Make American Democracy Important

Perhaps the sane people in America could use a hat. The MAGA folks as they are called, used an old slogan that dates back to the 1940 Alexander Wiley presidential campaign and was used again by Barry Goldwater in 1964, Ronald Reagan in 1980, Bill Clinton in 1992, and Hillary Clinton in 2008. Yes, Make America Great Again is over 8 decades old, and as 77-year-old Donald Trump is quick to point out, 80 is really old. More appropriate for Trumpettes, it was used as a campaign slogan in the 1998 dystopian novel about a dictator named Andrew Steele Jarret. That novel was called Parable of the Talents.*

My suggestion, Make American Democracy Important, or MADI. We could certainly rally behind the salvation of American democracy before it is usurped by the reality television version of a Vladimir Putin wannabe.

MADI could be used with a catchphrase like, "Were MADI as hell and we aren't going to take it anymore."

*  The novel I mentioned, Parable of Talents, is also of interest. It is set in a futuristic United States that is dominated by a Christian fundamentalist denomination called "Christian America" led by President Andrew Steele Jarret who wants to Make America Great Again. In the novel, the president is working to eradicate non-Christian faiths and a form of slavery has been reintroduced with shock collars to control the slaves. Virtual reality headsets are used to escape the reality of what really is going on. The excuse for slavery is that non-Christians need to be re-educated through forced labor.

We need look no further than Trump's hero, Vladimir Putin, who is kidnapping the children living in occupied Ukrainian territories and taking them for "re-education" in Russia.

The novel tells us that President Jarret serves just one term (there is hope) and leaves office in 2036. He is defeated after voter dissatisfaction with the Alaska-Canada War and his role in the witch burnings that took place. While this is billed as science fiction, the stretch from the reality of today is not a great one.