Like many progressives, I would be delighted to have a Green New Deal as well as a host of other progressive programs that would immediately and directly help the American people. However, this is not going to happen anytime soon. We need to recalibrate our system.
Category: Electoral College
The Gerrymandering Virus – It’s Everywhere!
You probably did not think that a key reason why the current Supreme Court is so out of whack with much of America is because of gerrymandering. This is so because the makeup of every Court is determined by the two other gerrymandered branches of government, the executive and legislative.
Are moderate Republicans dying with a whimper; or will there be a resurgence?
The history of the Republican Party over the past seventy years includes battles between the moderates within the party against the extremists to the right. Moderate candidates have won the nomination eleven of eighteen times.
What Dems can actually do without Republicans
There is one area in which Democrats can act alone, and that is how they operate and schedule their presidential primaries. Right now, the Democratic primary / caucus schedule is heavily weighted towards small and predominantly white states.
Let’s not demonize Howard Schultz, rather help him do no damage
So, if Howard Schultz wants to run as an independent in 2020, I will beg to differ with other progressives and say that it’s okay, but with a major caveat.
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
Iowa, already, really?
I remember that Barack Obama, upon leaving office, said that one of his post-presidency goals was to reform our democracy. He seemed to have
Here’s my letter to Electors: Now it’s your turn
I’ve just sent the following letter to all 10 of Missouri’s presidential Electors. Missouri is so deep, deep red that I doubt that I’ll