Watching and listening to the performance of the norms of democracy and electoral engagement by the mainstream media class can induce a Sartrean sense of existential dread. The Matrix reality that these national broadcast outlets disseminate is an ideological construction, a confection that asserts that... Continue
Progressive Majority Coalition
One of the cultural aftershocks of the pandemic trauma is a remarkable spike in union action in the U.S. The fact that about a third of the American workforce was laid off during the covid crisis awakened a widespread mobilization of young people in the... Continue
The real labor day is on May 1, International Labor Day. All around the world unionists and socialists celebrate the venerated tradition of May Day, which started back in the late 19th century. The postwar American capitalist overlords were not about to have workers get... Continue
The Biden Administration exceeded my deflated expectations by passing three significant pieces of legislation in the last month. As a democratic socialist, all of the bills are inadequate and not even close to what is needed for the actual historical task of developing a functional... Continue
The bloodless and tepid response of the Democratic Party leadership to the existential crisis of the Trump-packed Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe has forced us to confront the fact that the hollowed-out institutional core of the party will not protect us from the gathering storm... Continue
The Trump Supreme Court just announced the effective end of the 50-year-old Roe court ruling, which affirmed the 'right to privacy' as a constitutionally grounded civil right that gave women legal agency over their own bodies. We are shocked to realize that we have been... Continue
The dark clouds on the periphery of my progressive political stronghold are drawing nearer. We see the full extent of the successful 40-year drive of the cultural conservatives, backed by unlimited right-wing oligarch money, politicized prosperity gospel evangelicals, and ruthless Republican political operatives... Continue
The End of History and the Last Man is a 1992 book by American political scientist Francis Fukuyama who argues that with the ascendancy of Western capitalist liberal democracy following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and end of the Cold War (1945–1991), humanity had... Continue
There’s no doubt about it: we are in a union boom right now. This boom is being driven primarily by Millennials who are keenly aware that they missed out on the brief window of the great bonanza of post-war prosperity. A new wave of youthful... Continue
The 2022 Sonoma County Sheriff contest is down one candidate, Kevin Burke, Healdsburg Police Chief, who dropped out of the race last week. As the meeting secretary for CBSC (Citizens for a Better Sonoma County), I get to participate in the candidate interviews. We interviewed... Continue