The Democratic nominees for constitutional office this year are apparently not keen on debating their MassGOP opponents. The political press appears unwilling to let them get away with this crime against democracy. I think somebody needs to seriously consider the possibility that running under the banner of a political party that has thoroughly abandoned essential…
Month: September 2022
The Privatization Cabal and Agenda Setting by Poll–Primary Day Edition
Really, do voters need a “tracking” poll released on Primary Day eve telling them a candidates is in the lead? Someone explain the public value to me. OK there is none—except the third poll in a series backed by school privatizers and designed to bolster the campaign of Andrea Campbell for Attorney General. While an…
“labor is the superior — greatly the superior — of capital”—Abraham Lincoln
On September 30, 1859 Abraham Lincoln gave a speech in Milwaukee in which he repeated his long held position, that “labor is the superior — greatly the superior — of capital.” Lincoln was responding to an 1858 speech by Senator James Henry Hammond of South Carolina, the “mud sill” speech. Hammond stated that: In all…