The principal problem of our time is billionaires trying to screw average citizens by manipulating government and politics.

That’s the Koches in the US and oligarchs with similar views in Russia.


We need to get money out of politics.

Of course, there's always the inducements to "middle management."

Just to belabor the obvious: everything the US right claimed to stand for, except for one thing, turns out to have been a lie. The party of “patriotism” is OK with foreign powers intervening in US elections, as long as they benefit. 1/

The party of God, personal responsibility, and family values is OK with presidents who pay off porn stars (and House speakers who molest teenage boys) 2/


The party of “fiscal responsibility” is fine with running deficits that are unprecedented in an economy neither in a war or a recession 3/


Only one thing remains as an unchanging, never-to-be-violated principle: tax cuts for the rich. And they will do anything, literally anything, to achieve that goal 4/



And the capper:

Not just no collusion: they won't even admit Russia favored Trump. The GOP is now officially the party that thinks treason in the pursuit of tax cuts is no vice




——- Paul krugman

you couldn't tell the difference between a traitor that is undermining America or just a dumb believer in that.

Both would harm this nations ability to compete and kill poor people.