The National Anthem

Reassuring Or Disappointing?

Wouldn't a "mainstream Sanders" ultimately mean "more of the same"?

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Political Candidates Debate

When Oligarchs Rule

When oligarchs rule, political spectrum is lost and political spectacle fills the void.

Donald Trump is merely emblematic of this principle.

The oligarch Hillary Clinton is hardly a solution.


The feeling that you must choose one or the other is only confirmation that you are caught in a trap.

Whereas voting ratifies the oligarchic system--because it suggests that the United States has a functioning democracy--refusing to vote casts a REAL vote against the system itself.

Which would you rather do? Let your conscience be your guide.

Once again, I call for A MASSIVE NON-VOTE in 2016. De-legitimize the oligarchic system. Send it into crisis mode. Let the revolution begin.

Or stop complaining, have another glass of Kool-Aid and, between gulps, profess your love for Big Brother.

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We Never Came Home

The climax of Senator George McGovern's acceptance speech at the 1972 Democratic convention in Miami, Florida:

From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America

From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America.

From the entrenchment of special privileges in tax favoritism; from the waste of idle hands to the joy of useful labor; from the prejudice based on race and sex; from the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected sick -- come home, America.

Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward.

Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world, and let us be joyful in that homecoming, for this “is your land, this land is my land -- from California to New York island, from the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters -- this land was made for you and me.”

So let us close on this note: May God grant each one of us the wisdom to cherish this good land and to meet the great challenge that beckons us home.

And now is the time to meet that challenge.

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