Such a great film! (I'm the one who asked first question -- granddaughter/daughter/sister of candidates in various IL races over the years -- also a poet, website under construction, and also an investor in documentary film through Chicago Media Partners, check them out.) I wanted to ask a second question which was, when you re-cut the first film, did you know what had happened in the Naperville race vis a vis Rashid's religious affiliation? Cos that was the most amazing part of the film for me--that I was prepared for the negativity in the latter half of the film because you had so carefully explained Pakistani religious politics in the first half.
OK that's enough from me. Here's a link to an article in today's NYT that will knock your socks off...Jack Newell, your next film?!?!?!!!!!!
sorry, these are really questions/article for Jack, not you, Qasim. To you I say: if I lived in the 11th district, I'd vote for you. Hmm, maybe think about running in Danny Davis' district, where I presently live?? Though you'd have to move to the West Side of Chicago, which may be too far a hike for you from Naperville friends/activities. (Besides, we have a great next-time's-the-charm candidate, Kina Collins, who hopefully will stick around until Davis retires or gets defeated.)
The system is the finest ever conceived. The failure is that of “We the people”. The Framers never dreamed a caveat of “elect honest brokers” would ever be needed.
Just as pertinent, the complete dereliction of duty on the part of the electorate.
Our DUTY per the Declaration
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Agree 100%, Hudson. My former hometown of Oak Park has a reputation as an enclave of smart, informed folx, yet turnout for its municipal elections is (worse than) dismal--and for state/national elections not a whole lot better, honestly. Also, all around the state of IL, folx avoid the judicial ballot, then complain when underperforming state court judges are retained for decades. My Dad was elected to Circuit Court of Cook County as a REPUBLICAN in the late sixties (? I think--swept in with Ogilvie for Governor back when people used a single lever to vote straight ticket...otherwise, a Republican in Cook County, you must be joking)--he was an overperformer by Cook County judicial standards, got tapped for N D IL by Chuck Percy and, yes, Richard Nixon after a single County retention ballot run. (Dad later wrote an article advocating appointment, rather than election, of State court judges. ... As this screed shows, I'm a chip off the old block ha ha.)
If we bother to acknowledge the only caveat the framers demanded, “a well informed an educated electorate,” elected at the ballot box would be the proper way. Governor appointment is far too political.
Always propose best policy practice. Implement it when you can. Aim small, miss small.
Policy that is nothing more than covering for the failure of weed. The people is pathetic. A Democratic Party type of solution of a Band-Aid on a severed limb.
Perfect example happening right now. “Supreme Court ethics reform.” all that is needed is already in place. The bar of “good behavior” has been far surpassed by all six conservative justices. The only and just solution is for Congress to do its goddamn job and impeach and remove.
The proposed ethics, Roussilon reform is the same as all democratic party policy. An insulting token, addressing the correct issue of the day. Which is more than Republicans do, but yeah, like that’s quality government? If your choices are corporate, oligarchy, enabled, fascism, or totalitarian despotism, the proletariat lost that election decades before it ever happened…..
"Policy that is nothing more than covering for the failure of weed. The people is pathetic. A Democratic Party type of solution of a Band-Aid on a severed limb."
haha my older sister lives in MO and raised her daughters there. (Their Dad was a Texan, but I wouldn't call him political--he's gone now.) I pity her, and the rest of the state, for sure...no, I think IL is great--but I've been here, and specifically in Cook County, for most of my life, and have voted Blue er Dem (**see the movie** I'm trying not to put spoilers on this site but it is AMAZING!!!) in every election but one since 1972 (when I voted in RI, and voting age was 20 for first time, and what a coinkydinky, so was I...)--sorry my point was, IL is so reliably blue it's almost funny...and Cook County leads the pack, not always in a way that I like. -- As I get older, I am less of a two-party-democracy fan, and the Cook County Dems is* probably one of the reasons why.
*sheesh, I just corrected YOUR subject-verb agreement and now I's doing it myself? By "Dems" I meant "Dem Party," sorry.
Bullshit be at the convention right now, demanding an open broker ticket. Legitimate representatives of weather people. The temerity of the party screaming “democracy is at stake“ perfectly fine with a coronation with a ticket doing nothing more than the same old corporate donor class fellation makes me wanna puke. Anyway, it’s far more morally bankrupt than Republicans, standing there in broad daylight lying to your face.
hoo boy Hudson, it's 10:30 PM CDT and I'm getting ready to turn into a pumpkin, otherwise I'd try much harder to understand the esoterica you're penning. The most I guess I can say for now is that anyone in 2024 who believes they (she/he) can somehow intuit what the Framers meant by the words they used in the late 18 c., when things were WAY different than they are now in WAY more respects than they were the same, is, forgive me, blowing smoke. (And need I remind you that I studied Con Law under the very Prof. (Antonin "Nino") Scalia who ended up a Supreme a short few years later--I was Class of 1983 at The Law School--disagreed with him then, and would disagree with him now if he was still with us. But, G-d rest his soul, the world and the law both continue to change, and that's a very good, not to mention unavoidable, thing.)
Your associate completely in Arabic and agreed this one pay the language has not evolved very much. That aside, you do realize there are tens of thousands of dictionary’s that survive from that day?
Scalia poisoned your brain!
I shall repeat, the Constitution of the United States needs FOLLOWED. It’s not some kind of dogma indoctrination. Leaving INTERPRETATION, nonsense, to preachers and their scripture.
A professional constitutional scholar understands exactly what they meant. The problem is, people, studying decisions, made by an illegitimate, politically driven agenda, piece of legislation from the court that is completely unconstitutional that has anything to do with Constitutional scholarship.
It’s not as if I don’t have credible bona fides myself.
I do poses a MA Political Science, University of Chicago.
I rooted for you to win both races and believe we need you in Congress. I would love to see this film but will not be in Chicago in August. Thank you for posting this great interview.
I do and can see you in public office. I will not be in Chicago but I would love to purchase the film when it is available. Thank you for your well thought out and real opinions.
I'm so excited about this film! I was making calls for your campaign through Sunrise Movement. It was great to talk to the people who should have been your constituents. But here you are, and we are your constituents, riding in your boat towards a better future, one with hope and comradeship in it.
Dan, if your idea of famous is an honest broker, straight shooter and oath of office abiding citizen, who will serve “we the people,” with effort and earnestness he is beyond famous. He’s Iconic!
Actually you can edit and probably should do so. Your spelling & proofreading are atrocious.
As they stand your last two posts make no sense so I’m over & out.
btw - any fellow liberals on this thread? You may want to join me as MI Dems present a briefing at 7 PM EDT (6 PM CDT, etc.) entitled Defending Democracy Against Trump's Lies. I'll try to attach information, or go to https://mailchi.mp/6a1dff008af6/defending-democracy-against-trumps-election-lies?e=dec4a27f33 to register for phone call.
APOLOGIES Qasim if I'm overstepping.
Such a great film! (I'm the one who asked first question -- granddaughter/daughter/sister of candidates in various IL races over the years -- also a poet, website under construction, and also an investor in documentary film through Chicago Media Partners, check them out.) I wanted to ask a second question which was, when you re-cut the first film, did you know what had happened in the Naperville race vis a vis Rashid's religious affiliation? Cos that was the most amazing part of the film for me--that I was prepared for the negativity in the latter half of the film because you had so carefully explained Pakistani religious politics in the first half.
OK that's enough from me. Here's a link to an article in today's NYT that will knock your socks off...Jack Newell, your next film?!?!?!!!!!!
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/18/us/politics/kamala-harris-2010-debate.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
sorry, these are really questions/article for Jack, not you, Qasim. To you I say: if I lived in the 11th district, I'd vote for you. Hmm, maybe think about running in Danny Davis' district, where I presently live?? Though you'd have to move to the West Side of Chicago, which may be too far a hike for you from Naperville friends/activities. (Besides, we have a great next-time's-the-charm candidate, Kina Collins, who hopefully will stick around until Davis retires or gets defeated.)
The system is the finest ever conceived. The failure is that of “We the people”. The Framers never dreamed a caveat of “elect honest brokers” would ever be needed.
Just as pertinent, the complete dereliction of duty on the part of the electorate.
Our DUTY per the Declaration
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Agree 100%, Hudson. My former hometown of Oak Park has a reputation as an enclave of smart, informed folx, yet turnout for its municipal elections is (worse than) dismal--and for state/national elections not a whole lot better, honestly. Also, all around the state of IL, folx avoid the judicial ballot, then complain when underperforming state court judges are retained for decades. My Dad was elected to Circuit Court of Cook County as a REPUBLICAN in the late sixties (? I think--swept in with Ogilvie for Governor back when people used a single lever to vote straight ticket...otherwise, a Republican in Cook County, you must be joking)--he was an overperformer by Cook County judicial standards, got tapped for N D IL by Chuck Percy and, yes, Richard Nixon after a single County retention ballot run. (Dad later wrote an article advocating appointment, rather than election, of State court judges. ... As this screed shows, I'm a chip off the old block ha ha.)
If we bother to acknowledge the only caveat the framers demanded, “a well informed an educated electorate,” elected at the ballot box would be the proper way. Governor appointment is far too political.
Always propose best policy practice. Implement it when you can. Aim small, miss small.
Policy that is nothing more than covering for the failure of weed. The people is pathetic. A Democratic Party type of solution of a Band-Aid on a severed limb.
Perfect example happening right now. “Supreme Court ethics reform.” all that is needed is already in place. The bar of “good behavior” has been far surpassed by all six conservative justices. The only and just solution is for Congress to do its goddamn job and impeach and remove.
The proposed ethics, Roussilon reform is the same as all democratic party policy. An insulting token, addressing the correct issue of the day. Which is more than Republicans do, but yeah, like that’s quality government? If your choices are corporate, oligarchy, enabled, fascism, or totalitarian despotism, the proletariat lost that election decades before it ever happened…..
"Policy that is nothing more than covering for the failure of weed. The people is pathetic. A Democratic Party type of solution of a Band-Aid on a severed limb."
ok I'm a poet but i can't parse this para
otherwise agree 100%
iPhone, dictation stabs me again. It’s the failure of “we the people”
hahaha spell check loves it some weed, I guess...
Do you think of Illinois is bad? I live across the state line in Missouri. Temporary at least.
Look out Texas, we’re coming for you!
haha my older sister lives in MO and raised her daughters there. (Their Dad was a Texan, but I wouldn't call him political--he's gone now.) I pity her, and the rest of the state, for sure...no, I think IL is great--but I've been here, and specifically in Cook County, for most of my life, and have voted Blue er Dem (**see the movie** I'm trying not to put spoilers on this site but it is AMAZING!!!) in every election but one since 1972 (when I voted in RI, and voting age was 20 for first time, and what a coinkydinky, so was I...)--sorry my point was, IL is so reliably blue it's almost funny...and Cook County leads the pack, not always in a way that I like. -- As I get older, I am less of a two-party-democracy fan, and the Cook County Dems is* probably one of the reasons why.
*sheesh, I just corrected YOUR subject-verb agreement and now I's doing it myself? By "Dems" I meant "Dem Party," sorry.
Bullshit be at the convention right now, demanding an open broker ticket. Legitimate representatives of weather people. The temerity of the party screaming “democracy is at stake“ perfectly fine with a coronation with a ticket doing nothing more than the same old corporate donor class fellation makes me wanna puke. Anyway, it’s far more morally bankrupt than Republicans, standing there in broad daylight lying to your face.
hoo boy Hudson, it's 10:30 PM CDT and I'm getting ready to turn into a pumpkin, otherwise I'd try much harder to understand the esoterica you're penning. The most I guess I can say for now is that anyone in 2024 who believes they (she/he) can somehow intuit what the Framers meant by the words they used in the late 18 c., when things were WAY different than they are now in WAY more respects than they were the same, is, forgive me, blowing smoke. (And need I remind you that I studied Con Law under the very Prof. (Antonin "Nino") Scalia who ended up a Supreme a short few years later--I was Class of 1983 at The Law School--disagreed with him then, and would disagree with him now if he was still with us. But, G-d rest his soul, the world and the law both continue to change, and that's a very good, not to mention unavoidable, thing.)
I would love to educate you and learn from you on this topic
Your claim is projection. Classic projection.
I hate this section of the platform. You can’t edit…
bullshit.
First sentence should be
Your assertion is completely in error. Egregiously so. The English language in America has not evolved very far from that as a baseline.
The last sentence of the paragraph not only proves my theory, cementing the concept, in factual reality as well.
Your statement is not connected to factual reality. It is entirely in the altfact universe.
Wut?
Your associate completely in Arabic and agreed this one pay the language has not evolved very much. That aside, you do realize there are tens of thousands of dictionary’s that survive from that day?
Scalia poisoned your brain!
I shall repeat, the Constitution of the United States needs FOLLOWED. It’s not some kind of dogma indoctrination. Leaving INTERPRETATION, nonsense, to preachers and their scripture.
A professional constitutional scholar understands exactly what they meant. The problem is, people, studying decisions, made by an illegitimate, politically driven agenda, piece of legislation from the court that is completely unconstitutional that has anything to do with Constitutional scholarship.
It’s not as if I don’t have credible bona fides myself.
I do poses a MA Political Science, University of Chicago.
I rooted for you to win both races and believe we need you in Congress. I would love to see this film but will not be in Chicago in August. Thank you for posting this great interview.
I do and can see you in public office. I will not be in Chicago but I would love to purchase the film when it is available. Thank you for your well thought out and real opinions.
I'm so excited about this film! I was making calls for your campaign through Sunrise Movement. It was great to talk to the people who should have been your constituents. But here you are, and we are your constituents, riding in your boat towards a better future, one with hope and comradeship in it.
Thank you! Grateful
I wish I could be there to watch this. I hope it’s a raging success!
Sounds fascinating; I look forward to Netflix picking it up so I can view it—a girl can hope 🤞.
Wonderful this film got made, and certainly insightful.
I did not know you were famous
Substack algorithm set you up
on what I see in my phone? Somehow Substack
Knows my inclination and interests? Your work is
a good read, I hope to learn why words create art,
and clear communication. You do so well as a wordsmith, your words build connections in theme, ideas and to your readers. Thank You
Famous is probably an overly generous word, but I’m absolutely grateful for your kindness and support. Thanks Dan.
Dan, if your idea of famous is an honest broker, straight shooter and oath of office abiding citizen, who will serve “we the people,” with effort and earnestness he is beyond famous. He’s Iconic!