Can America Actually Be Saved?

Of course the president urged his listeners to “vote, vote, vote!” What the hell was he supposed to do, urge us to take up arms against our fellow citizens?

Don’t Let Them Change YOU

Don’t get sucked into their whirlwind of hatred.

The Reluctant Radical

The most radical thing I ever heard anyone in my family say was when my paternal grandfather, who suffered lifelong PTSD from his service as a doctor in World War II in the Pacific, expressed approval of the Catholic peace activist Philip Berrigan banging a hammer on U.S. nuclear missile silos in protest of the threat of nuclear war.

They Cannot Win

Human beings are not infinitely malleable, and when the Nazis claimed to be building their Aryan superman, or the USSR claimed to be creating something called “new Soviet man,” they only created an enormous amount of suffering and death

The ‘United States’ May Be Over, But the Idea of America Is Not

The only way I can see to avert even more widespread violence than we are now suffering, followed by an attempt to impose a fascist dictatorship, followed by national disintegration on a scale that will dwarf the destruction and loss of life in Syria and Ukraine, would be an enormous, peaceful popular uprising of a kind rarely seen in history.

From Outrage To Action

You can bet that Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh aka Justice Beer, and all the other MAGA Republican hacks in black robes met with Party consultants and pollsters for reassurance that their reward to the “pro-life” crowd won’t have any impact on the expected MAGA takeover of Congress this November.

Healing the American Divide With Local Outreach

Our only chance of defeating MAGA for good, of cutting the head off the fascist dragon so it does not rise again to threaten American democracy, is to recreate the multiracial coalition that Robert Kennedy helped summon into being more than half a century ago.

The Narrow and Thorny Path To Saving America

I do see another path into the future, one that is very hard to spot, winding as it does through the rocks and the brambles.

Can ‘ Soul Force’ Convert MAGA Fascists To Humanity?

Twenty-first century America is still a free or semi-free society, where protesters can count on media coverage to make their cause widely known. But the walls are starting to close in.

A Response to Book Burning: Socrates’ Wandering Book Fair

Let’s invite the local youth of these blighted, ignorant locales to come and get free copies of “the books your parents don’t want you to read.” What red-blooded American teenager will be able to resist?