“As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.”
— Hannah Arendt
I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.
Yeah, we think this Christian nationalist mythology is dangerous.
America was founded on religious freedom and the separation of church and state.
We’re not surrendering our real history — or our future — to grifters wrapping authoritarian politics in a Bible and a flag.
People should never forget that these grifters raided Florida’s emergency fund to the tune of almost $1 billion to torture immigrants in the Everglades. Sociopaths.
"The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. In the early nineteenth century, fifteen hours was the ordinary day's work for a man; children sometimes did as much, and very commonly did twelve hours a day. When meddlesome busybodies suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from drink and children from mischief.
When I was a child, shortly after urban working men had acquired the vote, certain public holidays were established by law, to the great indignation of the upper classes. I remember hearing an old Duchess say: 'What do the poor want with holidays? They ought to work.' People nowadays are less frank, but the sentiment persists, and is the source of much of our economic confusion."
— Bertrand Russell
The SPLC indictment is Trump letting the white supremacists he calls his base know he's got their backs. The administration is trying to erase America's racist history with one hand—and writing its racist future with the other.
My latest for The Nation:
https://t.co/Y5kq3nZ8dJ
Suspending a primary election days before early voting starts just so you can redraw the maps to disenfranchise Black and brown voters is a perfect example of the lengths Republican politicians will go to rig our democracy in their favor.