Showing posts with label Mitt Romney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mitt Romney. Show all posts
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Saturday, September 01, 2012
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
A strategy for change: Bill Fletcher
The 2012 Elections Have Little To Do With Obama's Record … Which Is
Why We Are Voting For Him August 9, 2012 |
Let’s cut to the chase. The November 2012 elections will be unlike
anything that any of us can remember. It is not just that this will be a
close election. It is also not just that the direction of Congress hangs
in the balance. Rather, this will be one of the most polarized and
critical elections in recent history.
Unfortunately what too few leftists and progressives have been
prepared to accept is that the polarization is to a great extent centered on a
revenge-seeking white supremacy; on race and the racial implications of the
moves to the right in the US political system. It is also focused on a
re-subjugation of women, harsh burdens on youth and the elderly, increased war
dangers, and reaction all along the line for labor and the working class. No
one on the left with any good sense should remain indifferent or stand idly by
in the critical need to defeat Republicans this year.
U.S.
Presidential elections are not what progressives want them to be
A large segment of what we will call the ‘progressive forces’
in US politics approach US elections generally, and Presidential elections in
particular, as if: (1) we have more power on the ground than we actually
possess, and (2) the elections are about expressing our political outrage at
the system. Both get us off on the wrong foot.
The US electoral system is among the most undemocratic on the
planet.
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Texas GOP continues war on thinking
Commentary: Texas GOP wages war on thinking
By Leonard Pitts Jr. | McClatchy Newspapers
Some recent headlines from
the alternate universe of modern conservatism:
Rush Limbaugh claims the bad
guy in the new Batman movie was named Bane to remind voters of Mitt Romney's
controversial tenure at Bain Capital.
Michelle Bachmann, citing
zero credible evidence, accuses a Muslim-American aide to Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton of conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio's
crack investigators announce that President Obama's long-form birth certificate
is a fake.
In other words, it's just an
average week down there in Crazy Town. And that lends a certain context to a
tidbit brought to national attention last week by Stephen Colbert of Comedy
Central's "The Colbert Report." Meaning a plank from the 2012
platform of the Republican Party of Texas which, astonishingly enough, reads as
follows: "We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)
(values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are
simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which
focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the
student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."
Holy wow. That is, without a
doubt, the most frightening sentence this side of a Stephen King novel.
The Texas GOP has set itself
explicitly against teaching children to be critical thinkers. Never mind the
creeping stupidization of this country, the growing dumbification of our
children, our mounting rejection of, even contempt for, objective fact. Never
mind educators who lament the inability of American children to think, to weigh
conflicting paradigms, analyze competing arguments, to reason, ruminate,
question and reach a thoughtful conclusion. Never mind that this promises the
loss of our ability to compete in an ever more complex and technology-driven
world.
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