Before foolishly laughing off or writing off Donald Trump as a bigot or a clown.. you darn well better listen to this EARSHOT podcast from ABC Radio National: Trump's People
At the gym in my apartment complex the other day this guy was watching O'Reilly Factor the day of the attacks in Nice, France...hoo boy. Of course, he had Trumpy Boy on the phone talking about how 'we need to stomp these guys into the ground' blah blah blah, but the entire show was just him and his idiot guests ranting about how Obama should have done 'more' to stop this shit.
The list I created of Important dates in history for lesser-of-two-evils voters was meant largely as an effort to name the lesser evil as an evil consequence of lesser-of-two-evils voting. I've noted that all efforts to portray Hillary Rodham Clinton as a "lesser-of-two-evils" candidate fail to give a thorough examination of the evil of the candidate they're promoting.
Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, both of the Green Party, have this to add to my last diary:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/donald_trump_frees_us_to_vote_as_we_...
Political psychologists have found that there isn't just one authoritarian political orientation, as once thought. There are two. Witness the Presidential campaigns of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.
Take a look at this bit of innovative democracy:
With a little less than a month remaining until the start of the Democratic National Convention, a coalition of individuals and several groups has launched an effort to stop Hillary Clinton from winning the party’s nomination. Their goal: allowing pledged delegates at the convention to vote freely for the nominee and not be bound to to the former First Lady.
Let's start with this piece:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/06/2...
There's a bunch to chew on in here. Let's start with the cash-on-hand situation:
This is a fundraiser being cross-posted over there. I want to find out if this community likes this kind of thing.
Donald OranguTrump
In the last few days a hack of DNC information has been posted to the web in a variety of places including 'proper mainstream media entities" such as the Washington Post as well as a variety of blogs. A good bit of the hack, known as Guccifer 2.0, was provided to wikileaks and there is huge internet musing on what it may be.
Yesterday I received an email pitch from the Sanders campaign:
When we began this campaign a little over a year ago we were considered to be a fringe campaign. But over the last year, I think that has changed just a little bit.
As of last night, we have won 22 state primaries and caucuses with more than 11 million votes.
