Sustaining a Revolution

          At this moment, all across America, there is a revolution going on. If you don’t believe it, just ask anyone wearing a hat, shirt or button bearing the name Bernie Sanders. What they’re calling a revolution is really more like a revolt against the super-rich who call the shots in America’s version of democracy, which is really nothing of the sort. At worst, America is a fascist nation; at best, it operates under a sort of pseudo-socialism where the middle class supports the poor and the rich bear no responsibility...

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Trumping the Republican Agenda

For the past decade or so the Republican Party has been working hard to procure permanent Republican districts all around the United States. No, they haven’t been doing it in the traditional way, which involves listening to constituents, educating them on the tough issues and thereby gaining their trust and their votes. Instead Republicans have been gerrymandering districts to slice up blue areas and lump them in with predominantly red areas, and when that hasn’t worked they have targeted demographics that typically vote Democratic and made it...

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