Nobody in America should be without a home, and for society to work, housing costs must track incomes in a way that makes housing both available and affordable.
The next time you hear some TV pundit proclaiming the “solution” to the “problem” of Mitch McConnell or Dianne Feinstein being in office too long, consider their real agenda.
Trump has done his work, and the Republican Party is no longer a legitimate political party. Like a cat with a toxoplasma-infected mouse, he’s eaten the party whole.
Given the brilliant screenplay, acting, and production values of the movie Barbie, it would be naïve not to think it’s had an impact on American consciousness. The question is, how big is that impact?
Elevating masculinity and violence above democracy is just one part of Trump’s and the Republican war against our form of government. But make no mistake, democracy itself is in the crosshairs.
As long as we’re all fighting with each other about history or gender, billionaires and their corporations are free to continue pillaging America while ripping off working people and their families.
We are seeing an all-out assault on democracy in America, coming from multiple dictatorial regimes that have an interest—both financial and political—in seeing Trump back in office.
No former president in American history has encouraged violence or tried to inspire stochastic terrorism. Outside of the Confederacy, no politician has worked so hard to tear America apart.
Republicans want to distract us from their actual agenda, which bears a much closer resemblance to fascist states like Russia and Hungary than communism in Cuba.
The bottom line here is that Trump and his co-conspirators were not only willing but planning to recreate Reagan’s and Nixon’s Kent State slaughter on a nationwide basis.
It looks like the billionaires who control the MAGA movement have learned from January 6th and won’t make the mistake of having an independent military, FBI, press, or Department of Justice again.
Reagan’s economic policies marked the beginning of the neoliberal experiment, which weakened the middle class and caused inequality to skyrocket in America. Which in turn are driving America’s culture of gun violence and mass shootings.