Over the last few months there have been a number of stories about the sorry state of the Western press, especially in the United States. While Trump’s 2016 campaign was good for large cable news networks and to a lesser extent national periodicals like the New York Times, consolidation driven by profit-seeking had already deeply harmed smaller outlets, from televised local news broadcasts to small market newspapers.
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When you’re tricked politically, you think you’re voting for better wages or more money and you end up voting for sorrow, tears, and blood!
When Black voters consider unknown politicians who only interact with us at election time, we need unknown soldiers to protect us from political lies and misdirection.
It was sacred. Secular, yes, but sacred. It is through the ballot, not the bullet, that we choose our leaders. We came so close to losing our right to democratic transitions four years ago; the threat still looms over us today, each side claiming a different concern about the elections and aftermath.
Former Secretary Hillary and VP Harris are exceptional leaders and politicians. Regrettably, a large segment of America’s voters isn’t yet willing to elect a woman as President, especially if she’s a Black woman. Unfortunately, to their chagrin, Rep. Pelosi and Senator Shumar assumed Trump wasn’t electable. Consequently, VP Harris and her Democratic Party suffered a first-degree shellacking.
How do you get away with a MAGA murder? You hire the best political hitmen. Get rid of the political gunslingers who can’t shoot straight and can’t win political elections!
I remember waking up on November 5, 1980, after casting my first vote in a presidential election to find that my candidate had been defeated in a landslide. The loss of Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan led to 12 years of destructive and often inhumane policies. My wife confessed that she had seriously thought of moving out of the country when Reagan was elected. I’m glad she didn’t for my sake. My father, from a working-class White community in Baltimore, couldn’t utter Reagan’s name without including the antecedent damn. Before he died, he had voted for Jesse Jackson for president.
In the deepest core of my being, I was unhappy with virtually everything about the election: unhappy with the Kamala Harris campaign and her unrelenting support of Israeli genocide, unhappy with the Democratic Party and its contempt for progressive voters’ values even as the party remained certain it owned their votes. But at a more superficial level. I pretty much thought Harris would win, just because Trump was way-y-y too crazy (”they’re eating the pets!”) to actually be able to reclaim the presidency.
President Trump Wins a Second Term as a Convicted Felon
Donald Trump and his Project 2025 agenda have threatened to upend the clean energy transition and move us backwards. He has shown us he is more interested in lining the pockets of fossil fuel oligarchs than helping everyday Americans.