Dr. Jerry Rogan has been consulting about Medicare and medical care delivery for a variety of companies beginning 2003, having served over 100 clients, some for a short term need and some over several years.
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Toward a More Perfect Union
Toward a More Perfect Union
Robert Reich has a blog on substack. A posting today reflects a Hungarian who describes the playbook of Victor Orbán.
Orbân’s playbook has 10 parts, according to John:
Orbân’s playbook has 10 parts, according to John:
One: Take over your party and enforce internal party discipline by using political threats and intimidation to stamp out all party dissent.
Two: Build your base by appealing to fear and hate, branding immigrants and cultural minorities as dangers to society, and demonizing your opponents as enemies of the people.
Three: Use disinformation and lies to justify what you’re doing.
Four: Use your election victory to claim a sweeping mandate — especially if you don’t win a majority.
Five: Centralize your power by destroying the civil service.
Six: Redefine the rule of law as rule by executive decree. Weaponize the state against all democratic opponents. Demonize anyone who doesn’t support the leader as an “enemy of the people.”
Seven: Eliminate checks and balances and separation of powers by taking over the legislature, the courts, the media, and civil society. Target opponents with regulatory penalties like tax audits, educational penalties such as denials of accreditation, political penalties like harassment investigations, physical penalties like withdrawing police protection, and criminal penalties like prosecution.
Eight: Rely on your oligarchs — hugely wealthy business and financial leaders — to supervise the economy and reward them with special access to state resources, tax cuts, and subsidies.
Nine: Ally yourself with other authoritarians like Vladimir Putin and support his effort to undermine European democracies and attack sovereign countries like Ukraine.
Ten: Get the public to believe that all this is necessary, and that resistance is futile.
This is my comment to the blog:
This is my comment to the blog:
Trump is following Victor Orban's playbook as described. However, our voter's remedy must wait until the midterm elections. The message for the next election should be to secure the rule of law and to exercise the power of Congress, rather than by a coalition based on "health care, education, taxes, and public spending".
Health care has been secured for most Americans. Bernie's "Medicare for All" is impossible without Medicare because it is a covenant between workers and our government (while you work contribute to your benefit that begins at age 65).
Increased public spending will drive more inflation. We already have too much debt. We should increase taxes on capital gains on equities and raise the limit on social security, but this change may not be popular enough to empower democrats to control both Houses of Congress, let alone enough to impeach and convict Trump should that be necessary.
We have attempted to improve education but now realize some folks are better served by learning a trade or other practical skill v. obtaining a BA through 4 years of college in order to drive for Uber with a degree in anthropology, psychology, or philosophy (my BA before I went to medical school to learn something practical).
Other possible platforms that focus on DEI, LGBTQ, more hand outs for home buying or college loan forgiveness, or a more porous border for those attempting to escape tyranny will not work on the Midterms.
~ Jerry Rogan
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