An unfortunate graphic — and as a socialist, I do draw a distinction between “socialism”and “social democracy” — but a good question: http://www.daytoncitypaper.com/why-not-democratic-socialism/ Some hopeful signs: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/wall-street-capitalism_b_1238210.html Too bad it will take this: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175494/tomgram%3A_christian_parenti%2C_big_storms_require_big_government/#more Just  few things for people to keep n mind.

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That’s the end of the current cycle in the Mayan calendar, scheduled for December 21, 2012. There’s no evidence that any ancient Mayan ever attached particular significance to the date; all it really means is that a new cycle begins, just like happens every New Years Day — except that this one is five thousand [...]

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The election is less than a year away, and once again the perennial debate reopens over whether to support the Democrats. I’ve been in this game long enough to know that no one is likely to be moved off his or her position, but I’ve got a few thoughts to consider. People say that we [...]

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David Brooks has a recent column in which he argues that the “Red [State] Inequality,” between college-educated and non-college-educated people is more momentous than the “Blue [State] Inequality” between the 1% and the 99%. After all, college grads, on average, make 75% more than non-grads. (That’s less than double, for those who didn’t do so [...]

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As I’ve said before, the Republican political strategy of playing to the backlash to shift wealth to the super-rich was going to run out eventually. Is this it? This must be a real shock to the other side, but they really have only themselves to blame. They have been running around saying that the survival [...]

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