...where would you want to be dropped? Would you want to be dropped in another Texas where you would be neglected, abused, lied to and trafficked with impunity? Or would you rather find yourself among civilized and decent human beings who will empathize with your plight and try to help you the best they can?
The Republican Party is no longer the vehicle for the Conservative Movement. It is now the vanguard for American Fascism. This may be a divisive statement, but it is true, and it does need to be said.
...loan forgiveness falls short in that it is a one-time deal that may benefit students today, but leaves students tomorrow holding the magic growing bag of debt.
As it looks right now, the 2024 election will be the last real election in U.S. history. The Democratic Party will go the way of the Whigs or may, at best serve as a neutered opposition party that offers nothing more than a patina of democratic legitimacy.
The January 6th Committee will almost certainly not bring the satisfaction that we are hoping for. It is an act of setting the record straight for history. Maybe our children or grandchildren will be able to benefit from it.
Our political talking heads wrapping their motives in the flag and lauding democracy while acting to either undermine or disregard the Demos creates an Orwell in Wonderland disassociation between the real and ideal world.
They're not stupid. They are not being duped. They are not the victims of FoxNoise misinformation. They are Fascists. We need to recognize them as such.
It's a simple rubric. If you're at a rally and the guy to your right is waving a Swastika flag, and the fella to your left is issuing a Nazi salute, extending an arm covered in SS tattoos, then you are at a Nazi rally. And if you remain at that rally, you my friend, are a Nazi.
We need a vaccine against the viral frames promoted by corporate interests in both parties.
a category based on the absence of an attribute, in this case empirical reason, is often a weak explainer. If reason and evidence isn't motivating this movement, then what is? Dismissing this particular end of the "basket of deplorables" as idiots doesn't offer a satisfactory explanation of the phenomenon. Nor does it offer an opportunity to reach out to this group and maybe change their minds. There must be a better way to describe this phenomenon.
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