Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing is doing a great job exposing the blatant, virulent racism and sexism (and, in Ted Cruz’ case, stupidity) of today’s GOP and I hope voters remember at the ballot box.
Posts tagged “politics”
The GOP Is a Death Cult, Episode 7,302: Virginia Delegate Shares Family Tragedy in Support of Red Flag Law
Never Forget
Kristallnacht
Health Insurance Fun
Healthcare in America Is Broken
Outsiders Hope for Jobs in Trump Administration
In which I am interviewed by Marketplace on NPR
A human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.
James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
We shall strive for perfection. We shall not achieve it immediately — but we still shall strive. We may make mistakes — but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.
I remember that my old schoolmaster, Dr. Peabody, said, in days that seemed to us then to be secure and untroubled: “Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights — then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward; that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address
Saturday, January 20, 1945
[W]ith a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.
Theodore Roosevelt – February 22, 1915