12. July 2016

Bernie Sander's endorsement of Hillary Clinton today was inevitable. His program of public values and collective good, among other elements, while morally admirable, was always doomed to failure. That failure was to be either a complete collapse into irrelevancy or co-optation by the existing political processes. The ugly reality is that values and ideas outside of the conventional mainstream political processes have no real path to accomplishment. The existing political system is too...

19. June 2016

Mark Schmidt of the New America organization and Robert Reich, former United States Sec. of Labor, in an article and letter ( respectively) in the New York Times last week (June 13-19, 2016) discuss the progressive agenda after the Bernie’s Sanders campaign ends. Schmidt argues that Sander’s agenda proposals are out of line with the thinking of new progressives who propose a large set of reform ideas in the form of pushing harder against conservative elements in America which has...