How are we, as a country, going to deal with the fact that a substantial percentage of our population supports a raving lunatic not in spite of his overtly fascist rhetoric, but because of it? Especially when most of our institutions won't even acknowledge this fact?
To use the great "Endless growth is the strategy of the cancer cell, and eventually even that kills the host" metaphor, we're now in ... oncolocapitalsm? A society struggles when it focuses on building wealth, but can it survive when the economy is designed around building nothing *but* wealth?
Harris and Walz should sit down for serious interviews (e.g., beat reporters, podcasters with expertise in a policy area) as well as unserious interviews (e.g., Hot Ones, fun Tiktok accounts) but absolutely avoid unserious interviewers who think they are serious (e.g., political reporters).
Yes - elections are chess, not Tinder. Vote accordingly.
Markos makes lots of good points here: www.dailykos.com/story/2024/8...
What a convention, oh my god, what a convention! We’ve only completed Day 2�in Chicago, but it feels like a lifetime—a lifetime of joy, happiness, fierce determination, and unity . I started ...
If I knew when I was a kid that my life would revolve around secret passwords and biometric scanning I would've pictured something much cooler than this.
How many different ways can this article communicate that the democratic consultant class is as terrible as their harshest critics say? www.cnn.com/2024/08/18/p...
Three weeks into her presidential run was the first time the Biden campaign’s pollsters — now hers — held a deep-dive call with Kamala Harris’ inner circle to discuss what she’s been saying on the stu...
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