Corporations

If you don't know you're in a war, you've already lost and corporations are counting on that.

Take action to support MN Gov. Mark Dayton in this tense government shutdown, as he fights to fill a $5 billion budget gap by making the wealthy pay their fair share instead of allowing Republicans to squeeze it all out of the middle class once again.

So, the "economy" is booming. Or is it? If the only measure of the success of the economy is the stock market, which measures the optimism of the rich that they will continually get richer and richer, at a faster and faster rate of growth, then that's not necessarily good for the rest of us.

What if as a massive group, the American People enforced a TARP deal in the reverse direction, from the banks to the people?

Then, I got curious. How the hell does anyone take advantage of someone who is, at least, intelligent enough to accumulate investment capital? What does it take to convince a "savvy" person to get sucked into a scam? Apparently, not a lot.

In the end, no one can maintain their power because of the inverse property of power, every action creates an equal and opposite reaction. And that is our eternal job as the majority of human beings on this planet, to be that equal and opposite reaction to those who accumulate power and use it to gratify themselves at the expense of the lives and well being of others.

In their Class War against Americans, what the wealthy fail to understand is blowback. Once a democracy no longer serve its people, they stop looking to elections to solve their problems and take their destiny (and pitchforks and torches) into their own hands.

These Three Horsemen of the Water Apocalypse, fracking, privatization of public water and drought may seem incidental to our lives today but it would be wise to look ahead and imagine how decades of them represent a great danger to the American people.

Why is politics so mind bogglingly complicated? You often hear conversation  about the host of complex problems we face today and that these issues cannot...

There are many traps for conscientious candidates who run against a sociopathic demogogue who shows no hesitation to damage society or abuse the powers of the presidency to win at any cost. Avoiding them is critical.