Interesting story out of San Francisco today.

The neoliberals' cultural stuck is in decline. When they had that suave dude Barack Obama telling everyone he was like Gandhi or Mandela, that was totally a thing. Cultural neoliberalism was rockin' da house as every branch of government, both state and Federal, was being awarded to Republicans.

          Remember the american dream was to not just get by, but to actually live better and have a bright future.

          The Cost-of-Thriving Index: Reevaluating the Prosperity of the American Family, by Oren Cass, executive director of American Compass is a good read. Okay, "good read" in that it provides a way to objectively quantify why the American Dream is becoming A Nightmare on Elm Street for so many people.

So, Steyer dropped out! The race competition narrows!

Yes, Steyer is a billionaire, but his thing is the environment. It is very possible a lot of his backers might now support Bernie because of that.

I've been offline since Thursday to avoid seeing Joe Biden's smug face and the elation of the punditry that Bernie Sanders lost in all the ways.

The TL;DR version of this race so far:

Iowa: "the real story tonight is who comes in 2nd, and yeah, the voting was an unresolved clusterfuck."

New Hampshire: "the real story tonight is who comes in 3rd, and yeah, we want a Republican billionaire Hail Mary in this."

Promoting Injustice and Rigging Elections

Julian Assange's trial is a farce. First, they are charging an Australian journalist with treason against the United States for revealing blatant US war crimes. Second, the CIA spied and listened to all his conversations with his lawyers while he was in the embassy. Third, they still will not allow Julian to work with his lawyers on his defense, and actually have him in a bullet proof glass cage during the trial where he has difficulty even hearing the proceedings. Fourth, the Judge has conflicts of interest which should require her to be recused. Fifth, and perhaps most important, is the silence of the MSM about this joke and absolute miscarriage of justice. This whole trial is a shameful scam that shows the depth of the erosion of the rule and respect of law. Meanwhile on the home front, the MSM is quite actively trying to thwart Bernie's movement, as is the DNC. They're back with the no-evidence Russia, Russia, Russia interference without mention of their own bias and election interference.

Watch 3-4 min of this clip to hear directly from the FBI how they subvert democracy in the US.

The whole clip is good but over a year old.

Capitalism's Report Card

Part One: Basic Principles

The American People need to see that something is "possible" before they will support change. Let's hope more headlines like this will do the trick.

So Biden is surging in the polls.
Why?

What has happened to cause this surge?
The man who is running on 'electability' got crushed in Nevada.

This comes after underperforming the polls in Iowa and N.H.

With death tolls rising, are we prepared for this pandemic?

The Center for Disease Control projects 19 million Americans infected and 10,000 deaths in just the month of January alone with the new virus sweeping the country. Yet despite media demands, the CDC refuses to admit this is a national emergency and take steps to contain this pandemic.

Wait...January?