Republicans – UnChain our Democracy

Shock Doctrine Again by Jack Weltner

April 16, 2020April 16, 2020FrankLeave a Comment

After 9/11, the first thing Republicans did was to pass the Patriot Act, a major step toward right wing dictatorship. .It was written before 9/11 and kept in waiting. Such a bill could never get popular support. 9/11 insured its passage. In 2007, Naomi Klein wrote “The Shock Doctrine; The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” detailing […]

It Feels Awful to be Right by Frank Kashner

April 16, 2020July 22, 2021Frank1 Comment

“The most deaths and the greatest economic destruction“ I feel a little like Cassandra, the mythological woman whose curse was to see the impending future but have nobody believe her. I saw the future because historian Nancy MacLean, in her book Democracy in Chains, accurately portrayed what has been happening in the United States over […]