Youth Advocacy
Youth Advocacy
Year 4, Week 51 (301 total reports)
18.03.2026-24.03.2026
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dr. Jerry Goebel
Mudsilling is a political term defining when a ruling economic class intentionally designs a political structure to keep others enslaved in poverty. The U.S. is a mudsill economy.
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This week’s Blues/Rap song focuses on the Pedo-in-Chief and reminds him, “We Will Not Forget.” https://youtu.be/Z0Xt8Ch4aaI?si=okNFBWjRDIlcFb5i
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24.03.2026
America's wealth gap is growing, and Trump's policies are making it bigger
There is an economic term called Mudsilling. It refers to a powerful upper class that intentionally creates a permanent underclass to serve their economic needs, and it comes from a construction term whereby a mudsill is the lowest threshold that supports the foundation for a building. Nothing could describe the Project 2025 economy better. In my article review yesterday, we examined who is profiting off the aggressions of this administration. The presidency, Congress, and our Supreme Court have demonstrated they are doing all they can to rob the poor and give money to their ultra-wealthy benefactors. Relying on the midterms is not enough. Our current president has already indicated that he does not want voting to occur, and the recent action of sending his private shock troops (ICE) to airports is but one indication that he will also take over polling places. We need to be more assertive if we want to save our democracy for our children. We need to show our elected officials that we will not tolerate a mudsill economy.
23.03.2026
Who Is Profiting from the War in Iran - and What We Can Do About It
This brief article by the editors at Daily Kos is important if you want to know 1) why war is so profitable, 2) who profits from it, and 3) what you can do to resist this cycle of blatant racketeering. Among those who are profiting the most from this war in Iran is the president himself, his family, Netanyahu, Putin, China, petroleum companies, and even Iran itself! The editors go on to reflect upon a piece by James Carville about how we can respond and what Democrats can do to target such exploitation in the future.
20.03.2026
Trump Had No Plan B for Iran
If Tom Nichols of The Atlantic wrote it or has it in his podcast, I want to understand the commentary. This article takes a deep dive into the behind-the-scene thinking (or lack thereof) of this administration’s decision to join Netanyahu in bombing Iran. Despite being told by military and intelligence experts who are familiar with the region, T.R.U.M.P. ordered this invasion thinking it would be a one-bomb-run ordeal and the regime would collapse. So confident were they of their own “brilliance” that there was no Plan B. As Mr. Nichols puts it, “Trump’s Plan A was to hit Iran hard, watch the theocrats flee, and then hand power to a government of his own choosing. Should such things not come to pass, Plan B was … well, apparently, there was no Plan B.” Nichols goes on to squarely lay the blame for this invasion on those responsible. Here are his words: “Some observers have criticized American planners for failing to anticipate such a move. This is unfair: The intelligence community and the U.S. military have analyzed, planned, and exercised for this scenario for decades. The failure came not from the national-security community, but from the civilians, and specifically the commander in chief, who evidently refused to heed warnings from his senior military advisers that the Iranians would do exactly what anyone paying attention suspected they would do.” Once again, Nichols points out, “T.R.U.M.P.’s arrogance,” is putting the United States—and the world—at extreme risk. This presidency is the worst presidency since, well, since his last presidency. Let’s just hope the globe can recover from what the people of the United States (voters and stay-at-homers alike) have unleashed.
19.03.2026
The Iran War’s Next Threat Is to Food and Water
The Atlantic’s Vivian Salama looks behind the scenes and into the near future to analyze the global implications of T.R.U.M.P.’s grandiose encroachment into Iran. Salama does a deep dive into the story behind and beyond simply the effect of this “invasion” on food and water in the region, not just gas and oil for the United States. According the this administration, they didn’t think that their invasion would cause this many problems, which begs to remind us how imbecilic this President can be and how intentionally blind he has become cocooned by his sycophantic followers. Let us not also become victims of myopic vision looking at only how this incursion affects us nationally or locally. It’s not just about gas and oil prices, it is about access to food and water, which is becoming a far greater menace to the world.
18.03.2026
Nobody Wants To Clean Up Trump's Mess In The Strait Of Hormuz
Ryan Grenoble and Marita Vlachou of HuffPost aptly name this post-Iran, non-war invasion as a “no-alition of the willing.” Turns out this administration is learning you can’t invade a country with only Israel’s support, insult all of your allies, then expect them—or the population of the United States—to be supportive. And it drives this administration more insane (if that’s possible). Adam Serwer of The Atlantic posts a similar headline and discusses T.R.U.M.P.’s unreadiness for the chaos he has caused. He quotes the president as saying, “On Monday, Trump told reporters that Iran wasn’t ‘supposed to go after all these other countries in the Middle East.’ He said, ‘They hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait,’ and “nobody expected that. We were shocked.’” This is just another illustration of how obtuse this administration is and how it will not listen to anyone who doesn’t praise, “The Dear Leader.” The world will pay the price for this incompetence. Rising oil prices affect everyone and nearly everything from shipping to fertilizer. In the United States, this is further complicated by all the internal battles this administration has started from the nonpayment of TSA employees to ICE running rampant on city streets. It almost seems trite to say (and too ubiquitous) elect a clown, expect a circus. What can we do? Keep the focus on the Epstein files, keep demanding their release. All of this is a distraction from sending this president where he belongs, not in the White House, but in an orange suit.
