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Democracy On Fire

In "On Fire" Naomi Klein reminds us win/lose capitalism invites a cooperative action vacuum and abhors restrictions on money-accumulating freedom, But Earth, healthy global climates, wealthy ecosystems invite regenerative win/win climax of cooperatively nurturing health systems and abhor inhumane definitions of "wealth" as privately-held and autonomously sequestered currency energy natural resources human resources labor equity capital. Climate health informs public sector values, norms, ecology of nutritional needs and investment in cooperatively-held wants. Capitalism's monopolistic version of "wealth" informs private sector values, greedy and predative norms, theology of transcendent jealousy and divestment from multicultural communion. When Donald Trump successfully ran for President, he explicitly ran against all things Obama, against audacious hope in public sector cooperativism. Like Nixon's "Southern strategy" this was a way to effectively say "I am for Straight-White-Evangelical-Male-privileged capitalism, so I am your safest Business As Usual investment." This turns toward competitive debate rather than cooperative dialogue, and private sector CEO decision-making rather than democratic grass-roots discernment, and no public health-investment experience into a "drain the social swamp" asset. He did not mention his nationalistic capitalism is abhorrent to global climate health, public health, family health, ecosystemic health, ego-resilient health, all of which are rooted in EarthJustice wealth, regenerative action and win/win response inviting cooperative social climax within and between species and all forms of natural/spiritual living energy systems. When national Democratic Party leaders declare objective NumberOne for 2020 success is to defeat Trump, I 20/20 disagree. This continues and further escalates a win/lose strategy to out-capitalize the Trumpian icon of Capitalism, rather than a democratic positive empowerment strategy. This is a sub-optimal win/lose choice because it pretends public sector win/win healthy outcomes can be achieved with more and more and more private sector competitive incomes-- while Earth, our regeneratively healthy home, burns and melts and floods. Green Democrats look to a more resilient resonant robust cooperative investment in health. Health of all kinds: democratic co-investment health, environmental health, economic cooperative-ownership and -management health, restorative justice health, peaceful health, green new deal health, compassion health, love health, sacred health, secular health, ecological health, theological health, multicultural health, polycultural health, polyphonic flow health, polypathic wealth, polynomial interdependent intersectional health, Resonant health, resilient international health for robust climaxing EarthPeace wealth.

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