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December 2019

“Liberal democracy,” before and after Donald Trump…

The authors of this article write: “the reversal we have in mind is the movement from late twentieth-century liberal democracy to seventeenth-century autocracy.” Mention Thucydides all you want, fellas, but your take on the Trump era is somewhere between sub-mental and wholly detached from reality. In what parallel universe did we have a “liberal democracy” in the late twentieth century?… Read More »“Liberal democracy,” before and after Donald Trump…

IT’S TIME TO END THE CON!

Yes, there is some overlap of the Trump/Bernie voter: two massive groups of Americans sick-to-tears of a government captured by oligarchs and run by venal, careerist bureaucrats who take their orders from modern fascists, the neocons and MIC, responsible for the deaths of millions of human beings during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations. (Their victims are Arab-Muslim civilians, predominately,… Read More »IT’S TIME TO END THE CON!