Oligarchy is always a transitional system, typically a mere way station in the shift from democracy to fascism or some other form of authoritarianism.
Thom Hartmann
In MAGA Mike Johnson (what Trump calls him), Republicans have found the perfect embodiment of their deplorable basket of hatreds. The only “loves” they have are rightwing billionaires and the fossil fuel industry. And, of course, Trump’s good buddy Vladimir Putin.
As Russia and Hungary have shown us, once a country has lost the institutions that maintain its democracy, it’s damn hard to get them back.
The simple fact is that, were it not for slavery, white supremacy, and the legacy of “scientific racism,” America would have had a national, single-payer healthcare system in 1915.
The right wing faces crises with incompetence or cynical exploitation: Bush and Hurricane Katrina; Netanyahu and Gaza; Trump and Covid, or tossing paper towels at hurricane victims in Puerto Rico.
Russia is close to having the upper hand Ukraine because of Putin’s ability to get American Republican politicians to mouth his talking points and propaganda.
Just the overcharges happening right now in the Medicare Advantage scam are costing Americans over $140 billion a year: more than the entire budget for the Medicare Part B or Part D programs.
If the six Republican SCOTUS justices rule the way the oligarchs who support their extravagant lifestyles want, America could be a very, very different place in just a few years.
Sunlight and accountability are still the best disinfectants and America needs to close this ugly chapter in our history with a sense of both finality and justice.
Can we rescue our nation from treasonous Republicans, who are trying to shut down our government to help Putin while they continue to bow and scrape to "The Rapist Who Would Be King?"
The Putin Caucus in the GOP, along with the fossil fuel billionaires, appear quite pleased that they’ve succeeded in intimidating fact-checkers just in time for the 2024 election.
For today’s bought-off GOP (and a handful of bought-off “problem solver” Democrats), as long as Republicans on the Supreme Court keep the corrupt payola machine running, there simply is no bottom.
The threats of violence used against government officials by Trump supporters echo the terror campaigns run by followers of Mussolini and Hitler in the early days of their rising to power.
It’s been 60 years since JFK was murdered, and we still don’t know the whole story. We can’t afford to wait another 60 years to find out who was in on the attempt to overthrow our government on January 6th.
America has been lied into too many wars. It’s cost us too much in money, credibility, and blood. We must remember the lies, and tell our children about them so that memory isn’t lost.
The GOP has become the party of Putin, bin Salman, and Orbán, rejecting George Washington’s warning about partisanship replacing patriotism and, increasingly, rejecting the very idea of democracy.
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