Increasing Secrecy in Government Leads To Corruption And Autocracy
One of the features of our increasingly plutocratic and autocratic government is an equally increasing amount of secrecy in the basics...
Tagged: Politics
Tuesday's Results Expose The Anti-Democratic Effects Of Gerrymandering
The New York Times has a story describing the hurdles that gerrymandering and voter suppression will present to Democrats in the...
The Legal Standard As A Baseline For Behavior Corrupts Our Culture
There is no doubt we have become an increasingly litigious society over the last half century or more. Courts are now...
Despite Tuesday's Results, Trump And The GOP Continue To Destroy Our Country
It was only on Tuesday that it seemed like sanity was finally returning to our world. But we should know better....
The Party Of Pedophiles And Plutocrats
It has been an amazing few days for Republicans and the party has finally been exposed as it possibly never has...
Reaction To Roy Moore Will Fuel An Even Greater Backlash From Women Than We Saw On Tuesday
One of the biggest numbers coming out of Tuesday’s elections was just how enormous the gender gap has become. Educated women...
Democrats Know The Values The Party Stands For, But "Not Trump" Will Work For The Time Being
For the last two days, the punditocracy has been pounding away on the same theme about the Democratic wave that occurred...
Exposing The Global Plutocratic Class
What the Panama Papers first illustrated and now the Paradise Papers further reinforces is that there is a global plutocratic and...
A Few Thoughts On The Democratic Wave And The Repudiation Of Trumpism Last Night
It’s pretty clear that last night was a massive repudiation of Trump and the Republicans. Usually, off-off year elections like yesterday...
Election Day – Get Out And Vote
As Tom Perez said yesterday, there is no such thing as an off-year election. In fact, for the most part but...