Developments today in Israeli and U.S. elections combined to make me absolutely miserable. On top of that Seattle, where I live, is one of America’s premier Coronavirus hot spots. It is spreading like wildfire, but there is a preternatural calm in the city: road traffic is down, restaurants and stores are half-full. It’s as if […]
Democratic Party Elite Repeat. It’s 2016 All Over Again.
It’s deja vu all over again. 2016 revisited, with only a few modifications. Then Hillary Clinton slugged it out with Bernie Sanders, and in a war of attrition gradually built up an insurmountable lead, despite the massive excitement the insurgent candidate aroused among the left-wing of the Party. Clinton went on to run a lackluster […]
Super Tuesday as 2020 Watershed Moment
Today was a watershed in the road to the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. It was, of course, the day that two of the four centrist candidates dropped out of the race and announced their endorsement of Joe Biden. But no matter how critical today was, tomorrow will be even more important. Because if Bernie Sanders […]
Bernie’s Winning, Why F*k it Up?
I’m never surprised by the vile filth spewed by the pro-Israel far right: sometimes here in the comment threads, but more often on social media platforms. On the other hand, I react with skepticism to similar criticism of the supposed vitriol spewed by so-called Bernie Bros online. It’s always seemed to me to be manufactured, […]
