Democracy requires participation "If our votes didn’t matter, candidates and political action committees wouldn’t be spending billions of dollars trying to influence us."
Justice, Peace, Love - Response to violence "The response from news pundits and social media to the July 13th assassination attempt on Donald Trump was as predictable as it was reactionary and uninformed."
Justice, Peace, Love: The people need access to a free press "A few weeks ago, there was a controversial local hot-button issue posted in a social media group with a link to a news article."
Justice, Peace, Love: Anti-trans bullying is deadly "Young people will say `My government hates me,’ ‘My school hates me,’ `They don’t want me to exist.'"
Justice, Peace, Love: Execution is not justice "If the law were merely to ensure equal punishment for a crime, it would be an eye for an eye, leading to a society in which everyone is blind."
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a radical "The more I read, the more I realize that Dr. King understood the evils of the world and what needed to be done to overcome them."
At what cost? “Ah, but there is a choice in how to respond. There is always a choice when it comes to violence.”
The dangerous politics of woke “The idea of staying awake in the face of oppression has been around for at least a hundred years.”
Democracy needs free press to survive “The freedom to report on the government and its leaders without censorship is a fundamental principle of a functioning democracy.”
White supremacy in the ranks “Why did it take an FBI investigation to uncover this? How many other police departments have a similar culture?”
Money talks “Imagine...all decisions for the common good are made through simple democracy — one person, one vote.”
