Want Hope? Look To Poland
Polish voters turn away the ruling far-right party. Continue reading Want Hope? Look To Poland
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An Inspiring Discussion on Democracy?
So for a long time, I’ve followed Amanda Litman on Twitter. She operates an organization called Run for Something. What Run for Something does is look to inspire and find progressive candidates for local office. The idea behind it is to channel the frustrations that many of us are feeling about things such as, I don’t know, how cool we suddenly are with elderly people dying from a virus or how completely chill we are with turning our democracy over to authoritarians. Litman is pretty brilliant, and her strategy is one the Democratic Party should have started years ago because … Continue reading An Inspiring Discussion on Democracy?
Welcome To The Party, Pal
He won’t get the nomination, this is a joke campaign. He won’t win the nomination. America would never elect someone like Trump. He’ll have to change, the office of the presidency will change him. Tonight he became president. He’s pivoting (at least a dozen times over four years). He’ll just disappear once he loses. His supporters are all talk, there won’t be any violence. And so on. A lot of people, from the elite-iest of the DC media elite to your neighbor, were constantly and consistently wrong about everything Trump-related. David Brock, former conservative critter and now Democratic strategist, was … Continue reading Welcome To The Party, Pal
Supremely Anti-Democratic
Back in September, U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Former Workplace Creeper Clarence Thomas gave a speech at the University of Notre Dame. In it, he chastised judges for becoming too political. “The court was thought to be the least dangerous branch and we may have become the most dangerous,” he said. Then a huge Vortex of Irony formed over Justice Thomas, and pulled him and all attendees into a void, never to be seen again. Not really, but such criticisms are rich coming from the Federalists Society’s 2016 keynote speaker. The Deeply Hurt Feelings of the Supreme Court’s Conservatives theme … Continue reading Supremely Anti-Democratic