Almost forgot to post this! Laura and I are prepping to spend the next two months working at the KC RenFest, so I got distracted.
I’m not going to write much about this playlist, suffice it to say that it features selections from my personal FAR WEST playlist, and it was on my mind this week for… reasons.
More on that soon.
A Republic, If You Can Keep It.
It should have been a landslide.
It shouldn’t have been a nail-biter.
It was, one hoped, the easiest question ever posed to the American people. After four years of a steady march towards fascism, four years of daily outrages — violations of the Constitution, literal textbook-definition Crimes Against Humanity, human rights violations, criminality and corruption — the American people should have buried Donald Trump and his enablers in the Republican Party in a massive tidal wave of repudiation. Something along the lines of the rejection of Barry Goldwater in 1964. We would stand up, together, and shout as loudly as we could, WE ARE BETTER THAN THIS.
But we’re not.
Continue reading “A Republic, If You Can Keep It.”Election 2020
Since I know you’re all clamoring for the political prognostications of a nerd-media writer, I figured I’d take this opportunity, ahead of the Iowa Caucus, to state my preferences in the Democratic field of candidates.
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