As the President’s illness is comprehensively covered and updated in frenzied, up-to-the-minute posts, I continue to wonder about the fate of all of those brown people–adults and children–who walked here. They came up through Central America and Mexico, hundreds of miles, with just the clothes on their backs and hope for the children whose hands […]
Morehttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/30/trump-republican-party-voting-reform-coronavirus The truth emerges just as we suspected. This is about as close to admitting that Republicans have to suppress the vote and/or cheat to win as one might get short of a total admission. “The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to […]
MorePlease let’s get clear on this. Social programs, government programs that benefit all of us are “socialist” by definition. It is not Communism. It is not collective ownership or anything of the sort. We are a nation of people that comprise a “society” to which we all belong. Democratic socialism simply means that we the […]
MoreAs the saying goes,”In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.” This is the price of apathy. We deserve better.
MoreThe American people deserve to understand why Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, and Congressional Republicans are hell-bent on pursuing an irrational and reprehensible public policy agenda. McConnell’s current, frenzied mission to drum up fifty votes to abolish Obamacare by September 30 and to cut $1billion from Hurricane Harvey relief to fund the Trump border wall folly […]
MoreThe Rachel Maddow Show shares more of Maddow’s remarkable ability to play the long-game in pursuit of the truth. She and her team stay on stories that confound other news outlets and analysts. When others throw up their hands and move on, Rachel digs deeper. Deconstruct, analyze, remain vigilant and tenacious; these are the skills […]
MoreWhat will the victims of Hurricane Harvey have to look forward to after the storm? Will they have health care? Will they have rental assistance? Will they have extended unemployment insurance? Will homeless shelters have enough beds? Will Food Stamps and school lunches be available? Maybe. But, perhaps not. There was a time when our […]
MoreWhat would happen if we actually stopped believing the generation gap hype? Forget generation, X, Y, Z, Baby Boomers. There is no generation gap that is meaningful in any positive way. We can all learn new things from each other no matter what our generation. Just imagine the power–personal, relational and political–we could wield if […]
MoreI don’t know why I keep raging against the machine and charging at windmills. All I know is that I feel an emptiness in America despite Barak and the chance we have in November. However, I cannot help but wonder, what about us? I wonder what about those of us outside the middle-class that is […]
MoreThe constant Republican refrain “We are doing what “the American people want?” So why aren’t we demanding more? We as a people are are getting precious little from our elected representatives in D.C. and in state houses all over America. What we are getting is nothing, in fact, but a war against the poor, middle […]
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