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Click this link. Data For Progress decided to ask people about policy proposals which very serious centrists consider way too far left for America. American voters respond differently. As should already be clear from existing polls (click and search for “fair”), there is strong support for egalitarian populist redistributive public policy. At Data For Progress, they chose to emphasize the positive — four proposals with overwhelming support, but I think it is just as striking that opinion...

Turf wars.Sputnik InternationalFormer Trump Strategist Bannon Warns GOP Candidates Against Kochs' 'Toxic' Money

In fairness to the Democrats, they likely saw it as payback for the attackers on John Kerry's military recored and the Obama birther conspiracy theory that Trump backed at least obliquely. Then the GOP Never Trumper's jumped on board, too, followed by some US intel chiefs aligned with one of the above. Those who know American history know that this is an American tradition. There's nothing new under the sun. All's fair in love, war — and politics.And it was not just to crush Trump...

Things to contemplate while you are at the beach this weekend.TruthdigAmerican Society Would Collapse If It Weren’t for These 8 Myths Lee Camp

This is an interesting read as the statement of a millennial on the current situation via a letter to his boomer father. He has clearly thought this through carefully. However, some of his assumptions, e.g., about monetary economics, central banking, etc., are mistaken, but this is a common issue since almost no one has a correct grasp of them.Flores argues to his labor-union leftist father how alt-right has become the new left and explains why. Of further interest, the family is...

The First U.S. Civil War is here. The real Civil War. The one between We the People and the Government itself.... There's divisive and then there is divisive. Tom LuongoIn U.S., Sometimes CIA Eat You

Sputnik InternationalAnother Head-Scratcher: US PAC’s Billboard Implies GOP Is … Communist? (PHOTO) Sputnik International Who Is Marina Gross? US Translator Thrust into Spotlight With Subpoena Threat Sputnik International ‘F**k Trump’: Image of POTUS Being Beheaded Sparks Backlash in Oregon (PHOTO) Sputnik International 'Off With His Head'! WATCH Protesters in Oregon Execute Trump Pinata Sputnik International Albright Goes Off on Trump, Calls Him 'Gift That Keeps Giving to Putin'...

But since the West has been fighting World War III against itself, its victory will also be its defeat. Indeed, not only is it losing, but it is also being invaded—by mobs of migrants from the various countries it has destroyed, having used them as surrogate enemies in its notional battle against Russia. Give it a few more decades, and at this rate the West will be no more, its slow-breeding population replaced by the much more fecund newcomers. The countries that make it up will dissolve...

The Right discovers it is up against MMT. Is Stephanie Kelton Superwoman?The American InterestThe Right’s Straw Left Ben Judah

Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist message is not an incidental part of a larger demographic story. And her socialism shouldn’t be treated as a virus opportunistically riding the vector of her Latina form. Socialism is inextricable from Ocasio-Cortez’s success because it’s the secret behind her ability to do what the Democratic party has long failed to do — articulate a holistic progressive vision for America. Socialism is a framework that supports a belief that a country in which everyone can live...