Friendship in a COVID World

A headline on my Facebook feed says:

White House campaign advice to jobless: "Find something new"

-- is using Federal Customs agents to drag people off the streets of Portland and take them to unknown locations.

Forbes:

Trump-Ordered Federal Agents Are Reportedly Pulling Protesters Into Unmarked Vehicles, Drawing Outrage

USA Today:

So, let's see, Donald Trump is threatening to withhold funding for schools if they don't reopen in September. Why? Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti explore:

Folks, this is more or less a sequel to my previous diary, The Failure of Political Imagination -- if you haven't read it, you should read it now, and then come back to this diary. As such, this diary will be short and sweet, because what I really want is for more people to read my previous diary.

What set me off was this headline that I saw on a Facebook profile, "Bernie Sanders Asks Supporters to Donate to Democratic Party, 'Show Commitment to Party Unity.'" I'm against Democratic Party unity, because the Democrats at the top of the party hierarchy are a bunch of corporate commodities masquerading as politicians.

Thursday we could go to the Common Dreams website and read this piece by Norman Solomon:

Some Progressives Are in Denial About Trump's Fascist Momentum

Some say preventing the re-election of Trump isn't important. That amounts to ignoring political reality, an evasion with potentially vast consequences.

Lesser of Two Evils II

“If they’d wanted to win, they wouldn’t have run Hillary Clinton.”
--my mom, 2016

Witness, for example, this gem from the Nation magazine:

An Open Letter to the New New Left From the Old New Left