Yes, Margaret Thatcher & Ronny Reagan were twins across the ocean. Both ushered in the beginning of the worst kind of greed and lack of caring for the working people in either country.
Trump & his phoney toxic religious racists took everything bad to warp speed.
Margaret Thatcher cut benefits and the US RepubliCons always cut needed benefits first. Despite the fact that there is a severely bloated US military budget and multi-billionaire class that continues to grow.
The selfish bastards then bought out the media in the US and tried to put a pretty bow on trickle-down economics.
Now the US has showed despicable weakness of our legal system & highest court of the land, the US Supreme Court.
You covered every category in your article of the breakdown of democracy in the hands of the right-world wide.
You are absolutely correct, it is the political right who are the most extreme.
How can any country get more extreme than having the inciter of a deadly coup, convicted rapist, twice impeached, 91-times indicted psychopath on the ticket for president!
And thank you for mentioning the Treaty of Tripoli! That was RATIFIED by US Congress..so case closed!
If the MAGAs think they we will sit back while they put forth their monster, options will be gone. It will be the left in the streets!
Rupert Murdoch and some think tanks (or their members) are also common denominators, and billionaire owners of miltinational corporations who have benefited the most from free trade.
Fortunately it looks extremely unlikely that the Tories will win the next election here, but I am not at all sure that we will see a great deal of improvement whoever wins.
The USA needs the Democrats to get the trifecta to be able to make a real difference, and to reduce the power of the corporate dems.
We’ll keep Bernie, but I agree, we need a massive infusion of true progressives. I think some of these corporate Dems are almost to the grave. Progressives must be voted in down ballot so we are a force within the Congress, ready to go. First, we need to rid ourselves of the fascists. We should not have to vote on a traitor, high criminal/rapist but here we are.
The right also has a monopoly on large corporations and it makes boycotting difficult if not impossible.
I don’t think trump will be able to win here. I say that because the media, owned by the right, continues to desperately publish trump’s fantasy that he can win. The cheating tactics and mountains of money poured into defeating the Dems is frightening, but the Republicans party is now showing signs of imploding. Their congress-members are quitting and their successors will be in races that will be difficult to win. The bat-shit crazy rebuttal to the State of the Union was a dismal failure. They are crumbling.
The progressive caucus has grown considerably, but it is still the DNC that holds the purse strings and chooses the candidates. So as you say voting in more progressives is essential. A few corporate dems are inevitable in red states, but they should be kept as few and as uninfluential as possible. The Manchins and Sinemas need to be reduced to the sidelines by big majorities.
I don't think that Trump could be elected honestly, but who knows what new ways of cheating the various Republican factions will come up with. The media wants Trump on the ticket because he is outrageous enough to attract eyeballs, but they want a two horse race, so hopefully they won't push him too far ahead.
Here, many Tories have announced that they will not be standing in the next election, but no doubt replacement candidates will be more of the same.
Yes, Margaret Thatcher & Ronny Reagan were twins across the ocean. Both ushered in the beginning of the worst kind of greed and lack of caring for the working people in either country.
Trump & his phoney toxic religious racists took everything bad to warp speed.
Margaret Thatcher cut benefits and the US RepubliCons always cut needed benefits first. Despite the fact that there is a severely bloated US military budget and multi-billionaire class that continues to grow.
The selfish bastards then bought out the media in the US and tried to put a pretty bow on trickle-down economics.
Now the US has showed despicable weakness of our legal system & highest court of the land, the US Supreme Court.
You covered every category in your article of the breakdown of democracy in the hands of the right-world wide.
You are absolutely correct, it is the political right who are the most extreme.
How can any country get more extreme than having the inciter of a deadly coup, convicted rapist, twice impeached, 91-times indicted psychopath on the ticket for president!
And thank you for mentioning the Treaty of Tripoli! That was RATIFIED by US Congress..so case closed!
If the MAGAs think they we will sit back while they put forth their monster, options will be gone. It will be the left in the streets!
Rupert Murdoch and some think tanks (or their members) are also common denominators, and billionaire owners of miltinational corporations who have benefited the most from free trade.
Fortunately it looks extremely unlikely that the Tories will win the next election here, but I am not at all sure that we will see a great deal of improvement whoever wins.
The USA needs the Democrats to get the trifecta to be able to make a real difference, and to reduce the power of the corporate dems.
We’ll keep Bernie, but I agree, we need a massive infusion of true progressives. I think some of these corporate Dems are almost to the grave. Progressives must be voted in down ballot so we are a force within the Congress, ready to go. First, we need to rid ourselves of the fascists. We should not have to vote on a traitor, high criminal/rapist but here we are.
The right also has a monopoly on large corporations and it makes boycotting difficult if not impossible.
I don’t think trump will be able to win here. I say that because the media, owned by the right, continues to desperately publish trump’s fantasy that he can win. The cheating tactics and mountains of money poured into defeating the Dems is frightening, but the Republicans party is now showing signs of imploding. Their congress-members are quitting and their successors will be in races that will be difficult to win. The bat-shit crazy rebuttal to the State of the Union was a dismal failure. They are crumbling.
The progressive caucus has grown considerably, but it is still the DNC that holds the purse strings and chooses the candidates. So as you say voting in more progressives is essential. A few corporate dems are inevitable in red states, but they should be kept as few and as uninfluential as possible. The Manchins and Sinemas need to be reduced to the sidelines by big majorities.
I don't think that Trump could be elected honestly, but who knows what new ways of cheating the various Republican factions will come up with. The media wants Trump on the ticket because he is outrageous enough to attract eyeballs, but they want a two horse race, so hopefully they won't push him too far ahead.
Here, many Tories have announced that they will not be standing in the next election, but no doubt replacement candidates will be more of the same.