The Enemy of the Good

“The vociferous critics of liberalism are like passengers on the Titanic who root for the iceberg,” wrote Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker. 

“After all, an iceberg is thrilling, and anyway the White Star Line has classes, and the music the band plays is second-rate, and why is the food French instead of honestly English? ‘Just as I told you, the age of the steamship is over!’ they cry as the water slips over their shoes. They imagine that another boat will miraculously appear — where all will be in first class, the food will be authentic and the band will perform only Mozart or Motown, depending on your wishes. Meanwhile, the ship goes down."

Cover Your Eyes, Marjorie!

My idea of a liberal is someone who supports a regulated market economy with social programs to protect the vulnerable and civil liberties in order safeguard freedom. It's NOT some glory-hound gadfly who regards cooking a taco as "cultural appropriation."

A Mensch in Space

“Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It's not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline — and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

Hit the Republicans Hard, Then Do It Again

“Biden prefers to project an image of confidence and smiley-faced bipartisanship,” wrote The Week magazine. “But with Republicans committed to obstruction, ‘partisan and cultural conflicts’ are inevitable. And most issues, including mask and vaccination mandates, Biden has popular opinion behind him. For the good of the country and his presidency, Biden should drop the pretense that bipartisan agreement is possible, and ‘fight on more polarized issues instead of trying to dodge them.’”

I never want to hear that worthless, dangerous damned word “bipartisanship” again. Playing “bipartisan” with the Nazi GOP is the same thing as offering your throat to their sacrificial knife.

Hit them, hit them hard and then hit them again and again and again!

Now About All That 'Free Stuff'

The rich have benefited vastly from the infrastructure, the educational system and the legal protections afforded them by this society. And it's LONG past time for them to PAY THAT BACK, and WITH INTEREST.

Be Yourself, Republicans!

Contrary to popular opinion, Republicans love socialism to pieces. They just hate the idea of anyone outside their tribe getting any of it. It's not socialism they despise. It's the idea of universal human rights.

You Can Look It Up

I know and understand Bernie's values, which are those of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt. And those values are precisely what we need now. I will be glad to vote for him, or anyone he endorses.

Because Republicanism Is Fascism

Riddle me this: If “liberalism is fascism,” as the know-nothing knuckle-draggers claim, then why are ALL the Nazis, Holocaust deniers, white supremacists and pro-Confederacy fetishists on the November ballot — at least a half-dozen of them — running as REPUBLICANS?

Beware the Wicked Liberals

My idea of a liberal is someone who supports a regulated market economy with social programs to protect the vulnerable and civil liberties to safeguard freedom.

What Democratic Socialism Is

Winter Is Coming

Refusing to See What We Foresaw

Even with the evidence now before their eyes, Trump voters are still refusing to see what we foresaw last year. America is a deteriorating, shell-shocked battleground between the armed camps of the willfully ignorant and the horrified prescient.

The Liberal Liberators

Here are just a few of the landmarks of American progress championed by liberals and opposed by conservatives: The end of slavery; women’s suffrage; the end of segregation; gay marriage; the end of prohibition; banking regulations to prevent economic piracy; prohibition of child labor; minimum wage laws; workplace safety regulations; the 40-hour work week; Social Security; Medicare and the forbidding of torture.

How Liberals Became Demons

By Dan Hagen

I’ll answer Barbra Streisand’s question for her.

The term "liberal" has been demonized for the same reason that the word "entitlement" has been demonized — as a propaganda move to undermine and discredit the very concept of justice by those who oppose justice. They find injustice too lucrative.

Here are just a few of the landmarks of American progress championed by liberals and opposed by conservatives: The end of slavery; women’s suffrage; the end of segregation; gay marriage; the end of prohibition; banking regulations to prevent economic piracy; prohibition of child labor; minimum wage laws; workplace safety regulations; the 40-hour work week; Social Security; Medicare and the forbidding of torture.

And yes, the Dittoheads you know will respond by saying that “liberals” created the KKK. No, liberals opposed it. Racist Southern Democrats created the KKK, and they have since become Republicans, thanks to Republican President Richard Nixon, who designed a "Southern Strategy" to win the hearts and minds of racist white voters in the South.

The fascists love to play Three-Card Monte with the terms "Democrat," "Republican," "liberal" and "conservative." Those are four separate and distinct things, and people who are too intellectually lazy to learn that can be easily conned.