Let's take a step back and recall how Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, warned that Brexit, “could be the beginning of the destruction of not only the EU but Western political civilization in its entirety”.
The barbarian hoards are at the gates!
Disclaimer: I am not a statistician; my background is in functional analysis, which includes probability, but I have not been in the field for many years. I am currently working on fast implementations of some classical statistical measures, but I'm nothing like an expert. My goal here is educational.
Today, Tuesday, July 19, 2016, the U.S. is a corporate state oligarchy fast-transitioning into a full-blown fascist state. I don't make that declarative statement with the purpose of being hyperbolic, or dramatic, or to make any other point other than to state (what I believe to be) a fact.
I think we ought to be referring to our ultimate goal as that of "realignment." "Third party" is the phrase the Establishment to denigrate our cause and pronounce us as insignificant. Ideally we should want the Green Party to be a second party; the Democratic Party will be the other national party, absorbing the Clintonites and the establishment Republicans under one banner (hint: they're already doing this now).
I think most of the Caucus here is old enough to remember that phrase.
I also feel that as time has passed, a great many of us have evolved when it comes to how we understand gender.
So I can say the phrase "The Woman's Touch" is very sexist in its wording, yet at the same time feel comfortable believing the phenomenon that phrase describes is very real.
The stock market gets all the financial news headlines, but it's the credit markets that hold the real power. Or to put it a more colorful way:
“I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”
- James Carville
Really. I mean, I know that it is difficult for people who are not transgender to understand what it feels or means to be transgender, because it is a non-feeling to them, but Ben Carson purports to be the "smartest guy in the room."
But all he is proving is that he is the dumbest "smart guy" in Cleveland.
In an interview with The Hill newspaper, Carson felt it necessary to share his views on transgender. As is usually the case for Carson, his synapses appear not to be firing in good order at the time.
We are about to see the end point of the Democratic Party scam that they called a "Primary". The Republicans are doing their version and the theater just gets more and more sickening.
Stealing the First Lady's speech has caused another wave of reaction to the well established disregard for truth or ethics that should be expected by now.
Despite all the pleas for unity, and all the denials that nothing sketchy happened in the primary elections to affect the outcome, and the we Berners are just sore losers, mopre and more studies are coming to the conclusion that electoral fraud did occur and it overwhelmingly benefited Hillary Clinton.
