Links: Biden-Floyd family meeting; overtime for farmworkers; Lesley Stahl's journalism

Links: Biden-Floyd family meeting; overtime for farmworkers; Lesley Stahl's journalism 

Police reform goes with mental health reform. Until they call ambulances before confronting mentally ill or intoxicated citizens, they should be held with minimum restraint - but should be held in hospitals for a much longer period of time. Defund jails when you defund police, and take away the tasers, night sticks, pepper spray and firearms (except when dealing with organized crime or right-wing insurgents.

Marjorie Taylor-Greene has taken the QAnon oath. Under the 14th Amendment, she should not be allowed to serve. Also Josh Hawley, and anyone who knew that the rally was going to be an insurrection ahead of time. That would include Gohmert.

The Times piece is paywalled, although it might not be Monday, June 1st. There is nothing banal about it. Scratch an insurrection supporter and you get someone who wants Roe (and gay marriage and the right of immigrant children to go to school, et al) to be overturned. Any "Democrat for Life" needs to be aware of who he or she is marching with. including those who would deny the rights of Trans people to medical care to change or restore their cis genders. This is also true of people on the left who think detransitioning is political rather than personal. Bishops who are Asexual need to identify with, rather than against, the rest of the LGBTQIA community.

Thomas Paine would agree with a bit of radicalism. Working Class Perspectives, however, need to differentiate between positive rights, which are enacted, and negative rights, which are inalienable and limit government action. The rights to a living wage and a domicile must be split into a minimum wage for workers, the freedom from filing taxes and a child tax credit which comes through employer-paid taxes on wages and profits. 

Training and education for anyone after sophomore year in high school must be paid the minimum wage as well to meet opportunity costs - and the positive right to be trained and paid to do it must be linked to the right of migrants to ESL and GED training, regardless of legal status. Farm workers can be trained off-season - or during the season if pay is inadequate.

St. Thomas More, in his Utopia, had the right idea about how to conduct warfare in dealing with tyrants. Revolutionaries know that making tyrants make things worse is the way to radicalize the population, and even turn the military against leaders who would fire on their own people.