You have been robbed

New research from the RAND Corporation shows what working Americans have suspected all along. From 1975 to 2020, the top 1% of Americans have stolen 50 trillion dollars from the aggregate annual incomes of the bottom 90% of Americans. Everyone in the United States today would be healthier, happier, and better educated if we had … Read more

Good news for anti-abortion voters!

Some people, especially people who consider themselves Christians, are essentially one-issue voters. They may have other concerns such as jobs, health care, and the education of their children, but this one issue, abortion, they consider to be so very serious that they will vote against their own best interests on other issues in order to … Read more

14 Signs of Fascism

If American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in strength in our land. Franklin Roosevelt Umberto Eco (1932 – 2016) was an Italian philosopher, cultural critic, novelist, and political and social commentator. He grew up … Read more

Stoking Fear and Conspiracy

The American public generally doesn’t really know what goes on at a Trump rally. Progressives dismiss them as circuses for lunatics. The mainstream media tend to report only on crowd size and the one most outrageous soundbite of the day. Old-style conservatives excuse the rallies as “just Trump being Trump.” Most people actually pay almost … Read more

Arrogant Ignorance

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. Attributed to various people A few months ago, this blog received the comment quoted below. As the administrator of my own WordPress blog site, I did not “approve” this comment to go online for … Read more