2021 Archives

Republicans in state after state are loading cannons as you're reading this, and the very concept of democracy is the target. Will their scheme be completed by 2024? Americans thought January 6 was the peak of the effort to end democracy in America and replace it with strongman authoritarian rule. But January 6 was merely the tip of the iceberg. And it's not just about Donald Trump. This "iceberg" monster that threatens to sink the United States is about ending democracy altogether here and replacing it with a wealthy, white aristocratic oligarchy.

Reagan defunded the Democratic Party in 1981: And, really, it's just a case of "turnabout is fair play." Yesterday I told you how the Republican Party is animated by one single force: greed. And greed in modern society is all about money. Which is why money is how you take down the Republican Party.

America must have a conversation on the history, purpose and practice of policing. There's much celebration in America that a murderous, psychopathic cop will spend the rest of his life in jail for killing George Floyd. While this moment – this rare moment where a white cop who kills an unarmed Black man actually is held to account — does appropriately get nationwide recognition, it also should provoke nationwide introspection.

If America is to again be a "shining city on the hill" we must end our gun violence epidemic. America, John F Kennedy said, was like John Winthrop's idealistic "city on a hill." Ronald Reagan added the word "shining" to that description when he plagiarized Kennedy. And now Republicans across the country want to change the word "city" to "armed encampment."