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, […]
We should excuse our high school civics teachers for age-appropriate simplification, I guess. For telling us, just to throw out an example, that we live in a democracy guided by a Constitution that vests power in the People. It doesn’t do that, you know, not really, but saying it does goes so much better with baseball and hot dogs than “nominally democratic republic engineered by elitist, slave-owning legal […]
