First published in The Orlando Sentinel, Oct. 22, 2018 Republicans believe that private business – free enterprise – will solve the nation’s problems, providing an ultra-small government backs off and doesn’t muck it up. Republicans are wrong. Democrats believe that private business has a corruptness about it, and a large government – a “we the […]
Read More →Originally appeared in The Orlando Sentinel, June 26, 2017, with a headline that sounded a tad more pro-Trump. A lot of people support Donald Trump, and here’s what liberals don’t get: Many, many people’s lives – largely but not exclusively in rural areas – have deteriorated over the past 20 years. In every political […]
Read More →Why do we spend so much time discussing the color of the Band-Aid and so little time discussing the depth of the wound? (A metaphor: The wound is healthcare; the Band-Aid is health insurance.) We discuss the details of competing health care plans from Republicans and Democrats, but we spend almost no time on the […]
Read More →Things change. My record player gave way to an 8-track tape player circa 1971; my 8-tracks gave way to cassettes circa 1977. In the early 1990s, I switched to CDs and cursed the fact that my entire music library had to be replaced again. Now, thanks to the Internet, I don’t need a music player […]
Read More →People who hate Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders (or both) can take a small bit of comfort in the story behind their ascension: Politics in America is changing. At its core, politics is the art of manipulation. An unruly crowd of rightwing or leftwing voters needs corralled into voting booths and enticed to flip the […]
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