The commons, unions, and a livable wage built the first mass middle class. Now younger voters want to reboot that machine at full throttle.
Thom Hartmann
When politicians hand the gun industry a liability shield, they’re not “protecting freedom,” they’re protecting a business model built profits over body counts.
In 11 months, we’ll have an opportunity to retrieve our democracy from the clutches of the morbidly rich, the ideologues who deify them (and have for millennia), & their bought-&-paid-for politicians.
If we allow a network of secretive, cruel, detention facilities for one set of powerless people today, tomorrow it will inevitably turn those same systems against anyone who challenges their power.
Our elections, our media, even our justice system, are all owned by the few. The Powell Memo lit the match; Citizens United poured on the gasoline. The fire of corruption is now a national inferno.
A government that celebrates cruelty, weaponizes culture and mocks due process is telling you exactly what it plans to become.
What elite isolation reveals about the fragility of modern democracy and the cost of unchecked billionaire power.
When this bubble bursts, the collapse won’t hit Google’s coders — it’ll hit the electricians, nurses, teachers, retirees, renters, and low-income families who never got a penny from the boom.
Trump has attacked the American Way and Congress MUST proceed with investigations and impeachment; rightwingers on SCOTUS notwithstanding, no one is above the law in a functioning democracy.
Neuroscience gives us one more warning. Losing power can feel like withdrawal. We're seeing this now as Donald Trump thrashes about, losing his grip on his party and his followers.
He’s tested every limit of decency and democracy, and every time he does the GOP bends a little lower. At this point, the question isn’t just about Trump’s crimes; it’s about their complicity.
Trump’s white supremacist loyalists are rewriting history, erasing Black heroes, and purging diversity, and the politicians who stay silent are complicit in that treason.
Trump's $2,000 “dividend” plan may be the boldest attempt yet to turn democracy into a cash-for-votes transaction.
Behind the rhetoric about ‘lazy freeloaders’ lies a stunning truth: America’s largest corporations depend on food stamps to prop up their low-wage empires.
“Healthcare for All” isn’t a slogan: it’s a test of who we are as a nation. It asks whether we believe in shared humanity over corporate profit, and whether our politics can still serve the living instead of the lobbyists.
The strongman act is cracking, but as the cops, the crowds, and even the cult start to walk away, is this finally the moment his empire begins to fall?
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