{"id":37670,"date":"2024-11-17T13:32:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T21:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=37670"},"modified":"2024-11-17T13:32:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T21:32:11","slug":"pda-sunday-progressive-town-hall-november-17-2024-with-guest-mimi-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/11\/17\/pda-sunday-progressive-town-hall-november-17-2024-with-guest-mimi-kennedy\/","title":{"rendered":"PDA Sunday Progressive Town Hall, November 17, 2024 with guest Mimi Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PDA Sunday Progressive Town Hall, November 17, 2024 with guest Mimi Kennedy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b-n0fL3_4Ss?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PDAMERICA  \u2022 Started streaming 31 minutes ago. If anyone had any illusions that Donald Trump wasn\u2019t a threat to our constitutional republic, they evaporated over the past week as he announced the people he has chosen to run the most powerful agencies of the Federal government. Not only are these nominees severely unqualified to lead these departments, their defining feature is not just loyalty to Donald Trump, but to his vision of obliterating the norms and practices of the U.S. government. Let\u2019s be clear about his motivation. This is not being done because these Federal agencies somehow stand in the way of changes that would improve life for the majority of Americans. If that\u2019s the case, surely Trump would have outlined his rationale during the campaign. Rather, Trump is aiming to fulfill a longtime goal of pro-business reactionaries by limiting, or even eliminating, regulations that protect the health and safety of the population and place constraints on powerful corporations and individuals. In this, he is doing the bidding of our oligarchs, common man be damned. He is also signaling his intention to rule with greater unconstrained authority than any President in history, as evidenced by his appointments to oversee the military, intelligence, and justice branches, all of whom have open contempt for the established hierarchies in those departments. Once again, not for any reasons that can be embraced by Progressives, but because these departments are not adequately obedient to Trump and his cadre. With the House and Senate in the hands of a cowardly GOP, and the Supreme Court stacked with a reactionary majority, the situation seems dire: our vaunted system of checks and balances apparently overcome\u2026. But all is not lost. Far from it. Trump may have advanced further than we ever imagined fascism could proceed in this land. The barbarians have breached the gate. As of this week, they\u2019ve shown their hand again, and it\u2019s the same one we saw on January 6, 2021. But, to paraphrase John Paul Jones, we have not yet begun to fight. And, as David Hume observed, \u201dNo form of government had ever been submitted to but what was established on consent.\u201d We, at PDA, do not believe that the American people will consent to their own subordination, the diminution of their sovereignty. We know we must act. But how so? What would the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PDAMERICA \u2022 Started streaming 31 minutes ago. If anyone had any illusions that Donald Trump wasn\u2019t a threat to our constitutional republic, they evaporated over the past week as he announced the people he has chosen to run the most powerful agencies of the Federal government. Not only are these&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/11\/17\/pda-sunday-progressive-town-hall-november-17-2024-with-guest-mimi-kennedy\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37671,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37670\/revisions\/37671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}