The Failure of Conservative Economics Part V – The Bush-Cheney Depression
The United States has been in decline since 1981.That was when Ronald Reagan’s charismatic personality took over the country. Reagan was the all-time,...
Why We Need Unions
There are a lot of people today who do not understand the history and the purpose of unions. And that is very important. Very...
A Nightmare in November
Here is the real danger for 2016. We are at a tipping point. It is very likely that few Americans understand the calamitous potential...
How Conservatism Becomes Fascism
In 1946, in one of the great cosmopolitan cities of Europe, ancient and yet contemporary, with a tradition of culture, music, popular culture and...
Still Crazy After All These Years
It has been 33 years since the ascendency of Conservative philosophy in the Republican Party and since the takeover of part of American government...
The Nightmare of U.S. Private Prisons
With everything else you have to worry about—Fascism in government, domestic terrorists and the lack of intelligent response, a congress trying to overthrow all...
Comcast’s Own Game of Thrones.
I don't watch much live television. But I do like to watch ballgames and golf and certain types of British television programming. I'm not...
The Sanders Revolution
The world is changing again. Instead of a 40-something running for President, we have two 60 or 70-somethings. Maybe it takes that long to...
The Koch Brothers, Fascism and the 2014 Elections
There are always conspiracy theorists in abundance. And when it comes to elections, from Kennedy in 1960 to Bush in 2000, some people will...
Republicans Oppose Obamacare…and the Middle Class
For years, even decades, the health insurance industry has run medicine in this country. Health insurance is basically when a corporation gets between...
Governor Brownback, the Wizard of Oz
Has Kansas, under Governor Sam Brownback, become second-rate, with a semi-Fascist government? The answer is in the history of the state since Brownback took...
The Health Care Lobby’s Last Ditch Attempt to Stop Obamacare
The Patient Accessibility and Affordable Care Act, also known popularly as “Obamacare” heads into the home stretch of initiation this fall, October 1st, to...
Donald Trump Is No Populist.
by Joseph D. O'ShaughnessyI normally don't sign what we all call posts. I don't even refer to them as "posts." Rather, I call them...
The Imported Americans–Part II, From Reagan to Obama
The movement towards civil rights and a color-blind society ended when Ronald Reagan took office in 1981. After only 15 years, the affirmative actions...
Rich Republican Fascists Using Trump to Destroy Middle Class
by
Joseph D. O’ShaughnessyIt is not Trump. It is the long-term policies of the Super-Rich Right Wing, merely using Trump's Presidency to continue their goal...