Democrats are TOO TIMID to use their power. They must become BOLD to represent the voters.
Senate Democrats appoint PRO-COAL, anti-climate to Senate energy committee Joe Manchin Will Be the Top Democrat on the Energy Committee
Political Parties and Elections (Also see Democracy …)
The Christian “Left” is appalled by Trump’s abuse of immigrants, so the “Left” is reviving now.
See this interesting article: Christian left is reviving in America (002)
Let’s Boldly Create the Future We Really Want!
I wrote this powerful, inspiring essay because we have much more potential for solving problems and creating a better future than most people realize. Regardless of which issues you care about, I encourage you to read the essay at this link: Let’s Boldly Create the Future We Really Want
Religion is being abused and used to hurt people and democracy. Honest religion suffers as a result.
See this smart, insightful article: Conservative Christians and Republicans are abusing religion. They hurt people, democracy, and religion itself.
Conservative Christianity’s merger with Republican Party hurt both of them — and our entire nation.
I wrote this short insightful article to explain some aspects of our nation’s current political crisis: After conservative Christianity merged with the Republican Party, everyone has been hurt
The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity
This article provides interesting insights: Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity
Reclaiming Jesus — A smart 3-page article
This smart 3-page article provided some of the content for our October 2019 TV program: reclaiming_jesus This short follow-up item is relevant too: Call to Prayer, Fasting and Action
Immigration concerns are activating liberal and progressive religious people.
The Trump regime’s attacks on immigrants have motivated many liberal and progressive religious people (Christians and other folks) to become more active. See the short article at this link: Christian left is reviving in America
The Heresy of Christian Nationalism
See the short article at this link: The Heresy of Christian Nationalism
New report exposes Republicans’ 2017 tax scam as another handout to the rich instead of helping the poor
Trump and the Republicans lied about their 2017 massive tax cut for extremely rich people and big business. They said it would help the middle class, and that it would stimulate investments that would help poor people. Of course, the opposite is what turned out. Extremely rich people and big businesses reaped huge savings and profits, but the rest of us suffered. This new report provides additional information: https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/report-reveals-that-like-everything-else-about-gop-tax-scam-program-purported-to-help-the-poor-really-just-another-handout-to-the-rich/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1324
Right-wing Christianity merged with the Republican Party and is hurting America.
After the 2016 election I wrote a thorough essay about how we got into our nation’s current political mess. This “mess” had already existed before Trump came along as a politician. The “mess” has several component parts. One of the problems leading to our current crisis is that right-wing Christianity merged with the Republican Party in the 1970s. This corrupted both Christianity and our nation’s political and societal realities. Here is a VERY SHORT SUMMARY of this: In the 1970s several right-wing Christian TV preachers and junk mail organizers mobilized millions of right-wing people around “culture war” issues. They worked […]
Short article: The currently dominant worldview is hurting our society in many ways.
Our society is suffering in many, many ways. The problems are all around us — and they are interconnected. They are rooted in a worldview that has been dominating the U.S. (and some other nations) increasingly in recent decades. I wrote a long article about this. Here is a very short article that summarizes a few of the main points. I published it in a recent issue of Works in Progress (www.olywip.org): This currently dominant worldview is hurting us.
“Impeach Trump to Protect the Constitution and the Rule of Law”
The September 2019 interview on “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” TV series builds a solid case for protecting our constitutional democracy by activating the part of the Constitution that our founders created in order to correct the kind of crisis our nation is experiencing now. Two knowledgeable guests — Bonnie Jones and Steve Rubicz — discuss what impeachment means, how it works, the compelling reasons for impeaching Trump immediately, and what the American people can do now – instead of waiting for the November 2020 election. Bonnie and Steve are active with Puget Sound Communities for Impeachment. Our nation’s founders wanted to […]
It is POLITICALLY SAFE to impeach Trump. Most House Dems want to impeach him now.
As of August 26, 2019, a clear majority of House Democrats — 130 — want to impeach Trump. A majority was reached at the beginning of August 2019. See this article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-democrats-majority-impeachment-inquiry-donald-trump_n_5d4316c4e4b0ca604e2ebeca?ncid=newsltushpmgnews__Politics__080219 This article from August 13, 2019, says that it is POLITICALLY SAFE to call for impeaching Trump: https://www.thenation.com/article/democrats-impeach-donald-trump/ This article says House Democrats should not worry about impeaching Trump – and pundits should stop trying to make Democrats worry about taking that action. The article says worrying about “swing districts” exaggerates the actual Trumpiness of those districts. The 2018 midterm election showed that Democratic voters […]
Trump’s Atty. Gen. William Barr is WRONG about policing: Here are two articles.
Trump’s Atty. Gen. Barr demands absolute obedience to police and attacks “social reformers.” See article: https://www.businessinsider.com/william-barr-zero-tolerance-fraternal-order-police-speech-2019-8 The Justice Collaborative (www.thejusticecollaborative.com) reported in August 2019 that “[i]n a public speech, Barr took a major jab at prosecutors who fight to end mass incarceration – claiming they lead to more crime and more victims. He warned of ‘District Attorneys that style themselves as ‘social justice’ reformers,” claiming they are “anti-law enforcement.’ But here are the facts: between 2007 and 2017, 34 states reduced both rates of incarceration and crime – proving that mass incarceration does absolutely nothing to improve public safety. […]