Jim Hightower

Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the book, Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow. Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks.

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	Views Wednesday, March 13, 2019 It's Not Socialism; It's What the People Want "Socialism," snarled Donald Trump at a recent pep rally of far-right Republicans. And the obedient crowd of faithful Trumpistas snarled back in unison: "So-shull-izz-ummm!" And there you have the entire intellectual content of the GOP's 2020 re-election strategy under Generalissimo Trump—slap... Read more
	Views Wednesday, February 27, 2019 Push, Push, Push: How Movements Succeed There's a sports cliche, often applied to political races, that devalues strong-but-losing contenders: "Close only counts in horseshoes," they snort. For building a progressive movement, however, candidates, staffers and volunteers who lose a vote but run good campaigns — especially in tough... Read more
	Views Wednesday, January 02, 2019 DIY Democracy What do the workaday majority of Americans want their lawmakers working on? Check any legitimate poll — or just listen to most any barstool conversation down at the Bottoms Up pub — and you'll hear them saying clearly and consistently that they want such basics as middle-class jobs, health care for... Read more
	Views Wednesday, December 05, 2018 Putting the Trump Stamp on the Public D.T. (as aides refer to the present occupant of the Oval Office) is really quite good at one special skill: branding. He has slapped his name on a ridiculous range of consumer merch — teddy bears, steaks, made-in-China ties, vodka, underwear and even a urine test. His nasty policies and behavior... Read more
	Views Saturday, December 01, 2018 Free the Free Press From Wall Street Plunder A two-panel cartoon I recently saw showed a character with a sign saying: “First they came for the reporters.” In the next panel, his sign says: “We don’t know what happened after that.” It was, of course, a retort to Donald Trump’s campaign to demonize the news media as “the enemy of the people.”... Read more
	Views Friday, November 23, 2018 Skip Cyber Monday—Support a Real Local Business On this Cyber Monday, let's pledge to buy from local businesses that support our communities. Read more
	Views Thursday, November 08, 2018 White House Economists Are Obsessed with Socialism Trump’s White House seems to be both spooked… and spooky. Check out a 72-page “spookonomics” report issued right before Halloween by his Council of Economic Advisors. It reads like an endless Trump tweet, focused on his perceived political enemies and riddled with fantasies, lies, and paranoia... Read more
	Views Wednesday, October 31, 2018 Beware of the Real Gremlins This Season As we enter another long season of direful winter darkness, we are beset by back-to-back waves of spooks. First come the little costumed goblins on Halloween, seeking sweet treats from us to ward off any trickery they might pull. Cute. But then, only six days later — eeeeeeek! — here come the real... Read more
	Views Wednesday, October 03, 2018 Poverty Is Over! So Why Are Republicans So Quiet About Their Chief Economic Accomplishment? Listen ... Can you hear it? Listen to the eerie "sound of silence" from the Trumpeteers and congressional Republicans who so loudly cheered themselves just a year ago for bestowing a trillion-dollar tax giveaway on corporate elites. They told us they did it not for the rich, but to help middle-... Read more
	Views Wednesday, August 08, 2018 Monopoly or Democracy? America's political history has been written in the fierce narrative of war — not only our country's many military clashes with foreign nations, but also our own unending war for democracy in the U.S. Generation after generation of moneyed elites have persisted in trying to take wealth and power... Read more