Sanders states what the US needs to do to prepare in advance to confront the wrecker if he tries to deny or disregard the election result.

The problem is, these preparation steps are a wish, not a plan. In states controlled by Republicans, they have a history of voter suppression. They won't do what needs to be done. The mainstream media may not want to help. Facebook may have made a deal with the wrecker. That leaves only step 4 which can be carried out by people (Congressional Democrats) that probably want to do it.

"Centrist" Democrats made a big fuss when the Republican former governor of Michigan endorsed Biden.

For me, it shows how close Biden is to being a pre-conman Republican.

One way to convince the wrecker to accept defeat could be to convince Putin to offer him asylum in Russia. But once he is gone, we will still need to restore democratic elections.

The article describes three changes: eliminating the electoral college, ending voter suppression and gerrymandering, and breaking through the two-party system that gives us the choice of moderate right wing vs extreme right wing.

The author proposes that the peoples of other countries dominated by the US should have some say in the US government. I agree there is a problem to be fixed, but I don't think the US government can play, simultaneously, the two roles of most-of-the-world government and government of one country.

The Democratic Party calls for more protection of nature, but does not talk about giving nature "rights".

I am in favor of more legal protections of nature — more, I expect, than the Democratic Party advocates, However, it does not make sense to attribute "rights" to anything that doesn't have a will with which to decide how to exercise them.

Rather than describe legal protections of nature using a blatant absurdity, we should describe them as what they are: protections for something we consider important.

A study predicts that strict wearing of masks could save 120,000 lives in the US in the rest of this year.

I'm doing my part. I hope you are too.

Ralph Nader challenges the Democratic Party to take steps to go beyond being "not the Republicans".