4:00, “- it’s not easy to come up with exciting new ideas, so you have to come up with crazy ideas…” And that is what makes money in the media and may destroy democracy.
Author Archives: billgamesh
Dying on a Hill
The pro-democracy movement only needs to embrace border security, gun rights, and stop promoting trans rights and they will sweep all the elections. It is simple. Those three things and democracy is secured. Those three issues are how the autocrats are going to take power, just like they are doing across the world. If democracyContinue reading “Dying on a Hill”
Republicans
I noticed many years ago on Fox News that whenever they began using the word freedom it had to do with cutting taxes or regulating industries. I found that the word greed could be substituted in these Fox scripts and it worked just fine. That is what they really mean….greed. Anything that taxes the richContinue reading “Republicans”
The Republic
It all reduces to the rich evading taxes, which is redistribution of wealth, and regulation, which enables control of the rich, who crave control of everything by way of their wealth. I do not understand why this clear and simple message is not repeated constantly. One way to argue against their talking point is toContinue reading “The Republic”
The Social Gospel vs Christian Nationalism
Here we go. The battle lines are forming.
Good Luck Frank
Frank Borman died on Tuesday November 7 at 95. He was the commander of Apollo 8, which was the first time human beings left the planet Earth and traveled around the Moon.
Heather Explains America
Heather explains pretty much everything in the first 20 minutes.
Heather on Republicans
A democracy will always vote to redistribute wealth in some way and that is why the right will always in some way try to end democracy. The left (the have nots) seeks to redistribute while the right (the haves) seeks to concentrate. It follows that regulation, that is, the rule of law, especially election law,Continue reading “Heather on Republicans”
Albert was always right
Einstein wrote an essay titled “Why Socialism?” for the first issue of the independent socialist magazine “Monthly Review.” Published in May 1949, the piece included the following paragraph that said (sentences bolded for emphasis): Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and theContinue reading “Albert was always right”
Yes Rachel
Garbage elections on the way and that may well end America