politics
Politics does not dictate our collective cultural mindset as much as it simply reflects it; We've got to look in the mirror sometimes, and we've got one.
Your vote and voice matters
In a pandemic we have never faced since the Spanish Influenza, the handling of Covid-19 that was poorly accounted by our current administration has scourged over the entire country and even worldwide. The U.S. has lost over 230,000 lives from the coronavirus, in which we have given confidence to the science expersts and major pharma companies to work on vaccines and treatments for laboratory test experiments while we are gradually wearing masks and follow CDC guidelines. Schools cancelled and have gone virtual. Some schools reopen without any handling how it will affect children getting in as well as transmission of the virus they are unaware of. Federal, state, and local governments, agencies, and institutions are going through phases of reopening once the virus handling is negotiated. Worse of all, we have witness masses of gatherings and protests that has torn the country into pieces since the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other African-American lives taken by corrupt authorities like the police force. Day after day, week after week, and month after month I have never seen anything that shocked me in my entire life. It's hard getting a job because staff is cut short and hours are limited. Your financial aid ends after being forced to have your name taken off of your parent's tax returns. And, student debt is still rising and it's not only a national tragedy, but a strategy that dismantles anyone involved in that particular debt.
By Victor Christy5 years ago in The Swamp
COVID-19: Immediate future looks bleak for England
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the Conservative Party leader, establishes a second England-wide lockdown. The latest England lockdown, after documents reveal a significantly higher death toll than previously expected, had been inevitable. The British prime minister, after attending a cabinet meeting, broke the news.
By Shain Thomas5 years ago in The Swamp
US leads world in COVID cases
United States: America, according to a recent BBC News report, leads the world in Coronavirus related deaths. Thursday, 29 October 2020 saw, in the United States, no fewer than 91,000 new COVID-19 cases reported. Thus far, according to a report published by Johns Hopkins University, more than nine million COVID-19 cases have been reported.
By Shain Thomas5 years ago in The Swamp
A Black Man Votes
Do you know that meme that depicts how dusty the hood is when Democrats are in the White House, then a picture of how dusty the hood is when Republicans are in office? Except, you guessed it, it's the same picture both times. Nothing changed. As a southern boy who grew up in a lower-middle-class Black family, I concur with the idea that nothing fundamentally changes in working-class and poor households, no matter which party is in the White House. It's a damn shame because our brightest Black leaders were shouting the same thing over 60 years ago. I'm an Independent. I've mostly voted Democrat as about 88% of Black male voters usually do, according to 2018 midterm exit polls. There's been talk lately that Black men vote selfishly, and somehow, we are not for the countries betterment. However, these numbers don't support that theory. While it is factual that Black women vote at higher rates than we do, it's Black people as a whole who hold the party up. We know that Black women have always been on the right side of history, from Harriet Tubman to Fannie Lou Hamer to Tamika Mallory. They hold this entire planet down. With that said, the Democratic Party owes Black people in a major way. According to exit polls, 82% of Black men and 94% of Black women voted for Clinton in 2016, while 63% of white men and 53% of white women voted for Trump. Now tell me again, who needs a good tongue lashing? Latinx support for Clinton was only in the '60s as well. I think that when the Democrats do better, support will be better. They suck right now. There's no wonder the calls to allow a third party have grown. The Democratic Party has become Republican Lite, while the Republican Party has become The 4th Reich. Both the Republican and Democratic establishments do share the same undying loyalty to special interest groups, billionaire donors, and corporations that pay them. Clearly, I'm not a fan of either party or their 2020 presidential candidates, but one guy wants to punish journalists he doesn't like, and the other doesn't. One of them wants to jail his political opponents, and that same cantaloupe-colored clown labels human rights activists as terrorists, but NOT murderous white supremacists like Dillon Roof and Kyle Rittenhouse.
By Ozy Reigns5 years ago in The Swamp
Waiting to be told
Waiting to be told- Information overload has political consequences. People in democracies are subjected to information saturation; the political reality of this is that the majority of voters have stopped being sceptical, they have stopped asking questions. Even the most necessary questions. Opinions which are repeated and “loudly” proclaimed, are often generally accepted as truth, until some one else makes equally loud and repeated denials.
By Peter Rose5 years ago in The Swamp
The Pandemic Playbook
This pandemic has hurt us as a country like we have never seen in our lifetime. During these times we need to come together as a United people and do what we need to do to get control of this and defeat this. However, in doing this, we needed a unified response on a Federal Level for leadership. That is what we look to Washington for. So what did the Trump Administration do to make our country safe for all of us. With close to 9 million infected and over 200,000 who have died. What could have been done? The Pandemic Playbook touted by Former-Vice- President Biden was designed to provide guidance for times like these.
By Joseph Williams Jr5 years ago in The Swamp
Would Ned Flanders vote for Trump?
The US 2020 elections will be close, no matter what the polls currently say. Analysts seem to think it is all going to come down to a few key counties in certain battleground states, and the whole thing will swing one way or another depending on the opinions (and beliefs) of certain key demographic groups.
By Electoral Predictions5 years ago in The Swamp
Patriot or nationalist?
The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war. — Sydney J. Harris
By Vinay Varrier5 years ago in The Swamp
