Many Americans bemoan the normalcy before the lockdown prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Until we can get back to normalcy, however, we can do all the things that make America America by using technology.
First There Were Only Two. Then There Was a Third. Trouble Began.
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In the two-party trap of electoral democracy in the United States, people who vote for a third-party or not at all are constantly told that their choice not to support one of those two candidates necessarily leads to the victory of the other one. Here’s an analogy that might help drive a stake through that ridiculous idea.
We Are All in This Together. But Some of Us Are More in It Than Others
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Even liberal Democrats are unwilling to provide real relief to distressed homeowners and renters. All they want to offer is a temporary moratorium on evictions and foreclosures. In that respect, they are exactly the same as the Republicans. After all, they have a common class interest.
2038: The Year the Lockdown Ended
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What will people be like if and when they finally emerge from the COVID-19 lockdown? Homo americanus may mutate into an entirely new beast.
Highlights of the Biden Presidency
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What will a Joe Biden presidency look like? We should probably assume that it will look a lot like his campaign: virtual, online, filed in remotely from his basement.
People Are Getting Hungry. Do You Know What That Means?
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he people, Marxists always said, won’t revolt unless they’re hungry enough. Mass unemployment and poverty, along with government in action, are about to test that proposition.
So Your Landlord Is Trying to Evict You
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Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, aren’t able to pay rent or their mortgages, and therefore face eviction or foreclosure. Yet the best that even “liberal” politicians are offering is a moratorium on evictions until some future point in time.
How Women Support Both the #MeToo Movement and Joe Biden.
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Feminist who support both the “me too” movement and former vice president Joe Biden’s campaign for president awkwardly respond to rape allegations by Tara Reade.
The 25% Solution
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Some states are allowing businesses to begiun to emerge from the COVID-19 lockdown by allowing them to operate at 25% capacity. How exactly will that look like?
One Final Zoom Session
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Zoom has become the official technological work around for social distancing in the age of COVID-19.
