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A Cold Civil War
Are we not all Americans? If you are a Trump voter, you are an American. If you voted for Hillary, you are an American. This past week, on CNN, I heard the term “Cold Civil War.” It sent shivers up-and-down my spine. The Cold Civil War is a term describing the volatile nature of contemporary… Continue reading
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The Parasitic Neoliberal Agenda
Only a truly powerful group of ideological dogmatists, well-funded by our wealthiest citizens, could redefine American democracy, unscrupulously steal the sovereignty of the American people, and obscure the belief in the progressive economic values subscribed to by The Constitution’s Framers. Friedman/Hayek’s Chicago School of economics is a laissez faire, capitalist ideology parasitic by nature. Our… Continue reading
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It’s Cold War 2.0 and Russia’s winning
“Talk softly and carry a big stick.” My favorite president, a Republican, Theodore Roosevelt applied this strategy to international relations. President Trump has reversed the order of that strategy: talk loudly, alienate our closest allies, and whittle “Eisenhower’s stick” down to a powerless twig. I was talking to a couple of working class gentlemen the… Continue reading
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The Case for Obamacare
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt has developed a mythical status. So it might be difficult to imagine FDR getting stern criticism from both sides of the aisle. But at one point in his presidency, this was indeed the case. When he signed the cornerstone of the New Deal–Social Security–into law, The Right Wing called him communist.… Continue reading
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Mayoral Election Exposes Fissure Among Liberals
Boston is the capital of liberalism–a tradition we have followed since we were a British colony in revolt. So it was not surprising that the two finalists in the Boston mayoral race were liberals–or, as we like to be called now, progressives. This past mayoral race exposed a kink in the progressive movement, however. Progressives better… Continue reading
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