Link Share"Expansion of the SCOTUS" - The Position of: Prominent Democrats and Potential Presidential Democratic Candidates, and Prominent Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan

While the supreme court has always branded itself as a non-partisan, apological branch of government - nothing could be further from the truth, over the course of the past two years.

We have seen partisan decision after partisan decision land, that favors the Right-leaning super majority, including:

1. Abortion rights
2. Presidential immunity
3. Permitting implementation of Trump's federalized voter rolls and SAVE Act - which failed to pass in congress.

Even still, the Trump-regime has specifically pushed back, ignored, and gaslit on the ruling of SCOTUS; notably on the matters of Kilmar Armando Ábrego García's overnight/in-the-cloak-of-darkness deportation, among a few others.

Additionally, there have been plenty of cases they have entirely ignored, such as the case of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, the Tear-Down of the East Wing, and the Trump-regime sinking ICE on blue states - among many others.

Democrats have largely remained mum - for the longest time, on the topic and merits of expanding the federal court - out of fear of pushing away voters. However, adopting that same stance of "softening" on the topic of the boarder when it came to the 2024 Presidential Elections proved disastrous and perhaps alienated some voters in the 2024 election cycle.

Here's the thing: we all should be about honoring the constitution, the law and equal application of it, and stop ignoring the glaring elephant in the room. None of what we've seen transpire in the past 11-12 years has been normal - as far as Trumpism is concerned. Furthermore, many Americans want our country to return to a state of normalcy (to its previous state), while ensuring that government is by and for the people and serves the majority's best interests - not just the ultra-wealthy.

If Democrats happen to win the 2026-midterms and then go on to win the 2028 Presidential Elections (and yes... expect Trump's denial and pushback on both), then "we the People" expect for our leaders to fight for what's right, and for our rights, freedoms, and restore justice, truth, and dignity to its people and truly restore a sense of embodied leadership through the world. Don't get me wrong, much damage has been done and there are consequences and penance due for Trump, his allies, sycophants, and anyone that has enabled for this rogue and corrupt president to running his illegal grift, anti-democratic operation, and especially the continual capitulation to Russia.

We all recall: following the 2016 elections, that our DOJ, our FBI, our CIA had independently investigated that Russia had interfered in our sovereign elections process; and yet - here was Trump on national TV saying: "Russia, if you're listening...". This is not okay and should be punished.

Moreover, there should be a widespread effort to follow the money, investigate: Trump, his allies (who financially benefitted off these abysmal economic times), Epstein, the Russia-Trump connection (undeniable), Elon's connections to Russia, investigate the enablers, SCOTUS, and retract the personhood provided by the Citizens United SCOTUS decision. The latter is truly as bastardization and oxymoron of a name, considering it wasn't about personhood of citizens, but instead about instilling personhood into the corporate world - which not only gave it a voice, but a megaphone proportional to its spending. It was the same gamification of the system that allowed Trump to win in 2016, and 2024. It's also the voice that bypasses the will of the People and setting the agenda based on monetary and corporate policies - as they relate to government. What also needs to happen is massive taxation on the ultra-wealthy and shift the burden away from those who can barely afford to survive, as well as eliminate the tariffs and do not refund the recuperated funds to the corporations - but to "we the People".

I think many Americans are sick of our lives being toyed with, acting like our lives, survival and ability to make ends meet be constantly be trivialized. Likewise, we as a people need to come together, form a community, a platform, and a shared and indelible and undeniable voice and coalition that says "no... not on our watch".

Listen, I know it feels like none of our influence and voice matters, among the endless sea of voices out there. However, it truly does matter and does have the ability to shape public, social, societal and political discourse. This is not a Left vs. Right issue... this is a Top vs. Bottom issue. The wealth disparity in this country, has only perpetually widened. Simultaneous to this, over the course of this past decade, we've watched the national debt double from $20T to $40T; a vast majority of it originating from policies of the Right (the self-proclaimed fiscal-hawks, aka. war-hawks, kleptocrats, and technocrats) and the COVID-19 epidemic. Running in parallel to these disastrous policies that are bleeding our country dry, has been one of the greatest PSY-OPs in United States history (if not world history). As a people and concerned citizens, it's time that we put down the phones (stop the doom-scrolling and short-form media), form a platform and sit down and come up with solutions and expose the truth regarding the pretextual, subtextual, priming, choreographing abuses/gaslighting/projecting/subversion that has permeated our policies and put down our regrets of the past (or worries of the future) and live in the present moment and empower ourselves.

The 24/7 news cycle is entirely too fragmented, lacking curation; the same thing can be said for social media. Gone are the days that we could simply check up on our friends; our micro-worlds have been replaced with a macro-world - with too much information, too many voices, and too many distractions or excuses for why we're disempowered. But, here's the thing... we are powerful - especially when we've been left voiceless and without a platform. That shift starts now... it starts today. We can track the abuses, maintain the record, expose the contradictions, reclaim the hijacked narrative, and restore truth/trust/dignity/transparency to our self-governance model (while also reclaiming our self-governance model).

The Trumpism cult and disinformation machine has done everything in their power to disempower us, render us disaffected/apathetic/indifferent towards our political politick, by rendering the political environment: unreasonable (you can't fight rational reason with ideologues and the misinformed); deeply foreign influenced and influence by wealthy corporate interests (and no: breaking up the monopolies and implementing heavy regulation absolutely will not kill corporate America, but may displease the stakeholders - so what? This isn't free-capitalism and laissez-faire economics, that thrives on competition, innovation and rewarding good corporate policies); a congress that has hijacked our governance model (this means goodbye to the likes of MAGA Mike Johnson - who has held the House ransom and only served the interests of Donald Trump and Project 2025's envisioning of reinventing America); and eliminate the form of nihilism of our politics by holding individuals responsible accountable (I don't care if Elon Musk has all the money in the world to slip and slide his way out of danger; and a pardon should/cannot be all encompassing for past/future behavior).

The current state of survival in America (and across the world) - as we watch fascism rise from its ashes from 90 years ago - is not only unsustainable, it's also not an accident/incidental, nor the second turning. This has everything to do with bypassing consent, manipulation, control, extortion, slander, and weaponizing government against the very people who are intended to control it, and in which it was fashioned to protect it and its interests.

It's time for this madness to stop and recognize what is abnormal and unsustainable, vs. what is normal and sustainable practices. The same thing applies to the environment. The ultra-wealthy can convince us that them paying their fair-share wouldn't make a difference, or that implementing policy to protect the environment (and therefore the planet) will have zero effect; when in reality, it's a zero-sum game. Moreover, all the advancement and promises of technology and AI should be making all of us more prosperous and productive; not a way for companies to ignore their responsibilities and enrich themselves exponentially - at the cost of the majority.

The buck stops here.