Many have searched for reasons to explain Elon Musk’s departure from seemingly sane politics to a radical, even bizarre, personal, and financial support of the most unfit and unhinged candidate to ever infect politics, Donald Trump. For such an influential billionaire spending hundreds of millions of dollars for a…
An aggressive masculinity, one repressive toward women, has always been imbedded in America’s culture, from its Anglo-Saxon puritanical beginnings to the now hostile sexism of the Trump-Vance political ticket. In our more modern world, the drumbeat of sexism and the hum of male-dominance has been drilled into commerce &…
Political leaders, with the notable exception of most Republicans, focus on the major problems our nation faces. One of the biggest is climate change. It constitutes reason and science with attacks on climate change & new technology—Most Americans have no idea about the giant impact on green energy that…
We should inform ourselves about the many consequences of having almost total functional failure in the US Congress. If you are not aware, the main cause of this failure is the Republican Party. No member of this party either functions as a real representative of the people’s interest or…
Tucker Carlson said President Joe Biden has aligned himself with sentiments of “The Great Replacement,” which he explained as “the replacement of legacy Americans with more obedient people from far away countries. They brag about it all the time, but if you dare to say it’s happening, they will…
Charles Dickens also lived in an era when elite forces ruled, for us the corporate elite. Upheaval in France had brought excesses on both sides. First “Let them eat cake” is a familiar sentiment of the exploitive rich in late 1700 France, a quote usually attributed to an arrogant…
We might say that the fabric of American society is unraveling, the victim of a desperate Trump whose psychopathy thrives on stoking violence, chaos and division, monopolizing the media, posing as the ultimate authority, and being adulated by his base. His first goal can be disbursed among 940 hate…
Republicans are growing so perverse in disenfranchising non-white voters that progressive Americans may be left with either accepting their perverse, even criminal, methods or use some form of force to assure the fairness of the 2020 presidential election. Republican electoral victories are dependent on gaming the election system, with…