Tag: presidential election

Is resisting Donald Trump our lunch counter sit-in moment? Would you join us?

September 12, 2016

[Updated today, 9.12.2016, in light of recent reports about the white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and Alt-Right folks supporting Trump.] “Love is understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. When it becomes a great and powerful love, it becomes a demanding love which demands justice. It becomes a love which says in substance, ‘You are your brother’s keeper. … More Is resisting Donald Trump our lunch counter sit-in moment? Would you join us?

Why I’m not voting for #JillStein for president and neither should you.

August 10, 2016

[Updated Thursday 8.11.2016 & 8.24.2016] Watch the video below friends. In it, Jill Stein, presidential nominee of the Green Party* targets the United States for its exceptionalism, arguing that we shouldn’t vaunt said exceptionalism. Fair enough. As a progressive environmentalist who thinks the American “government’s economy and the economy’s government” have created an empire, I’m somewhat sympathetic … More Why I’m not voting for #JillStein for president and neither should you.

#CruzSexScandal, hypocristy, and Matthew 7:5

March 25, 2016

Brief thoughts on #CruzSexScandal:   You know, I don’t care that much about politician’s sexual conduct. They’re adults with private lives, with failings, with difficulties like the rest of us but amplified because of their power. It’s kind of mind-blowing how much power is at play in holding high-level U.S. offices and huge elections. The … More #CruzSexScandal, hypocristy, and Matthew 7:5

Marco Rubio bloviates and John Kasich sounds nearly reasonable on climate change

March 14, 2016

As I’ve said a couple of times, the tide is turning. Which members of the GOP will drown in it and who will learn to swim? Rubio’s drowning. Kasich’s swimming. That’s what I get from the last GOP debate questions on climate change anyway. Marco Rubio bloviates a bunch of do-nothing hand-waving in the face of … More Marco Rubio bloviates and John Kasich sounds nearly reasonable on climate change

Why? Because Sanders is the only candidate representing me.

March 2, 2016

There’s a trope among some Clinton supporters that Sanders has split the Democratic Party. And I can’t disagree more. The Democratic Party has long had a split because Hillary Clinton and the neoliberal corporatist Democrats have driven the party into political and policy stances that don’t represent tens of millions of Americans. It was just … More Why? Because Sanders is the only candidate representing me.

Bernie Sanders will be the next American President

January 17, 2016

There is no other person running who understands the state of our nation better and has laid out a path for how to rectify our common plights in a complicated world. On issue after issue–from the pilfering of our collective safety nets by parasitic capitalists to climate change to our individual freedoms and responsibilities to our … More Bernie Sanders will be the next American President