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Donald Trump's primary re-election campaign strategy is to incite riots, here in the U.S. He has a lot of unqualified support, including that most law enforcement officers. It is how fascists campaign. #whattheyshouldsay

The Modern History of Systemic Racism The Southern Manifesto II Today, I (again) toured the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. One of the displays in the museum featured an excerpt from “The Southern Manifesto,” authored in 1956 by ardent segregationist U.S. Senators Richard Russell of Georgia and Strum Thurmond of South Carolina, among others. In it, they cite their reasons for resisting integration. Among the primary reasons given for persisting in segregation was, “It i

The Dangerous Pragmatism of Establishment Democrats The consolidation is almost complete. If/when Senator Warren bows out, it will be a contest of the pragmatists vs. the liberals for the Democratic nomination. Likely, the pragmatists will prevail. The assumption of the former is that political pragmatism will win the election. The hope of the liberals is that changing the system to deliver benefits to all will win the election. In my view, the pragmatic approach is a reactio

Dreaming About Capitalism #whattheyshouldsay Time to wake up, America. The Senate cannot agree on a bill to stimulate the economy and the Democrats won't agree to it until (among other things) the bailed out corporations agree to not use their public money to buy back their own stock, layoff workers, or give their executives huge bonuses. Eight years ago, Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney said that, as a conservative capitalist, he thought that it would have been

Winning -- On Purpose In short, I believe that the United States is losing a different kind of world war. Our foes became convinced that they could never conquer us through conventional warfare. They resorted to terrorism, causing us to spend trillions in response to targeted attacks, bankrupting our country. They infiltrated our political systems through laundered political donations and tampered with our elections via electronic warfare (hacking and social media trolling) t