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Civil War II America is marching into Civil War II – eyes wide shut. Indeed, few seem to care. I have written many commentaries in this regard. And the titles alone seemed alarming enough – as these three attest: “Civil War II Looms Larger as Texas Suppresses Voting Rights and Bans Abortions” on September 2, 2021. “Jan 6,… Read more.
It seems we’re observing this MLK Day in a time warp. Because America today looks so much like the Jim Crow America MLK spent his life fighting to change. Observing MLK Day in Jim Crow 2.0 America America is on a schizophrenic march towards the Promised Land of MLK’s famous dream. On the one hand, America elected the first Black man as… Read more.
Trump’s perverse appeal to Blacks and Latinos Black and Latino men are signaling their intent to vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. Polling to this effect suggests a narrative. It’s as bizarre as it is troubling. But they aren’t interested in Trump’s policies. They probably know nothing about them. Instead, Black and… Read more.
From day one, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has been bedeviling congressional efforts to enact President Biden’s domestic agenda. This is why suspicions that he’s a Manchurian senator are entirely reasonable. In fact, Biden’s presidency has been defined by him and congressional leaders engaging in an all-too-public, sausage-making process to get Manchin’s vote, on… Read more.
Podcast Episode 82 Much is being made about how the Republican Party has become little more than a political cult dedicated to Donald J. Trump. But the Supreme Court is rivaling that party in this respect. And fears abound that it will take another civil war to save America from their dystopian devices. Listen.
Conservatives on the US Supreme Court have the whole world fretting today about what they’re up to. Because, frankly, they seem hell-bent on turning America into a Taliban-style paradise … or Gilead. They insist their job is just to apply their interpretation of what the Founding Fathers originally intended when they wrote the Constitution to… Read more.
Episode 62: Forget Voting Rights. Prepare to Fight the Civil War 2.0 Whites Denying Them Have Been Asking For… Related commentaries: voting rights… MLK Day… Listen.
Related commentaries: Texas: votes and abortions… Haiti… Read more.
Political dysfunction and social unrest have had America marching towards another civil war for years. And I have been in the vanguard of those sounding alarms in commentaries like “Tribalism and Dysfunction in American Politics,” June 24, 2018, “Impeachment Vote Is as Much About Tribalism as Trumpism,” November 3, 2019, and “Republican and Democrats Began… Read more.
There’s no denying that the primary cause of the Civil War was the attempt by Southerners to retain, and to even expand, their slave economy nationwide. In a similar vein, the attempt by Republicans to systematically suppress the ability of Blacks and Hispanics to exercise their right to vote is unfolding as the primary cause… Read more.
