Links: Trumpian propaganda; global inequality; Latino voters

Links: Trumpian propaganda; global inequality; Latino voters 

The issue is not religious freedom, it is the sacred right of employers as authoritarians the Court is bound to uphold. It is the bias in law.

People do not realize that their support for Trump is support for Putin and many won't believe they could ever be Soft on Putin - even as they decry Build Back Better as socialism.

The problem with inequality starts with bad math. When everyone gets the same percentage of wage increase, actual dollar differences grow until they are unmanageable. Worse than the financial inequality is the inequality of personhood in the workplace. Wealth is leverage to the enforce obedience of others. Don't call capitalists libertarian. They are authoritarian - and some employees like it that way or believe it is the only way. On the 10% number - the 1% own 77% of what the top 10% hold. And so on, and so on, and so on. That includes ownership of assets which hold Treasury bonds. Indeed, such ownership leverages capitalism itself. It was baked into our economy by Hamilton.

People who cite Plessy as evidence that Roe can be overturned and the matter sent back to the states are ignorant of the theory of law behind Plessy - which is that states were the final say on such issues. It is beyond Kafkaesque to cite the overturn of Plessy in order to bring it back. Give the Reactionaries this victory and they will use it to go after all the other civil rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment (and with the full support of the Catholic bishops).

Hispanics are essentially multiracial, meaning they identify as White, Black and Indigenous and vote (or don't vote) accordingly. Many of the Indigenous are Adventists, which don't vote Democratic either (same for light skinned Catholic Hispanics - who vote like other Catholics). The gender divide is a more important predictor in these communities - yet Hillary still lost.

Wizards are very real. They are the celebrities of authoritarian capitalism. They have power because we let them.

Capitalists believe that when they pay benefits to their workers, they are giving them a gift. Mark has a point. This is why raising the minimum wage and channeling the child tax credit through employers as part of wages is the best way to deliver them - or through benefits for those who have no job. Even receiving benefits should be equated with pay if beneficiaries are receiving unemployment or some form of training or education. 

Baroque Advent and Christmas music makes it hard to understand that the true nature of the Divine is Humility (and not just Jesus himself). Worship should not be considered a gift to God, who needs no such thing. It is entirely for our sakes.