(For the purpose of greater clarity and succinctness, I have excerpted sections and lightly edited a blog by Jonathan Cook on consortiumnews.com, 10/01/19)  She is a Ready-made Davina Confronting a Corporate Goliath. The sixteen-year old Swede, Greta Thunberg, and her generation are living on a dying planet, a planet the older generation – through their…

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Demography will spell the end of the GOP. The average Republican is old, and getting older. In the long run, or even the short, that means the party is literally dying out.    

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Let Us Hope that We Shall See the Unraveling of the Republican Party. Here’s a bit of history of what can happen to a political party through an unconscionable and impulsive act: Here is a political cartoon showing South Carolina Rep. Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat, nearly fatally caning Republican abolitionist, Massachusetts Sen. Charles Sumner,…

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Man oh man, I would not want to be Donald Trump right now. In fact, there’s no point in history where any sane person would want to be Donald Trump, but even if you were seized by a perverse desire to become a fat orange rapist with an easy-punchline hairdo grappling futilly with senility, this…

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A little video about what comes after Trump… USAToday just called 45 “unfit for office.” That’s good, and let’s hope it is a sign of things to come. But, still, we need to be wary. The problems that led to Trump are still there. If we don’t address them, we will just have another, and…

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Pollster and political analyst Stanley B. Greenberg has a new book out, RIP GOP, How the New America Is Dooming the Republicans. In it, he argues convincingly that changes in America’s demography (immigration), way of life (urbanization), and changes in gender relations (feminism) are so changing America that the Republican party is pretty much doomed.…

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Found on the web…America is a diverse nation. The Democratic debates reflected that. There were whites and Jews and Indians and Latinos. Wake up, Republicans!

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As you may have heard, we have had yet another report of a most untoward incident with our dear Supreme Court member, Brett Kavanaugh. This recent piece from the New York Times give a bit of background and says much about how it could have happened:  Brett Kavanaugh Fit In With the Privileged Kids. She…

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