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Viruses like this Corona Virus can kill. Yet, in the world of politics there have been, for a long time now, those two other ones: The Lemming Virus and the Apathy virus. They only kill what is left of our Republican Democracy... which is not much at all!

Can America still follow its principles of liberty and equality but have a far broader set of free social services (education and healthcare like the fire and police departments)? I think that it can. And if it does, it will have the sort of society that we want – not an oligopoly or crony capitalist one.

In the U.S., where wealth inequality is extreme and getting worse, the richest .01 percent are wealth-obese.

Right-wing “foundations” across the country started spending the tens of millions they’d received from billionaires to bust unions.

Whatever the sport, the name of the game these days is the same: money.

“There are huge gaps in the way the federal government responds to tribes when a natural disaster occurs.”

Zinn believed the opposite, that teaching the unvarnished truth about history was the best way to combat propaganda and unexamined received wisdom.

Racism and violence as decoys.

The administration and its GOP allies are threatening these Americans with even greater hunger and privation.

Thanks to fake news and hyper partisanship, many of us can no longer distinguish facts from opinions – or lies.