Re-energized this election cycle, the tech entrepreneur joins other mega-donors apparently out to undercut the political system
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/22/america-democracy-can-simply-be-bought-billionaires
Category: American Republic
Democracy Under Siege? New Polling Reveals Anxieties Over the Future of the Republic
The latest New York Times-Siena poll provides a window into the bizarre combination of national delusion and anxiety that permeates the United States in
Democracy Is Defenseless and the Midterms Can Kill It
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Source: Opinion | Democracy Is Defenseless and the Midterms Can Kill It | Richard W. Behan
Inside Steve Bannon’s ‘disturbing’ quest to radically rewrite the US constitution
By taking over state legislatures, Republicans hope to pass conservative amendments that cannot be electorally challenged
Cannibal capitalism
Cannibal CapitalismHow Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
Source: Verso
The Nazification of American Society and the Scourge of Violence
Right wing language reduces politics to theater and spectacle, while using a neo-fascist echo chamber to spread a fascist logic of neoliberal cruelty, a racist politics of disposability, and a celebration of white, male Christian nationalism and supremacy. Echoes of an earlier fascist past combine the language of cruelty and dehumanization with policies designed to eliminate, cripple, and kill those considered marginal—that is a contaminating and contemptable force in the script of hardcore fundamentalisms.
Source: The Nazification of American Society and the Scourge of Violence – CounterPunch.org
The GOP Is a Cultish, Destructive Fascist Organization—Not a Legitimate Political Party
The GOP has no unifying philosophy other than hate, fear, and kowtowing to billionaires and their giant corporations; the people who make up its governing class are similarly fractured.
1848+: The End(s) of History 