Election

To My Friends on the Left: Hillary Clinton Is Not the Enemy

Submitted by subir on Mon, 10/31/2016 - 1:06pm

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”.

Letter to a Friend

Submitted by polkageist on Mon, 10/31/2016 - 1:01am

This essay is really just a slightly edited email reply I sent to an old friend I’ve known since grammar school. I’ll be 81 next month and he’s a year older so it isn’t as if we haven’t had time and experience enough to analyze what is going on in our lives, our country, our planet, and our minds. I’m afraid I just let my annoyance show, but I think it may just be time. The paragraphs between the asterisks are the pertinent part of an email he sent me.

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The election is irrelevant. Better to put our time to…

Submitted by jim p on Thu, 09/22/2016 - 9:32pm

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the winds will blow after November: Wall Street, the War Machine, The Corporate Borg will still run the joint, only moreso.

Though dead as a dinosaur, the current system still has its legs kicking, and will for the foreseeable future. The power class not only fails to understand that their Wars and Money Love have led to not only massive failures, but that their visions and plans are literally insane.

ALERT - DHS: We May Declare Elections System 'Critical Infrastructure'

Submitted by RantingRooster on Mon, 09/19/2016 - 2:10pm

I interrupt these regular pie fights of nothing burgers with an important update from Sane Progressive and the DHS wanting to declare our election systems "critical infrastructure".

Stop and think about that, if you can pull yourself away from gossiping at the water cooler, what would the "potential" be, if DHS took over our election systems?

Are our elections important to you? Just saying....

Little by little our eyes are being opened....but it is so slow and painful

Submitted by don mikulecky on Tue, 07/19/2016 - 1:10pm

We are about to see the end point of the Democratic Party scam that they called a "Primary". The Republicans are doing their version and the theater just gets more and more sickening.

Stealing the First Lady's speech has caused another wave of reaction to the well established disregard for truth or ethics that should be expected by now.

And the system grinds on

Submitted by don mikulecky on Wed, 07/13/2016 - 6:54pm

Once again systems theory had the answer but we could not totally believe it. The system is very stable and it eats anything that tries to change that.

Bernie had to be beaten and he was. It really does not matter how it was done. At least he is still alive. He has made a choice which probably shows a deep understanding of the system and how it works.

2016 Election--scenario #2382

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Mon, 07/04/2016 - 7:08pm

To understand this election debacle and all its ramifications, interconnections, subterfuges, and downright crap, one has to be a master of 9-dimensional chess. I have a hard enough time with the common 2-D version. I thought I pretty much understood how this nomination thingy was going to work out--at least in my own mind. But then Bill Clinton totally clusterfucked the situation. He could easily be the smartest politician on the the planet--or undergoing senile dementia changes.

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