The last thing I expected when eating my oatmeal this morning and streaming (an hour later) the day’s broadcast of “Morning Joe,” was to tear up and choke up over the Democratic Convention coverage. I … [Read more...]
Bubblism And Our Self-Destruction
“I live in a bubble,” someone told me the other day, referring to the fact that no one he knows would ever think of voting for Donald Trump. “It’s going to be a very close election,” a pundit on … [Read more...]
The Struggle Never Ends
It is of little personal satisfaction to be vindicated for the subversivepreacher post of May 5th (https://subversivepreacher.org/to-republicans-i-know-now-is-the-time/) naming the racism, misogyny, … [Read more...]
To Republicans I know: now is the time.
This is no longer about presidential and partisan politics it is about whether you endorse a man who has been overtly aggravating and inciting the darkest angels of the American … [Read more...]
Social Fragmentation and Hostility is the Logical Conclusion of Capitalism
Mindset is made of gristle, a sinewy and fibrous tissue hardened by constant bruising against contradictory realities. More hardened than most is a perspective once true but changed … [Read more...]
A Poem When Otherwise Speechless Amidst the Primaries
Trafficking in the Human Soul, or How to Weather Political Campaigns and Commercial Marketing by Cameron Miller They traffic in the human soul those candidates and their puppeteers etching … [Read more...]
Bernie? Hillary? Go Gently
It is all too easy to rail against what has been going on in the Republican Presidential campaign. In fact, the hyenas of the profit-hungry news media – who are equally and rightly disparaged from … [Read more...]