2022 Archives

Nixon's "War on Drugs" continues to terrorize Americans; it's time to drive a stake through this 50-year-old legal Frankenstein's monster that has killed so many Americans for no good reason. Another day, another dead civilian from a no-knock police raid, this time 22-year-old Amir Locke in Minneapolis. It’s Breonna Taylor all over again. All because Republican president and criminal Richard Nixon decided to create a phony national “moral panic” that would win him the 1972 election (it worked, by the way).

The Best of the Rest of the News.. — Trump pulls a Stalin in seizing the Voting Machines as part of the GOP "War on Democracy." —What will be the outcome of the GOP Civil War? —Dejoy defies Biden on electric trucks…and why is he still there? —Republicans are trying to "protect" children from an illustrated book about the Holocaust that tells the story through characters that are cats and mice. —Trump pays off Mark Meadows to keep his mouth shut? —Kyrsten Sinema rakes in the cash as she betrays American democracy. —Florida Republicans are trying to eliminate the right of Floridians to put up ballot measures for things like legal pot, voting rights and a $15 minimum wage. Geeky Science: The magic of N-95 face-masks. Crazy Alert! Alabama parents are certain that Black History Month is part of the Critical Race Theory (CRT) their state banned from classrooms last month.

Reagan's policy of starving education & cranking up student debt has made US banks piles of money, but stopped generations of young people from starting businesses, having families & buying homes. Ronald Reagan knew that an educated populace was more progressive and more Democratic, and he was determined to stop the explosion of college educated Americans caused by both the 1944 GI Bill and free tuition at the University of California. Forty years later, student debt has crippled two generations of young Americans: over 44 million people carry the burden, totaling a $1.5 trillion drag on our economy that benefits nobody except the banks earning interest on the debt.

And why a disparate group of billionaires, Republican politicians, televangelists, media outlets, and white supremacist militias have found common cause around a new and exciting moral panic. The moral panic currently sweeping America about Critical Race Theory (CRT) has been covered ad nauseum by the press and commentators across the political spectrum. That’s what typically happens with moral panics (more on that in a moment). What nobody is talking about, though, is the why of this particular issue at this particular time. As a result, we’re mistaking the tool for the goal.