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Partisan Strategies: Why the real political divide is not Conservative vs. Liberal but Fear vs. Trust

Partisan Strategies: Why the real political divide is not Conservative vs. Liberal but Fear vs. Trust

Posted by | Feb 6, 2023

Increasingly, the Democratic and Republican parties are offering us all a very real choice: trust or fear. Think back to the 2022 election we endured just two months ago. Remember the ads you saw on TV? Odds are each one fell into one of two very simple categories: “be afraid of the other guy” or “trust that I’ll make your life better.” Most of the “fear” ads came from Republicans; most of the “trust” ads came from Democrats. Pain or pleasure.  Fear or trust. These are the two primary strategies we all use to motivate ourselves and others every...

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A parasitic industry: Understanding why America does not define healthcare as a basic human right

A parasitic industry: Understanding why America does not define healthcare as a basic human right

Posted by | Feb 4, 2023

Republicans have taken control of the House of Representatives, and already have their sights set on forcing major cuts to “entitlements” like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. One of the promises McCarthy made to become speaker was to force a vote on dialing back 2023/2024 spending back to 2021 levels — and there’s been a 7% inflation increase in costs/expenses since then. In other words, they want massive cuts. His Republican colleagues have already outlined the starting point for their demands, as reported by Yahoo News: “The Republican Study Committee proposed a budget for fiscal 2023 that would gradually increase the...

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America’s homeless population remains about the same as before pandemic despite increased local efforts

America’s homeless population remains about the same as before pandemic despite increased local efforts

Posted by | Feb 3, 2023

President Joe Biden’s administration announced in December that it was ramping up efforts to help house people sleeping on sidewalks, in tents, and cars as a federal report confirmed what was obvious to people in many cities: Homelessness is persisting despite increased local efforts. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said that in federally required tallies taken across the country earlier in 2022, about 582,000 people were counted as homeless — a number that misses some people and does not include those staying with friends or family because they do not have a place of their own....

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Death of Tyre Nichols revives national calls for changes in violent culture of local police

Death of Tyre Nichols revives national calls for changes in violent culture of local police

Posted by | Feb 1, 2023

An unarmed Black man dies after a videotaped beating by police. The officers involved are fired. After a thorough review of the evidence, criminal charges are swiftly filed against the offending officers. Investigation, accountability and charges. This is often the most Black citizens can hope for as the deaths continue. Nationwide, police have killed roughly three people per day consistently since 2020, according to academics and advocates for police reform who track such deaths. Tyre Nichols’ fatal encounter with police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded in video made public Friday night, is a glaring reminder that efforts to reform...

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Family of Tyre Nichols grieves on sacred ground with Memphis community on the eve of his funeral

Family of Tyre Nichols grieves on sacred ground with Memphis community on the eve of his funeral

Posted by | Feb 1, 2023

On the eve of the funeral for Tyre Nichols, who died days after a brutal beating by Memphis police officers just minutes from his home, his family was sharing remembrances and expressing grief. Nichols’ older brother, Jamal Dupree, lamented he was not there to save his brother from the attack he suffered at the fists and feet of the five officers, who have been charged with second-degree murder and other offenses. “I’ve been fighting my whole life and the one fight I needed to be here for, I wasn’t here,” said Dupree, adding that violence was against his brother’s...

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Demise of liberal democracy: We are living in the final stage of Reaganism’s dystopia

Demise of liberal democracy: We are living in the final stage of Reaganism’s dystopia

Posted by | Jan 31, 2023

Back in 1981, when Ronald Reagan was sworn in and implicitly promised to destroy our government because it was “the problem,” many of us who strongly opposed him wondered what the final stage of Reaganism would look like. Now we know. We are there. Violence toward women and minorities has exploded. Armed militias tried to assassinate the Vice President and Speaker of the House in an attempted coup directed by the Republican President of the United States. They tried to kidnap and murder the Democratic governor of Michigan. They’re blowing up power substations from Oregon to the Carolinas. They’ve...

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