Fixing America with J Mel Podcast

This episode of Fixing America with J Mel explores the damaging effect that minority control, poisonous partisan politics, and mis- and disinformation’s has had on civic participation. That, coupled with Trump’s war on the press, independent agencies, and legislative and bureaucratic oversight has prompted Americans to doubt our democracy and distort its potential. There is a better way: Subordina...

This episode of Fixing America with J Mel highlights how Trump has attacked and damaged individual and societal freedoms, when freedom is most vulnerable, and the lessons we learned, or should have learned, about freedom and its preservation from our own history. And last, we explore how the scientific revolution made positive improvements to our philosophy of individual and societal freedom. This...

I have two podcasts/newsletters - Fixing America with J Mel and Short Stories by J Mel . I have been publishing an episode for each publication weekly each Tuesday. In the future, I will publish one podcast episode per week alternating between the two podcasts - an episode of Short Stories by J Mel will be published this Tuesday, June 9. An episode of Fixing America with J Mel will be published th...

The 2025 Presidential Transition Plan gives the roadmap this regime is using to turn our democracy into an autocracy or oligarchy. This episode reveals that roadmap with specific examples and historic references in support, as follows: create an enemy; fund an army; create chaos &  fear; unlawfully seize authority; create an insurrection to quash; invoke martial law; imprison dissidents; centraliz...

American sovereignty belongs to the people. It is being stolen because the Rule of Law and Constitutional Limits are not being respected. This episode reviews the history of discrimination against black people, women, and immigrants to reveal that hard-fought progress made is being systemically taken away – a theft of our sovereignty. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this wit...

Episode 11 explores how to make our democracy less reliant upon politics and more amenable to problem-solving by strengthening essential tenets of our democracy, beginning with Popular Sovereignty, the ‘We the People’ tenet, and its foundation of free and fair elections and leader accountability. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bo...

Many people have been told a conservative democracy will make America great again. The reality is a conservative democracy excludes or minimizes secularism and separation of church and state. We explain why that historically increases the potential for war, suppresses compromise, and denigrates the Rule of Law. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or g...

In this episode of Fixing America with J Mel, we explore the current regime’s ultimate goal and strategies. We compare those goal to how our citizens think about the legitimacy of our government and their preference to keep a democracy or reject it. And we explain how “wokeness” is a tool used to manipulate our citizens. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscr...

This episode explores the similarities of the vesting clauses of Articles I, II, and III of the U. S. Constitution and sets out the long-standing prevailing constitutional construction view that supports the Founder’s intent to create three co-equal branches of government – each with the ability to be a check and balance of the other two. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this...

In this episode of Fixing America with J Mel , we explore: • Five forms of democracy that have proven successful in history • Common traits of non-democratic systems that fail over time • A comparison between democratic principles and modern political movements • What choices Americans face moving forward This episode examines how different forms of government shape freedom, stability, and justice...

In this episode, we examine the major forms of government by exploring who holds power and how that power is exercised. We categorize governments based on political authority, political ideology, and economic systems, and we rank them according to the concentration of power in leadership. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus epis...

In this episode, we explore the relationship between societies and governments, beginning with a simplified look at how early American systems may have formed—both in their tangible structures and their underlying principles. We then examine how to recognize when a democracy is broken, starting with the argument that the United States was flawed from the beginning (“ab initio”) from the perspectiv...

J Mel Alert is a new feature of Fixing America with J Mel . They are akin to Weather Warnings …designed to alert or update you to political and/or governmental dangers. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jmorrisakajmelfa.substack.com

This episode of Fixing America with J Mel describes the progression of anti-democratic sentiment during WWI attributed to our transitions through the Reconstruction Era, Gilded Era, Industrial Revolution and the Progressive Era that prompted America’s isolationism and influenced  our president to create the Creel propaganda machine. It also explains how political financial ties to oligarchs of the...

Episode_003 reviews major historical incidents where our leaders have abused the trust of the citizenry by distorting or concealing facts, how it has impacted our democracy, and why it is appropriate to draw comparisons between the conduct of Trump and Hitler. It is historically relevant and disturbingly enlightening while demonstrating clearly the need for “facts” and “truth” to be foundational t...

This episode of Fixing America with J Mel explores in detail Trump’s “Big Lie” and reveals its historical source. J Mel, an experienced trial lawyer, explains from a practical perspective how our judicial system establishes “facts” and evaluates “truth”, why it is a tested and proven system, and why it conclusively disproves Trump’s “big lie”. He shares a real-life example of why and how our syste...

In this episode of Fixing America with J Mel we explore the “conundrum”, a basis for optimism, and Trump’s agenda. This episode breaks down what parts of our government are under attack and how and why those attacks pose existential dangers to our form of government. It also includes suggestions on helpful personal antidotes to help you survive these troubling times. This is a public episode. If y...

The purpose of this podcast is to sound an alarm warning of our descent into authoritarianism and oligarchy. To stop that decay and restore our democracy we must evaluate the tenets most trustworthy to create a free and fair government and sustain it. That requires understanding the problems and how to fix them consistent with history. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this wi...