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Americans are done with MAGA. But they’re not quite ready to get behind Democrats.
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What comes next, history has shown, will not be pleasant.
"People who understand power tend to have the patience to build a base, do the training, raise the money, so when they go into action they surprise people,” says community organizer Michael Gecan of the Industrial Areas Foundation.
Widespread social unrest will ignite when Donald Trump’s base realizes it has been betrayed. I do not know when this will happen. But that it will happen is certain.
Impoverished urban communities have evolved into miniature police states.
1984 America is about—unless we act quickly—to get ugly. It's in a moment of history that Antonio Gramsci called the “interregnum”: the period when a discredited regime is collapsing but a new one has yet to take its place.
“We the people demand a democracy free from the corrupting influence of big money and voter suppression,” they shouted. “We demand a democracy where every vote is counted and every voice is heard. Democracy Spring!”
The revolt may be right-wing, it may have heavy overtones of fascism, it may cement into place a frightening police state. But that a revolt is coming is incontrovertible. The absurdity of the election proves it.
We are being assaulted by political campaigning that resembles the constant crusading by fascists and communists in past totalitarian societies.
A mass mobilization will begin the push to block the Trans-Pacific Partnership – a far better investment of our time and energy than engaging in the empty political theater that passes for a presidential campaign.
These activists are waging a war against a corporate state that is deaf and blind to the rights of its citizens and the imperative to protect the ecosystem – and they're being monitored, demonized and criminalized in the process.
Americans are done with MAGA. But they’re not quite ready to get behind Democrats.
Green capitalism is proposed as a means to save capitalism, yet it is an existential threat to us all.
To truly challenge Reform, Labour and the British establishment, the Greens will need to harness their increasing membership and work alongside social movements.
In the battle between President Donald Trump’s regime and Minneapolis, Minneapolis is winning.
Regardless of the motive for the boat strikes in the Caribbean, the Sept. 2 strike has sparked bipartisan outrage among members of Congress who have oversight over the Pentagon.
Americans are done with MAGA. But they’re not quite ready to get behind Democrats.
Green capitalism is proposed as a means to save capitalism, yet it is an existential threat to us all.
To truly challenge Reform, Labour and the British establishment, the Greens will need to harness their increasing membership and work alongside social movements.
In the battle between President Donald Trump’s regime and Minneapolis, Minneapolis is winning.
Regardless of the motive for the boat strikes in the Caribbean, the Sept. 2 strike has sparked bipartisan outrage among members of Congress who have oversight over the Pentagon.
In the battle between President Donald Trump’s regime and Minneapolis, Minneapolis is winning.
To truly challenge Reform, Labour and the British establishment, the Greens will need to harness their increasing membership and work alongside social movements.
Americans are done with MAGA. But they’re not quite ready to get behind Democrats.
Green capitalism is proposed as a means to save capitalism, yet it is an existential threat to us all.