David Sirota over at IBT has been doing some amazing investigative work this cycle (some of it focused on Democrats). Along with Avi Ascher-Schapiro, he has an article today about a court case from the 1990s: How Donald Trump Used Fine Print To Make It Harder To Sue Wall Street For Fraud
Jeffrey Isaacs published a letter today in The Nation. I would quibble with a few things in it, for example, it is addressed to a successful professional audience and is somewhat oblivious to the travails of those who are not. Hillary’s foreign policy is certainly “within a bipartisan mainstream” as Issacs says. Yet this should only be taken as an indictment of this “bipartisan mainstream”.
I originally published this essay on TOP in December 2015; it received 352 recs back then.
I’ve heard talk that a political realignment in this country may be in the offing, result of the breakdown of the alliance between social conservatives, right-populists, and the part of big business that doesn’t much pretend to care about looking human. For a long time, that part of the business elite had little trouble wrangling the other two elements into line by hiring politicians who mixed a palatable cocktail of religion, nationalism, and economic “freedom”.
Did you ever get the feeling that you were being lied to about something so big that the entire paradigm of how the world is being presented to you is false?
The lie in this case is that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are dramatically different, and thus there is a Lesser Evil.
This leads to the dominant feature of presidential politics today - voting out of fear of the other.
I subscribe to The Sane Progressive and just watched Debbie's latest video. She makes some strong points about the primary, it's outcome and Bernie. I must say, I agree with a lot of what she's saying although I would like to know the whole story, which of course we never will.
If you want to see the best of America, you need look no further than the example set by Army Captain Humayun Khan.https://t.co/aEhY06r7St — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 30, 2016
For five days in April, Simone Zimmerman was the most controversial figure in Jewish politics.
The 25-year-old activist served very briefly as Bernie Sanders’ Jewish outreach coordinator, before being fired after an old Facebook post in which she used profanity against Israeli prime minister Netanyahu surfaced — and quickly ended her political stint.
Fellow Democrats, and citizens,
