Monday, October 12, 2020

Sunday, October 11, 2020

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

The American Tragedy




The downward slide to Donald Trump began in 1980 with the election of Ronald Reagan to the highest office in the land. Every U.S. President, Republican and Democrat, has accepted the post-Reagan paradigm and, in his own way, has operated within it. No post-Reagan President has attempted to bring an end to the right-wing revanchement that Reagan inaugurated. Unless and until the American people are able to muster the political will to re-trace the steps of two generations of Chief Executives (Reagan-Bush I-Clinton-Bush II-Obama-Trump) and reverse the damage done at each step, the American tragedy will continue to unfold.

Saturday, July 25, 2020

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Here It Comes: More Of The Same




If Liberals think COVID-19 is the end of the Trump era, well, you can add that to the list of their many self-delusions. The Evangelical Christian Apocalypticists who support him undoubtedly see this epidemic as a sign of the End Times and they want their man in office to shake hands with Jesus when he returns (DT and JC won't be observing social distancing). But Trump's base isn't only composed of the obvious crazies. Despite decades of bluffing, the American public suffers from deep anxieties about the kind of society we have created and the disconnect between that and the American Dream we are sold through advertising, films, and other media. Those anxieties are being expressed in a variety of counter-productive ways--not just the hoarding of toilet paper and canned goods, etc. Many ordinary "salt of the earth" Americans look to Trump to reassure them that the "American Way" is as good as it gets. Even the Democratic Party's rejection of Sanders's Canadian brand of "socialism" is symptomatic: Liberals cannot possibly admit that any other way of life is right for us, even if that way of life is killing us. So they'll go with Trump-Lite, thinking that somehow that is going to change things. If Biden wins in November (assuming he is the Democratic Party nominee), the reality (which will not sink in until the Liberals's euphoria wears off around 2022) will be this: Biden's first term will have turned out to be, in effect, Trump's second. The style will be different, but the results will be similar.

Friday, March 13, 2020

The Democratic Party




The Democratic Party, no less than its Republican counterpart, is a party of reaction. Progressivism will never be its goal and rarely the result of its activities.

From time to time, under social pressure from below, the Democrats will enact piecemeal positive legislation designed to relieve that pressure by mollifying those injured in the class struggle. But then they and their Republican allies will begin the slow but steady revanchement, reversing the gains made by the proletariat through the previous concessions.



Angry entitled Joe.

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

What Should We Conclude From This?




That some Trump supporters favor hereditary monarchy?



Friday, February 28, 2020

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Sunday, February 2, 2020

Crunch Time




Trump is very bad for the U.S. and the world, but the worst is yet to come. There is no time like the present for the Democratic Party to reinvent itself in the image of Bernie and AOC. If it does so, we won't have to look back at the Trump Presidency and say, with astonishment, "Gosh, we never knew it could get worse." It can. And if the DNC successfully undermines Sanders (again), this time in favor of its latest crown prince (Joe Biden), the Democrats will have no one to blame but themselves for the outcome. Win or lose, Biden promises only more of the same: government by Wall Street and the Pentagon. We don't need a mere difference of degree in our politics. We need a difference of kind. Steer the ship of state to port, or be prepared to man the life-boats. It's crunch time.


Tuesday, January 28, 2020