  Bring the child to church or temple or the mosque, where they can interact with other successful adults in a community and observe...

Children who are taught to respect elders and value education, who realize that "getting in" is not just about an outside award but gaining entrance to the inner sanctums will persevere in "getting in" to the institutions where the changes are made.

I've never seen a Court opinion written in Black English, for example.  Doubt I ever will...

It's fine, and even encouraged, for a wise child to adapt to their surroundings and know when and how to be chameleon-like in adapting themselves to fit in.  But understanding the time, place and persons distinction means being in control of oneself and not insisting that they accept your ways, barging through their doors...

Well educated black people seem to marry white people as a way into those successful cultures.  Nttawwt, but that's not the way it has to be...

With more and more African immigrants who value education, good health and hard work coming to America, I expect we will see more and more competitive people admitted to our institutions who can successfully shape them from within.

If you don't like the current make up on the Court, use their own game plan to beat them.  As much as everyone celebrated the latest black justice gaining a seat upon another justice's soon-to-be retirement, not many expect her to be a leader on the Court, based on her background.

Ditto with Barack Obama.  He, and his wife, had the credentials, but they were played, more than they came to play, I think.  They successfully retired with more riches than they can handle it seems:  multiple homes, excellent health care, good schools for their children.

But change?  Didn't happen in reality, because the passion for the causes and the hard work that lifted them up wasn't required.  Just the black skin, nice pleasing personalities, and a party that needed at the time what they offered.

What if... Thurgood Marshall hadn't won all those cases before the Court before he took a seat on the bench?  You think he would have been considered an effective justice in his time?  I don't.

He was educated, worked his way up, and knew the stakes when he "got in".  And no doubt, he created lasting change with his work.  He was a player, not a black man who got played...

Abortion is one issue this court will address.  Affirmative action is another.  The children can be encouraged to make glitter posters, scream until their voices are hoarse and get on camera calling attention to their discontent, but the change comes from the leaders in society.

George Floyd's murder wasn't prevented by the people in the street watching, nor was Chauvin's criminal court case won by the State based on hollers for justice.  The witnesses were educated and convincing, experts in their fields.  The judge knew the procedures in his courtroom, and led a fair trial.  The jury may or may not have been intimidated by what was happening outside in the streets, but they likely voted for conviction based on what they heard in that courtroom.

Too many pundits today have not read the Constitution, much less studied it.  Nttawwt.  But they are at a disadvantage, and doing a disservice now, advising about an opinion likely be released in late June.  (Remember friends, absolutely nothing in the draft opinion is official yet, just like the latest justice-to-be is still technically a layperson sitting on the sidelines.)

I'm confident that in time, she will be a justice, and the opinion will be released.  But point of order:  neither has happened yet.  People who act like the law changed when the leak occurred are steering you wrong.

In time, of course, the strong leadership on the Court will dominate.  John Roberts is the leader in name only;  the Bush appointee -- in my humble opinion -- is a weasel and a follower, trying to cut the baby in half in all of his previous opinions, to please Washington DC.  (I suspect they have the goods on how he adopted his children out of country, but we don't talk Bruno, so to speak... Protect the innocent children and all.  They know who their father is, and will choose to confront him with their own realities in time, or not.)

After what the press did to Kavanaugh, and his family; what the press continues to say, disparagingly, about Coney Barrett's family ("handmaiden"), and the memories of how Thomas almost didn't even "get in"... I am quite doubtful there is going to be any dissent in their ranks.  They are solid scholars, and they know why they are where they are, and what the law under the Constitution is -- where to go to find the answers.

So preach and rant, holler and chant all you like.  Or... save up your money and go to law school.  Work your way in, question those who feed you bad scholarship when you get there, and look to see who is succeeding in creating the change you want to see in the world.

If you have the ability to read, to think and to direct your efforts into finding the best materials to teach you, you can confidently reject those simply going through the motions for a paycheck, who believe their duty is to promote only the well being of their own.  Work with them if you have to, but get out independently on your own as soon as you can...

Change comes from within the institutions others have committed centuries building.  Any jerk can destroy, quickly, what others have worked to build.  But life is not better absent community-based infrastucture for the good of all.  The people of Iraq, and Afghanistan, and Libya know that -- the poor people remaining in Ukraine will find out soon enough what the ongoing destruction is bringing to their homeland too.

War and violence don't help anyone.  It's like vandals committed to creating change by taking down stop signs.  It causes more unrest, with nothing communally built to support the people of today.

So sure, kill your babies in the name of freedom.  Take on outside jobs while your children are neglected in the home.  They'll live, right?  Feed them on today's cultural entertainment -- which distorts reality and teaches viewers to ignore consequences  Alec Baldwin, for example, took the life of a child's mother, and has effectively moved on -- back making his films, breeding another baby-to-be with his wife, not a surrogate, even, and people are willing to give him a pass -- not even asking for him to have his day in court to make his case, or not.

Many people who live like that never know life's true riches, or live a just life.  Outwardly, it is all for show.  And if they can't show, and influence others, they seem lost.  I think some of the pundits understand why the Dems cannot win, even when it seems they have the numbers:  because they settle for proven incompetents like Joe Biden, even when voters rejected his ways and are calling for something more.

Dems can't deliver because they can't penetrate the inner sanctums and lead from within.  They can't create true change in the system because they can't or won't look at the work it takes to educate themselves, and prefer to make their money and drop into their cultural entertainment worlds.

Kim Kardashian seems to be the best hope they've got now, with her wealth spawning the next generation of successful black people until the black immigrants who stick to learning from reality and consequences uplift themselves and have the ability to compete fairly in the American institutions that make the world turn.  Cheers!