Sunday, October 25, 2015

How Long?


How long can the American people subsist on a diet of hate and fear? This poisoned cocktail fuels the engine of the Two Party system. The Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama years have been overwhelmingly colored by it: even "the man from Hope" and the candidate who made Hope one of his campaign slogans have demonstrated themselves all too capable of re-fueling the tank with the toxic brew when they felt it was politically expedient.

I came to political consciousness in a different time...

Saturday, October 24, 2015

Deja Vu All Over Again

By current standards, Richard Nixon was a Liberal. By current standards, Hillary Clinton is a Liberal. So, if Clinton is Nixon, then Trump must be George Wallace and Bernie Sanders is Eugene McCarthy.

We have all been here before.