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  • Politics Is Like Hiring A Hitman
    by Scott Woods inPolitical on2020-08-13

    For me, politics is like hiring a hitman. I have values and things I care about. I care enough about them to at least bother voting for 5 minutes every year for one issue or another. And because I care at least that much, I vote for people who align with the ability to realize the things I care about.

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  • Punching Above Our Weight
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-07-24

    I believe our vote is the punctuation of our voice. Without that resounding exclamation mark, I believe our voices are just incoherent noise.

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  • BLACK PROGRESS AMIDST SOCIAL CHAOS
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-06-16

    Recent events have raised the profile of historical injustice and inequities here in the USA. The entire world has taken note of the fact that BLACK LIVES MATTER.   We invite all of our friends to engage in actions that result in the greatest movement for change in our history. It is imperative that we take advantage of this opportunity to affect a positive change by ACTING IN OUR SELF-INTERESTS.

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  • Living in a Black No-Man's Land
    by Roger Madison Jr. inOur Community on2019-10-28

    There are many narratives that define the Black experience in America in this 2nd decade of the 21st century. Our striving over the centuries of our sojourn in this nation is a tapestry of every human experience -- oppression, enslavement, forced assimilation, dehumanization, exclusion, segregation, isolation, struggle, perseverance, achievement, excellence, celebration, mourning, despair, progress, setbacks, lynching, assassination, genocide, terror, self-hatred, low esteem, pride,...

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  • Fighting Racism
    by Scott Woods inOur Community on2018-10-25

    I had a boss who was racist. Not an outright bigot, of course; her toolbox was more subtle than most. We bumped heads a lot over inconsequential things. She frequently couldn’t keep my name out her mouth. Lot of gaslighting. You know…2018 style. I tried a lot of ways to combat or navigate her issues. None of them worked, and that’s saying a lot because I’m really good at fighting racism. But at the end of the day – every day – she was my boss, I had to deal with her, and that was that. Finally I...

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Do Politicians know when they are wrong? A new take on the Obama effect

In that article he goes on to quote Andrew Gilligan in that it could be the Conservatives who are the party of progress. I just cannot see it myself - David Cameron is, to me, a lite version of Thatcher, a very, very lite version but one nonetheless. She was as far from a real term progressive in the sense of personal liberty than most. She was a person who believed in all that has brought the world to where it is today. The politics and the economic policy of so-called ‘free markets’ and deregulation.

This is the way the Labour party are continuing - this is evident in the way the UK economy is collapsing and to some in the IMF the UK will be hit worst. Not the prudent chancellor we were told about while Gordon Brown was holding that position. Not the third way we were told about when Tony Blair came to power.

So who is progressive in the sense of formulating real civil justice, Rights and liberties once again in the UK?

For me that lands firmly at the feet of the Liberal Democrats. They are the only party who want such a change that they propose a written constitution in the UK - with, I may add, the consultation process including the UK citizen themselves - not just a matter of a peer network of ‘experts’.

The Conservatives may have adopted certain aspects of civil liberty - but they are proposing what was not what can be. The Labour party and government are, from what I can see, the most authoritarian government thus far, in the modern age that is - even more than Thatcher - and that is saying something. Yet what we do know is that Thatcher does have Brown’s ear.

Though the Conservative will do many things to bring back what was - that is not progressive, that is bring back the status quo to where it was, a leftward swing if you will. But even that is a start.

For progressive policies you can only look toward the LibDems - and that is the real choice you have. Conservative or LibDem - Labour, one would hope, will be dead in the water until they get their Labour, real Labour roots back.

 

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