… From Right Left Centre and In Between … News Media Still The Same Old, Same Old: If It Bleeds - It Leads (more…)
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics and Corruption; Corruption and Politicians
Sallust. Floyd. Hopes. Frequent mobs, seditions, and at last civil wars, became common, while a few leading men on whom the masses were dependent, affected supreme power under the seemly pretence of seeking…
Monday Ménage: Edition Doesn’t Spread, Leaders, Dogged Strength!
Truman. Kassem. Du Bois. Republicans approve of the American farmer, but, they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home, but, not for housing. They are strong…
Monday Ménage: Edition Group Hatreds, Systematic Politics, Human Madness
Hofstadter. MacIntyre. Kristeva. There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics…
Monday Ménage: Edition Intestine Disorder, Unaided Impulses, Only A Step
Hobbes. Spinoza. Ebenstein/Fogelman. Though nothing can be immortal, which mortals make; yet, if men had the use of reason they pretend to, their commonwealths might be secured, at least from perishing by internal…
Monday Ménage: Edition Fear, Suffering, and Nobody
Martel. Fromm. Rousseau. I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has…
Wednesday WayBack: Insecure Domestic Tranquility; The Road To America’s Ruin
As part of his long-game manifesto to disrupt America's domestic tranquility, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell openly urges the current unhinged disruptor having his moment, coal multimillionaire Corporate-Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia,…
Wednesday WayBack: Promises Broken. Elections Lost!
It Is What It Is On Tuesday, Republican Glenn Youngkin, a career private equity executive running his first campaign, defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe in not even a close race for Governor in Virginia. Youngkin…
Hey Nancy And Chuck, Meet Neville
Pelosi Tells Her Dems Get Ready To Appease Manchin, Sinema ~ "We can't negotiate the reconciliation bill down to nothing" ~ Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is telling her Democratic members decide which…
Monday Ménage
Frantz Fanon. Graeme Rodaughan. John Stuart Mill. The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people are no longer respectable…
Democracy: It’s Complicated and Fragile
It's Always About Choices During his Memorial Day 2021 address to the nation President Joe Biden warned that U.S. democracy is in danger of failing: “The mission falls to each of us,…
Democracy: Ya Gotta Fight For It
“There Is a Ticking Timebomb” Republican controlled states across the country are moving more aggressively with their democracy-killing agenda to make voting as difficult as possible in counties where Blacks, Latinos and low-income…
Danger Ahead: Anti-Democracy Drift
Reminders “The radicalization of the Republican Party has outpaced what even most critical observers imagined. We need to grapple with what that should mean for our expectations going forward and start thinking…
Will This Nation Survive
Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post sums it up, perfectly: The greatest threat to our nation’s future is not covid-19 or the rise of China or even the existential challenge of climate…
Repost: The American Normal UPDATED
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a gun law case challenging New York law which prohibits carrying concealed handguns outside the home without a license. This post is just one of many offering a…
Monday Ménage: Edition CPAC
Adolf Hitler. Joseph Goebells. Joseph Stalin. Donald J Trump. We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. Our movement is Christian. Adolf Hitler, 27 October 1928. …
He Keeps Proving Critics Right
When this large mound of rat excrement impersonating a U.S. Senator from Texas was first busted for running to a tropical getaway in Mexico when his state was in the midst of a deep-freeze…
America, We Hardly Know Ye
In the midst of a world-wide pandemic that has already killed over 85,000 Americans and on track to kill well over 100,000, Donald Trump continues his obsession with anything Obama; William Barr continues his…
News Network Creates ‘Alternative Reality’. Does Fake Takes On Real, Stunning, Scary Stories
“...firewall is holding even in the face of devastating new revelations about President Donald Trump’s abuse of power, as the network’s hosts continue to shield their audience from damning revelations and instead tell them…
Monday Ménage
Issac Asimov. W.E.B. Du Bois. Brendan Meyers. There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its…
Democracy, Use It Or Lose It
This unprecedented racism, bigotry and proto-fascist agenda that Donald Trump is trying to shove down America's throat has unleashed the resistance that will dethrone him. Tom Morello
Even Great Walls Have Go-Arounds
And This One Was 100s Of Years In The Making. Should We Tell Him?
History As Reminder: America?
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History As Reminder: Elections Edition
Youthful fanatics, incited by the propaganda of the Party and of a myriad of smaller, less prominent right-wing groups, took the law into their own hands. That such lawlessness was on the increase was…
Monday Ménage
Nancy Isenberg. Bradley Whitford. Joseph Stalin. When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win. Nancy Isenberg (more…)
These Guys Have Not, Will Not, Insure Domestic Tranquility
White House confirms FBI’s Kavanaugh investigation only looked at what Republican senators wanted (more…)
Choices
America is standing at the abyss. Do we fall in? Do we jump in? Do we continue with eyes closed, minds lost in the chaos, allowing our nation to be simply pushed over the…