I Suffer From A Genetic Flaw, Which

We Just Watched This Budget Debacle Right? Seventy-three Percent Of Americans Want To Tax The Rich. Why Can't The Politicians Respond To That? Because They Are The Rich. And They Are Beholden To The Rich. It's A Captured System.

One Of The Great Crimes Of The Bloomberg/klein Administration [in New York City] Is That They've Removed Themselves From Communities, As If Communities Have Nothing To Say About What Their Needs And Aspirations Are For Themselves And For Their Children.

There Are Things About Classic Liberalism That Obviously I'm Drawn To And I Bet All Of You Are As Well. Those Are Things Like Liberty, Freedom, The Bill Of Rights. But The Reason That I Reject The Label Is That I Grew Up Cutting My Teeth Against The Liberals.

Dunbar-ortiz Strips Us Of Our Forged Innocence, Shocks Us Into New Awareness, And Draws A Straight Line From The Sins Of Our Fathers-settler-colonialism, The Doctrine Of Discovery, The Myth Of Manifest Destiny, White Supremacy, Theft And Systematic Killing-to The Contemporary Condition Of Permanent War, Invasion And Occupation, Mass Incarceration, And The Constant Use And Threat Of State Violence.

It Wasn't [barack] Obama Per Se; It Was The Feeling On The Ground; It Was Seeing An Old Black Woman In A Wheelchair Being Wheeled By Her Son Waving A Big American Flag, And Then Seeing A Guy With His Baby In His Arms Saying, "i Didn't Want Her To Miss Tonight! I Wanted To Be Able To Tell Her!" And To See All These People, A Hispanic Cop Dancing With An Old White Woman, Wow! I Mean, That's The World I Want To Live In, And Because It's The World I Want To Live In, I Had A Hard Time Leaving.