One thing I do go back and forth on is whether the country (and also progressives) would be better served if we had Mike Pence instead of Donald Trump ( Read more... )

During the Bush era, up until the last year or so, I had a ton of anger and animosity towards George W. Bush. But by the last year, I realized he wasn't many of the things I had projected onto him--he was ill-equipped to handle the job, but well-meaning and decent in his values, although he allowed Cheney and the neocons to do things that were not ( Read more... )

I spend a lot of time discussing current events on a forum--I've been interacting there for over a decade. There are people on all sides of the political aisle. A conservative posted a question--where is today's Martin Luther King, Jr.? He lamented that there were now only people out for themselves, as opposed to King, who "believed strongly in ( Read more... )

During the Bush era, up until the last year or so, I had a ton of anger and animosity towards George W. Bush. But by the last year, I realized he wasn't many of the things I had projected onto him--he was ill-equipped to handle the job, but well-meaning and decent in his values, although he allowed Cheney and the neocons to do things that were not ( Read more... )

Things have gotten quite splintered in the world of feminism having to do with race. The March against Trump is one area we are seeing it play out now ( Read more... )

Donald Trump does not have a mandate. Don't be suckered.

http://time.com/4620230/donald-trump-gallup-poll-president/?xid=time_socialflow_facebook

The biggest reason given by non-voters for staying home was that they didn’t like ( Read more... )

You may feel you want to do something, anything regarding the Trump Nightmare about to be unleashed ( Read more... )

The current slant on the election is that Donald Trump won because Hillary Clinton didn't run a good campaign ( Read more... )

The will of the American voters was that Hillary Clinton be President. She didn't win by three votes or three hundred votes or three thousand votes or thirty thousand votes or three hundred thousand votes. She won by 2.9 million votes. So, every time that Republicans or the media try to claim that anyone is trying to subvert the "will of the ( Read more... )

The Republicans are masters of manipulation. I will give them that, if nothing else ( Read more... )