It’s too much to ask Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker or the dozens of other possible Democratic candidates for 2020 to focus on changing the process while they are playing the game by the current rules. What is needed is for those with stature and who will not be running again to lead the way so that no one has to endure the rigors, fatigue and unfairness of how they battled their way to the presidential nomination.
Category: Democracy
Confuse the Vote: Missouri’s cockamamie Voter ID Mess
Rock the Vote? Dance the Vote? How about Confuse the Vote? That’s the situation surrounding Voter ID in Missouri just three weeks before the
Really, Eric Holder says we should kick them
Democrats need to make the point that their policies are designed to protect consumers, workers and businesses that operate in an ethical fashion. They also advocate strengthening the safety net so those who are experiencing mis-fortune or are simply not skilled enough to function in today’s economy have the means to have a livable income.
Trying to cut through the B.S. in Missouri’s U.S. Senate Race
Let me suggest ways in which at least one candidate, McCaskill could make her campaign more honest, spend far less money, and do the voters a real service. Here are some proposed talking points for Claire to say:
We Need Help – Understanding the Republican Brain
How did it happen? Susan Collins, a seemingly sensitive person who is pro-choice on abortion rights, disses Christine Blasey-Ford’s a contention that she was sexually abused by Brett Kavanaugh. Is Collins (a) insensitive to the history of women not being believed when men say something contrary, (b) simply a poor judge of character (who could not see Kavanaugh as a bully), or (c) just a Republican who has a very different way of looking at life from the way others do?
Disheartening to hear criticism of NY Times and Anonymous
Words like cowardly have been used to describe the person who wrote the anonymous op-ed to the New York Times.
Watching the news: why do we have warnings about prescription ads, but not about political ads
We know that viewership of network news has declined precipitously in recent years, and the intended audience is primarily those who are currently or
While Rome burns, the ACLU rebuilds
The Constitution is important. Full stop. It does many things, chief among them being defining and protecting the rights of people in the United
Post-Dispatch story on STL congressional races leaves unanswered questions
Is there a course in Journalism School that teaches that the best way to cover a political campaign is to use the following metrics:
In defense of FBI Agents Strzok and Page
Sometimes Democrats are bullied by Republicans into denouncing critical-thinking people who see through the morass of bureaucratic regulations and commit a minor transgression. I’m