2021 Archives

Will Americans wake up to how bizarre and toxic this rightwing ideology actually is? What is freedom? Earlier this week, a group of “freedom fanatics,” shut down the Covid vaccination operation at Dodger Stadium, slowing down the process for hundreds of people before the police stopped them. They called it an “Anti-lockdown Freedom Rally and March,” saying “We’re not going to stop until we get our freedoms back.”

The roots and brutality of the January 6th coup attempt grew in the soil of libertarianism and Ayn Rand’s writings Many Americans are baffled by the Republican Party’s embrace of a billionaire sociopath and elected Republicans’ willingness to overlook the death of five Americans, including a police officer, in an attempted coup. (Particularly after they spent over 2 years and tens of millions of dollars obsessing on 4 dead Americans in Benghazi.) But it’s not just power politics; the roots of this movement in today’s GOP run from a 1927 child murderer, to a real estate lobbying group, to Ronald Reagan putting both of their philosophies into actual practice.

Is America Up to the Task of Reforming Both the GOP and the Options Markets? GameStop and Donald Trump are the same thing. In both cases, outsiders saw a decaying, billionaire-run and corrupt insider-only system, figured out how it worked, and used that system’s own corruption against it.

The work of 245 years & millions of lives dedicated or given to defend the American ideal could vanish Today is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, and is also the day after 45 Republicans in the Senate voted that Trump’s attempt to turn America into a fascist state was just fine with them. How does this kind of horror happen in otherwise civilized, advanced countries?