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Populism is destroying America

Populism in America is based upon a series of lies: that the American economy is failing; our middle class has been hollowed-out; and other countries are taking advantage of us. Nothing could be further from the truth. Firstly, we are not a failing economy. The United States is an economic juggernaut; our GDP growth has significantly outperformed all major advanced economies including China. Our technological prowess is unmatched from internet services to artificial intelligence to scientific and medical discoveries. Our universities are unsurpassed and the best and the brightest ...

Life under Trump is stressful

He defies the Constitution, dismantles government agencies, attacks Congress, ignores courts, threatens military force against Panama and Greenland, insults Canada, interferes with the military, and challenges anyone interfering with his quest for power. Recently Trump met with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, in a highly unusual and inappropriate move, pressuring him regarding interest rates.  Powell appropriately responded that monetary policy would depend entirely on economic infrastructure and information, as required by law, not presidential pressure. Trump interfered ...

Who benefits and who doesn’t

Let’s do a tally of developments and trends so far in the current Trump administration. Simple math. What’s being enlarged and what’s being diminished. Extended commentary is unnecessary. The list speaks for itself. First, what’s being enlarged? That’s easy. • Wealth to the billionaire class. The Big Beautiful Bill. Beautiful to a few, ugly to the many. Enlarge the already obscene and enormous wealth of the billionaire class. You know, that handful of families that own as much wealth as the rest of us put together. A big bonanza for them. A big kick in the butt for ...

Stop the cuts

While President Trump and his allies continue to justify their economic policies as necessary to address the national debt and deficit, they simultaneously support a budget projected by the Congressional Budget Office to increase the deficit by an estimated $6 trillion. Why? To fund Trump’s tax plan, which disproportionately benefits billionaires. Meanwhile, here in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, we are being asked to shoulder devastating cuts to vital public services. These include: • Closure of Social Security Administration and Bureau of Indian Affairs offices. • Closure of ...

No kings in 1776 and no kings today

Will you join me, and millions of other patriotic Americans, in a protest for democracy, and against tyranny, by peacefully demonstrating in the streets, on Saturday, June 14, Flag Day, for the “No Kings” mass protest? Ordinary people “NO” to the King of England in the Revolutionary War and in 1776 founded this nation based on a commitment to each other to have a government where citizens are equal before the law, have a say in the government, and have the right to a fair share of resources. We, the people grant authority to the Congress, the Executive Branch, and the Judiciary ...

Citizen’s choice

If you don’t know about Zion National Park’s Angels Landing hike, do a search. To me the narrow path represents democracy’s journey and steel safety chain represents our Constitution, with one slip you plunge into either extreme left or right authoritarianism. After Soviet Union extreme-left authoritarian ideology ended, they briefly establish Russian democracy in the 1990s. Only to plunge into extreme-right authoritarian ideology. Athens Greece is the birthplace of democracy (507 BCE), but lasted only two centuries. Their democracy failed to constrain the worst impulses of ...