NEW:
R.I.P. American Democracy.
The winner of the upcoming
Presidential election will be the candidate preferred by the
oligarchy the one-percent of the one-percent who
effectively own the Congress, the Courts, the Media, half of
the nations private wealth, and the machines and software
that count and compile the votes. This apparently means that
Mitt Romney will be the next President, for he is one of the
oligarchs. The preference of the American voters is
quite irrelevant.
REPRISE:
"Shut Up!" -- They Explain. Those of us who suspect that the
2004 election was stolen (a.k.a. conspiracy
nuts), have presented an impressive array of evidence statistical,
anecdotal and circumstantial to support our claims. In response to this we
have been provided scant rebuttal evidence. Instead, we have been
ridiculed, vilified, and, most damaging of all, ignored
REPRISE:
Romney, Mormonism, and "The Religious Test." The
leaders of the Latter-Day Saint Church in Salt Lake City may be
finding the candidacy of Mitt Romney to be a mixed blessing.
Which leads one to wonder if a candidate's religious conviction
should always be totally "out of bounds" in considering his or
her qualifications for public office.
Conscience of a Progressive.
A Book in Progress
NEW:
An Activist Chooses to be Active.
What should progressives do in the
short-term? Support Obama over the oligarchical forces
represented by Rmoney. In the long-term? Work toward the
establishment of a new party dedicated to lib/rad/progressive
policies.
REPRISE:
WTF?: A Letter to Appalled and Puzzled European
Friends. This
piece, written just prior to the 2010 election, lays out the
history of the extreme rightwing resurgence in the U.S., and
what the Left needs to do to get back in the fight. (First
published Oct. 20, 2010)
