Category: Progressive strategy
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Thoughts about political action in 2025
Here are some thoughts about responding the MAGA assault to come this year. Your thoughts? Please post in comments. Respond to specific injustices as they arise. Of course. Remember how people shut down airports when the Muslim travel ban was announced last time? A rapid, forceful response that could not…
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Manufactured fascism
I’ve been reading too many post-election analyses that point fingers in all the wrong directions and completely miss the elephant in the room. The problem is not what Harris did or didn’t do in her campaign or whether some different choices could have moved the vote a point or two…
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Pacific states are not like the others
A lot of us are struggling with the reality that a voting majority just voted for a fascist to run the country. This time everyone knew exactly what and who they were voting for and did it anyway. It boggles the mind and torments the soul. Raises the question: How…
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Declarations of Independence and Interdependence
When in the course of human events certain social constructs outgrow their original purposes, and instead serve to undermine the public good in myriad ways, it becomes necessary for natural people to reclaim their power usurped by such constructs. Corporations were originally created to enable various types of large-scale, collective…
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Bad blogger! Good uprising! Catching up on a year’s worth of events
Dear reader (hello? anyone still there?), I warned you that this would be “slow blogging,” but I never intended for my blog to go dark for more than a year. In the immortal words of Rick Perry, “Oops!” I feel especially remiss since, in my postings right after the 2010…
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Hot buttons of progressive populism
Of course there is a class war, but it’s my class, the rich class, that is waging the war, and we’re winning. —Warren Buffett, third richest man in the world A couple days after the midterm elections I wrote about reasons to get mad over the growing influence of Big…
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