The American worker is under incredible stress from rapacious employers, a horrific job market, avaricious vendors, societal stressors, and an oppressive government. It would take a little more energy to change it all—but that may be asking too much for now.
Remember those car ads where they drove a gas-guzzling vehicle up to the top of a mesa in Arizona to capture the romance of the open road? Now that gas prices are soaring, it looks more like a death wish.
Despite repeated disasters, the Democratic National Committee continues its strategy of sidelining leftists and progressives in favor of corporate moderates who are unpopular with voters.
Theoretically, representative democracy is a process by which candidates for elected office accurately assess people’s biggest concerns and develop popular plans to fix the problems. However, politicians from both parties, especially Republicans, seem to prefer radical and novel redistricting schemes so that they don’t have to convince anyone and can still win.
These days, everything seems so fake that it’s impossible to discern what may or may not be real in order to determine whether you should care.
Nearly every day brings another example of Trump or one of his lieutenants making a brazenly outlandish and illogical argument to justify doing what they want to do despite the law and Constitution.
The president nearly met his Maker again. With the possibility of death comes consideration of what might await one in the hereafter. With little doubt that Christian tradition would have Donald Trump downward-bound, the question remains: what exactly will his eternity look like?
Why is the stock market hitting record highs? Why are oil futures not even higher? Even if the Strait of Hormuz were reopened immediately—which it will not be—it will take six months or more to restore oil supplies to an Asia that is already running short. The IMF says the odds of a recession are way up. Why aren’t traders paying attention to the slow-motion disaster heading our way due to the Iran War?
Trump is spending at least $2 billion a day to attack Iran, which doesn’t include the economic cost of the disruption to oil supplies. Now he’s offering $500 million to the oil-rich UAE for no discernible reason. Everyone is getting in on the grift of taxpayer money except the American taxpayers who are suffering in a crappy job market and rising prices.
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