/retrieves soapbox from storage. Blows away cobwebs. Stands on soapbox.

A Colonial Takeover: Proposed Puerto Rican Debt Bill to Give Dictatorial Powers to Unelected Board.

There's a real homogeneous feel to the negative campaigning these days, in the wake of Hillary's new email troubles (self-made, as though that even needs saying).

We've got pundits basically pissing in their pants at the thought of democracy in action, throwing up every boogeyman they can find to keep us from practicing democracy - from "Trump will win!" to "Racist! Sexist! Racexist! Privileged!"