Why Blue32?

Coalition is the next step.

There is a probability in play that social media, the involvement of most of the demos (the people), can drive a direct democracy. It’s early days and right now everything seems to be crashing around us but to look forward and ask if that’s what we want — well, no better time than in the smoldering ruins of a two party system. Having an ideal in mind as the goal to drive towards helps us to design the path we can walk.

In the beginning it will need to be a sort of Marshall Plan for the country; a way to recover from whatever chaos descends on us as well as a means from which the past will not recreate itself over and over again. By that I mean the Masters of the World versus everyone else — from time immemorial. So we have the construct of a digital world with instant communication — and the ability to create many coalition parties. We also have a constitution written very carefully by — well honestly, by white, educated, landowning men — but still, men who revolted against Monarchy, and against the abuses of Monarchy where the people were concerned.

Coalition; those temporary alliances of intersecting interest. The two party system is deeply allergic to any kind of power sharing — but power has in the past never lain within the demos. We continue to be, in the United States of America, the great experiment of Democracy. When you see the chaos and get glimpses of the horrors of authoritarianism literally running through the cities of this country, see it as a last gasping effort of the 1% to hold onto money and power. The institutions that are required to maintain the 1% are failing — not just the finance sector, but corporations, media, government, education and war. The people have been able to remove energy from these bastions of the elite and down they will fall. This is because it was with the tacit participation of the people that created and held them up as an ideal to begin with. Ideals change, the world changes.

What do we want this new world to look like? To me everyone, and I mean everyone, needs to think about a platform for a political party. Small parties formed by regional interest, personal conviction, or harsh realities. On the Left there could be a dozen general coalition parties right now, but even smaller, looser confederations will feed them. Rapidly coalescing, certainly some will cool and fade, but this becomes the way to create positive change from the bottom up. This forces compromise and has within it the way in which the final coalition can be punished for failing to meet their coalition goals.

I went and read the DNC platform; so very out of step with people and really, the times. We know though that the uni-party has to be replaced. Bought as they are by lobbies, special interests, greed, corporations and in one case, another county, they no longer represent the people. The thing is that the people have to find the time to step up and do the very difficult work of figuring things out. So as I contemplated a way forward for the Left that isn’t distracted by the hostility of the right, it seemed to me that we need to figure out what we want. We the People. The Left for everyone.

So I thought, ok Blue32 — it harks back to 1932 and looks forward to 2032. So an immediate, practical plan for the long term ideal of “love the other as the self” in action. Uplift, children first, peace, equity, health and safety with the ideal being Equality. Positive inclusive, from the far left socialists to moderate republicans to MAGA christians. Can I make a platform and an argument for a coalition party that is something closer to a cooperative democracy? Ambitious, and it will take a lot of people with new ideas working together, but that is the demos and that is our strength though we rarely use it. I committed, I bought the domain name Blue32.xyz and I am out here learning Substack and throwing myself at the brick wall of new ideas but also of giving myself permission to be that. We all have to be willing to learn and change and commit and do it ourselves. Don’t look to any one leader, no matter the charisma or the rhetoric — those things are lies. Look for ideas, look for conviction, look intensely for truth that resonates for you.

Blue32. The Compassionate Left. Americans with a plan for all Americans. Yeah, we can do that — one little political movement among many. Next up — a platform.

Kath