A Picture of American Power
It’s Also American Power. How is this line of Russian tanks that have been destroyed a picture of “American” power? Certainly the counter-offensive in Southern Ukraine that allowed the Ukrainians to retake Kherson puts an exclamation point on the courage, effectiveness, and brilliance of the Ukrainians in combatting the Russian invasion. And that’s certainly theContinue reading “A Picture of American Power”
The Crisis of Western Civilization?
I don’t know whether right-wing talk radio guy Jesse Kelly is punitive, authoritarian, or a Trump/DeSantis fascist. Maybe he’s all three. But Kelly’s certainly worked up about the attack on the Berlin airport by the climate group “Last Generation.” Perhaps Kelly was already wound up about the attacks by climate activists on Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”Continue reading “The Crisis of Western Civilization?”
Trump and What Musk Needs to Do
Getting down to basics. When Elon Musk unbanned Donald Trump from Twitter, he offered Trump an extremely valuable in kind donation to Trump’s 2024 primary battle against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. It’s a big deal. DeSantis won big in the Nov. 8 mid-terms beating his Democratic rival Charlie Crist by almost 20% and leading FloridaContinue reading “Trump and What Musk Needs to Do”
Locking in Big Changes: the 2022 American Mid-terms
John Stoehr of the Editorial Board believes that the Dem will overthrow “the political order of the last 40 years” if they can hold the House of Representatives after all 2022 votes are counted. Of course, a big win for Biden and the Democrats has been unfolding and the consequences of the Dems expanding theirContinue reading “Locking in Big Changes: the 2022 American Mid-terms”
Democrats Blowing Out the Insurrectionists
Society vs Backlash. America has been destabilized by two broad and related developments, the evolution of a multicultural, socially liberal mainstream and a bitter backlash among white conservative best seen in terms of permanent insurrection. Politically, the Democrats are the party of multicultural mainstream America and indeed the civil rights, diversity politics of the DemocratsContinue reading “Democrats Blowing Out the Insurrectionists”
Today’s Election
The Election: Today is the mid-term election for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives with elections for Governors and other state officials all over the country as well as local elections for mayors, sheriffs, county officials, city councils, judges, and a deluge of special voting districts on the local level. In my state ofContinue reading “Today’s Election”
Kanye, the Mainstream, and “The People”
After being dropped by Adidas, Kanye West (hereafter “Ye”) responded with a post on Parler: “I lost 2 billion dollars in one day and I’m still alive. This is love speech. I still love you. God still loves you. The money is not who I am. The people is who I am.” Like others inContinue reading “Kanye, the Mainstream, and “The People””
An Incident of Virulent Racism
On Monday, this video of a blonde white woman doing two minutes of racist ranting appeared on twitter. It’s ugly, bigoted stuff and I have a hard time imagining that it was not emotionally harmful to many of the black people sitting in the same subway care or seeing the tirade on twitter. That’s theContinue reading “An Incident of Virulent Racism”
Democrats, Mike Pence, and the “Hang Mike Pence” Party
1. Mike and the Hang Mike Pence Party. @Mike_Pence, Oct. 19 Freedom is under attack! Having served many years in Washington, leaders in this Nation’s capital have never been more out of touch, more intent on imposing their agenda or walking out on people who don’t have the same point of view. Mike Pence, OctContinue reading “Democrats, Mike Pence, and the “Hang Mike Pence” Party”
In Praise of Democrats
Contemporary Democrats are as admirable a political party as ever existed in the U.S. Animated by a civil rights ethic, the Democrats have been a multicultural coalition for decades and have expanded their horizon to include defending, appreciating, and promoting the interests of the whole range of LGBT folks, Hispanics, Jews, Muslims, Native Americans, theContinue reading “In Praise of Democrats”
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