Recent content by Mulberry Heel

I still remember when he ran for the US House as the Democratic candidate in a Charlotte-based district that in those days was mostly Republican. It was 1984 and Reagan was running for reelection and carried NC with 63% of the vote, but D.G. ran a very strong race and lost by a heartbreakingly...

The "State" (GOP state legislature dominated by people like Phil Berger) have figured it out - they hate public ed and want to do as much as possible to destroy it and privatize it. This is all a part of their plan - keep cutting resources, keep diverting public school funds to vouchers and...

It has long since been shown that Republicans only care about the budget deficit when we have a Democrat as POTUS. When one of their own is POTUS and spending like a drunken sailor and the deficit explodes they don't give a shit. If we ever do elect a Democrat as POTUS again I'm sure our brave...

Starting with the success of the civil rights movement in the 60s the GOP very successfully drove out and utterly destroyed its moderate wing - first the Eastern Establishment Rockefeller Republicans were driven out of the party, then right-of-center types like the Bob Doles and Howard Bakers...

I have a hunch that MAGAs and Trump 2.0 don't see this as a disaster at all, because I don't think their goal was ever to create a truly professional law enforcement group limited by the law. Their goal was to create a group of thugs in masks who could be given carte blanche by the government to...

There's a big difference between electing a woman as POTUS and electing one as governor or senator. The fact that Republicans are willing to elect a woman as governor or senator doesn't seem to apply when they run for president. I have serious doubts that the MAGA base would be willing to vote...

So because Europe is diversifying racially and letting in all of these darker-skinned Muslims or Hindus or whatever Trump 2.0 thinks they're getting weaker and will just fall apart. The USA has been admitting immigrants for hundreds of years and it's actually been one of our greatest sources of...

It's been going on for a long time, but I do think social media and the proliferation of violent videos of fights at schools or other places is desensitizing people to real-life crime, even if it happens in front of them. No doubt some kids were deeply affected and shocked by all of this, but...

Again, this is exactly what Orban did to Hungary's news media - virtually all of it is now owned and under the control of either his government or businesses that are very friendly to his government. It is very, very difficult for his opposition to get their message out now, and has been for...

"Trump aides bullish on Supreme Court boosting GOP in midterms." Well of course, that's one of the main things they were appointed to do - give the GOP every advantage in elections.

I don't doubt that her intelligence or that she's dynamic - I've seen her in some committee hearings and she's definitely passionate about her politics. I just seriously doubt that anywhere close to a majority of Texas voters will be willing to elect her in a statewide election. At any rate if...

Disgusting. As has been said many times before, this administration is a drawing together of the most loathsome and malevolent people in the country and then giving them nearly unchecked power to do whatever they want.

Yeah, there's a reason why Biden was able to win while Hillary and Kamala didn't. Sad to say, but as I said with Crockett running in Texas it's a very ugly reality of our politics right now, unfortunately. There's simply a large number of men and women (especially Evangelical women) in America...

I don't see Crockett winning a Senate seat in Texas, she would be better off to stay in the House unless her seat is one of those being gerrymandered to favor Republicans, which it may be, I haven't checked. Even so I don't see Texas voters electing a young, outspoken, very liberal black woman...