Category Archives: Government

  1. The GOP Republicans have withdrawn to dreams of a fictional country

    January 26, 2020 by epoetus

    by Bert     This political party has completely ‘jumped the shark.’ Facts and reality be damned!       …
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    Category: Democracy, Elections, National government

  2. The New Year: Taxes, Capitalism and democracy

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    December 30, 2019 by epoetus

    By Bert     This NY Times article has an animated graphic which shows the decline of income tax for …
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    Category: Democracy, Economy, Government, Income Inequality, Tax reform

  3. The impeachment hearings: truth sandwiches and the Republicans got nothing

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    December 1, 2019 by epoetus

    By Bert     “The Republicans got nothing.” – Senator Hirono 10/29/2019     Fiona Hill, expert on Russian intelligence, …
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    Category: Democracy, Elections, Government, National elections, National government, Trump

  4. The revolution is here — Democrats ignore it at their peril

    November 1, 2019 by epoetus

    NOTE: this is an excerpt from the Alternet article by the same title.  The link to the Alternet article is …
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    Category: Climate Change, Democracy, Economy, Elections, Environment, Government, Health Care, neoliberal, Progressive

  5. The Danger of Doing Nothing: The Ostrich’s Head in the Sand

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    October 26, 2019 by epoetus

      Doing nothing in our current political climate is like saying you’re not a racist (see previous post on 9/16/2019 …
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    Category: Climate Change, Democracy, Education, Elections, Government, Media, Monopolies, Progressive

  6. Justice demands Antitrust Cases against Amazon, Boeing and Facebook

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    October 20, 2019 by epoetus

        There are a lot of technology monopolies.         Many more large companies qualify for this …
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    Category: Democracy, Monopolies, National government, Progressive, Supreme Court

  7. Why won’t the Republicans stand up to the President

    October 12, 2019 by epoetus

    or have they begun considering other options.     As usual, the calculus of shifting political positions is very complicated …
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    Category: Democracy, National government, Trump

  8. Yes, a secure online voting system is possible, but maybe we need to fix the root cause first

    October 5, 2019 by epoetus

    When children can hack in and alter the votes tabulated by an official voting system in use today in under …
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    Category: Democracy, Elections, Government, Media, Money Out of Politics, Racism, Voting rights, Women's Reproductive Rights

  9. A WA first: SJC Democrats just put an income and wealth tax onto the Democratic party agenda

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    September 22, 2019 by epoetus

        “We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of …
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    Category: Campaign Finance, Democracy, Economy, Income Inequality, Media, Money Out of Politics, National government, Progressive, Supreme Court

  10. We Must Become More Than Antiracists

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    September 16, 2019 by epoetus

        Ibram X. Kendi has struck a chord with his latest book “How To Be An Antiracist.” Reading it …
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    Category: Democracy, National government, Progressive, Protests, Racism, State government, Uncategorized, Voting rights, Women's Reproductive Rights

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