Left leaners like Barack Obama said, “Yes, we can.” But he couldn’t. Instead of universal healthcare, we got the best health insurance the industry would allow. Bernie wasn’t permitted to try, Biden couldn’t focus long enough, and Kamala said we we're “never going back” — but we did. In truth, only FDR ever confronted the powers‑that‑be head‑on. He said he welcomed their disdain as he enacted sweeping socio‑economic reforms that blue states — and especially red states — still rely on today.

AI is the latest example of power in the wrong hands. Instead of artificial intelligence working for the public good, profiteers are directing it to replace workers and absorb our collective intellectual output, only to sell it back to us in a variety of formats. And they will use our land, water, and electricity to do it.

In many ways, it's business as usual. Big biz essentially pays politicians to write laws to suit them, then uses profits to buy more politicians and laws — all while shaping the news so we blame each other.

Despite it all, however, yes, we still can. Our representatives took an oath to serve the public with more than just slogans. I believe re-allocated taxes can afford us all:

A life where the basics are guaranteed

• free healthcare and education levels like most developed countries

• phone and internet as public utilities, always on, always available

• baseline electricity allocations for cooking, heating, cooling — no one choosing between food and AC

• basic food and shelter as human rights provided by a humane society

• public transportation that works, clean, frequent, everywhere

Services with one centralized source for:

• search, info and data— transparent, trustworthy, not optimized for profit

• entertainment — sports, movies, and music, all accessible without ten subscriptions

• shopping, reviews, and delivery — a publicly owned Amazon that doesn’t manipulate prices or workers

A system where democracy is effortless

• full online voting and public input on major decisions, secure and accessible

And beyond that…

• public AI systems designed to support the community rather than extract from it

• work weeks that shrink as technologies replace workers

• and countless possibilities we haven’t imagined yet

How Possible is it?

That’s what me and a small crew will set out to explore — on a new planet without all the old‑world baggage: entrenched power structures, inherited hierarchies, historical grudges, and outdated institutions. A world free from the systems that warp our sense of fair play and brotherhood — the systems that taught us to compete instead of cooperate.

An interactive sci-fi story.

By the year 3000, it is confirmed that black holes are portals where spacetime folds like a cosmic colon. Since energy can neither be created or destroyed, what goes in is dumped somewhere else. Usually, in a day or two. The nearest black hole is discovered within reach.

So begins this experiment to boldly go where few men have gone before. To explore the inner reaches of his deepest, darkest regions. To probe. To illuminate. Perhaps, to come out tainted, but learned. Purged of dangerous ideas spreading like cancerous polyps within.

The mission must avoid man's past, indelicate bumblings. So, maybe the thrust of the thing is to go where a modern woman might dare go. Co-piloting the flotilla of starships on this one-year mission will be a selection of women and artificial intelligence models --participating in debate and polls.

DESTINATION: Planet Newbl

The year is 3001. Like countless other planets over eons, the technical evolution of earth's most advanced life-forms outpaced their ethical evolution. Instead of caring for mother earth, we plundered her. Our extinction is inevitable. A dozen spaceships are being loaded for the journey to NEWBL, the galaxy's nearest life-sustainable, blue water, blue skied planet.

to be continued--unfolded--for months, perhaps years!