“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven” – Ecclesiastes 3:1 The season for protests is over. The season for get out the vote (GOTV) is now. Early voting starts in mid-September in several states. Donald Trump is running Richard Nixon’s and George Wallace’s racist 1968 “law … Read more
It was 15 years ago this week that Hurricane Katrina was devastating Louisiana. When the levees broke in New Orleans, residents were trapped in their homes as the waters quickly rose. Many drowned. Over 1,200 residents died. On August 29, 2005, just as Hurricane Katrina was inundating New Orleans and much more of a 3-state … Read more
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” – 1984, by George Orwell I was struck by something the Washington … Read more
Never before in American history has one of the two major political parties in the United States been a personality cult built around a demagogic figure it reveres as a demigod and “Dear Leader,” similar to Kim Jong-un in North Korea. Donald Trump is now just like his love letters pal from North Korea. Republicans … Read more
There was an unmistakable theme in the Democratic National Convention this week in speeches by President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, Bernie Sanders, and by Joe Biden last night, a theme I have posted about previously. America’s descent into the darkness of ‘Trumpism,’ the new American fascism; (Update) America’s descent into the darkness of ‘Trumpism,’ … Read more