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Some days, it takes very little imagination to explain why progressives aren’t taken seriously as a political force these days. Sometimes, all you have to do is follow a metaphor to its logical conclusion.

There are some great things about not having cable. One of them is that you get to miss seeing Joe Biden telling all the people the Democrats in DC have screwed in the last eighteen months to get off their lazy asses and support the Democrats.

When fear becomes too much, it’s time to laugh. Or sing. Obsession isn’t working for me.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute released a report a couple of months ago on the world’s military spending. The numbers don’t look too comforting for the United States.

The latest generic ballot numbers from Gallup show an increasing gap in the willingness of Republican and Democratic voters to show up at the polls this fall. They also show that the general public prefers the GOP in power over the Democrats. These numbers are about as bad as they look.

We’re the guys who won World War II and went to the Moon. Oh, wait, that was our parents. We’re the guys who pee in our pants about people who are different from us.

The new U.S. Census results are appearing. According to this table, the historical trend of population moving away from the Northeast and Rust Belt is continuing. A few thoughts on what this means for progressives.

This isn’t the first time that a politician has said “Can’t we all just get along by having you people go elsewhere?”, but usually they’re the sort of spineless cretins we tend to think of when we conjure up a negative image of politicians.

Another election looms, and once again there are people who think that what the Democrats need is better messaging. I’m not one of them. The Democrats need much, much more this time.

Recent actions by the ADL and the NAACP would lead one to believe that they forgot what they were really about. Sometimes, it seems like America has become that way, and that maybe we don’t even know enough to know what we’re about.