Saturday

The World

Mike Pompeo Lied About the U.S. and the Middle East. Here’s the Truth. - Rs will read this and scream 'Benghazi". D's will read it and scream "Bush and Iraq".  The people across the middle east have lived it and it is why "They Hate Us". We can do better.


Israel vs Palestine

Nope. No apartheid here. Israel opens 'apartheid road' in occupied West Bank

Route 4370 has a high wall in the middle, topped with fencing that segregates the road into two separate two-way lanes. 

The western side is for Palestinians in the West Bank to use to go around Jerusalem, which they cannot enter without an Israeli military-issued permit, while the eastern side serves Israeli settlers going to and from Jerusalem. 

It's hard to believe something like this can exist in a modern state, especially in the "only democracy in the middle east"

Propaganda

Duh...Bias in cable news - Fox News #1

An example of Fox power ?  - Brought to Jesus’: the evangelical grip on the Trump administration

Eighty per cent of white evangelicals voted for him in 2016, and his popularity among them is remains in the 70s. While other white voters have flaked away in the first two years of his presidency, white evangelicals have become his last solid bastion.

People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds - and old people watch Fox.



Health Care

Modern Monetary Theory Doesn’t Make Single-Payer Health Care Any Easier  - A bad headline here. This, a line from the article, would have been better, .. " None of those countries that have single-payer health care needed MMT to make it work."

And stop calling it single payer.... "Medicare For All" is the easy way to go.


The Left’s Choice

The left and progressive groups have been largely missing in action. The left’s relative weakness partly reflects the decline of unions and organized labor groups, which have historically formed the backbone of leftist and socialist movements. But ideological abdication has also played an important role. As parties of the left became more dependent on educated elites instead of the working class, their policy ideas aligned more closely with financial and corporate interests.

One issue in the US is a lot of traditional union favoring, and leftish-voting workers, especially small, town white, working class types have become rabid gun rights loyalists taking right-wing political talking points from the NRA and other gun rights groups. The left is going to have a hard time gaining support from these people until they have a non-threatening gun policy.