Can the Democrats recover from their last, lost election and regain the enthusiasm at the state level to mobilize their voters?  And, more importantly, what are they doing to allow more progressives to get a voice in statewide discussions and party reform at the state levels? All these

  It’s no secret that Mayor Pete is a corporate, conservative Democrat and believes that large corporate donations will continue to fuel his campaign. In a recent interview, he said the following in a discussion with a student at an Iowa university, as reported in The Independent newspaper: “Pete Buttigieg implied

      One indicator that the Democratic Party is very tepid about making the needed changes to the current broken political, economic, health care and judicial systems has now come directly from former President Barak Obama. In a Nov. 17, 2019 speech before wealthy donors in Washington DC, Obama

Here is an old joke about Canadians: How do you tell the difference between a Canadian and an American? The Canadian has free health insurance and does not own a gun. Now, a recent article on Bloomberg says the difference between middle-class Canadians and Americans shows more differences between the

      This evening’s second Democrat presidential debate will feature the two leading progressive candidates against other more conservative contenders on a range of policy issues. But the progressives–Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren–have set the direction for the policies being addressed by the others, especially in the areas of

Posted by William L. Bainbridge on Monday, July 22, 2019

        When something very newsworthy happens, people are re-awakened. That happened when Trump was elected. It has been downhill ever since. Since Trump’s election, Americans have been exposed to a lifestyle of the sociopathic, unrepentant and venal. Worse, too many Americans now see this as the new

“I am running for president, but this won’t be easy. We’ll be taking on the entire financial establishment and a corporate media who have long dismissed us and our ideas as ‘radical’ and ‘fringe.’” –Bernie Sanders (Ind-VT) and Democratic Presidential Candidate       Bernie Sanders is a clear, direct

        UPDATED, MARCH 14, 2019–In his announcement today saying he was entering the 2020 presidential race, Congressman Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) dispelled his maverick image by saying he was a capitalist. In his announcement, O’Rourke, who has few legislative accomplishment to tout, said “”I’m a capitalist. I don’t