Every Working Person Should Know Every working person in this country knows the feeling by now. You sit down at the kitchen table, look at your phone, and decide to say something plain and true about what is happening to America. Maybe you write about out-of-control federal spending, or about politicians acting like kings, or about how a tiny circle of billionaires seems to run both political parties from behind the curtain. And what happens next? Nothing. Your post falls straight into a black hole. Nobody sees it, your reach drops to zero, or some twenty-something kid at a tech company in California slaps a warning tag on your page. You feel it right in your gut. The whole game is rigged. For years now, everyday folks were told this was just a partisan fight between Republicans and Democrats, or the Left against the Right. But look around at who is actually getting shut out right now. It is not just one political party. It is people like me. It is anyone who still believes...
Look in the Mirror: The Moral Bankruptcy of the Modern GOP Look in the mirror and stop lying to yourself. Every Sunday, you put on your clean clothes, walk into church, and tell yourself you are a decent, moral person who cares about family, tradition, and hard work. You tell your neighbors you vote Republican because you love the Constitution, because you want law and order, and because you want to protect your children. But the minute you walk into that voting booth, you check your conscience at the door and endorse a level of depravity that ought to make you sick to your stomach. You aren't voting for values. You are voting for cruelty, you are voting for greed, and you are acting as the willing foot soldiers for a political machine that has traded every shred of basic human dignity for raw, corrupt power. A Quarter-Century of Owning the Gutter This didn't start yesterday. Ever since the 2000 South Carolina primary and the vicious Swift Boat attacks in 2004, the R...