Or, why this non-Bernie-or-Bust progressive is voting for Big Orange We’re back to bread and circuses, it seems, the featured act this election cycle being a false-choice rumble between Republican fear mongering (Mexican/ISIS zombie hoards coming to eat our brains) and Democratic fear mongering (Republican zombie hoards coming to eat our brains). The winner, we’re told, […]
Final scene, I think. A Bruce Willis movie? The hero is walking toward us, away from whatever bad thing has just happened. Without looking back or even breaking stride, he tosses a lit match or cigarette or grenade over his shoulder. Or maybe he presses a button on the remote he’s carrying. Whatever it is, whatever he does, a gigantic […]
My fallback position – my only position – used to be that nothing we did at the ballot box mattered. Nothing we shouted in the street or wrote in our letters to the editor. Phone banking, door-knocking, meetings with elected representatives, all of it a waste of time. The system available to us, it seemed to me, was the political equivalent […]
