11 hours agoMember-onlyDo We Need to Fear Oligarchy? Part 3.The first day I reported for work at Walmart I had to choose between what the HR manager told me was a ‘front-end job,’ or a ‘rear-end job,’ A front-end job meant running a cash register, a read-end meant bringing goods out of the warehouse and stacking them on…Oligarchs6 min read
1 day agoMember-onlyDo We Need To Fear Oligarchs? Part 2.I have decided to extend this story beyond 2 posts. Part 3 tomorrow. Worse than promoting an analysis about the so-called wage ‘gap’ which hides more than it explains, Reich is using that argument to go beyond economics and make a political argument which is also not only half…Oligarchs5 min read
2 days agoMember-onlyDo We Need To Fear Oligarchs?This is a two-part story. The second part will be posted tomorrow. Back at some point in the mid-1980’s I happened to be seated next to the CEO of Home Depot, which had just been cited in the business media as the fastest-growing big-box chain selling home fix-it supplies and appliances. This was the time when chain stores were replacing small, independent…Oligarchs5 min read
3 days agoMember-onlyDoes Trump Really Believe Election ‘Fraud?’Lately, it seems like the only person who still believes that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump is Donald Trump. So, the question we have to ask is this: Did Trump ever really believe that there was election ‘fraud?’ Let’s remember that the idea of a stolen election was…Trump3 min read
4 days agoMember-onlyWant to Overthrow the Government? Buy an AR-15.See this putz in the picture? He was standing outside the Michigan State Capitol building protesting something or other last year. Why did he have two assault rifles strapped to his chest plus what appears to be a small Ruger LC9 pistol in his right hand? Because in Michigan the…Assault Rifle4 min read
5 days agoMember-onlyIs Trump Still a Threat?Just for the sake of argument, let’s pretend that somehow Trump’s gang of fools had been able to overturn the election results on January 6th and he was sworn in again and was now midway through his second term. I’m conducting this fanciful exercise because last night we ate dinner…Trump4 min read
6 days agoMember-onlyWhat Do We Do About the Undecided Vote?So, with 6 weeks to go until la-la land, how do you run as a GOP candidate and avoid talking about Trump? Because it’s clear to me that what GOP candidates in swing districts have to do is move those 4–5% of the voters who could go either way to…Polls4 min read
Sep 25Member-onlyWhat To Do About Immigrants? Let Them All In.I have just turned off the second segment of Ken Burns’ documentary on America and the Holocaust because it was too depressing to see newsreels of public meetings in America during the 1930’s where speaker after speaker got up and exhorted the audience to fight against letting Jews from…Immigrants4 min read
Sep 25Member-onlyHow Come the Mid-Terms Are So Close?Either the polls are crazy, or the voters are crazy, or maybe a little of both. Yesterday the latest ABC — WaPo poll shows that a clear majority of registered Democrats — 56 percent — want their party to dump Joe in 2024 and choose someone else. They claim he’s…Elections4 min read
Sep 24Member-onlyWhat Happened to MAGA?So, whatever happened to MAGA? Wasn’t it supposed to be this enormous national movement that was going to make America ‘great’ again? Wasn’t it supposed to transform the Republican Party from a bunch of RINOs into an effective fighting force that would tear through the mid-term elections and then…Maga4 min read
