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Is the Left more a function of “carriers” of ideas that survive mainly during the life and times of the carrier? Therefore, is there a...

Abolish capitalism? The American Left must persuade the rest of us that capitalism can truly be replaced. Has it been considered that capitalism’s collapse may not be imminent? This “collapse” cannot rest on wishful thinking. How, exactly, would capitalism disappear? Should we discard the entire system and replace it with one that no one in DSA can clearly articulate or fully explain? The Bible says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” So what is their

On US1 in South Florida it is anything but impossible to a find a Cyber-truck driver with a 'Don’t Tread on Me’ license plate. It is easy to think of environmentalism as the sole domain of left-wing politics. Yet, of course there are environmentalists on the right and more commonly those on the right who use environmentalism toward ulterior motives. The use of environmentalism becomes problematic in the hands of the far-right, and this is not theoretical but found in Eco-fasc

Over the course of our baby boomer lives, "race" (socio-cultural reality, scientific-biological falsehood) and education (as measured by degrees or lack thereof) have replaced class (also now often measured by formal education) as chief predictors of party allegiance. Thus guidelines for increasingly blatant gerrymandering. Partly because class has become less "classical." More service and agricultural, less unionized, not the mining and factory jobs many of my male relatives

Protest is a key part of the civics process. Yet, higher educational institutions often do not go about teaching protest in any meaningful sense. Instead, protests are taught about passively as something that had a nebulous impact on politics. But as a part of a holistic education in civics, higher education students should be taught about the organization process of and experiences behind protesting. Protest as a part of pedagogy could avoid being ideologically while providi

PROTEST GOES MAINSTREAM I was watching THE BULWARK livestream commentary during THE NO KINGS PROTESTS around the country. Of my takeaways, the most striking change in polarity is simply the mainstreaming of protest. That is crucial because that's a big part of how authoritarian governments are pushed out of power. I want to talk a bit about what a big shift this is. Anyone who has read HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE by Ziblatt and Levitsky knows that where a cross-center coalition a

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The political issues post Covid 19 are becoming very clear in 2024 and beyond. Human rights, democracy, and immigration. The consequences...