What we first have to do is distinguish Democratic Socialism as a party in a policy versus a strong social safety net.
If you go to the DSA website, you see this:
I once heard a young progressive, when raising the minimum wage was discussed, pronounced she didn’t like that…
When the US Supreme Court struck down campaign financing laws under Citizens United it opened up the floodgates for dark money to flow into politics. No one is taking more advantage of this than Republicans with their Koch brothers related think tanks and special interest PACs.
Until recently the Democrats…
Life happens
I think one of the most important lessons I’ve learned in 62 years is that no matter what you plan for things are going to happen and very often out of your control they’re going to push you into a different direction.
I once listed all the different…
The Saturday before Labor Day this year I had a cycling accident and broke my left wrist. The cast the doctor put on didn’t even allow my fingers to touch my thumb much less type effectively on the keyboard. …
Ayn Rand’s epic novel Atlas Shrugged tell us a story of captains and giants of industry (so-called job creators) quitting their positions and disappearing leaving society To disintegrate behind them as they Retreat to a secret gulch in Colorado to build their new idyllic Society.
These characters are the Atlas…
A Texas education law aimed at combating critical race theory has been interpreted by…
So I’ve been in China two weeks and was finally able to acquire a bicycle. I had a bit of trepidation because traffic here is nuts and I considered most riding opportunities dangerous.
The bike I borrowed is a Giant mountain bike. Most bikes here are mountain bikes. I see…
After 10 years I finally got around to watching the movie Touchback
I’d always been meaning to watch it because my first notice of the movie wasin the year 2010. We were living on a house in Grandville on a dead end street and that particular day I had to…
On Medium, where I write some articles, I follow Dr. Michael Busler, who is an economist and a public policy analyst. He is a Professor of Finance at Stockton University. His op-ed columns appear in Townhall, Newsmax. I follow to rebut his points. As you can see from his media…
