Symptoms by which you may recognize a tyrant: 1. Fears losing their position; actions driven by this fear 2. Attempts to rise above the rule of law 3. Does not accept criticism 4. Cannot be called to account for their actions 5. Does not listen to advice from those who do not curry favor 6. […]
After reading an article by Steven Rosenfeld on Salon.com, I think it is important to begin to address some of the criticisms of the movement to amend the Constitution to state that Corporations Are Not People and Money Is Not Speech. Rosenfeld writes: Proposals from two leading grassroots groups, Move To Amend and Free Speech For People … […]
I’m reading Thomas Frank’s Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right. Great book! Depressing. It tells the vivid story of how right wingers were able to quickly recover from the disasters of the Bush Administration and to reinvent themselves by 2010 as the saviors of the middle class. In […]
