“Fiscal Cliff” has replaced “Grand Bargain” as the Elected’s and Media’s favorite term, and spin on the stories from above. The election is done, it’s a few months too early to scream about the vital importance of mid-terms in 2014, and besides: this is another made-to-scare-distract-and-direct-the-Electorate from any but the choices pre-approved by the corporate [...]
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Who Holds the Electorate Accountable?
We the Electorate regularly complain, with excellent and multiple reasons, about Electeds who don’t fulfill even some sliver of campaign promises. We fairly often talk about “accountability,” about that “holding their feet to the fire” thing. It’s a kind of campaign promise in reverse, Electorate to wannabe Electeds: I’ll be watching you. If you don’t [...]
An Election Eve Story: Responding to Superstorm and Electoral Disasters
This really isn’t a non-election story, just one from a practical, grass-roots, real life perspective, focused on people elections should be about. One consistent response from Electeds and those they serve to a disaster is making use of it to further their own, oligarchic, privatizing agenda. Electeds and those for whom they work will, to [...]
What People Are Saying About How You Should Vote: ‘Tom Frank: Obama’s made left ‘futile and irrelevant’
This is the final of the short series of “What People Are Saying About How You Should Vote.” But the fact is, the same kind of reasoning will continue after November 6. It will just switch to the post-election phase, pick up with the very brief inauguration moment, then begin the ramp up to mid-terms [...]
Final Two Alternative Party Presidential Debates
There are two, at least to my knowledge, alternative party presidential debates remaining. The first is tonight’s from Nader.org. Ralph Nader to Host Third-Party Presidential Debate in D.C. Nov. 4 The candidates from four political parties – Gary Johnson (Libertarian), Jill Stein (Green), Virgil Goode (Constitution) and Rocky Anderson (Justice) – will meet for a [...]
Climate Change and U.S. Weather Related Fatalities Since 9-11: 6,408
Yesterday I considered the questioned raised by Mark Hertsgaard, Can Sandy Help Jolt America Out of Climate Change Denial?. As I was thinking about this, I began wondering about another kind of catastrophic event, and the “jolt” it delivered which stays with us today: 9/11. It was a very different kind of thing, of course, [...]
New ‘Advisory Council’ Expands Homeland Security Mission
President Obama recently signed an Executive Order “Establishing the White House Homeland Security Partnership Council.” From the White House release: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to advance the Federal Government’s use of local partnerships to address homeland [...]
‘Can Sandy Help Jolt America Out of Climate Change Denial?’
The question in the headline is posed by Mark Hertsgaard. I think it’s an excellent query. My guess as to the answer: A fairly skeptical maybe. Why do ordinary people reject “climate change”? We know why so many Electeds reject, ignore or at least minimize it: money. Which comes from those for whom they work, [...]
Lesser Evil Halloween: Grand Bargain, Corporate Suit Costumed Candidates Bringing Reign of Austerity
It’s Halloween. It’s time for things that scare us, for things that make us go perfectly still, hold our breath and listen very, very carefully for a sound of evil approaching. In election year 2012, though, it’s really not at all hard to hear the evil, or as it’s usually costumed, the “lesser evil,” since [...]
Arguments For Abolishing the Electoral College
I’m not sure if having this conversation a few days before the presidential election is good timing or not, but then, once this voting cycle is over, how many people will pay attention to much of anything related to elections until, maybe, midterm elections, more likely not until the 2016 WH race really kicks off, [...]
Free & Equal Elections Moves Presidential Debate to November 5 Due to Storm
In response to the huge storm system still effecting weather across a large area, Free and Equal Elections Foundation announced that the scheduled debate between Gary Johnson and Jill Stein will be moved from October 30 to November 5. From Free & Equal: The debate will feature Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party [...]
Why I’m Voting Green Party, by Joyce Arnold
As of tomorrow, there is one week remaining, and this round of politics as usual – with the largest amount of money ever spent, and no reason to think it won’t grow again in 2016 – will be over. Unless there’s a split in electoral and popular votes, and then it will be a while [...]
What People Are Saying About How You Should Vote: ‘The Progressive Case Against Obama,’ Matt Stoller
The fifth in an occasional series before November 6: At Salon Matt Stoller’s “The progressive case against Obama” is creating, shall we say, energetic conversation. I can only provide snippets, but strongly encourage you to go read the whole thing. Whether you agree or disagree with Stoller, he provides some information for thought and conversations. [...]
Missing Issues in the Duopoly Presidential Campaigns (VIDEO)
There’s been a lot of conversation about what’s missing from the Democratic / Republican presidential campaigns, usually with some analysis about why the identified issues are, if not completely left out, clearly not a primary focus of either Obama or Romney. The articles often focus on the presidential debates, but also point to the 2012 [...]
Alternative Presidential Debates: Johnson, Stein Advance in Free & Equal Debate, Nader Hosts DC Debate
Romney / Ryan and Obama / Biden are well past the Commission on Presidential Debates act of the Election 2012 production. For alternative party candidates, at least two more opportunities are scheduled. Although it’s probably safe to say that most people aren’t aware of the several “third party” debates provided this election year, it’s also [...]
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