Where is our movement to get voters voter ID's?
I posted this idea before, it gets recs, and then I haven’t heard a peep in a long time.Tonight’s diary on Harper’s index mentions how in the states that swung the election, many multiples of the...
View ArticleWealthy political activists get away with murder at fighting democracy...
Among all groups, including ours, the issue of the behavior of wealthy, right-wing political activism is viewed as a legitimate participation in democracy, when it is war on democracy.Basically, the...
View ArticleLet's Make America Great Again
trump stole the phrase. He wants to to do the opposite. But people like the phrase. Why?Let’s Make America Great Again. By restoring progressive values.You might have already seen the following, the...
View Articletrump, the canary
A lesson to learn from trump not enough identified is: The danger as we move from democracy to corporatocracy.How bad he is, is a reminder of how dangerous having huge concentrated power able to lord...
View ArticleCan we just change the name of the Democratic Party to the Healing Party?
Really, that’s the Democratic Party is, isn’t it? At the national level — Republicans give us the Great Depression, Democratic fix it.There’s an invasive threat from the Axis in WWII — Democrats fix...
View ArticleDuring a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is an act of revolution.
Is there a better description of the trump political strategy than universal deceit?I was reading a poster today who mentioned that if trump can keep people convinced that he cares for them, he can do...
View ArticleAbout healthcare
This is just a small diary to share, despite Amazon having terrible and abusive customer service policies regarding their forums, I have participated in the politics forum.It’s a bad environment...
View ArticleI have a simple meme for trump
I’d like a message for anti-trumpers to use to fight trump, winning over as many of his supporters as possible.I have one suggestion for one: “trump is not a good man.”It’s simple. It’s easy.It appeals...
View ArticleSo, our leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, supports illegal Israeli...
The UN security council voted a measure condemning the illegal settlements.The US has a history of using its veto to block any measure against Israel, but President Obama abstained on this measure...
View ArticleSomething critical about politics Bernie understands - and it's a lesson from...
That Bernie. All he talks about is the same issue, and a few aspects of it. Inequality, inequality, inequality. He’s like a broken record!In the late 1960’s, Ronald Reagan, having been a corporate...
View ArticleOne idea for what Democrats should be doing on healthcare now
Disclaimer: the right thing is Medicaire for All. We should do that under President Bernie. But he didn’t win and it’s not an option now. This is about what can be done.The simple approach is to simply...
View ArticleA useful political message: the vote is the people's weapon against the...
Sometimes I’m not sure about doing diary with ’useful political messages’— they take organized marketing campaigns and seem to not get a lot of recs. But I think it’s useful so let’s try this one.We...
View ArticleWhy can't we have a national project to create universal high speed internet...
We had a program to make mail available.We had a program to make electricity available.We had a program to make telephone service available.Now, now only is the internet a comparable public need to...
View ArticleIs there any excuse for Obama not pardoning or commuting Don Siegelman?
The story of Don Siegelman is a story of injustice and political corruption by Karl Rove.I won’t recount the story here — you can read it on free-don.org.But this political prisoner and former governor...
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Let's not forget issues, to oppose trump
There are a few simple points about Republicans including trump for us to make over and over during his presidency.They are things like how his policies are against the people and at odds with the lies...
View ArticleWow. The president-runnerup did a tweet I agree with.
I think this is the one issue of our time, and his tweet is right about it:What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. I...
View ArticleA media rant
If you’ll indulge a rant — if not, the title was fair warning.I am so disgusted by the large portion of the media that idiotically parrots simplistic blather.It might sound ‘neutral’, but it’s not —...
View ArticleWhat. The. Hell. A sentence not deserving to be buried in trump's CIA speech
In 1998 or 1999, George W. Bush, planning to run for president, candidly told a reporter he wanted to be a war president, because war presidents have a large boost to their support and power.Unstated,...
View ArticleCan we try not to refer to tiny hands much?
There’s a PR technique of the phony self-deprecating issue that helps endear a figure.For JFK, it was his Boston accent (a comedy album based on it was a bestseller).For Bush, one was his seemingly...
View ArticleWhy Democrats need to get progressive now
Democrats have a long history of struggling to win the presidency without a backlash to Republicans.FDR was elected from the Great Depression.Wealthy, war hero, good looking and speaking, Pulitzer...
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