Culture
Trauma and Community in San Jose
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Trauma and Community in San Jose
Some drank. Some called in to work, sickened. Some wore black. Some sobbed. Some stayed up all night, unable to escape the pain and dread in their stomachs.
General News
Want democratic institutions to hold? Stop pretending there's a "campaign Trump" and prepare to fight an autocrat
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The following refrain has been heard repeatedly since the course of American history forever shifted on Tuesday night: Maybe President Trump will be different than candidate Trump.
It’s a refrain which has been uttered by NBA commentators, pundits, politicians, and everyday Americans hoping that Trump’s fascist rhetoric was nothing more than a vote-whipping device. It’s a refrain which has been repeated by those who believe the dignity of office of the presidency, indeed the Oval Office itself, somehow has the power to humble and shape those who hold it. It’s also a refrain which has been spoken by those who never believed Trump could win the presidency in the first place.
Culture
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton: Two Figures in a Derailed World
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Humanity needs a new life order with a new vision of leadership and unity. What is meant is not external leadership, but leadership coming from within. It is not the unity proclaimed through banners and election slogans, but the inner unity of people who coexist in trust to assist fellow beings and serve the Earth.
General News
A Nation, Divided, with Liberty and Justice for the Few
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Michelle Alexander provides ample documentation for how low-income whites, Trump’s core constituency, have consistently been invited and pushed to distance themselves from low-income people of color, and especially African Americans.
Culture
With a heavy heart . . . and then . . .
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The day after the election . . . with a heavy heart. What now?
General News
The Day After Election Day
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Now we know the face of the United States of America: Donald Trump. Trump has been elected to serve as the 45th president of the United States. The president is not only chief executive and commander-in-chief of the military, the president is both the head of government and the head of state. To be the head of state means that this person represents the United States in his or her person. As of this writing, Secretary Hillary Clinton received more votes than Trump, meaning more Americans wanted her to represent the nation to history and to the world, but Trump won the Electoral College math.
General News
Old Glory (What would Emma Lazarus say?)
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The dawn’s early light
is late, dim and damp,
a wrung-out dishrag gray.
Oh say,
can you see?
Politics & Society
Trump Republican Supremacists
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Trump brings to the stage the white anger against the neoliberal economy, and channels it against the minorities by using the Republican racist subtext.
General News
Election Day 2016
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“It’s really something every two years we get to overthrow the government.” Aaron Sorkin through Amy Gardner, a character on “The West Wing”
Election Day is the day We the People take our power back. (It ought to be a national holiday, but that is another essay.)
It is easy to feel powerless in this world. We watch our Congress engage in unprecedented obstruction, and it seems there is nothing we can do about it. For the better part of a year, the Supreme Court of the United States has functioned with only eight members because Republicans in the senate decided to ignore their constitutional responsibility and refused to give President Obama’s nominee to the high court either a hearing or a vote.
Culture
We Need a Revolution: Overcoming Fascism with a Movement of Love
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The rise of fascism always seems to hit the world by surprise. Yet what we are now witnessing did not begin with Trump, just as German fascism did not begin with Hitler. Wherever people are prohibited to express their basic emotional and energetic drives, wherever they grow up and live in conditions of fear, mistrust and violence, the danger of fascism looms. Suppressed life energy dams up and turns into constant aggression.