Voices for Change

If this weren’t enough to convince rational people to do what most other advanced nations have done – create a single-payer system that insures everyone, funded by taxpayers – consider that America’s giant health insurers are now busily consolidating into ever-larger behemoths.

Welfare in the U.S. flows vertically in two directions from a single source—the middle-class. The redistribution of wealth that flows up to the rich is far greater and more concentrated than the wealth that flows down to the poor. This is a major problem.

It’s time to redefine disaster recovery.

We pretend that we are a fair and equal culture. And yet we let rampant greed take over.

Trumpism is death to fair elections, legitimate challenges, and the legal/judicial system that identified every crude, illegal attempt to game the system.

Thanks to its own greed, egotism, buffoonery, incompetence, and ruthlessness, the MAGA cult is already splitting apart, squandering its overweening power.

Not only are Californians struggling to make ends meet, they also have to contend with a governor who cares more about billionaires and his own presidential aspirations.

Tragically, Trump was right. Now all of us are paying the price.

The civic, patriotic and political language we use to describe ourselves remains unchanged. But the America we celebrate is an illusion.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offers progressives a mishmash of appealing statements, “free market” corporatism and assorted political toxins.