Open Democracy: An Alternative to Campaign Finance Reform
I do not believe I know a single person who does not believe that our political system has been bought, paid for, and corrupted by the competing moneyed interests in this country.I know I certainly...
View ArticleThe Liberal Alternative to the Fair Tax
The right wing think tanks regularly pump out ideas for tax proposals which on the surface sound appealing to the majority of Americans who loathe seeing as much as fifty percent of their paycheck...
View ArticleHow the Clinton Presidency Made Baltimore Worse
In May of 2009, Harvard University researchers Devah Pager, Bruce Western, and Naomie Sugie released the results of a large scale field experiment conducted in New York City about the effects of race...
View ArticleWinning Rural America as a Proud Socialist
With deference and thanks to Lawrence O'Donnell, the term "liberal" has lost a considerable amount of the tarnish it has worn as a political label in recent history, in no small part because of "the...
View ArticleThey Can Buy Elections, But They Can't Buy Him
I don't know why, but I think some variation on the title of this article should be the slogan for Senator Sanders' Presidential run. Maybe I think that because nobody who says what he does in the...
View ArticleThat Leader They Kept Asking Occupy About...
Tipping points are funny things. People don't always see them. Sometimes people don't even realize that they happened a long time ago.The conventional story is that Occupy Wall Street was a bunch of...
View ArticleThe Perspective of a Country Boy on Democrats
I grew up in a town with a population of less than 100 people. I have lived in small towns in Idaho, Illinois, North Carolina, and New York, and spent enough times in small towns in Pennsylvania to...
View ArticleA Country Boy's Plan to Revive America's Poorest Communities
It might be hard for some to believe, but the truth of the matter is that the same food deserts that are regularly reported about in America's inner cities face small towns in America where food is...
View ArticleThe Greed of the Me Generation Could Save Us All
It is not an issue many people are talking about, but it is the issue that has caused the continued decline of our nation since the early 1980s.A large segment of the Baby Boomers refused to go to...
View ArticleSanders/Feingold 2016
I really just wanted to give the liberals, progressives, leftists, and commie pinkos amongst us something to smile about on this lovely Saturday afternoon.But there is a reason I'm suggesting it.If I...
View ArticleAm I the Only Person Whose Sense of Humor
Relishes the thought of the Democratic Party being able to proudly state, especially in the American South, that we want to put a Jewish carpenter in the White House, should Senator Sanders become the...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Reading IRS Tax Data
I don't know if you have ever had reason to read IRS tax data, but I occassionally do so from time to time because I like to know A) where the government's revenue comes from, and B) whether or not the...
View ArticleIn a Two Person Race
Hillary Clinton is in trouble.Bernie's record shows he was right on A) the changes in banking laws that caused the debacle in 2008 on Wall Street - he voted against Gramm-Leach-Blillely and the...
View ArticleWe Need Your Young Educated and Unemployed
Are you 25 or older?Are you an American citizen?Have you been an American citizen for 7 years or longer?Do you have a college degree?Are you unemployed or massively underemployed?Have you been screwed...
View ArticleGoldwater or King?
They say that people change.I do not believe that is the truth.People rarely change who they are at their core.If they do, it in my experience, is typically as the result of some life alteringly tragic...
View ArticleA Civil Rights Comparison
In 1963 Bernie Sanders was at the National Mall when Martin Luther King, Jr. shared his dream.In 1964, Hillary Clinton supported Barry Goldwater's Presidential Campaign. Senator Goldwater created the...
View ArticleDefeating Capitalist Greed With Capitalist Greed
The strongest force for combating capitalist greed is capitalist greed.Wall Street really wants Social Security money invested in the stock market.We need to give them their wish, but we need to add a...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Doesn't Go Far Enough
The biggest problem facing this country is money in politics, but the root cause of that problem is not capitalist billionaires using their money to get what they want, rather the fact that they have...
View ArticleWhy Liberals Used to Win and Why Conservatives Do Now
Reasonable people are baffled by victories achieved by Conservative politicians whose policies generally hurt the masses, and enrich the privileged few.They can not understand how they achieve...
View ArticleI'm Mad as Hell and I Don't Think I'm Gonna Take it Anymore
So in 2002 I was angry. The country was torturing people and holding people without trial and invading a second country in pursuit of criminals rather than pursuing them through the Justice system....
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