No one would have been more surprised to plunge into Alzheimer’s than my mother. She was vigorous, a big planner and absolutely determined not to succumb to senility, as had her own mother.
Ted Rall Comics
Don’t Worry, the Government Will only Use Their New Anti-Mass Shooting to Suppress Us
August 14, 2019
Right wing politicians are using the latest mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso as an excuse to say that they need the same sweeping rights to invade privacy that they currently use to combat foreign terrorists against potential American domestic terrorist threats. It’s not hard to see how these tools would quickly be used to crack down on any form of dissent.
Can We Blame Moderate Politics for the Next Mass Shooting?
August 12, 2019
Every time there’s a mass shooting, partisan members of the media scour social media and public postings to see if the perpetrator had a political agenda that they can blame as extremist and therefore responsible for the latest massacre. What’s going to happen when they find that the killer is a boring centrist moderate swing voter?
Bill Clinton: I Did Not Have Sex With Those Underaged Foreign Woman
August 9, 2019
The System Isn’t Broken. We Need a New System.
August 7, 2019
Damn Bernie Sanders Has Had It, Goddammit
August 5, 2019
The Leap of Faith Taken by Alzheimer’s Caregivers
August 2, 2019
Banks or Loansharks?
July 31, 2019
To hear banks and their defenders tell it, student loan recipients have a moral obligation to return full payment plus exorbitant interest rates to their lenders. But what about the responsibility of lenders not to overcharge or to issue loans to people too young to understand their implications?
Membership Has Its Privileges
July 29, 2019
Every Single Time, Centrists Say They’ll Win. And They Never Do.
July 26, 2019
It’s the oldest debate within the Democratic Party: what to do about a progressive insurgent candidate? Whether it’s Ted Kennedy’s challenge against Jimmy Carter in 1980, Howard Dean against John Kerry in 2004 or Bernie Sanders against Hillary Clinton, moderates and centrists always say the same thing: in order to win, you need those swing voters. That means you have to pick the moderate choice. The problem with that argument is that it never really works out in the general election. Kennedy and Dean’s voters stayed home in November. 3 to 4,000,000 Bernie Sanders primary voters never showed up for Hillary Clinton. Now the same argument is being floated again, this time in favor of Joe Biden.
