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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche

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Establishment Republicans Suppressing Trump Voters in Alabama

Voter suppression is now a threat to the freedom of all Americans regardless of race, religion, class, or color.
The real agenda here is clear: it is to keep anybody that questions or opposes the corporate power structure in modern America away from the polls.
It looks as if there is a deliberate plot to keep Trump supporters from voting in the next round of Republican primaries.

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Market InsanityPolitics

Sorry Liz Corporate Democracy will not work

Corporate governance in America works and works well. There is no need for employee democracy.

Government would best fix the major problems facing America’s employees such as low salaries and lack of health insurance. Our government is already a democracy. Therefore, there is no need for corporate democracy.

America’s workers will be better off if Warren devoted her energies to expanding the safety net. Working families need single-payer health insurance, a $15 minimum wage, tuition-free college, Social Security increases, and a basic income not the fantasy of “corporate democracy.”

A better use of Warren’s time is fighting gerrymandering and voter suppression. The greatest threats to working families are on Capitol Hill and in the state capitols, not the corporate boardrooms.

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FinancePolitics

Politics Causes America’s Housing Bubble

One of the worst policies America’s undemocratic government enforces is to keep housing prices as high as possible to benefit property owners and speculators. Thus, America’s housing bubble is the creation of America politics.

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Politics

America’s Wrecking Crew and the Politics of Destruction

Manchin is not a moderate because he embraces an extreme neoliberalism and a vision of limited government that was unrealistic and unpopular when Calvin Coolidge (R-Massachusetts) was in the White House. For example, Manchin opposes a $15 minimum wage, yet Pew Research estimates 62% of Americans want a $15 minimum wage.

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Republicans are Repeating Democrats’ Greatest Mistake

I predict the Republican Worker’s Party will be a miserable failure because it will do nothing for the working-class.

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Politics

The Politicians do not want Ordinary Americans to Vote

The obvious truth is neither Democratic nor Republican leaders want the Freedom to Vote Act to pass. Manchin acted as the fall guy to give other Democrats; such as President Biden and US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) plausible deniability.

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Politics

The Media Fails America Again

Republican state legislators could redraw 187 House districts, compared to Democrats’ 75-95, Mother Jones claims. In particular, Republicans could give themselves five new congressional districts in Florida. The Grand Old Party (GOP) could gain two to three additional seats in Texas, up to three extra seats in Georgia, and one to two additional seats in North Carolina.

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The Problem of the American Gentry

America’s Gentry is going down fighting, and that should scare us. A gentry in decline is a dangerous class that will fall prey to demagogues and extreme ideologies. Hence, the gentry’s decline partially explains the Trump phenomenon.

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The Worst US Supreme Court Decisions

A brief history can debunk that mythology and show the threat an all-powerful Supreme Court poses to ordinary Americans.

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Some Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement

However, any strategy based on the fantasy version of the Civil Rights movement the mainstream media and politicians promote will fail.

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