2021 Archives

The Senate Trial: Will support for an unrepentant traitor be the final straw? In the last half of the 1700s and early half of the 1800s, American conservatives promoted and clung to slavery; they even fought a Civil War to preserve it. Throughout the second half of the 1800s and into the first half of the 20th century, American conservatives fought to keep racial segregation and to stop the rise of labor unions, all on behalf of the “billionaires” of their era, popularly called the Robber Barons.

For justice to prevail, even a “chosen one” who encouraged attacks on America must be held to account He lied to his followers for years. He told them he was chosen by God to lead them, and that they were the only “true” believers; everybody else was okay with abortion, homosexuality, and was weak-kneed about the Bible’s call for a vengeance that mandates the death penalty. He reveled, in fact, in his ability to use the death penalty.

“Conservatives” don’t want a discussion of the commons because they want to plunder it for private gain It’s almost entirely absent from our political dialogue, but the issue of who owns the commons and how they’re to be used (and by whom) is at the core of almost all the major debates between Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, and even those advocating democracy versus those trying to install oligarchy.

The GOP is at a crossroads & their crisis threatens the American experiment Ever since Nixon took over the Republican Party in the 1960s, they’ve had to add fringe group after fringe group to get enough voters to win elections. Today, their Marjorie Taylor Green dilemma shows the severity of Nixon’s party’s crisis. The direction they choose to go heading forward — embracing or rejecting treason, violence, conspiracy theories and open racism and antisemitism — may well determine the fate of the American experiment.