"This is the most beautiful political ad I've ever seen."
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:I saw Bernie Sanders new ad on the front page of the New York Times this morning. I’ve been involved in politics all my adult life, since 1968, and I am a Sanders...
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Sentiment Over Substance: How Presidential Candidates Talk About Addiction...
It happened at the beginning of the New Hampshire Forum on Addiction and the Heroin Epidemic, well before the 5 mid-card presidential candidates who participated in the event showed up to speak. About...
View ArticleRevolution Means Turning People Around
As a political scientist who focused on political change movements and revolutions and who not only studied socialism in its various forms but also evaluated history and politics from a socialist...
View ArticleWhat We Don't Think About Regarding Trump
Donald Trump is not going to be President.Even if elected. He would love it. Imagine: the first person ever elected to the highest office in the land... and he turns it down. The Biggest Mic-Drop...
View ArticleA Political Revolution IS the Pragmatic Course When the System is Rigged
By definition, a rigged system predetermines certain outcomes, that's what “rigging” means. The near constant and massive transfer of wealth from the middle and working classes to the wealthiest one...
View ArticleA new slogan for Bernie
This is something I have been thinking about since I read a review of the first Democratic debate some months ago. I was struck by the observation that Bernie Sanders did not address any of the other...
View ArticleA CHRISTIAN PRESIDENT CRUZ COULD END THE REPUBLIC
A CHRISTIAN PRESIDENT CRUZ COULD END THE REPUBLICSnake Plissken: Got a smoke?Malloy: The United States is a non-smoking country. No smoking. No drinking, no drugs. No moral crimes. No women — unless...
View ArticleHillary Clinton: The Ultimate Establishment Candidate
While she insists she stands for the "common man"-and even more so, for the down-trodden among us, specifically those that suffer from the negative effects of racism, sexism, and various other forms of...
View ArticleThe Political Naivety of Millennials
Naivety. It's a theme usually slipped between the lines by surrogates for Hillary Clinton, trying to explain why millennial voters so strongly back Senator Bernie Sanders over the former Secretary of...
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Yesterday, the End of an Era
With all the foofrah about what did or did not happen in Nevada yesterday, I think we’re missing something important…Jeb Bush dropped out of the race.Bye, FeliciaAnd, while you can say that it was...
View ArticleElon NC Poll Finds Trump On Top Of Field, But Not Over Clinton And Sanders.
In a recent Elon University poll conducted in North Carolina finds that Republican registered voters and Independents favor Trump over all other candidates. The real estate mogul was favored by 28% of...
View ArticleGOTV 2016
I know it is kind of a given that Democrats turn out in Presidential years. But if there was ever, ever a year when turnout is crucial, it would be this one. And the low turnout in Nevada may be cause...
View ArticleIs Trump destroying his brand?
Throughout the campaign Donald Trump has insisted that his biggest asset is his own name. Having the Trump name on your product is supposedly worth millions. Will it still be worth millions after this...
View ArticleHillary is having a very bad weekend
Her comments about the Reagans having been leaders in opening up a public discussion on AIDS were inexcusable, but in some ways even worse; they were bizarre. As Dallasdoc pointed out in his extremely...
View ArticleOf Course I Still Support Bernie
Why wouldn't I? I believe in the man, I believe in his message. I remain thrilled with every opportunity he gets, as a Democratic candidate for President, to deliver his piercing indictment of the...
View ArticleThe Electorate's New Clothes
Once upon a time, there was an electorate that was so weary of big government, and taxes, and hand outs to immigrants, that they would rise up in blind anger whenever a tax dollar was spent on anything...
View ArticleTipping Point
Preface: I originally published this as a note in late January. Its focus was entirely on the Democratic Party. Now the focus is expanded to look at the Republican Party in the same contexts. More...
View ArticleNo More Mudslinging
I know the primary is getting tough for both Hillary and Bernie. They both have different reasons for starting to get a little “nervous.” Hillary wants to start focusing on the general election. Bernie...
View ArticleFellow Democrats: Let’s not ruin what should by All Accounts be a Landslide...
Fellow Democrats,I issue a call to stay united in cause and purpose and stand together to fight the real enemy –the Republicans.I am sure the vast majority of us agree that the Republican Party is...
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