Trump as a "victim" presents an existential danger to our country. And perhaps the most important people countering this threat are the twelve jurors and six alternates at his current trial in New York.
When you get down to the nitty gritty of it, the far right wants to elect candidates who prove their ability to ignore suffering and death inflicted on others, no matter the species.
A long decline in civics education over the past 60 plus years has left the American population vulnerable to false data about how our government and Constitution work.
Listening to the talking heads of doom on FOX and other far-right propaganda channels, one can get the idea that life is so dangerous you must have military firepower just to go buy a carton of milk. Nope.
Far right Republicans have been screaming about a migrant invasion for years. They finally have the solution they wanted to combat it, but now, they apparently were just kidding.
Living in the United States gives you tremendous rights. But according to Big Pharma, one of those rights is to be robbed every time you get a prescription filled.
Donald Trump is not very unique in trying to screw up foreign and domestic policies as an election ploy. Treason in the pursuance of power in presidential politics by the GOP is a long-standing tradition.
It is high time the vaunted Fourth Estate stopped treating this election cycle like some sort of horse race, calling out positions and issuing prognostications to fill air time and column inches.
Each and every one of us are the actual superheroes to wrest our country from the grasping hands of wannabe dictators. Our vote is our stance and the message for us to deliver this year is "Not on our watch."
We are about to be flooded with even more propaganda than we already are as we move into an election year of unparalleled stakes. A lot of this will be the cut-and-paste variety.
When you scrape away the social facade of those on the far right, you will find a terrified little pipsqueak of a soul, shuddering in fear that someone may find him out or rise above him.