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There are not enough living beings on planet Earth to create "herd immunity." Rest assured, the uber-wealthy 10% are fully immunized against COVID-19, including booster shots. Per their capitalist conservative worldview, they fully expect the remaining 90% (you and me) to die of COVID. Those of the 90% who survive will become slaves.

 

 Yes, it's wonderful that Democrats won the presidency in 2020. (I voted for every name that had a [D] after it.) But I think it's rather sad that those who are are happy a stellar political candidate like Kamala Harris is the VP would be horrified if Harris was the President-elect. I just hope Biden gets out of her way and lets Harris work her reformative magick. (And the idea of Kamala Harris presiding over Congress gives me a warm feeling.)

The consequence of a stratified hierarchy--beloved by conservatives--is we, the people, all die, be it a military death, a religious death, a medical death, or an economic death; we die slowly and painfully, and our deaths are usually meaningless.

So much criticism of Liberalism posits that the idea of social and cultural progress at the expense of tradition is balloon-juice at best, hedonism at worst. At the heart of this critique is the (often unspoken) catechism "we have to live in the real world" usually expressed in historical anecdotes carefully chosen to prop up this restricted viewpoint. How telling is this look to the past--the history of economic/cultural repression justified by "that's just how things are" to keep us frozen in an eternal profit-loss margin continually favoring a fortunate wealthy few, a trade of a few shekels for the souls of the American people, using historical merit to maintain this obvious lie. Since the historical evidence is overwhelmingly against this worldview, such support from the past must be treated as an article of faith. Anyone who uses this faith to justify the violent treatment of people based on color, gender, status or income is someone who has a vested inter...

A quick reference chart on how to prepare for GOP shock and awe.

It's as plain as a pikestaff.

I flat-out cannot understand how a person can stare at the bottom line of a spreadsheet and come to the conclusion that denying healthcare for millions of people is a good thing. Such thinking is alien to any humanistic outlook, revealing the mindset of someone inhuman, a true monster. Worse, proponents of this cruel and needless process attempt to cloak it in a twisted form of reason, whipping up mass hysteria among their supporters, fed on mythology and bigotry, who call it patriotism. All concealing the stark fact that someone in power sentenced many, many people to die, all for the sake of ideological revenge against a nation that dared elect a man of color into the White House.