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Technological independence and repudiating “free trade” are key A technological arms race is underway right now between China, the United States and Western Europe. The stakes include military superiority, economic prosperity, and the status of being the political and economic system the world wants to emulate. China’s most urgent priority is to become independent of American technology, as Fareed Zakaria highlighted on his January 24th CNN show.

If Dems don’t figure this out soon 2022 is a loss In politics, framing is everything, and Democrats must get with the program or 2022 will be a disaster. Framing is when you define an issue by placing it within a particular context, usually done by careful choice of language.

It’s about time the last one, Trump, is held accountable Trump’s impeachment trial is coming up in the Senate, and already his allies are trying to throw up procedural roadblocks to exhaust the effort to hold him accountable. Should America “move beyond” Trump? No friggin’ way. It’s time to stop giving criminal Republican presidents a pass. Every GOP president since Dwight Eisenhower used treason or deception to come to office, and it needs to end. Here’s the story.

Other developed countries are doing all these things; we can, too Since the Reagan Revolution, America has been slowly dying. Democrats must focus like a laser on three things to breathe new life into our country. They are Education, Healthcare, and a Green New Deal.

Grifter Trump stole Trumpism, just like everything else in his life The king is dead; long live the [new] king.* With today’s transfer of power in Washington, DC, Trump isn’t dead, but the best hope for the future of America and the world is that his political movement does, in fact, die an ignominious death. Trump, of course, didn’t create Trumpism; like pretty much everything else in his life, he stole it.

Joe Biden must “pack the court” Thanks to Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell, the Supreme Court has become a menace, and only Congress and President Biden can fix it.

The media and brave politicians hold the key The media must explode this generation’s Big Lie. If they continue to fail to do so, the political crisis in America will slide from bad to worse, more blood will be shed, and our republic may never recover. In many ways, Trump is simply repeating the old fascist Big Lie playbook that, 80 years ago, brought the world to its knees.

Will our leaders and media have the courage to do it? If Trump isn’t exposed as a weakling fraud, our country dies. Battle lines are now drawn in neighborhoods, workplaces, and even families, as longtime relationships are torn apart over loyalty to America’s strongman fascist leader, Donald Trump.

It’s time to cut them off from the “free lunch” of tax exemption It’s time for average Americans to stop being forced to subsidize politically radical religious leaders. Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham and heir to the multimillion-dollar Graham fortune, just publicly said that the 10 Republicans voting to impeach Donald Trump and the US House of Representatives were like Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus.

If their true scam is admitted, the GOP could wander in the wilderness for two generations It seems inexplicable. A group of Americans invaded the US Capitol with a plan to kidnap and kill the Vice President and the Speaker of the House, hoping that would throw the Electoral College vote to the US House, where Republicans would declare Donald Trump the winner.