#collectivists

“If people feel they’re being forced to choose between two extremes, the majority will always tack right. Earlier in the week, I threw this quick observation up on Substack Notes: Lost elections are rigged, won elections are fair. Good job numbers are real, bad ones are fake. Sex trafficking is bad, unless the traffickers will blame your enemies. Crime is bad, unless the criminals are pro-Trump.…

“Who is David Hogg and what the hell is he up to ? James and Al discuss the actions of the Trump administration, the importance of fighting for justice, and the internal dynamics of the Democratic Party. Key themes include the administration’s disregard for court orders, the significance of Harvard’s resistance to Trump, the need for Democrats to focus on economic issues, and the potential for…

Source:Official George Carlin showing George’s 2005 modern man monologue. Source:The New Democrat “Legendary stand-up comedian George Carlin performs a piece on the contradictions of being a modern man for the millennium. George Carlin returns to the stage in Life is Worth Losing, his 13th live comedy stand-up special, performed at the Beacon Theatre in New York City for HBO. Life is Worth Losing…

Source:The New Republic As far as disability insurance, if you are physically and mentally able to working, meaning you don’t suffer from some physical or mental condition that makes it hard if not impossible for you to work full-time, you aren’t eligible for disability insurance. Lacking skills and education for you to be able to get yourself a good full-time job or a part-time job that pays…

Source:The New Democrat  As a Liberal I believe in things like equal opportunity, Equal Justice Under the Law, wrote a blog about that yesterday. Equal Protection Under Law all of these great liberal values that I believe puts me in a solid majority in America and Equal Protection Under Law covers things like not denying people things simply because of their race, ethnicity, gender, religion and…

. Source:FRS FreeState Imagine had these socialist revolutionaries in Latin America, like Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were inspired by Socialists in Scandinavia, Britain, France, Germany and others, and not being inspired by Socialists in Russia and China, where countries like Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile and others, how well they could be doing economically today. And how much influence…

. I agree with some of what John Marini was talking about as far as the Progressive Era as far as Progressives back then wanting to change the country and put in public social insurance that people could use when they are in need, that we as a society a collective would all contribute to finance those services. But where Marini and I separate is that Progressives back then wanted to change the…