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.
Thom Hartmann
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.
Congressional Republicans push to keep drug prices sky-high, defying voters, and fueling corporate greed.
If our corporate media follow their past efforts to “sanewash” Trump and whitewash previous Republican wars-for-politics, things could get quite grim for the future of American democracy.
A new and better world is possible, if we can only overcome the money of the fossil fuel industry and the corruption of politicians, mainly Republican.
Giving in to bullies' demands only creates a newer and more elaborate set of demands. Responding to their bullying with anything other than a literal, verbal or metaphorical punch in the face is a waste of time.
Rightwing preachers and their lobbying group have filed suit to block the Johnson Amendment which says that if they push politics instead of religion on Sunday morning their church should lose its tax-exempt status.
We may laugh at Republicans arguing Black people can never be true citizens, but militia-style white supremacist Christian nationalist rightwingers take this sort of thing very seriously.
Now we have an opportunity to bring Americans together, to embrace a collective and inclusive “us,” and to repudiate hate and “othering” as a political strategy.
President Biden was right about the GOP’s threat to democracy, and it is intrinsic to the American story. But, as Kamala Harris and Tim Walz know, freedom is a word that rings deeply in our psyches and has since the American Revolution.