The West’s response to Ukraine could redefine the future of democracy.
Thom Hartmann
The road ahead could lead to dictatorship or renewed liberty, as the American people confront the corrosive power of wealth in politics.
How we went from the Founder's vision to the billionaire takeover of Democracy.
Class war sounds ugly, but it’s exactly what Republicans and their billionaire backers have been waging against working class Americans for 43 years now. It’s damn well time to fight back by declaring a class war of our own.
A strategy to win back America and stand against Trump’s takeover has to get started now.
With bought politicians, and a court on their side—the billionaires have seized control.
America is the only developed country in the world that’s allowed an unaccountable, unelected Supreme Court to hand its political system over to its richest citizens.
While we struggle, they scheme—how a Trump crash could line the pockets of America’s elite.
With every investment home billionaires and investment firms snatch, the dream of owning a house slips further away from you and every other person who wants to own a home.
It turns out that the vast majority of the hundreds of civil wars fought throughout history were started by those in power or wealthy elites very close to power.
When language becomes a political weapon, coupled with the willingness of the press to repeat harmful statements and lies, democracy becomes the victim.
Will Trump and the GOP manipulate the Constitution and the courts to take the presidency without winning the vote?
Many otherwise normal and sane Americans seem to have gone nuts, leaping down the Qanon or Fox “News” rabbit holes in search of meaning, safety, and explanations for the feelings of doom that they just can’t shake.
Republicans worship cheap labor—and having a steady and reliable supply of cheap labor requires widespread poverty.
Under the next Republican regime, every fertile woman in Red states could face invasive state surveillance. It’s not dystopia—it’s reality.
For the record, praising Nazism is not “what men do.” At least it’s not what decent, caring, honest, hard-working, patriotic, family men do. None of it.