We can blame Trump for making this worse but real problem, as usual, is the nature of the power structure itself.
It is my hope that this article can provide some of the persuasion Mark Cuban (and others with similar concerns) will need to endorse a Federal Job Guarantee.
We should not expect representation from our government at this time. We must create justice ourselves in local politics, protests, and direct action.
Ayn Rand might be dead wrong, but that hasn’t stopped her ideas from having a profound effect in Congress.
“It’s not politicians that can solve problems. They have no technical capabilities. They don’t know how to solve problems. Even if they were sincere they
An entire lifetime ago, Martin Luther King Jr said that “True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
It’s time to catch up to where we were 80 years ago and recognize reality. Bernie’s ideas aren’t just possible – they’re a brilliant move economically and a moral imperative.
Now that the government is dishing out money over a healthcare crisis, the “ounce of prevention” that Medicare For All would provide is looking better and better than the “pound of cure” we’re currently employing. In fact, Nathan Locke notes that a Progressive system would ameliorate a gigantic portion of many other problems we’re having as well.
Until the election of 1852, everybody understood that only a Whig or a Democrat could be elected. The Whigs, however, were unable to find consensus on the issue of slavery; and their house, divided against itself, could not stand. A similar thing is happening now with the Democrats around the issue of oligarchy – and it might spell the end of the party.