As the U.S. midterm elections grow nearer, the two political parties are desperate to find their central narrative. Coming down to the wire, it looks like this: The Republicans still claim that life in the U.S. is becoming more affordable, …
Is the U.S. More Terrified about the Specter of Communism or Fascism? Read More »
The Republicans are betting the ranch that American voters can be convinced that the Democrats want government ownership of the means of production. Granted, we live among a significant number of morons, but this sounds like a big ask.
Looks like communism! is the new mantra of the GOP. It’s coming from the least intelligent of their leaders to the least intelligent of their followers. Could work!
What Noam Chomsky says here is spot on, especially with respect to Trump. What makes Trump so good at this is his facility to invent a new boogieman every couple of days: Communism, Dr. Fauci, Venezuela’s drug boats, Iran, birthright …
As suggested at left, Rush Limbaugh made a fortune by sewing hatred into American lives, and he was incredibly good at it. He convinced tens of millions of U.S. citizens that anything that would not make rich white males richer …
What We Can Learn from the Life and Death of Rush Limbaugh Read More »
Let’s not take this out of perspective. Personally, I kind of liked the slum lords with the no hot water and rats the size of house cats. I was particularly enamored of those who refused to rent to blacks, like …
Does the New NYC Mayor Offer a Fast Track to Communism? Read More »
Who among us hasn’t looked upon a certain development in our culture and said, OK, that’s it; we’re effed. Reader James sent me this, and, I have to say, it brought me that much closer to that most cynical of …
A friend sent me this, but it was so preposterous, I immediately looked it up. As I soon learned, he never said this. Someone wrote: Correct, but do you think any of these people will check? Good point. I checked …
Khrushchev’s Comment on America’s Communism Never Happened Read More »
Here’s a meme a reader sent me that shows a near-complete misunderstanding of world politics. First, there are no countries on Earth that even remotely resemble communism, i.e., Karl Marx’s concept of a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of …
In a comment on my recent piece on Bernie Sanders and the attack on our democracy represented by the U.S. Supreme Court decision Citizens United, one reader attacked Sanders as a communist. In response, another notes: There are some words you …
Bernie Sanders and His Attempt to Overturn the "Citizens United" Decision Read More »
