Georgia Runoff is Clear Choice: Do we Remain a Democracy or Welcome a Dictatorship?
PREVIOUS: Don’t let their words distract you. The Republicans and their backers are coming for your money. Dear Fellow American: I’m an octogenarian. What a privilege it was to grow up in America in the 1950s and 60s. A fabulously rich country, a democracy. The rule of law. Opportunity. Though my parents, grandparents, older […]
Don’t Let Their Words Distract You: The Republicans and Their Backers are After Your Money
PREVIOUS: Georgia voters will choose: Can Mitch McConnell keep threatening our pocketbooks and our lives? You know—we all know—that politicians use a lot of tricks and strategies to hide what they’re really up to. A case in point: ever since Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy, race has been the go-to Republican thing. Angry over civil and […]
Georgia Voters Will Choose: Can Mitch McConnell Keep Threatening Our Pocketbooks and Our Lives?
Are you counting on: A Social Security check every month? One that keeps up with inflation? Seeing a doctor or hospital that takes Medicare or Medicaid? COVID relief? Unemployment? Food? If so, this election probably is the most important decision you’ll make for a very long time. It should be a no-brainer. So what […]
Hear Evangelical Leaders Explain Why They Have Repented of their Support for Trump
Evangelical Christians have been among Donald Trump’s most reliable supporters. But that support has been eroding as the contrast between Trump’s words and behavior and Christian teachings and values has become harder to ignore. Several prominent preachers who once supported him have had a change of heart — in some cases, a true repentance — […]
An Answer to Evangelicals: If God Put Trump in Power, What Lessons Does He Want Us to Learn?
Neither reason nor faith can reach neo-Nazis, white supremacists, anti-Semites, conspiracy theorists, and other loathsome Trump followers. They have found their leader and he has found them. But those who are committed to following the teachings of Jesus—as they understand them—are in a different category. We undertook our effort to change their minds because we […]
Trump Says Catching Covid-19 ‘Was a Blessing from God.’ What Was it for the 210,000 Dead?
After his premature return to the White House from Walter Reed hospital, a suspiciously bronzed Donald Trump stood on the lawn to try to make political capital from his infection with COVID-19. He declared, “I think it was a blessing from God that I caught it. This was a blessing in disguise.” This clip from […]
Debate Among Evangelicals Suggest Softening of Their Support for Trump
Florida Evangelicals Explain Why They Can No Longer Vote For President Trump On August 15, a small group called Fed Up New Yorkers—based in Donald Trump’s home state, where people know him best—used ads on Facebook to post a memorandum to Evangelical voters. The message was blunt. We challenged these people of faith to compare […]
Anti-abortion Zealotry: Trump’s Greatest Con Was Nixon’s Legacy
HOW THE ABORTION CONTROVERSY SERVES CONSERVATISM AND RACISM For some Evangelical voters, as hundreds of recent social-media comments demonstrate, abortion is the moral and religious imperative that overrides all other issues. Because in many cases this blinds them to Donald Trump’s clearly visible sins, it’s important to understand how this came to be. A hint: […]
Class War’s Smoking Gun: Corporate Elites’ 50-year Plan to Rule the United States
“I believe leaders of the business community, with few exceptions, have chosen to wage a war against working people, the unemployed, the poor, the minorities, the very young and the very old, and even many in the middle class of our society. …I cannot sit there seeking unity with the leaders of American industry, while […]
An Anti-Abortion Christian Asks: Is This the Only Thing That Matters to Jesus? NO!
The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg forces us to confront one of the favorite excuses some voters use for ignoring Donald Trump’s egregiously inhumane and anti-Christian words and deeds. They can turn a blind eye to Trump’s endless sins as long as he appoints judges who will outlaw abortion. That raises […]