How will it begin?

The time approaches

I, along with many others here, obviously respect your commitment and admire your tenacity in attempting to see some value, or some kind of logic, in the Trump phenomenon. That is critical in families caught in political and social collapse. I would suggest, with caution, that communication is important for family and friends that are personally…

The word is irrelevance. . .

A surprisingly good essay. This is an issue of intent and the process of change. Guns are irrelevant in post…

Not to detract from your mania

All of us who write and respond with full stories on a daily basis can end up as top writers in the topics we tag. The importance of dealing with responses as full stories is often overlooked. A good response gives you a topic and a primary audience of people already…

The moral conundrum

Yes, I keep coming back to the need to ignore the willfully ignorant. But there’s a moral conundrum there. That becomes an act of removing them from consideration which is what they do, are doing, to whole groups of people arbitrarily. When does that cross the moral line from “justified” to…

It’s good to see these indicators put together. I would also interpret the steady direction of the establishment media to neutralize a huge popular threat to the oligarchy. The Trump disaster has traumatized a majority of the population and the majority has been clear in its need for universal healthcare, reduction of militarization, and new…

I wish it weren’t so but it is. Thank you for this, obviously, heartfelt lament and the honesty to explain why that relationship had to be cut. Much more of that is happening and must happen. The emerging acceptance of a racist, misogynist scum as an usurping ruler is the final death blow to what America thought it was. And in the end this country is…

So this is ok?

There are, apparently, people who refuse to see the ignorance, incompetence and corruption that Donald Trump represents. It is very clear that Trump is irrelevant in any real sense other than as a symptom of political collapse and should be, as much as possible, ignored. That doesn’t mean that he, his…

This looks like political failure

For the US, at least, I agree that there are no real alternatives on offer for people of any stripe to consider. That is not surprising. Both parties have collapsed and are simply placeholders but for what, I don’t know. And yes the minority of Trump supporters are real…