The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. So said Antonio Gramsci. This great pre-WWII Italian political leader and deep political theoretician set the terms... Continue
Progressive Majority Coalition
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. So said Antonio Gramsci, the great pre-WWII Italian political leader and deep political theoretician who set the... Continue
Subsequent to my last column two weeks ago, Governor Gavin Newsom has put his shoulder to the wheel of the Care Courts Initiative passed by the state legislature in late 2022 by announcing a 2024 statewide referendum to get public buy-in on the concept. This... Continue
Bless the many caring individuals, church ministries, and private charities who struggle to feed, shelter, and keep alive the cast-offs, the superfluous population, the losers in our social Monopoly game, who have been cast from the comforting quotidian routine of daily life as an ordinary... Continue
Thursday night, February 9, I attended a rally in support of the workers at the Fairmont Hotel. The engaged turnout, the numbers, and the energy of this mixed assembly of Latino and Anglo workers and community supporters was one of the most heartening public events... Continue
The surviving members of the rapidly diminishing founding cohort of the ‘60s great cultural revolution, the consequent modern-day social movements, and the progressive political movement are now beginning to pass into history. This much-maligned demographic I represent, the cursed Boomers, were the generation that helped... Continue
The primary challenge of progressive politics is to demonstrate to a deeply alienated and often chronically traumatized working class that government can change their lives for the better. That was the theory of change that motivated Bernie Sanders’ epic campaigns in 2016 and 2020. The... Continue
The dominant narrative of the MSM (Main Stream Media) in the months leading up to the 2022 midterm election never seemed plausible to me. The chief executives of MSM have fashioned a dated political line based on voter modeling going back 40 years, back to... Continue
The marquee political race in the regional 2022 midterm election is for the 12th State Assembly District. This is a newly redrawn district, which includes all of Marin County and the southern half of Sonoma County, including Petaluma, Rohnert Park, and the southern half of... Continue
Watching and listening to the performance of the norms of democracy and electoral engagement by the mainstream media class can induce a sense of existential dread. The Matrix reality that these national broadcast outlets disseminate is an ideological construction, a confection that asserts that the... Continue