Tag: democracy

The political destruction of Trump who, as a candidate for president is the greatest insult to our democracy and our Constitution and to the U.S. court system that has constantly bent to him and given him one free pass after another.

Such is the pernicious price of pursuing a vision that insists on global reach, global power, and global dominance.

A robust political press should be trusted to both accurately report the facts and hold politicians from both sides to the same standard.

The mainstream media likewise cannot grasp the relationship of mass anger to capitalism.

Democracy is about “one person, one vote”—the notion that we all have an equal say in the decisions that affect us. That is not what we have now.

Vote.org registers over 100,000 new voters as GOP legislators introduce stringent voting laws.

As the wealthiest 1 percent amass unprecedented riches, inequality deepens, posing a dire threat to democracy and the planet, urging a reevaluation of global tax policies.

Have a we entered a deeply bump-stocked defeat culture?

Ideally this can be resolved by the Democrats engaging in focused strategic and tactical consideration with one over-riding goal: How to retain the White House and Senate and win back the House.

The right’s ferocious war on the Constitution has now super-powered the executive, leaving Congress, the judiciary, regulators, and ordinary, law-abiding citizens in the lurch.