"The Democratic Party’s hypocrisy and duplicity is the fertilizer for Christian fascism. Its exclusive focus on the culture wars and identity politics at the expense of economic, political, and social justice fueled a right-wing backlash and stoked the bigotry, racism, and sexism it sought to curtail."
The Two-Party System Is Facing Its Biggest Challenge In 70 Years. From Maine to Missouri, states are bucking the establishment to push radical electoral reforms.
It is about a culture of cruelty that is buttressed by a moral coma.
It is about a culture of cruelty that is buttressed by a moral coma.
The incivility machine Trump resurrected as tool of resistance against establishment politicians played a major role in gaining him the presidency.
The people who run America have constructed a political system that’s like a glitchy killer robot, one even they can’t control anymore.
A culture of fear, hate and bigotry has transformed American politics into a pathology.
The frequent use of boxing and football metaphors in political discourse did not cause violence to become such an important force in our politics, but this usage is one measure of how presidential campaigns can be less about policy differences and complex political agendas than they can be about the selling of a certain kind of executive masculinity, embodied in a particular man whom the public comes to know largely through television and other technologies of mass communication.
The pattern is clear: Federal and local law enforcement target the First Amendment-protected activities of social justice movements because they pose a political threat, not a violent one.
In fascism the politically disempowered and disengaged, ignored and reviled by the establishment, discover a voice and a sense of empowerment.
Giroux: Democratic hope is a subversive, defiant practice that makes power visible and interrogates and resists those events, social relations, and ideas that pose a threat to democracy.
Lawrence Lessig and Zephyr Teachout return to talk about the corrupting influence of money in politics, and their push to change the system. Moyers & Company  November 21, 2014  Moyers & Company  November 21, 2014 Government has become a clearinghouse for corporations and plutocrats with deep pockets to buy the politicians who grease the wheels More
