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Being cautious in the era of Trump and an extremist GOP Congress is neither courageous nor practical. It’s a form of distant and cowardly collaboration that ultimately enables the most rabidly partisan lawmakers to do their worst. It’s essentially saying to Donald Trump and his ilk, “I don’t like what you’re doing, but damnit, I’ll still work with you.” We are living in a moment when our economic opportunities, our access to medical care, our environment and our civil liberties are threatened each week. And the best that “America’s most popular governor” can do is make insincere and often vacuous gestures that do little but appease voters who long for the days of reasonable bipartisanship.
Massachusetts can do better. We have done better.
Why stop now?
On that theme
- Michael Hobbes, Millennials Are Screwed
- Aaron Bastani (NYT), Britain Isn’t Working
- Karl Marx on Alienation
- Alyssa Battistoni, Living, Not Just Surviving
- Ursala LeGuin, A War Without End
- Carol Cohn (NYT), The Perils of Mixing Masculinity and Missiles
Democrats
- Mike the Mad Biologist, What Does It Mean To Be A Democrat? The Robert Reich Edition
- Mike the Mad Biologist, Where Are The Grassroots ‘Moderates’?
- Mike the Mad Biologist,To Be A Successful Party, You Actually Have To Build Your Party
Ending on a positive note
- Chad Orzel, Physics Is A Creative Endeavor