When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?
The loss we carry, a sea we must wade.
We’ve braved the belly of the beast.
We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace,
and the norms and notions of what “just” is isn’t always justice.
And yet, the dawn is ours before we knew it.…
No one deserves to be impeached and convicted more than President Donald J. Trump, unless it is the thousands of his followers who stormed the Capitol last week, or the elected Republicans who swore to defend the Constitution and failed to do so, or the 75 million people who, after four years of openly dictatorial behavior, voted against Democracy.
However, …
President Trump and Mitch McConnell appear bent on ramming through a hasty 11th hour lifetime appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. This naked power grab will do long term damage to the Court, our country and both parties.
We all know the court itself is badly divided and has been losing the respect of the public. Justice Ruth Bader …
Non-violence in the face of truth led to the end of legal segregation in the South. I know because in 1960, I was a student at the University of Florida. Blacks were forbidden to attend. There were separate drinking fountains separate swimming pools. For most whites, allowing equal rights for blacks was frightening. Politicians told them equality would lead to …
In life, luck of the draw and being in the right place at the right time often determines not only success but sometimes life and death itself. Kamala Harris is not the first and won’t be last politician to gain office because her life and events she had no control over came together in a way that benefitted her. …
The answer is not complicated. Most of his supporters are white men who long for an America they remember as “GREAT”. Which is to say the America of our founding fathers, who three hundred years ago conceived a nation of liberty and freedom of religion where all the benefits of freedom were controlled by and for white men. Then freedom …
Jerry and I are actively supporting these nine Democratic Candidates for the U.S. Senate. We chose these nine seats because we believe they have the best chance of winning. The easiest way to donate is to use ACT BLUE. You may already have an account with ACT BLUE. However some of you, like myself, may want to write a letter …
November 2020, like November 2016 offers Americans a stark choice—do we want to continue going down or do we want to reverse course. Much that was good about America has been destroyed in less than four years. While almost nothing has been accomplished to make life better for most Americans. Ironically, those in the Red states who voted for Trump …
America is in big trouble and it is not just about Trump. The partisan divide is about being stuck in hate and division vs. a different future for our country. It has infected our politics at every level right down to whether to care enough about others to wear a mask to end a deadly pandemic.
We need change. And …
At the end of WWII, German families were out of work and out of food. Their sons had been killed their daughters raped and their country divided into four occupied zones. But they still worshiped Hitler, the man who brought such ruin upon them.
Today, 150,000 Americans have died. We are on our way to a quarter million by election …
