I Believed in the Affordable Care Act. Now I Believe It's Not Enough.
Originally posted on begoodamerica.com/beinggood. This is a story about thinking too small: In early 2010, I remember being extremely upset and impatient that the Democratically controlled Congress...
View ArticleAnd Now the Cynicism: Why and How to Ignore the Bernie Naysayers
Originally posted on begoodamerica.com/beinggood.Or should I say “pragmatism”? I put the word in quotation marks because the so-called “pragmatists” are erupting out of the woodwork this week to wisely...
View ArticleGod Does Not Bless Us
Originally posted on begoodamerica.com/beinggood.(Before you begin reading, understand that I am not a religious person. This essay is written in response to the sanctimonious “God bless America’s”...
View ArticleA Letter to My Congressman About Gun Violence
Dear sir,In response to the frequent and horrific incidences of mass shootings in the United States, I believe it is time for you to propose and fight for sensible federal legislation restricting easy...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Is Thinking Globally About Domestic Policy
Originally posted at Be Good, America. Watching last night’s Democratic primary debate in New Hampshire made something very clear to me: the guidelines of our current domestic policies are provincial...
View ArticleI'm Not with Her: Hillary's Media Wipeout Just Ended the Clinton Era
You have to wonder if this is what Debbie Wasserman Schultz was trying to prevent all along. The Clinton campaign, in a matter of days, has completely lost its soul. Yesterday, Bill Clinton’s...
View ArticleCan Any President Succeed with an Obstructionist Congress?
In the heated debate of which Democratic candidate is most likely to succeed as President of the United States, the issue of an obstructionist Congress has come up again and again and again....
View ArticleSingle-Payer Healthcare vs. The Affordable Care Act: A Simple Comparison
There’s a lot of discussion about the differences between single-payer healthcare and our current system with the Affordable Care Act. I don’t advocate for “scrapping” the ACA. Rather, I believe we...
View ArticleAmerica's Culture of Petulance
Right after I read about the Muslim woman who was thrown out for silently protesting at the Trump rally in South Carolina, I was overcome with a sense of exasperation. Not because I didn’t expect this...
View Article2 Ways to Guarantee You Will Never Get My Vote
Dear Presidential Candidates, The battle for my vote has begun in earnest here in America. Candidates from both sides are working vigorously to convince me that they deserve to be President of the...
View ArticleMy Dissent: Why I Won't Vote for Clinton If She's Nominated
There is a common sentiment being repeated over and over these days among registered Democrats and left-leaning Independents: “If my candidate wins the primary, we all have to vote for them because...
View ArticleThe Revolution Can Be Organized
Famous social activist and organizer Saul Alinsky urged the creation of organizations, not just abstract “movements.” The distinction is that one has practical goals to work for, while the other is...
View ArticleClinton's Surrogates Keep Speaking, Then Apologizing
A few weeks ago, legendary civil rights activist and current Democratic congressman John Lewis very clearly disparaged Bernie Sanders’ involvement in the Civil Rights movement. “I never saw him. I...
View ArticleIf Reporters Covered Other Events the Way They Cover Politics, You'd Realize...
If political reporters began reporting on other events for a change, the world would be a much, umm,…different place. Just imagine: The NFL: “Tom Brady passed for almost 100 yards and the...
View ArticleNon-Voters Aren't Petulant. They're Discouraged by the System.
It takes a real lack of imagination and a lemming-like partisanship to tell someone that if they decide not to vote, they are “voting” for the opposition. As the “Make Sanders drop out for the...
View ArticleThis Is Becoming Abusive, Hillary.
On Friday, Hillary Clinton shared a remembrance of Nancy Reagan, touchingly recalling how “because of both President and Mrs. Regan, in particular Mrs. Reagan, we started a national conversation...
View ArticleThe Twitterization of Elizabeth Warren
(Previously posted on Tremr.com.)If Elizabeth Warren wanted to stop Drumpf, she had better options. Standing on the sidelines of the presidential primaries wasn’t one of them. Meeting after school with...
View ArticleThe Everlasting Trumpgasm of the Corporate News Media
It’s been a little over a year since Donald Orange Glowy Face Trump announced his run for the presidency and unabashedly called Mexicans criminals and rapists. The day it happened, the news media...
View ArticleSick of Politics as Usual? Show It. In Support of a National "Sick Out" on...
I’ve been thinking a lot about protest lately. In particular, I’ve been wondering how Americans who are sick and tired of being ignored and manipulated by our millionaire politicians can register their...
View ArticleNow the Hard Part Begins, America.
Now the truly hard part begins, America.Your Democratic savior from the most fascist, least qualified candidate ever for President of the United States lost to the monster. Both houses of Congress are...
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