Posts tagged “Politics”
Music for the Revolution
You’ll probably want the subtitles.
My self care is reading politicians’ bad press releases and bitching about them
Hey, I care about you and the world we live in. Here’s some of how I expressed that this week: Let Chuck Schumer know he needs to take a page from the Tea Party book and engage in some serious obstructionism wrt Trump’s dangerous and dangerously ignorant cabinet picks. Told my senators to get on […]
My self care is bad for congressional staffers
Waking up and reading the news makes me feel pretty bad. I’ve been dealing with that on and off through the years by writing letters to my elected officials. I don’t know that any of them every made a difference, but it does make me feel better. Lately, it seems like a lot of people […]
The Supermanagerial Reich – Los Angeles Review of Books
While there is much gnashing of teeth over our own, cartoonish Hitler wannabe, too many political actors seem more than willing to turn their heads away from our own Supermanagerial Reich. Like mid-1930s Germans, too many are quite simply comfortable with the rolling slow-motion horror that has been neoliberalism. They view the Trumps and the […]
Democrats, Trump, and the Ongoing, Dangerous Refusal to Learn the Lesson of Brexit
People often talk about “racism/sexism/xenophobia” vs. “economic suffering” as if they are totally distinct dichotomies. Of course there are substantial elements of both in Trump’s voting base, but the two categories are inextricably linked: The more economic suffering people endure, the angrier and more bitter they get, the easier it is to direct their anger […]
When I told you so feels like sobbing terror vomit
It’s possible to argue that electability should not be the primary factor. That’s certainly reasonable: Elections often are and should be about aspirations, ideology, and opinion-changing leaders. But given the lurking possibility of a Trump presidency, is now really the time to gamble on such a risky general election candidate as Hillary Clinton? Source: With […]
A vote for a third party candidate isn’t always a vote for Trump
Lots of people are yelling about how if you don’t vote for Clinton you may as well be voting for the Trump monster. Because of the wonders of the electoral college, that’s not true in many states. If you’re a lefty who lives in a solid red state where Clinton can’t win, vote for whoever […]