Month February 2023

WHY DO YOU KEEP VOTING FOR THESE PEOPLE?

This happened last week. The REPUBLICAN majority in the Mississippi State House killed every single Medicaid expansion bill without even debating it. These are bills that would’ve provided healthcare primarily to the working poor. 80% of Mississippians favor Medicaid expansion,…

Commit To Always Telling The Full Story

What Happened Leading up to January 6th, 2021, Donald Trump incited fellow Americans to carry out an insurrection attempt to overturn the results of our presidential election. And for the rest of our lives, we have to commit to doing…

What Politics Should Be And How To Fix It

Politics and Politicians They are not beholden to their constituents, they are beholden to the money that backs them. And that money is increasingly from small groups of right-wing billionaires supporting republican lawmakers. Politics has become a reality TV show.…

We Don’t Die, We Multiply

Here’s a powerful speech given by U.S. House Representation Jamaal Bowman in response to the college board stripping down its A.P. curriculum for African-American studies. Here’s the transcript of the speech: “Black history is American history and I wanna speak…

It’s Up To Us To Hold The Line

The Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. –Wikipedia In America, the furthest left we can comfortably talk about in public is socialism. Globally, there’s a lot further to the left we…

Put Me In Jail

There’s a phenomenon that happens in the United States that doesn’t get too much attention. And it’s not unique to the United States. The phenomenon is that people are begging and pleading in colder months and really hot months, to…

Failing Upwards

Liars are failing upwards. For current examples think of George Santos and Andrew Tate, they are moving up in position while failing along the way. Our culture rewards lying and we need to create a culture that doesn’t reward lying…

Don’t Upset The NRA

See the difference? Republicans can’t say the words because they need to preserve their donations from the National Rifle Association. At least acknowledge what it is. Rewritten: