Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL.
Writer-editor-photographer. Lifelong activist & Democratic Party dissident. Neoliberalism spent, Trumpism shredding government & Constitution, & capitalism raping planet: what comes next? Democracy, community, equality, saving planet: Devil's in details.
- So simple, so brilliant, so much soul.
- Financialization is a grift, a rarefied form of bookmaking, of no net value to workers and consumers, the economy, or society as a whole. Economists and the news media can stop using the word “invest” in contexts where no investing occurs. “Speculate” or “bet” will do just fine.
- Every generation learns that equality, liberty, and justice cannot be taken for granted. They must be reclaimed again and again from tyrants who believe that, under pressure, we’ll prove just as cruel and as rageful as they are. Americans keep proving them wrong.
- Evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, the Democrats are not powerless.
- The DNC has to stop recruiting intelligence operatives, prosecutors and millionaires as candidates. What Congress needs is teachers, nurses, scientists, engineers, mechanics, plumbers, electricians, small business owners, academics, community organizers, and lots and lots of artists.
- States can hold the Federal government accountable.
