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I have written in the past, via comments, that if we don't start learning how to prevent the co-option of our movement, we are toast. In addition, we must have a reliable way to get that message out: a vehicle if you will.

All you need do is look at history. TPTB, regardless of party affiliation, seem to always learn from their mistakes because they are greedy sociopaths/psychopaths. Their primary need is to be dominant. Whether it is having more money and/or power than 'name your deity' over those they deem to be less than, we must remember it is their prime motivator.

Although reading published articles is always much, much faster than watching a video, videos give a much more complete exposition of the subject in almost all cases. So while time-consuming, my preference is for video perhaps because I learn better with the combination of sight and sound. This essay is based upon three recent videos, which will be enumerated below. Watch them if you wish, or perhaps read this essay as is, however you prefer.

Over at the Naked Capitalism blog, they had an interesting discussion based on an entry by Yves Smith, "Why Anti-War Purity Tests Are Not Sound Political Strategy

kos: Policy is useless right now. We don’t need any message beyond “NO!”

At a time when the federal government is bent on reducing, if anything, protections for people considered to be "outside the norm," it is important for states and local institutions to step up to fill the void.

In Connecticut the Board of Regents has adopted two new policies in order to implement an executive order issued by Governor Malloy this past February.

The news media may be talking about a possible House vote today on repealing Obamacare (note: it'll never pass the Senate), but Obamacare simply won't be an option in most of Iowa next year.

That's from an editor at Ms. the feminist magazine.

Yep, I just bumped into a headline that gave me the equivalent of an ice cream headache. No, it's worse than that. Maybe it's what getting smacked in the forehead with a two-by-four is like.

Hillary Clinton Will Launch a PAC.
https://politicalwire.com/2017/05/03/hillary-clinton-will-launch-pac/

*sigh* well just kill me now.