President Trump's approval rating with Republicans has never been higher.
While that appears to be a good thing for Republicans at face value, it is in fact a sign of weakness.
Of all the states to undergo a teachers strike this year, Oklahoma gave the teachers the least amount of concessions and the most disrespect.
I'm a believer in the progressive insurgency currently underway in the Democratic Party. Not because I'm convinced it will succeed, but because I don't think the bastards should have any "safe space" anywhere.
Cross posted from Real Economics.
While probably none of us here totally agree with everything Bernie says, I think most of us would unhesitatingly agree that there is no finer practitioner of the art of discomforting Republicans than he. The 2017 Tax Deform Bill has passed but the sage Bernie predicted wisely before it did so: see this 6:47 video for a fine double skewering by the Bern
Which party is the bigger mess?
The news is filled with reports of Republicans abandoning Trump, but is that true?
For the moment, Republicans are still loyal to Trump.
There is a standard view of the political spectrum, from left to right, and where the idea of 'reaching out' to the other side is a pretty harmful thing - it means giving up important principles and policies to compromise and get cooperation. Hey, support this corrupt corporate policy, and you'll get this good social justice policy.
We rightfully are repulsed by that paradigm.
Toss it out the window here. There's another.
My phone company calls itself CREDO, which I keep because they're nice folks. But CREDO persists in imagining itself to be "political," so in my email they send me this:
The substance of it is as follows:
Gah. We have been doing our usual deal camping in Africa for a couple of months etc since April and only checking in from time to time, but when we do we are astounded at the attacks on all we hold dear by the current gov, the duopoly, and Mr. Trump.
This afternoon, instead of being out getting in some exercise further exploring old Venetia we got roped into reading C99 and other news.
