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There appears to be no threshold of violence to convince Republicans against accepting NRA cash

There appears to be no threshold of violence to convince Republicans against accepting NRA cash

Posted by | May 31, 2022

President Biden is right. “For God’s sake” and our children’s sake, we must do something about gun violence in America. And we must do it now. Back in 1996, after a few years of mass shootings, Australia experienced a mass slaughter on a scale like we saw yesterday in Texas. Their Supreme Court hadn’t ruled that Australian politicians could be owned by industries, so they passed extensive gun control and a nationwide gun buyback program. It was a turning point, and the mass shootings have since largely stopped. Over at Daily Kos, Walter Einenkel has summarized how many millions...

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Public accuses heavily armed Texas police of cowardice for doing nothing to stop Uvalde shootings

Public accuses heavily armed Texas police of cowardice for doing nothing to stop Uvalde shootings

Posted by | May 31, 2022

Turns out, tough Texans in Stetsons are not so tough. The excuses offered by police in Uvalde to excuse their cowardice only confirm their cowardice. Nineteen armed police stood in an elementary school hallway and did nothing for more than an hour while an armed teenager murdered 19 children pleading for help and the two teachers who perished trying to protect them. That, by any measure, is cowardice. It was not a “wrong decision.” It was cowardice. If only one of the 19 armed police – who apparently waited for 78 minutes for a key to charge into the...

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Why one massacre after another is a symptom of the takeover of our nation by a radical extremist minority

Why one massacre after another is a symptom of the takeover of our nation by a radical extremist minority

Posted by | May 30, 2022

A gunman murdered at least 19 children and 2 adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on May 24. For years now, after one massacre or another, I have written some version of the same article, explaining that the nation’s current gun free-for-all is not traditional but, rather, is a symptom of the takeover of our nation by a radical extremist minority. The idea that massacres are “the price of freedom,” as right-wing personality Bill O’Reilly said in 2017 after the Mandalay Bay massacre in Las Vegas, in which a gunman killed 60 people and wounded 411 others,...

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The War on Children: Maybe Republican politicians would passionately protect kids if they were guns

The War on Children: Maybe Republican politicians would passionately protect kids if they were guns

Posted by | May 30, 2022

It is a real shame that school children are not guns. If school children were guns, Conservatives would treat them with kid gloves. They would be ever so careful with their words so as not to cause offense to those who love them. They would exercise the rarest of restraint to avoid angering them; couching their words in every moment, being the closest thing to decent they ever are. They would suddenly find compassion for them. If school children were guns, Republican politicians would passionately protect them. They would go to bat for them and plead for them and...

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Beyond Minority Rule: How the quest to obtain unchallenged power is killing America

Beyond Minority Rule: How the quest to obtain unchallenged power is killing America

Posted by | May 29, 2022

Minority rule is killing America. This is most obvious in our Senate and Supreme Court, although it is also hurt the credibility of the presidency and is damaging many of our states. It is happening because of two issues dating back to the founding of our republic, which brought us the Electoral College and unequal representation in the US Senate. First, here’s how the Electoral College came about, stripped of all the mythology (hint: it mostly had to do with avoiding somebody like Donald Trump ending up in the White House): After the Revolutionary War, the nation was abuzz...

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Maybe it is time to start doubting that the Democratic party can save America from rightwing machinations

Maybe it is time to start doubting that the Democratic party can save America from rightwing machinations

Posted by | May 29, 2022

When the floodwaters are at our shoulders, when the school boards require a fair hearing to be given to the Nazi position, when capitalism’s ecocide has Mad Max’d every temperate zone, depopulated every savannah, killed every polar bear and when war, disease and debt empty another truckload of disposable people into the abyss, there will be a Democrat on TV preaching that the next election is the most important one of our lives. In January, White House press secretary for the Biden administration Jen Psaki advised people who felt “emotions” about the failure of voting rights legislation to pass...

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