A follow-up on yesterday’s post, which I ended with this great line by Vast Left: “No status quo was harmed in this election.” Another summary statement from Vast Left: “It’s not pragmatic or politically feasible for me to pretend both big parties aren’t crap.” The arguments are familiar. That doesn’t make them meaningless. It is, [...]
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What if We Voters on the Left Held Ourselves Accountable? – Part I
One of the most depressing times in our political cycle, for me, is the last few months of a presidential election campaign. The primaries / caucuses are awful, but it’s at this point, post conventions, when you can count on hearing “it’s only in the last few weeks before the election that most people start [...]
What Happens Outside the Convention Center and Why It Matters
Instead of watching the Charlotte convention live, I spent some time watching the live streaming of protestors and activists in the streets of Charlotte. The largest crowd estimate size I saw was for the March on Wall Street South, 1000 to 2500. On the other times I was watching, it was much smaller, 50 to [...]
I See ‘Bad Jobs’ Rising: ‘Some Basics on the Economy’
When I read Alan Barber’s piece at Common Dreams, Share of Bad Jobs Has Risen Since 1979, what popped into my head, just because of the shared words, was the 1969 release by Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Bad Moon Rising.” Ten years after that release, according to Barber’s article, “bad jobs” began rising. And in the [...]
Austin Police Alleged ‘Provocateur’ Actions: Part of the National Picture
From Raw Story: When the local offshoot of Occupy Wall Street began a five-month encampment in Austin, Texas last fall, the Austin police assigned at least three undercover officers to infiltrate the group and gather information on potentially illegal actions. According to the Austin Statesman, court documents and interviews show that the infiltrators “camped with [...]
Labor Day in a Presidential Election Year
It’s Labor Day, and among many other predictable things, it means Electeds and Wannabes will do their best to sound, from the Right, pro-we built it working people who are taking back America, but unions are suspicious if not socialist. From the Left, the efforts will be to sound pro-middle class, play by the rules [...]
March on Wall Street South
Today sees the beginning of planned actions by a coalition of groups and organizations in Charlotte, North Carolina, the city known as “Wall Street South,” and, of course, site of the Democratic National Convention. For details about plans and actions, visit Wall Street South. Participants are gathering in Frazier Park, and the march is scheduled [...]
Poverty as a Bipartisan Nonissue
There are a few topics that I can be fairly certain that, when I write about them, I’m going to hear from a few people, almost always via FB or Twitter message, or through email. One of those topics was a focus in yesterday’s post, USA Ranks 28th Out of 29 for Income Equality. And [...]
USA Ranks 28th Out of 29 for Income Equality
Via Real World Economic Review, the graph below is from Edward Fullbrook’s Decline of the USA. RWER quotes from an Al Jazeera review: Fullbrook’s book reminds us that there’s a rational order in the world – that countries can learn from one another’s experience in tackling social problems and challenges, and that by striving to [...]
Follow the Leaders, Ignore the Cliff
So, if the Republican Party keeps marching off the cliff on the Right and falling further yet into the radical realm, the next question is: Will the Democratic Party be able to stop itself from continuing their follower-ship before they step off themselves? The Republican platform isn’t surprising, but no less significant, in illustrating the [...]
Why Do You Spend So Much Time Criticizing the Democrats Rather Than the Republicans?
As someone who is independently liberal, and vocal about it, I get the question in the headline a lot, and have for many years: why focus on criticizing the Democratic Party when the Republican Party is so much worse? Political conventions time – a routine stop along the way in what passes for “democracy in [...]
Duopoly Convention Entertainment: Act I, The Tampa Tea Party
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. I’ve written about the 2012 Republican and Democratic Conventions for a while now, as a focus of planned Occupy and related protests, as a part of the Duopoly system, and most recently, as related to security in Bipartisan Police State Planning for Party Conventions. Among [...]
‘Two Parties That Give Americans the Illusion of Choice’
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Unless we get beyond the range of Romney/Ryan vs. Obama/Biden media “news” coverage, we’ll likely miss a lot of very interesting conversations. These are conversations about the kind of stuff the Duopoly prefers we not hear, and for the most part, if relying on mainstream [...]
The ‘Alternative Party Debate’ 2012: See the Video
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. In the Comments to my Guess Which Presidential Candidate Will Speak at Hempfest, and Which at Paul Festival? post last week, TPAZ asked if I knew of any “second-tier presidential debate” plans. It was a very good question for which I didn’t have an answer, [...]
Guess Which Presidential Candidate Will Speak at Hempfest, and Which at Paul Festival?
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. You already know the answers to the question in the headline, right? We’ll have no problem knowing where Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney are, most any day, between now and November 6. If, however, you might be interested in knowing where Green Party presidential candidate [...]
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