In a post earlier today I lamented what appears to be the transition the U.S. is making from democracy to oligarchy. This raises a couple of questions, like How did it happen? and How strong was the democracy in the first place? …
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Greed: The Religion of the Billionaire Class
What Bernie Sanders says here may or may not be correct. I see no evidence that the nation won’t survive its transition from democracy to oligarchy, at least on the basis of economics or politics.
Notes on the Trump Investigation
I was thrilled to see that an old friend of mine, an extremely astute political observer who’s just recovered from a traumatic accident, is back online. Though he dislikes Trump, he views the presidency with a yawn, which I find …
Many Americans Willingly Accept Alternate Reality
Re: this article: “Trump and Republicans settle on fear — and falsehoods — as a midterm strategy,” a friend writes: Phew, I’m taking a brief respite from barricading my doors against all these rioters in California.
Tagged with: alternate reality
Trump Does What’s Right (For Trump)
Re: the headline of this article in today’s New York Times, it all depends on how you define “right.” He’s extremely predictable, in that he always does what’s right for his own aggrandizement and tenure as U.S. president. He’ll endorse …
Why Involve Yourself in Politics?
The video here is a joke, and the audience clearly gets the humor, yet this is a conversation that I had almost verbatim with my apolitical son very recently. I was trying to inspire him to become more engaged, and I started …
Uniquely American
I’m not sure that voter suppression is uniquely American, but it is strange, isn’t it? If you want a democracy, shouldn’t you, almost by definition, be encouraging all citizens to vote? If you want an oligarchy, why not have the guts …
“This Is the Only Story Now”–Why Most Americans Feel an Empty Deadness Inside
I normally link to, rather than reprint, others’ pieces in their entirety, especially if they’re longer than a paragraph or two, but I’m thrilled to make an exception with this masterpiece by Esquire Magazine’s Charles Pierce. In the same breath, he …
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Tagged with: criminal enterprise
A Lot’s Changed in the Last 400 Years
All this is true. But Charles I hadn’t taken the precaution to pack the Supreme Court with his cronies, either. Trump has come prepared. Have we?
Tagged with: Supreme Court
Is America Going To Be OK?
To answer that question, here’s Barack Obama. Not to sound obnoxious, but, had I been asked to write this for him, I would have nailed it within a few words here or there. America will be fine as long as …
