One war is more violent than the other - for now The whole world has been in a state of shock, and rightfully so, over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s murderous invasion of Ukraine. President Biden has called Putin a war criminal. Ponder this: Putin’s war on democracy in Ukraine is a lot like the war on democracy in the United States. The one being waged by Donald … [Read more...] about The Ukraine Invasion and the November Election—Two Wars on Democracy
Culture Wars
The White Right Wants American Apartheid
Many whites are showing their true color Sometimes ya gotta spell things out for people, tell it like it is. This is the unvarnished truth: The White Supremacist Trumpers, who number in the millions, want to end Democracy in America. They intend to replace our all-men-are-created-equal government with an American version of Apartheid. They are going all-out to turn our … [Read more...] about The White Right Wants American Apartheid
How to Neutralize Manchin and Sinema
Democracy on the Brink A little less than a year from now, Democrats are going to do one of two things: they are going to make some historic changes and pull off a political miracle, OR they are going to get massacred in the mid-term elections and they will watch America’s democracy disintegrate while they controlled the House, the Senate and the Presidency. Two Democrats … [Read more...] about How to Neutralize Manchin and Sinema
Like the Republicans, the Democrats have Changed
Thousands of words have been written and spoken about how the white blue-collar class abandoned the Democratic Party decades ago. All of that blah-blah-blah is substantially wrong. A more honest and truthful view is that it was the Democratic Party that abandoned the white working-class. The modern Democratic Party “brand”, to use an overused term, began at the 1932 … [Read more...] about Like the Republicans, the Democrats have Changed
CPAC and the Nazis
I want to comment on why appearances matter. At issue is the shape of the stage at the recently concluded 2021 CPAC or Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida. Most of the attention was on ex-President Donald Trump’s speech asserting the Republican Party remains HIS party. But a number of observers criticized the shape of the stage for the … [Read more...] about CPAC and the Nazis