As Steven Salaita says on Facebook:
Trump is unusually crude and boastful. As a result, nearly all his actions highlight a reality obscured by more cultured politicians: the ruling class, in both its conservative and liberal incarnations, has unadulterated contempt for those with less power.
You can relax.
The Democratic primaries were not rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton.
Every single candidate for DNC Chair will testify to their fairness.
Robert Reich posted an article in his blog titled The Life of the Party: 7 Truths for Democrats. In it he argued that it is urgent that the Democrats (and presumably the left wing as a whole) need to stop "squabbling" and recognize the seven truths he enumerated:
The big news this week is apparently that while all the nice liberals were busy planning protests against a President who won't have done anything yet, the nice people whose campaign blunders gave us this President have been very busy keeping the Democratic Party in their own hands.
So for instance we have this piece, from Counterpunch:
Water contamination and a water blockade have been occurring in Damascus, Syria which evidently involves the White Helmets, the Nobel Peace prize nominated, NATO sponsored, terrorist affiliated, propaganda "organization". If it involves the White Helmets, it also involves the U.S. and Britain.
Yikes.
I wanted to use another word than "beejesus" but I heard recently that swear words in titles get bojoed in web crawlers and whatnot, so ya, I like this place, respect, in digital form. Maybe the Son of God and a little honey will get the spiders dancing...
