PROGRESS BLOG
There has been a great deal of controversy over the Black Lives Matter movement (#BlackLivesMatter), especially in recent weeks, with highly publicized cop shooting deaths of black men and police killings, during a peaceful and joint march for solidarity. With this controversy has come the spattering of complaints about the BLM movement across the nation, as…
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When the People have been let down for so long they can no longer trust, they will resort to any means necessary to restore order and hold public employees accountable to their words and actions. If we candidates are serious about the social justice and political reform the People need, then we should be willing…
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It has been no secret that for decades, actually since the dawning of “civilization”, big business has built its empire on the backs of exploited labor, either in the form of direct slavery or in wage slavery. In a recent article by New York Magazine, a study is revealed that “American Workers Are Getting Ripped…
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Working Analogy in Progress Trying to figure out the U.S. economy and the flow of currency can be a monumental task for anyone not familiar with Modern Monetary Theories of macroeconomics. I’m by no means an expert economist. But I’m friends with a few, and I have contact with a few more. Through my own…
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The simple idea that we, as humans, have somehow evolved, through the advent of “civilization,” glosses over millennia of hierarchal domination over billions of other humans, which is necessary for those few to maintain their version of “civilization.” Why do masses of humans forfeit their lives to the domination of others, only to live horribly torturous…
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Two local Minnesota DFL (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) units put on an annual fundraiser in the namesake of FDR. Originally, the speech time was set to 4 minutes. It later got cut to 2 minutes, so the speech got cut quite a bit as well. Following is the original speech, including the first part, reciting FDR himself, in…
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Dear Minnesotans, You do realize that Congress makes decisions that affect the entire nation, right? So when you ask me what am I going to do for Minnesota, or how am I going to bring jobs to Minnesota or how am I going to enact social justice in Minnesota, you realize that is an egocentric…
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FORWARD Someone dug up a copy of a college English Final that Johnny wrote in 2002. The purpose of the final was simply to write a concept paper that could serve as a model for proper grammar techniques. The subject matter was optional. We have decided to publish it as a verification on policy…
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(This post was originally written shortly before the 2016 Democrat’s Convention.) I’m sure, as a young Polish boy in Brooklyn, Bernie Sanders never even once dreamed of performing upon the global stage he now perches. He certainly has made a name for himself and, more importantly, his purposes. Senator Bernard “Bernie” Sanders has done much…
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In a FB thread, someone referred to me as a politician, because I’m running for office. Following is the original video that was shared in the post. I can’t embed the actual post because it is in a group. This happened to be in a Bernie group, so my response was thus: MY Original Comment…
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