The Democratic Party And The Fascistic Zeitgeist

Democratic Party witch-hunters target Green Party candidate Jill Stein

Truth

Cornel West on Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Roy Moore Doesn't Get It: The GOP Is Throwing Him Under The Bus To Save Trump

Time To Clean House

There's blood in the water at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The sharks are circling. Clown-time should be drawing to a close.

A Bi-Partisan Congressional Investigation Seems Reasonable

It's Time To Pierce The Teflon

Trump's accusers should be heard, under oath, on the witness stand.

To The Finland Station

Don't kid yourself. The Federal government is not engaged in politics anymore. It's engaged in class warfare. And you had better decide which side you're on.

If The Shoe Fits...

You have to wonder: Do these people have any clue that when they refer to themselves as "the silent majority" they are alluding to a speech that Richard Nixon made on November 3, 1969? In that address, Nixon appealed to those he called "the silent majority" to support his "peace plan" for Vietnam. He failed to mention in his remarks that he had ordered the secret bombing of Cambodia in March of that year. The bombing of Cambodia continued until May 26,1970. What Nixon called a "peace plan" was actually an escalation of the war.

Nixon was dishonest, Trump lost in self-delusion and visions of grandeur, and those who proudly claim inclusion in "the silent majority" are taken by both types of politician for fools.

I suppose if the shoe fits...but even if it does, why would anyone with any self-respect want to wear it?

The Financial Oligarchy On The Rampage

The US Senate tax bill: The financial oligarchy on the rampage

What Is Real?

Lying Liars And The Lies They Tell

The Missed You-Turn

Happy Anniversary!

One year since the election of Donald Trump

Clinton, Assange And The War On Truth

John Pilger: Clinton, Assange and the War on Truth: Assange remains a political refugee from the war-making dark state of which Donald Trump is a caricature and Hillary Clinton the embodiment.

Op-Ed

The US lurches toward military dictatorship

1984

Should be required reading for every American.

Rumors Of An Anti-Trump “Palace Coup”

Washington seethes with rumors of an anti-Trump “palace coup”

American Politics Today

Lincoln

Trump's Triumph

He's managed to make me miss Nixon.

Come Home, Karl; All Is Forgiven!

Marx makes a comeback.

Where To, Captain?

Who Cares?

By my count, this is Hillary Clinton's third memoir. That's three more than Jesus Christ wrote.

State Of The Nation

It is absolutely essential that we do not underestimate the depth of self-delusion of which the American people are capable. According to the Census Bureau, as of July 2016, white people constitute 77% of the U.S. population (although the number drops to 61% if you exclude Hispanics and Latinos from that figure). African Americans still constitute only about 13% of the general population (although they comprise 45% of the incarcerated). In other words, white people still have the country firmly in their control and yet...they are scared to death.



The other day, I bought myself a nice pair of Rockport half-boots (with the zipper on the side) like I used to wear in the late ‘60s-early ‘70s. While I was massaging them with mink oil, I noticed the tag: Made in China. I thought to myself: "Of course. Where else?"

The militarized corporatocracy, run by white CEOs, Republican and Democrat, have spent the past 70 years selling out the white American working class, but the working class (caricatured above) blames everyone for their problems but themselves and those CEOs and the military-industrial complex that is impoverishing them.

Their hero is Donald Trump. Despite every sign of utter incompetence on his part, the latest Gallup poll shows that he still has the support of better than 1/3 of those questioned.

In the late 19th century, Leo Tolstoy asked why men stupefy themselves with tobacco and alcohol (today, we would have to add pharmaceuticals, fast food, television, Pentagon-sponsored video games, and the internet into the mix). His answer: to silence the voice of conscience. So long as human beings succeed in doing that, there will be trouble.



We reached the tipping point after the Second World War (in reality, an imperial European civil war) when corporate America did not transition back to peacetime production but created the militarized Leviathan that rules the world by violence today.

Unless and until a new counter-ideology (with real punch and advocates who cannot be bought) arises to cut through the Xanax, beer, and bacon-grease soaked brains of working class white Americans, the Pequod will remain our flagship and Ahab our captain (be it Trump, Pence, or some pathetic Democrat equivalent).



My advice: Embrace the Sublime but keep your eye on the shadows on the wall of Plato's cave just often enough to know when to duck.

What's Up With This System?

What's Up With This Species?

Right Where He Belongs

John Brown On His Way To The Gallows

Once Upon A Time...

The news was the news. Now it's Alice in Trumpland. To get to Trumpland--which, by means of some sort of twisted alchemy, is also Jesusland--you have to go down the Rabbit Hole.

Neo-Liberalism And Neo-Fascism Go Hand In Hand

Macron invites Trump for Bastille Day parade in Paris

This American Life

The police murder of Iraq War veteran Brian Easley

Independence Day

Annual Sale!

A Sign Of The Times

Old Time American Values

Trumponomics:



Mike Pence's vision of America:



These are NOT aberrations, they are old time American values.

Build An American Left

Thanks to the neofascist Republicans and the neoliberal Democrats, interest in the Communist Party USA is on the rise. And why shouldn't it be? Capitalism has reached a stage of toxicity beyond what even Marx and Engels imagined.

The CPUSA does not exactly function as a political party in the United States. For instance, the last Presidential election in which members of the CPUSA ran was 1984. The "party" (such as it is) functions as a source of information and mutual support for those who know that something is rotten in our current political system.

For example, this sort of political inanity is simply unsustainable:



If this cartoon does not cause you to feel deep chagrin, you are reading the wrong blog. You are also part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Become part of the solution today.

Just In Case You Needed Another Reason...

to abandon the struggle for the almighty $$$:

THINK!

The hour is getting late...

As Anyone Who Is Paying Attention Knows...

...the neoliberal Democrats are no alternative to the neofascist Republicans.



Don't mind me. I'm just a member of the Greek chorus bearing witness to the unfolding tragedy that is the American Empire.

Articles Of Impeachment

Articles of Impeachment could have been drawn up for all of the U.S. Presidents pictured above; only Bill Clinton was impeached and he survived the process. The war crimes of Clinton, Bush, and Obama failed to arouse the ire of Congress, as have the war crimes of Donald Trump. What constitutes an impeachable offense in the eyes of Congress appears to have little to do with the Constitutionality of the President's actions and everything to do with partisan political calculations. As a consequence, there is no clear standard available to the American people for determining whether or not the Chief Executive is liable to be impeached.

The Democan-Republicrat duopoly disenfranchised the American electorate long ago. Our politics are all spectacle.



By the way, what was with Rehnquist's stripes?

A Simple Question

To the Democrats who vilified James Comey for costing Clinton the 2016 Presidential election (which he didn't do) and who now lionize him for bringing down Trump (which he has not done) I ask: At what point would you be willing to entertain the suggestion that you do not have a clue about what is going on in American politics?

Go Left! No, Farther!

Socialist Alternative.

Can You Imagine?

Can you imagine what it must be like to work at HUD under the inimitable Ben Carson?



Some entrepreneurial type ought to be selling tickets, that's all I can say.

Prophecy Fulfilled

Fingers Crossed!

The collapse of the American Empire.

Neo-Fascism And Neo-Liberalism

Cornel West makes it plain.

Make It Plain

The Little School Of Marxism

Enter here.

Got Freedom?

Remember Occupy?

It was a mass protest movement that took place during Barack Obama's Presidency.



Whatever happened to that movement?



I dunno. The government must have met their demands.



Otherwise, they'd still be out there, right?

Mr. Trump Goes To Washington

But for how long?

Go Left Young Man And Woman!

The Communist Party U.S.A.

Meanwhile In Our Nation's Capital...

L to R: The Republicans, the 99%, the Democrats.

Anti-Fascism

Old Style:



New Style:

Internationale

American Dreamer

Henry A. Wallace.

The Trump Presidency