From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Jun  6 23:14:33 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 23:14:33 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=98decent_standard_of_living?=
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What does a ?decent standard of living? cost in California? 1 in 3 households can?t afford it
By Annie Sciacca, Bay Area News Group
POSTED: 06/06/18, 11:03 AM PDT | UPDATED: 2 HRS AGO0 COMMENTS <http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/social-affairs/20180606/what-does-a-decent-standard-of-living-cost-in-california-1-in-3-households-cant-afford-it#disqus_thread>

One in three households in California ? about 3.3 million families ? are struggling to reach a decent standard of living, even though most of those households include full-time workers, according to a report from nonprofit coalition United Ways of California.

In its statewide report released this week, Struggling to Stay Afloat: The Real Cost Measure in California 2018, United Ways used an approach it calls the ?real cost measure? to determine the local costs of living that go beyond food and housing.



The real cost measure changes across different cities, areas and even neighborhoods in the state, depending on childcare, healthcare and transportation, in addition to the high cost of food and housing ? all of which it takes into effect to determine what the United Ways team calls a ?decent standard of living.?

ADVERTISPERHAPS UNSURPRISINGLY, THE COST OF HOUSING WEIGHS HEAVY ON CALIFORNIANS, THE REPORT FOUND. ABOUT 38 PERCENT OF HOUSEHOLDS SPEND MORE THAN 30 PERCENT OF THEIR INCOME ON HOUSING, AND FAMILIES BELOW THE FEDERAL POVERTY LEVEL SPEND AS MUCH AS 79 PERCENT OF THEIR INCOME ON THEIR HOMES.


In Alameda County, the researchers estimate that a household consisting of two adults, one infant and one school-age child would need $89,665 per year to meet an annual housing cost of $25,236 (for rent at about $2,100 per month), $13,944 worth of food, $8,856 for a year of healthcare for the family, $10,188 for transportation expenses, $18,144 for childcare, $7,632 for miscellaneous expenses, and $5,665 in taxes.

That?s just below the median household income for a family of that size in Alameda County, which is $98,744, but the report found that more than a quarter of households in the county ? 28 percent ? are living below the real cost measure budget for their size.



In Contra Costa County, the figures are similar. The report put the real cost measure at $87,623 for that family of four, but 27 percent of households are not able to meet their costs.

In San Mateo County, the Real Cost Measure jumps up to $97,108 for a family with two adults, one infant and one school-aged child, with higher housing costs ($27,468 per year), pricier childcare ($21,132 per year) and higher taxes ($6,952) driving the necessary budget higher than the East Bay counties. In Santa Clara County, the same size family would need $92,084 to meet those various costs in a year. In both those counties, about 23 percent of households are living below the Real Cost Measure the report estimated for their family size.




Despite the high cost of living in the Bay Area, the area actually sees a lower percentage of households struggling to meet their Real Cost Measures, according to the report. About 35 percent of households in the Greater Los Angeles and Inland Empire areas fall below the Real Cost Measure, and 37 percent of the Central Valley do.

The Bay Area?s low unemployment and high wages could contribute to the lower percentages of struggling families, but there is a worrying trend: the percentage of households falling below the measure in Alameda and Contra Costa counties have increased since 2015, which is the last time United Ways conducted this study. In Contra Costa County, the percentage jumped from 24 percent in 2015 to 27 percent in this study, while in Alameda County, the percentage increased from 25 percent in 2015 to 28 percent.



Certain communities of people are more impacted by the high cost of living than others, the report suggests.

A high proportion ? 72 percent ? of single mothers in California fall below the Real Cost Measure. And 45 percent of households led by a person born outside the U.S. live below the Real Cost Measure ? 63 percent of households where that leader is not a U.S. citizen.

While being unemployed or underemployed could certainly contribute to affordability issues, researchers found that 90 percent of the households living below the Real Cost Measure for their area included at least one working adult. In Alameda and Santa Clara counties, that number jumped to 98 percent, and in Contra Costa and San Mateo counties, it was 97 percent.



?They are earning less than it takes to meet decent standard of living, and most of those people are working full time,? Pete Manzo, CEO and President of United Ways of California, said in a call with reporters about the report. ?The challenge isn?t so much, ?get a job? or ?get employed.? The challenge is how to earn more ? how can we increase income for those families.?

The full report and the interactive county guide can be found at  unitedwaysca.org/realcost <http://www.unitedwaysca.org/realcost>.


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Jun 10 08:47:14 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 08:47:14 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Koch news
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/david-koch-steps-down-from-influential-conservative-network-he-helmed-with-his-brother/2018/06/05/aedeae68-68d6-11e8-bf8c-f9ed2e672adf_story.html?utm_term=.3ecc9b4a5f1a <https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/david-koch-steps-down-from-influential-conservative-network-he-helmed-with-his-brother/2018/06/05/aedeae68-68d6-11e8-bf8c-f9ed2e672adf_story.html?utm_term=.3ecc9b4a5f1a>


David Koch, one of two billionaire brothers whose powerful conservative network transformed Republican politics, is retiring from business and political life because of declining health, potentially testing the staying power of an organization that was already changing in dramatic ways?
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Jun 10 14:08:20 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 14:08:20 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Can anything be done?
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Where is Occupy?

Hard to believe this kind of cruelty is being fostered by our government.
Can anything be done?    rk

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/us/children-immigration-borders-family-separation.html

Boy and migrant Father split up at border

From irenelsm at mcn.org  Tue Jun 12 06:40:12 2018
From: irenelsm at mcn.org (Irene Malone)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 06:40:12 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Take this pledge with me?
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Hi,

When working people are united, we have what it takes to make change! I just signed a pledge to do all I can to help working people elect labor-friendly candidates in November. Will you sign it, too?
Irene

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/pledge-to-elect-pro-union-candidates-in-november?sp_ref=416285005.48.188586.e.0.2&source=sp_email

From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Jun 13 11:31:49 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 11:31:49 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Can anything be done?
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.protest in Ukiah tomorrow about the immigrant children round up by our government

Sent from my iPad

> On Jun 13, 2018, at 8:04 AM, nlnelson at mcn.org wrote:
> 
> they're staging a demonstration gathering in Ukiah tomorrow PM.....
> 
> maybe we need just to announce one.....or many.....and keep calling
> Congress and writing to the papers.....
> 
> nn
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> 
> 
> Where is Occupy?
>> 
>> Hard to believe this kind of cruelty is being fostered by our government.
>> Can anything be done?    rk
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>> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/us/children-immigration-borders-family-separation.html
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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 03:41:20 -0600
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Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Ohio's Junk Mail Trick Led the Supreme Court
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From blackdantheman100 at gmail.com  Fri Jun 15 10:13:38 2018
From: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com (DANIEL BAKER)
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Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: BAD NEWS: California just lost internet
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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Jun 15 12:18:11 2018
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 12:18:11 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupymendocino Digest, Vol 1556, Issue 1
In-Reply-To: <mailman.25.1529089214.11593.occupymendocino@lists.mcn.org>
References: <mailman.25.1529089214.11593.occupymendocino@lists.mcn.org>
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Well, this is embarrassing. Looks like my mail list has been hacked.

Today's Topics:

  1. (no subject) (Mark Safron)


From john at cypresshouse.com  Fri Jun 15 15:48:59 2018
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 15:48:59 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Thought you might want to sign this petition
Message-ID: <027a01d404fb$0cd476a0$267d63e0$@com>

I just signed a petition demanding that Congress stop the Trump regime from
separating families at the border and pass legislation to protect the rights
of immigrant children and families in detention  I think you should, too:
https://act.credoaction.com/sign/families_belong_together?sp_ref=417362089.4
.188715.e.608537.2
<https://act.credoaction.com/sign/families_belong_together?sp_ref=417362089.
4.188715.e.608537.2&referring_akid=28922.670819.7Ngm02&source=mailto_sp>
&referring_akid=28922.670819.7Ngm02&source=mailto_sp

Thank you! 

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From annxpress at live.com  Tue Jun 19 16:41:39 2018
From: annxpress at live.com (Microsoft account team)
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 23:41:39 +0000
Subject: [Occupymendocino] sign this
Message-ID: <DM5PR16MB0106E51F8F588AE7F07C097BDD700@DM5PR16MB0106.namprd16.prod.outlook.com>

I just signed a petition to put the spotlight on bank lobbyist contributions to the Trump official trying to destroy the consumer protection agency, and I think you should, too.

https://act.credoaction.com/sign/mulvaney_warren_ethics?sp_ref=418230279.4.188792.e.608738.2&referring_akid=28934.2377587.oxV5my&source=mailto_sp




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From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Jun 20 07:12:48 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 07:12:48 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The Press Democrat E-Edition Article - Crusader
	joins team
Message-ID: <FE8BC6D8-12EE-4B21-83B6-645B4FD15E6F@mcn.org>

Erin B  Helps Santa Rosa Fire victims. 

Follow the link below to view the article.
##title## - ##paper##
http://santarosapressdemocrat.ca.newsmemory.com/publink.php?shareid=3c650180a


Sent from my iPad


From blackdantheman100 at gmail.com  Wed Jun 20 10:23:42 2018
From: blackdantheman100 at gmail.com (DANIEL BAKER)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 10:23:42 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: [MCN-Announce]- Protests Jun 30 going viral!
	Fort Bragg CA Included!
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Redwood Mary <redwoodmary at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 11:23 PM
Subject: [MCN-Announce]- Protests Jun 30 going viral! Fort Bragg CA
Included!
To: announcements <announce at lists.mcn.org>


>From One Billion Rising Post:

National Domestic Workers Alliance
<http://action.vday.org/site/R?i=sHQUUzEkSoBCutJZQbMVvQ>, Leadership
Conference on Civil and Human Rights
<http://action.vday.org/site/R?i=4Xnw4qsZj8JJj0_woDgvXg>, ACLU
<http://action.vday.org/site/R?i=8xtlzSy9VpX7M0FnN1xBjQ>, MoveOn
<http://action.vday.org/site/R?i=OQxzd9W5wNCw5BYgfFOZJA>, and hundreds of
other groups in rallies in Washington, D.C. and around the US to ensure the
Trump administration and the GOP know that #FamiliesBelongTogether and the
American people are calling to #EndFamilySeparation.

Events are being staged in Washington, D.C. and across the US.*

*Families Belong Together?Attend a June 30 Event:
<http://action.vday.org/site/R?i=ty034z_PNSgzOgy4b8pA4w>*

Right now, Donald Trump and his administration are cruelly separating
migrant children from their families and holding them in cages. The staff
at these ?shelters? are not allowed to touch distressed toddlers in need of
comfort after enduring the trauma of being separated from their parents.
This treatment is absolutely barbaric, but we won't allow it to continue.
*On
June 30, we're rallying in Washington, D.C., and around the country* to
tell Donald Trump and his administration to stop separating kids from their
parents! *Join us on June 30* to send a clear message to Donald Trump and
Republicans in Congress: Families Belong Together!

*FIND AN EVENT > <http://action.vday.org/site/R?i=p1IqV-G11DVFl0vx_us0Pg>*

We will be creating posters so that you can rally together as V-Day and One
Billion Rising, and find one another. Stay tuned for artwork and follow our
social media channels: Facebook
<http://action.vday.org/site/R?i=4ZjYGU6N_vNzH_6oVPdP7g>, Instagram
<http://action.vday.org/site/R?i=UxlUIWu_5DdInrTNSaJNSQ>, Twitter
<http://action.vday.org/site/R?i=smcZ0xr1tJEuCW3C6Y5sPg>.

In the meantime, spread the word and let's get ready to RISE!


*AND FYI*
Angered by family separations at the border, advocacy groups plan White
House protest June 30


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2018/06/19/
angered-by-family-separations-at-the-border-advocacy-groups-
plan-white-house-protest-june-30/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.13b89e217f7a

-- 
In solidarity with Mother earth and all her creatures-
Redwood Mary
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Jun 22 20:55:02 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 20:55:02 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] OM is represented
Message-ID: <61FBEFB3-4A41-41ED-ADE5-224C5C07C843@mcn.org>

Hi All,

We're scheduled to meet this Sunday at 5:30pm at the Mendocino
Coast Jewish Community (shul) in Caspar. The address is 15071 Caspar Rd,
sharing a parking area with the Caspar Community Center. Feel free to
bring
snacks or drinks. The shul kitchen is veggie.

If you come across other group leaders who should be invited, please get
their emails addresses and I'll add them to the list. Thanks!

Christie


Groups represented so far:

Solidarity Sundays
Sister District Project
Friends of the Hospital
MCJC Justice Group
League of Women Voters
Latino Coalition
Coast Democratic Club
Mobilize Mendo Huddle
Little River Action Group
Fort Bragg High School Liberals' Club
Mendocino High School Amnesty Club
Occupy Mendocino
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Jun 22 20:57:43 2018
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 20:57:43 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Off Highway Vehicle Park Proposal at Cotton on
	Thursday, June 28
Message-ID: <589FDFE4-B4F1-487F-9EF6-23BCBCE82576@mcn.org>

Less than a week away!

Thursday, June 28, 6:30-8:30 pm, Cotton Auditorium. OHV Park Proposal
Public Forum.

Learn more and express your views about the MCRPD Off-Highway Vehicle Park
proposal on its 586-acre property at Highway 20 and Summers Lane that
contains Fort Bragg's watershed.
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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Jun 25 20:33:38 2018
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:33:38 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] We Have a Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners
Message-ID: <9B87464B-0148-4CF5-98F4-AF95F2AABF45@att.net>



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/opinion/trump-sarah-huckabee-sanders-restaurant-civility.html?action=click&module=Ribbon&pgtype=Article <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/opinion/trump-sarah-huckabee-sanders-restaurant-civility.html?action=click&module=Ribbon&pgtype=Article>

We Have a Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners
June 25, 2018
Last year, the white nationalist Richard Spencer was kicked out of his Virginia gym <https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/georgetown-professor-confronts-white-nationalist-richard-spencer-at-the-gym%E2%80%94which-terminates-his-membership/2017/05/21/d3ff6512-3e51-11e7-8c25-44d09ff5a4a8_story.html?utm_term=.10f7d95207bd> after another member confronted him and called him a Nazi. This incident did not generate a national round of hand-wringing about the death of tolerance, perhaps because most people tacitly agree that it?s O.K. to shun professional racists.

It?s a little more complicated when the professional racist is the president of the United States. The norms of our political life require a degree of bipartisan forbearance. But treating members of Donald Trump?s administration as ordinary public officials rather than pariahs does more to normalize bigotry than exercising alongside a white separatist.

Over the last week, several Trump administration officials and supporters have been publicly shamed. On Friday night, the Trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a farm-to-table restaurant in Lexington, Va. That morning, protesters blasted a recording of sobbing migrant kids outside the home of Kirstjen Nielsen, Trump?s secretary of homeland security.

A few days before that, Nielsen left an upscale Mexican restaurant near the White House after protesters confronted her, chanting, ?If kids don?t eat in peace, you don?t eat in peace!? The Trump adviser Stephen Miller was also yelled at in a Mexican restaurant <https://nypost.com/2018/06/20/protester-yells-fascist-at-stephen-miller-dining-in-mexican-restaurant/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons> ? someone called him a fascist, though he may not regard that as an insult. The same night that Sanders was denied service, Pam Bondi, Florida?s Trump-supporting attorney general, was heckled outside a movie theater where she?d gone to see a documentary about Mister Rogers. Adding to the furor, Representative Maxine Waters, a California Democrat, urged people to keep jeering at members of Trump?s cabinet when they?re out and about, saying, ?You tell them they?re not welcome anymore, anywhere.?

Naturally, all this has led to lots of pained disapproval from self-appointed guardians of civility. A Washington Post editorial urged the protesters to think about the precedent they are setting <https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/let-the-trump-team-eat-in-peace/2018/06/24/46882e16-779a-11e8-80be-6d32e182a3bc_story.html?utm_term=.d09bec8bb385>. ?How hard is it to imagine, for example, people who strongly believe that abortion is murder deciding that judges or other officials who protect abortion rights should not be able to live peaceably with their families?? it asked.

Of course, this is not hard to imagine at all, since abortion opponents have assassinated abortion providers in their homes and churches, firebombed their clinics and protested at their children?s schools. The Roman Catholic Church has shamed politicians who support abortion rights by denying them communion. The failure to acknowledge this history is a sign of the reflexive false balance that makes it hard for the mainstream media to grapple with the asymmetric extremism of the Republican Party.

I?m somewhat agnostic on the question of whether publicly rebuking Trump collaborators is tactically smart. It stokes their own sense of victimization, which they feed on. It may alienate some persuadable voters, though this is just a guess. (As we saw in the indignant media reaction to Michelle Wolf?s White House Correspondents? Association Dinner routine, some pundits project their own concern with Beltway decorum onto swing voters, who generally pay less attention to the news <https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/01/upshot/so-just-who-are-these-undecided-voters.html> than partisans.)

On the other hand, there?s a moral and psychic cost to participating in the fiction that people who work for Trump are in any sense public servants. I don?t blame staff members at the Virginia restaurant, the Red Hen, for not wanting to help Sanders unwind after a hard week of lying to the public about mass child abuse. Particularly when Sanders?s own administration is fighting to let private businesses discriminate against gay people, who, unlike mendacious press secretaries, are a protected class under many civil rights laws.

Whether or not you think public shaming should be happening, it?s important to understand why it?s happening. It?s less a result of a breakdown in civility than a breakdown of democracy. Though it?s tiresome to repeat it, Donald Trump eked out his minority victory with help from a hostile foreign power. He has ruled exclusively for his vengeful supporters, who love the way he terrifies, outrages and humiliates their fellow citizens. Trump installed the right-wing Neil Gorsuch in the Supreme Court seat that Republicans stole from Barack Obama. Gorsuch, in turn, has been the fifth vote in decisions on voter roll purges and, on Monday, racial gerrymandering <https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/politics/supreme-court-north-carolina-gerrymandering/index.html> that will further entrench minority rule.

All over the country, Republican members of Congress have consistently refused to so much as meet with many of the scared, furious citizens they ostensibly represent. A great many of these citizens are working tirelessly to take at least one house of Congress in the midterms ? which will require substantially more than 50 percent of total votes, given structural Republican advantages ? so that the country?s anti-Trump majority will have some voice in the federal government.

But unless and until that happens, millions and millions of Americans watch helplessly as the president cages children, dehumanizes immigrants, spurns other democracies, guts health care protections, uses his office to enrich himself and turns public life into a deranged phantasmagoria with his incontinent flood of lies. The civility police might point out that many conservatives hated Obama just as much, but that only demonstrates the limits of content-neutral analysis. The right?s revulsion against a black president targeted by birther conspiracy theories is not the same as the left?s revulsion against a racist president who spread birther conspiracy theories.

Faced with the unceasing cruelty and degradation of the Trump presidency, liberals have not taken to marching around in public with assault weapons and threatening civil war. I know of no left-wing publication that has followed the example of the right-wing Federalist and run quasi-pornographic fantasies <https://thefederalist.com/2018/06/21/america-wont-see-go-without-epic-fight/> about murdering political enemies. (?Close your eyes and imagine holding someone?s scalp in your hands,? began a recent Federalist article.) Unlike Trump, no Democratic politician I?m aware of has urged his or her followers to beat up opposing demonstrators <https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-incitement-violence/>.

Instead, some progressive celebrities have said some bad words, and some people have treated administration officials with the sort of public opprobrium due members of any other white nationalist organization. Liberals are using their cultural power against the right because it?s the only power they have left, and people have a desperate need to say, and to hear others say, that what is happening in this country is intolerable.

Sometimes, their strategies may be poorly conceived. But there?s an abusive sort of victim-blaming <https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-language-of-the-trump-administration-is-the-language-of-domestic-violence> in demanding that progressives single-handedly uphold civility, lest the right become even more uncivil in response. As long as our rulers wage war on cosmopolitan culture, they shouldn?t feel entitled to its fruits. If they don?t want to hear from the angry citizens they?re supposed to serve, let them eat at Trump Grill <https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/trump-grill-review>.


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From ndevall at mcn.org  Mon Jun 25 22:00:38 2018
From: ndevall at mcn.org (Norman de Vall)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:00:38 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] We Have a Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners
In-Reply-To: <9B87464B-0148-4CF5-98F4-AF95F2AABF45@att.net>
References: <9B87464B-0148-4CF5-98F4-AF95F2AABF45@att.net>
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May I suggest flying the inverted ensign for the July 4th parade?


> On Jun 25, 2018, at 8:33 PM, Mark Safron <marksafron at att.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/opinion/trump-sarah-huckabee-sanders-restaurant-civility.html?action=click&module=Ribbon&pgtype=Article <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/opinion/trump-sarah-huckabee-sanders-restaurant-civility.html?action=click&module=Ribbon&pgtype=Article>
> 
> We Have a Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners
> June 25, 2018
> Last year, the white nationalist Richard Spencer was kicked out of his Virginia gym <https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/georgetown-professor-confronts-white-nationalist-richard-spencer-at-the-gym%E2%80%94which-terminates-his-membership/2017/05/21/d3ff6512-3e51-11e7-8c25-44d09ff5a4a8_story.html?utm_term=.10f7d95207bd> after another member confronted him and called him a Nazi. This incident did not generate a national round of hand-wringing about the death of tolerance, perhaps because most people tacitly agree that it?s O.K. to shun professional racists.
> 
> It?s a little more complicated when the professional racist is the president of the United States. The norms of our political life require a degree of bipartisan forbearance. But treating members of Donald Trump?s administration as ordinary public officials rather than pariahs does more to normalize bigotry than exercising alongside a white separatist.
> 
> Over the last week, several Trump administration officials and supporters have been publicly shamed. On Friday night, the Trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a farm-to-table restaurant in Lexington, Va. That morning, protesters blasted a recording of sobbing migrant kids outside the home of Kirstjen Nielsen, Trump?s secretary of homeland security.
> 
> A few days before that, Nielsen left an upscale Mexican restaurant near the White House after protesters confronted her, chanting, ?If kids don?t eat in peace, you don?t eat in peace!? The Trump adviser Stephen Miller was also yelled at in a Mexican restaurant <https://nypost.com/2018/06/20/protester-yells-fascist-at-stephen-miller-dining-in-mexican-restaurant/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons> ? someone called him a fascist, though he may not regard that as an insult. The same night that Sanders was denied service, Pam Bondi, Florida?s Trump-supporting attorney general, was heckled outside a movie theater where she?d gone to see a documentary about Mister Rogers. Adding to the furor, Representative Maxine Waters, a California Democrat, urged people to keep jeering at members of Trump?s cabinet when they?re out and about, saying, ?You tell them they?re not welcome anymore, anywhere.?
> 
> Naturally, all this has led to lots of pained disapproval from self-appointed guardians of civility. A Washington Post editorial urged the protesters to think about the precedent they are setting <https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/let-the-trump-team-eat-in-peace/2018/06/24/46882e16-779a-11e8-80be-6d32e182a3bc_story.html?utm_term=.d09bec8bb385>. ?How hard is it to imagine, for example, people who strongly believe that abortion is murder deciding that judges or other officials who protect abortion rights should not be able to live peaceably with their families?? it asked.
> 
> Of course, this is not hard to imagine at all, since abortion opponents have assassinated abortion providers in their homes and churches, firebombed their clinics and protested at their children?s schools. The Roman Catholic Church has shamed politicians who support abortion rights by denying them communion. The failure to acknowledge this history is a sign of the reflexive false balance that makes it hard for the mainstream media to grapple with the asymmetric extremism of the Republican Party.
> 
> I?m somewhat agnostic on the question of whether publicly rebuking Trump collaborators is tactically smart. It stokes their own sense of victimization, which they feed on. It may alienate some persuadable voters, though this is just a guess. (As we saw in the indignant media reaction to Michelle Wolf?s White House Correspondents? Association Dinner routine, some pundits project their own concern with Beltway decorum onto swing voters, who generally pay less attention to the news <https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/01/upshot/so-just-who-are-these-undecided-voters.html> than partisans.)
> 
> On the other hand, there?s a moral and psychic cost to participating in the fiction that people who work for Trump are in any sense public servants. I don?t blame staff members at the Virginia restaurant, the Red Hen, for not wanting to help Sanders unwind after a hard week of lying to the public about mass child abuse. Particularly when Sanders?s own administration is fighting to let private businesses discriminate against gay people, who, unlike mendacious press secretaries, are a protected class under many civil rights laws.
> 
> Whether or not you think public shaming should be happening, it?s important to understand why it?s happening. It?s less a result of a breakdown in civility than a breakdown of democracy. Though it?s tiresome to repeat it, Donald Trump eked out his minority victory with help from a hostile foreign power. He has ruled exclusively for his vengeful supporters, who love the way he terrifies, outrages and humiliates their fellow citizens. Trump installed the right-wing Neil Gorsuch in the Supreme Court seat that Republicans stole from Barack Obama. Gorsuch, in turn, has been the fifth vote in decisions on voter roll purges and, on Monday, racial gerrymandering <https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/politics/supreme-court-north-carolina-gerrymandering/index.html> that will further entrench minority rule.
> 
> All over the country, Republican members of Congress have consistently refused to so much as meet with many of the scared, furious citizens they ostensibly represent. A great many of these citizens are working tirelessly to take at least one house of Congress in the midterms ? which will require substantially more than 50 percent of total votes, given structural Republican advantages ? so that the country?s anti-Trump majority will have some voice in the federal government.
> 
> But unless and until that happens, millions and millions of Americans watch helplessly as the president cages children, dehumanizes immigrants, spurns other democracies, guts health care protections, uses his office to enrich himself and turns public life into a deranged phantasmagoria with his incontinent flood of lies. The civility police might point out that many conservatives hated Obama just as much, but that only demonstrates the limits of content-neutral analysis. The right?s revulsion against a black president targeted by birther conspiracy theories is not the same as the left?s revulsion against a racist president who spread birther conspiracy theories.
> 
> Faced with the unceasing cruelty and degradation of the Trump presidency, liberals have not taken to marching around in public with assault weapons and threatening civil war. I know of no left-wing publication that has followed the example of the right-wing Federalist and run quasi-pornographic fantasies <https://thefederalist.com/2018/06/21/america-wont-see-go-without-epic-fight/> about murdering political enemies. (?Close your eyes and imagine holding someone?s scalp in your hands,? began a recent Federalist article.) Unlike Trump, no Democratic politician I?m aware of has urged his or her followers to beat up opposing demonstrators <https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-incitement-violence/>.
> 
> Instead, some progressive celebrities have said some bad words, and some people have treated administration officials with the sort of public opprobrium due members of any other white nationalist organization. Liberals are using their cultural power against the right because it?s the only power they have left, and people have a desperate need to say, and to hear others say, that what is happening in this country is intolerable.
> 
> Sometimes, their strategies may be poorly conceived. But there?s an abusive sort of victim-blaming <https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-language-of-the-trump-administration-is-the-language-of-domestic-violence> in demanding that progressives single-handedly uphold civility, lest the right become even more uncivil in response. As long as our rulers wage war on cosmopolitan culture, they shouldn?t feel entitled to its fruits. If they don?t want to hear from the angry citizens they?re supposed to serve, let them eat at Trump Grill <https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/trump-grill-review>.
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 02:46:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] We Have a Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners
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sounds like an idea whose time is here


 May I suggest flying the inverted ensign for the July 4th parade?
>
>
>> On Jun 25, 2018, at 8:33 PM, Mark Safron <marksafron at att.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/opinion/trump-sarah-huckabee-sanders-restaurant-civility.html?action=click&module=Ribbon&pgtype=Article
>> <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/opinion/trump-sarah-huckabee-sanders-restaurant-civility.html?action=click&module=Ribbon&pgtype=Article>
>>
>> We Have a Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners
>> June 25, 2018
>> Last year, the white nationalist Richard Spencer was kicked out of his
>> Virginia gym
>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/georgetown-professor-confronts-white-nationalist-richard-spencer-at-the-gym%E2%80%94which-terminates-his-membership/2017/05/21/d3ff6512-3e51-11e7-8c25-44d09ff5a4a8_story.html?utm_term=.10f7d95207bd>
>> after another member confronted him and called him a Nazi. This incident
>> did not generate a national round of hand-wringing about the death of
>> tolerance, perhaps because most people tacitly agree that it???s O.K. to
>> shun professional racists.
>>
>> It???s a little more complicated when the professional racist is the
>> president of the United States. The norms of our political life require
>> a degree of bipartisan forbearance. But treating members of Donald
>> Trump???s administration as ordinary public officials rather than
>> pariahs does more to normalize bigotry than exercising alongside a white
>> separatist.
>>
>> Over the last week, several Trump administration officials and
>> supporters have been publicly shamed. On Friday night, the Trump press
>> secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a farm-to-table
>> restaurant in Lexington, Va. That morning, protesters blasted a
>> recording of sobbing migrant kids outside the home of Kirstjen Nielsen,
>> Trump???s secretary of homeland security.
>>
>> A few days before that, Nielsen left an upscale Mexican restaurant near
>> the White House after protesters confronted her, chanting, ???If kids
>> don???t eat in peace, you don???t eat in peace!??? The Trump adviser
>> Stephen Miller was also yelled at in a Mexican restaurant
>> <https://nypost.com/2018/06/20/protester-yells-fascist-at-stephen-miller-dining-in-mexican-restaurant/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons>
>> ??? someone called him a fascist, though he may not regard that as an
>> insult. The same night that Sanders was denied service, Pam Bondi,
>> Florida???s Trump-supporting attorney general, was heckled outside a
>> movie theater where she???d gone to see a documentary about Mister
>> Rogers. Adding to the furor, Representative Maxine Waters, a California
>> Democrat, urged people to keep jeering at members of Trump???s cabinet
>> when they???re out and about, saying, ???You tell them they???re not
>> welcome anymore, anywhere.???
>>
>> Naturally, all this has led to lots of pained disapproval from
>> self-appointed guardians of civility. A Washington Post editorial urged
>> the protesters to think about the precedent they are setting
>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/let-the-trump-team-eat-in-peace/2018/06/24/46882e16-779a-11e8-80be-6d32e182a3bc_story.html?utm_term=.d09bec8bb385>.
>> ???How hard is it to imagine, for example, people who strongly believe
>> that abortion is murder deciding that judges or other officials who
>> protect abortion rights should not be able to live peaceably with their
>> families???? it asked.
>>
>> Of course, this is not hard to imagine at all, since abortion opponents
>> have assassinated abortion providers in their homes and churches,
>> firebombed their clinics and protested at their children???s schools.
>> The Roman Catholic Church has shamed politicians who support abortion
>> rights by denying them communion. The failure to acknowledge this
>> history is a sign of the reflexive false balance that makes it hard for
>> the mainstream media to grapple with the asymmetric extremism of the
>> Republican Party.
>>
>> I???m somewhat agnostic on the question of whether publicly rebuking
>> Trump collaborators is tactically smart. It stokes their own sense of
>> victimization, which they feed on. It may alienate some persuadable
>> voters, though this is just a guess. (As we saw in the indignant media
>> reaction to Michelle Wolf???s White House Correspondents??? Association
>> Dinner routine, some pundits project their own concern with Beltway
>> decorum onto swing voters, who generally pay less attention to the news
>> <https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/01/upshot/so-just-who-are-these-undecided-voters.html>
>> than partisans.)
>>
>> On the other hand, there???s a moral and psychic cost to participating
>> in the fiction that people who work for Trump are in any sense public
>> servants. I don???t blame staff members at the Virginia restaurant, the
>> Red Hen, for not wanting to help Sanders unwind after a hard week of
>> lying to the public about mass child abuse. Particularly when
>> Sanders???s own administration is fighting to let private businesses
>> discriminate against gay people, who, unlike mendacious press
>> secretaries, are a protected class under many civil rights laws.
>>
>> Whether or not you think public shaming should be happening, it???s
>> important to understand why it???s happening. It???s less a result of a
>> breakdown in civility than a breakdown of democracy. Though it???s
>> tiresome to repeat it, Donald Trump eked out his minority victory with
>> help from a hostile foreign power. He has ruled exclusively for his
>> vengeful supporters, who love the way he terrifies, outrages and
>> humiliates their fellow citizens. Trump installed the right-wing Neil
>> Gorsuch in the Supreme Court seat that Republicans stole from Barack
>> Obama. Gorsuch, in turn, has been the fifth vote in decisions on voter
>> roll purges and, on Monday, racial gerrymandering
>> <https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/politics/supreme-court-north-carolina-gerrymandering/index.html>
>> that will further entrench minority rule.
>>
>> All over the country, Republican members of Congress have consistently
>> refused to so much as meet with many of the scared, furious citizens
>> they ostensibly represent. A great many of these citizens are working
>> tirelessly to take at least one house of Congress in the midterms ???
>> which will require substantially more than 50 percent of total votes,
>> given structural Republican advantages ??? so that the country???s
>> anti-Trump majority will have some voice in the federal government.
>>
>> But unless and until that happens, millions and millions of Americans
>> watch helplessly as the president cages children, dehumanizes
>> immigrants, spurns other democracies, guts health care protections, uses
>> his office to enrich himself and turns public life into a deranged
>> phantasmagoria with his incontinent flood of lies. The civility police
>> might point out that many conservatives hated Obama just as much, but
>> that only demonstrates the limits of content-neutral analysis. The
>> right???s revulsion against a black president targeted by birther
>> conspiracy theories is not the same as the left???s revulsion against a
>> racist president who spread birther conspiracy theories.
>>
>> Faced with the unceasing cruelty and degradation of the Trump
>> presidency, liberals have not taken to marching around in public with
>> assault weapons and threatening civil war. I know of no left-wing
>> publication that has followed the example of the right-wing Federalist
>> and run quasi-pornographic fantasies
>> <https://thefederalist.com/2018/06/21/america-wont-see-go-without-epic-fight/>
>> about murdering political enemies. (???Close your eyes and imagine
>> holding someone???s scalp in your hands,??? began a recent Federalist
>> article.) Unlike Trump, no Democratic politician I???m aware of has
>> urged his or her followers to beat up opposing demonstrators
>> <https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-incitement-violence/>.
>>
>> Instead, some progressive celebrities have said some bad words, and some
>> people have treated administration officials with the sort of public
>> opprobrium due members of any other white nationalist organization.
>> Liberals are using their cultural power against the right because it???s
>> the only power they have left, and people have a desperate need to say,
>> and to hear others say, that what is happening in this country is
>> intolerable.
>>
>> Sometimes, their strategies may be poorly conceived. But there???s an
>> abusive sort of victim-blaming
>> <https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-language-of-the-trump-administration-is-the-language-of-domestic-violence>
>> in demanding that progressives single-handedly uphold civility, lest the
>> right become even more uncivil in response. As long as our rulers wage
>> war on cosmopolitan culture, they shouldn???t feel entitled to its
>> fruits. If they don???t want to hear from the angry citizens they???re
>> supposed to serve, let them eat at Trump Grill
>> <https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/trump-grill-review>.
>>
>>
>>
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