As part of the piece Ben tackles something I am still attempting to get my arms around, how we got from McCain and Romney to Trump. Thinking that Bill Clinton made it okay to be an overtly immoral president and Obama okay to consistently lie (more than normal politicians) but thinking Ben gets closer. After being lectured about right wing sins for decades, to have someone not cringe but to strike back was like bubble gum, it felt really good in the moment. The problem is what does bubble gum taste like hours later?
Over the past weeks we had members of the so called squad, in utter ignorance of what Hamas stands for, support this terrorist organization. But as Ben notes, despite the vacuous utterings of AOC or Cori's Bush's hypocrisy, they provide the energy and the ideas on the left. When someone says they are a Democratic SOCIALIST, they mean to impose socialism.
I take both left and right seriously. How will you notice their flaws as well as their strengths if you don't?
As part of the piece Ben tackles something I am still attempting to get my arms around, how we got from McCain and Romney to Trump. Thinking that Bill Clinton made it okay to be an overtly immoral president and Obama okay to consistently lie (more than normal politicians) but thinking Ben gets closer. After being lectured about right wing sins for decades, to have someone not cringe but to strike back was like bubble gum, it felt really good in the moment. The problem is what does bubble gum taste like hours later?
Over the past weeks we had members of the so called squad, in utter ignorance of what Hamas stands for, support this terrorist organization. But as Ben notes, despite the vacuous utterings of AOC or Cori's Bush's hypocrisy, they provide the energy and the ideas on the left. When someone says they are a Democratic SOCIALIST, they mean to impose socialism.