Stephan: At the fundamental level, in my opinion, what is driving our culture is that we are becoming a majority-minority nation. For about a third of the White population who have principally aligned with the Republican Party, this is making them crazy. It is what drives the Replacement Theory. It is the reason racism has suddenly become such an issue. The only way out of this without massive violence, which is what the christofascist world talks about, is to promote democracy and foster wellbeing. As this article lays out this is not going to be easy as the new culture emerges. Our taxes need to be restructured back to what they were in the 1950s. We need the equivalent to Roosevelt's WPA to rebuild the country's infrastructure, make the tranisition out of the carbon era, improve public education and make it fact-based, and transition to universal birthright single-payer health care. We can pay for much of this through the combination of taxing the rich in the pattern of the 1950s, and reducing America's absurdly bloated military budget.
HOUSTON, TEXAS — Back in 2017, Jon Rosenthal, a mechanical engineer who’d been spurred into politics, like many Democrats, by Donald Trump’s election, was having drinks with a group of local party activists when one of them suggested that he run for office: Why not challenge the Republican who’d been holding onto his state House seat for more than 20 years?
Rosenthal was intrigued. And as he began considering his prospects, poring over demographic data on a laptop in his suburban Houston home, he saw an opening. People of color were exploding as a proportion of the population in the 135th state House district — Latinos, but also Black people, the Democratic Party’s most reliable voting bloc. Given the district’s rapidly increasing diversity, it made no sense to Rosenthal, who is white, that his Republican representative, Gary Elkins, who is also white, was still in power. And it seemed possible to him that a Democrat — even one who had never held elected office — could flip that seat.
With the help of Odus Evbagharu, a political strategist […]
I totally agree with what you said, Stephan!