Wednesday June 23, 2021: As you’ve heard, yesterday all Senate Republicans voted No on a motion to merely debate Voting Rights issues that now challenge the very continuance of our democracy. Unsurprising of course, yet yesterday’s political tableau is said to have been performed for the benefit of Democratic Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema, to make clear to
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Democracy For Who? Do The Poor Have A Say? – Thom Hartmann (plus Ceres!)
Here’s a June 16, 2020 clip from Thom Hartmann concerning a timely societal topic which contains within it many thorny and related issues:
~:~In Mundane Astrology I tend to use asteroid Ceres as a marker for democracy, aka, Democracy. However, these days, America’s fabled streak of Plutocracy has grown wider than ever and we find that on July 4, 1776 our Ceres Rx @8Pisces41 conjoined the 1776
Court Throws Out North Carolina’s Racist Voting Law As ‘A Cure For Problem That Doesn’t Exist – clip
Having family in Raleigh, North Carolina, this court ruling sounds to me like a big improvement over racism-inspired voter suppression. Thom Hartmann reports:
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GOP Doing Everything Possible to Dismantle Democracy – video
Although I personally tend to blame both political parties for breach of the public trust in a multitude of ways these last decades, there does seem to be a particular leaning on the side of the Republican Party’s anarchists and zealots wanting to "dismantle", shut down, obstruct, undermine, drown in a bath tub, destroy, and/or otherwise coup the US government as discussed here by Farron Cousins
Brunch with Bernie: 8/7/15 – Thom Hartmann video
Senator Bernie Sanders speaks with Thom Hartmann about the 2016 election and our loss of voting rights:
Imho, the only way Republicans can reliably ‘win’ elections these days is to cheat. Someone tell them that cheating isn’t winning, it’s stealing–though with their ‘success at any cost’ agenda, they don’t care. And yes, I know–the Democratic Party is only about half a rung higher on the