282) Domestic Terrorism -- Part 1: MAGA
MAGA is a domestic terror movement. And the institutions in support of MAGA policies, financing, messaging, and influential leaders, including the White House, are terrorist organizations.
280) Let's be up-front about the cultural roots of MAGA. And then fix them.
Who is Trump’s base? The data is already in. WHITE MEN WITHOUT COLLEGE DEGREES are Trump’s base….
273) Criminals gonna criminal: So why do we keep giving them power over us?
As a society, we really need to talk about the safeguards around who is eligible to be elected to lead a country. And not just talk. We need to PASS LAWS that prevent criminals from gaining power over democratic governments. Cuz we sure as hell are seeing how THAT turns out.
267) Day 35, Reason #35 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: We do not understand what is going on
A key reason to revolt against Predatory Capitalism is that we, the public, the ones who are SUPPOSED to ultimately be in control of our democracy, don’t know what the hell is going on. This is a direct result of many things, especially the Manufacturing Consent problem and the politic-speak problem described in recent posts of mine.
263) Day 31 -- Reason #31 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Manufacturing Consent, Part 3 -- We are in the fight for our lives.
Progressive ideals, of socialism and community, feminism and human rights, gender and cultural diversity, have become, like communism in the 1950s and “radical Islam” of the 2000s’ War on Terror, key targets for attack by the Powerful, in order to quell dissent and control the population.
262) Day 30 -- Reason #30 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Manufacturing Consent, Part 2 -- Freedom Convoy
It turned out that the good ol’ patriotic Freedom Convoy wasn’t what it said it was. Sure, many people in the country and in the convoy didn’t realize that, but they, we, had all been duped. The Freedom Convoy wasn’t a citizens’ movement. It was a scam, an extremist campaign, a well-funded propaganda megaphone for the extreme-right-wing…
257) Day 25 -- Reason #25 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Civil Rights and the Fight for Freedom
So yes, let’s use the connections we have to resist what’s happening. It’s almost 1939 now. We do not want to repeat that history. Remember all the deaths? Remember all the ceremonies we’ve had, our whole lives, honouring those sacrifices?
There has to be a way through this, together. And we HAVE TO stop being complacent.
255) Day 23 -- Reason #23 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Political Corruption, Part 5 -- Trump's Inauguration Guests
Speaking of promoting fascism, also in attendance were four of the very most influential right-wing megaphones out there — Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, Charlie Kirk, and surprise surprise, grifter-extraordinaire and huckster of right-wing bullshit wrapped up in flimsy intellectual-speak, Jordan Peterson. What better way to keep the MAGAs in awe than by inviting four of their key prophets?
253) Day 21 -- Reason #21 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Political Corruption, Part 4 -- Trump's Even-Crazier Picks for his Administration
And this is all I have to say, currently, about Trump’s incoming Administration (unless they are stopped, which, so far, doesn’t seem to be the case). If this isn’t a red-flag factory that reeks of corruption, then literally nothing is.
251) Day 19 -- Reason #19 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Political Corruption, Part 3 -- Trump's Nominees for Top Positions
Is Trump really building a Presidential Team to make the United States enter some Age of Greatness? Or is Trump becoming, quite simply, a dictator, seeking to reshape the world in his self-perceived image? Is this to be America’s Golden Age? Or the American Reich?
250) Day 18 -- Reason #18 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Political Corruption, Part 2: Matt Gaetz
It seems very telling that this is the one man Trump thought was Best In The Country, to give him legal advice.
And in terms of Predatory Capitalism, it is crystal clear that only in a system owned by the ultra-wealthy, would someone like Matt Gaetz EVER get close to one of the most powerful positions in the country. Indeed, Competence, not to mention moral integrity, doesn’t seem to be all that important.
249) Day 17 -- Reason #17 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Political corruption, Part 1
A man is known by the company he keeps. — Aesop
246) Day 14 -- Reason #14 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Let's talk about Slavery in North America in the 21st century
Except, oh fuck, slavery never really ended. The cotton-plantation version of it that we’ve seen in movies, did end, sort of. But what really happened to slavery is that it EVOLVED. It metamorphosed into something that doesn’t sound like slavery any more, but still is. It got re-branded.
245) Day 13 -- Reason #13 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: "53 days"
Using ENTIRELY CONSTITUTIONAL MEANS, one step at a time, Hitler dismantled the German government, and replaced it with his own authoritarian dictatorship.
This process, from Chancellor to Dictator with absolute power, took 53 days.
234) Day 2 -- Reason #2 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism
Over and over and over, everywhere that Conservative “pro-business” “common-sense” “efficiency” rhetoric takes hold, it means only two things….