Student debt is a crime, weakening our intellectual infrastructure while maintaining and rigidifying racial and class caste systems inherited from the eras of slavery and indenture.
Thom Hartmann
As President Biden said, “We can't take democracy for granted any longer. … Make no mistake. Democracy is on the ballot...”
Is there something in the GOP’s core beliefs and strategies that just inevitably leads to hating on their citizens and worshiping poverty, death, and disease?
The essence of fascism is intimidation. It stops resistance, stifles opposition, and causes the fearful and desperate to cooperate. It scares off researchers, reporters, and opinion writers…
The simple reality is that as long as its legal for corporations to drop unlimited amounts of money into political campaigns, citizens and good-government groups will almost always be blown out of the water.
The press loves to call No Labels “centrist,” “unaffiliated,” and “independent.” They are none of the above. The group is almost entirely funded by dark money and refuses to reveal their donor list.
The GOP is consolidating its power in Red states by asserting control over elections, purging tens of millions of voters off the rolls, destroying public schools, and arresting Black voters and parading them before cameras in shackles.
In very simple terms, the word "woke" means being aware of discrimination and social crises and wanting to repair them in order to make a more happy, loving, and egalitarian society.
This "debt ceiling" isn't a crisis. It is a plot: a cynical political and media strategy devised by Republicans in the 1970s, fine-tuned in the 1980s, and rolled out every time a Democrat is in the White House.
Lacking any core beliefs or principles other than obeisance to billionaires and the fossil fuel industry, the Republican Party has become one giant grift, and the USA is its mark.