Here’s a big great idea. Democracy cannot exist when people elect a criminal felon to be president who is an insurrectionist committed to continuing the insurrection to build a lawless fascist autocracy enforced by a massive federal police force that overrides state law and the news media ignores the ongoing insurrection. Democracy requires “we the people” educate themselves on the federal law (18 U.S. Code § 2383) that makes insurrection a felon crime and demand Democrats in control of 15 states enforce the law against the ongoing insurrection by Trump, Republicans in Congress, and six justices on the Supreme Court.
“We the people” must demand Democrats in control of 15 states should enact and then enforce a new state law to be modeled after the federal law against insurrection (18 U.S. Code § 2383). Democrats in 15 state governments have Democrats as governor, attorney general and a Democratic majority in the state House and state Senate.
If California acts in 90 days, Democrats can swing the House majority to Democratic in 2025, block some implementation of the Big Ugly Bill, and educate the public about the Big Ugly Bill with Medicaid cuts, SNAP cuts, tax cuts for billionaires, and a hundred other destructive parts of the Bill. If Colorado, Maryland and New Jersey act, they can remove 4 of Trump’s justices from the Supreme Court – Roberts, Alito, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch which disables the Court and empowers federal district courts and state courts.
Federal law (18 U.S. Code § 2383) defines the criminal actions of insurrection in language that is clear and easy to understand:
“Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”
Clear factual evidence of the insurrection exists in the multiple actions and statements in 2025 that the Trump administration, Republican in Congress, and six justices on the Supreme Court are engaging in or assisting rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States and the laws thereof. Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed in 2025 against actions by Trump and his administration. Federal courts have ruled against Trump’s Executive Orders as illegal and issued stop and reversal orders. Federal court orders have not been obeyed by the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress and the Supreme Court have not acted to force compliance and defend the Constitution.
Biden failed to stop Trump after the insurrection on Jan 6 which continued in the 2024 election. All votes for Trump were illegal. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump was an insurrectionist. But the US Supreme Court violated federal law (18 U.S. Code § 2383) by (1) supporting Trump, who was a committed insurrectionist, to get elected in 2024 and become dictator on Day One, as he had said he would. And (2) ruling that states cannot enforce Section 3 of the 14th Amendment which banned Trump as an insurrectionist from holding office. The SCOTUS decision incorrectly said that a law from Congress was needed to define the criteria for enforcing the law against an insurrectionist when a law did exist (18 U.S. Code § 2383) which was passed by Congress. The SCOTUS decision was an act by criminal felons (6 justices on SCOTUS appointed by Republican presidents) which supported Trump’s insurrection. As mentioned, the insurrection continued during the 2024 election, but Biden failed to invoke the Insurrection Act and reject all votes for Trump which were illegal.
Now that Trump is in office and the insurrection has continued, Democrats must begin to enforce the law against insurrection to save democracy.
Read my post to see WHAT ACTION must come from Democrats.
Your job is to have visions for your MA constituents -- of course not easy, but every big idea needs a place to start, and think some of the elements are there -- a plan to develop a beta first step -- after that, believe it could also apply to revitalize many forgotten smaller cities throughout the country (blue and red) -- those on-their-knees cities just might also be able to cut a lot of blue and red tape -- which would make it also apply universally across the U.S.
I’ll read the article in detail. But you make no mention of adaptive reuse of “old” cities and communities throughout the US. This has to be done simultaneously so that we can save and recreate more open spaces to grow enough trees to clean the air and replenish the ozone layer…
Lovely ideas but if you don’t get education right you’re building on a house of cards. Fascists got to our schools first, leaving a path for fascism Trump seized.
The fact we don’t cherish teachers enough to protect them is the root cause for democracy’s implosion. This is how we shifted from teachers’ loving values to fascists’ selfish values.
Once people understand where we went wrong and that teachers’ unions are complicit in this - no one can survive otherwise - they will run for school boards in groups of four to take schools over to force democracy on our schools. Young and old with or without children must plant the flag of democracy in our schools that failed to produce citizens for years now.
Fixing housing is worthy but not enough.
The question is do we have any leaders willing to learn what needs to be done in education to steer the nation back to its good values? Do we have any leaders who understand how angry and hollow and brain dead these schools have made our people? We could if my memoir on my teaching days A Graver Danger went viral in a world where teachers haven’t counted.
This is great stuff. It's important that it be combined with real anti-monopoly enforcement and other steps to reduce the gouging that is crushing the middle class. You have to be willing to move away from the Clinton-eta Win/Win rhetoric that still permeates the Democratic elite. People are suspicious that these kind of policies will just be another chance for Private Equity to come in and hoover up everything.
New cities won’t fix everything, but they’re one of the few ideas bold enough to matter. Especially if we pair them with modular manufacturing and nuclear infrastructure from day one. I’ve written about why supply-side reform needs muscle, not just theory, in my own publication too. http://lukeringlein.substack.com/
Credit to you, Jake, for putting out these ideas. Can't say I agree with all of them, but this one is sensible, if implausible - simple, but not easy, indeed! The politics of getting buy-in from so many stakeholders - to wit, the comments here - is daunting! But so is the housing crisis that new cities might help to alleviate. To the cynics, I suggest: read the essay you published with Prof. Gruber (linked to in your post).
One criticism noted in the comments here must be addressed: public transportation. Of course, but that's only one of many infrastructure issues to be addressed simultaneously, given where we are at this stage of our 'post-industrial decay'. As you noted in the linked essay: "[This is] a starting point. But we must begin in earnest ... There will be failures, even embarrassments. What matters is there be a massive burst of housing and infrastructure development in America, not that every idea work perfectly." Wise words.
Very impressive piece on building new cities. I sure hope that you'll get a chance to implement it. You'll have to over Good luck.come the Republican grip on the voting machines, though.
As long as politicians who make decisions aren’t beholden to the Lobbyists then its possible otherwise not possible. If you had said China there i would have agreed as the politicians there above the lobbyists
Great ideas, Jake. Housing, economic development, walkable/livable cities, all in one. Discuss a funding model.
Here’s a big great idea. Democracy cannot exist when people elect a criminal felon to be president who is an insurrectionist committed to continuing the insurrection to build a lawless fascist autocracy enforced by a massive federal police force that overrides state law and the news media ignores the ongoing insurrection. Democracy requires “we the people” educate themselves on the federal law (18 U.S. Code § 2383) that makes insurrection a felon crime and demand Democrats in control of 15 states enforce the law against the ongoing insurrection by Trump, Republicans in Congress, and six justices on the Supreme Court.
“We the people” must demand Democrats in control of 15 states should enact and then enforce a new state law to be modeled after the federal law against insurrection (18 U.S. Code § 2383). Democrats in 15 state governments have Democrats as governor, attorney general and a Democratic majority in the state House and state Senate.
If California acts in 90 days, Democrats can swing the House majority to Democratic in 2025, block some implementation of the Big Ugly Bill, and educate the public about the Big Ugly Bill with Medicaid cuts, SNAP cuts, tax cuts for billionaires, and a hundred other destructive parts of the Bill. If Colorado, Maryland and New Jersey act, they can remove 4 of Trump’s justices from the Supreme Court – Roberts, Alito, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch which disables the Court and empowers federal district courts and state courts.
Federal law (18 U.S. Code § 2383) defines the criminal actions of insurrection in language that is clear and easy to understand:
“Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”
Clear factual evidence of the insurrection exists in the multiple actions and statements in 2025 that the Trump administration, Republican in Congress, and six justices on the Supreme Court are engaging in or assisting rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States and the laws thereof. Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed in 2025 against actions by Trump and his administration. Federal courts have ruled against Trump’s Executive Orders as illegal and issued stop and reversal orders. Federal court orders have not been obeyed by the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress and the Supreme Court have not acted to force compliance and defend the Constitution.
Biden failed to stop Trump after the insurrection on Jan 6 which continued in the 2024 election. All votes for Trump were illegal. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump was an insurrectionist. But the US Supreme Court violated federal law (18 U.S. Code § 2383) by (1) supporting Trump, who was a committed insurrectionist, to get elected in 2024 and become dictator on Day One, as he had said he would. And (2) ruling that states cannot enforce Section 3 of the 14th Amendment which banned Trump as an insurrectionist from holding office. The SCOTUS decision incorrectly said that a law from Congress was needed to define the criteria for enforcing the law against an insurrectionist when a law did exist (18 U.S. Code § 2383) which was passed by Congress. The SCOTUS decision was an act by criminal felons (6 justices on SCOTUS appointed by Republican presidents) which supported Trump’s insurrection. As mentioned, the insurrection continued during the 2024 election, but Biden failed to invoke the Insurrection Act and reject all votes for Trump which were illegal.
Now that Trump is in office and the insurrection has continued, Democrats must begin to enforce the law against insurrection to save democracy.
Read my post to see WHAT ACTION must come from Democrats.
https://williamlmiller.substack.com/p/how-to-stop-trump-republicans-and
Your job is to have visions for your MA constituents -- of course not easy, but every big idea needs a place to start, and think some of the elements are there -- a plan to develop a beta first step -- after that, believe it could also apply to revitalize many forgotten smaller cities throughout the country (blue and red) -- those on-their-knees cities just might also be able to cut a lot of blue and red tape -- which would make it also apply universally across the U.S.
Its a great extension of abundance thinking.
How can your vision better appeal to suburban and rural voters who cannot imagine living in a city?
I’ll read the article in detail. But you make no mention of adaptive reuse of “old” cities and communities throughout the US. This has to be done simultaneously so that we can save and recreate more open spaces to grow enough trees to clean the air and replenish the ozone layer…
I am happy Jake, that as my representative, you support President Trump’s agenda. But, try to keep the corruption to a minimum.
Lovely ideas but if you don’t get education right you’re building on a house of cards. Fascists got to our schools first, leaving a path for fascism Trump seized.
Whistleblowing teachers have been trying to tell you at WhiteChalkCrime.com and EndTeacherAbuse.org since 2002 to deaf ears.
The fact we don’t cherish teachers enough to protect them is the root cause for democracy’s implosion. This is how we shifted from teachers’ loving values to fascists’ selfish values.
Once people understand where we went wrong and that teachers’ unions are complicit in this - no one can survive otherwise - they will run for school boards in groups of four to take schools over to force democracy on our schools. Young and old with or without children must plant the flag of democracy in our schools that failed to produce citizens for years now.
Fixing housing is worthy but not enough.
The question is do we have any leaders willing to learn what needs to be done in education to steer the nation back to its good values? Do we have any leaders who understand how angry and hollow and brain dead these schools have made our people? We could if my memoir on my teaching days A Graver Danger went viral in a world where teachers haven’t counted.
Excellent Jake - keep thinking outside the box!
This is great stuff. It's important that it be combined with real anti-monopoly enforcement and other steps to reduce the gouging that is crushing the middle class. You have to be willing to move away from the Clinton-eta Win/Win rhetoric that still permeates the Democratic elite. People are suspicious that these kind of policies will just be another chance for Private Equity to come in and hoover up everything.
Preposterous nonsense.
New cities won’t fix everything, but they’re one of the few ideas bold enough to matter. Especially if we pair them with modular manufacturing and nuclear infrastructure from day one. I’ve written about why supply-side reform needs muscle, not just theory, in my own publication too. http://lukeringlein.substack.com/
Please challenge Markey for Senator. He is a good man, but no ideas and energy. Time to pass the baton to younger people like you.
Credit to you, Jake, for putting out these ideas. Can't say I agree with all of them, but this one is sensible, if implausible - simple, but not easy, indeed! The politics of getting buy-in from so many stakeholders - to wit, the comments here - is daunting! But so is the housing crisis that new cities might help to alleviate. To the cynics, I suggest: read the essay you published with Prof. Gruber (linked to in your post).
One criticism noted in the comments here must be addressed: public transportation. Of course, but that's only one of many infrastructure issues to be addressed simultaneously, given where we are at this stage of our 'post-industrial decay'. As you noted in the linked essay: "[This is] a starting point. But we must begin in earnest ... There will be failures, even embarrassments. What matters is there be a massive burst of housing and infrastructure development in America, not that every idea work perfectly." Wise words.
This is great but can you tell us how you are fighting for democracy first? Right now the only building is for concentration camps.
Very impressive piece on building new cities. I sure hope that you'll get a chance to implement it. You'll have to over Good luck.come the Republican grip on the voting machines, though.
As a central Mass resident I would move to a car free city in Devens in a heartbeat
As long as politicians who make decisions aren’t beholden to the Lobbyists then its possible otherwise not possible. If you had said China there i would have agreed as the politicians there above the lobbyists