John Atcheson
John Atcheson is author of the novel, A Being Darkly Wise, and he has just completed a book on the 2016 elections titled, WTF, America? How the US Went Off the Rails and How to Get It Back On Track, available from Amazon. Follow him on Twitter @john_atcheson
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Views Tuesday, March 12, 2019 Nobody Likes Trump, But He Could Still Beat a Centrist Democrat in 2020 One of the most stunning numbers in politics is the fact that some 40 percent of those polled still approve of Trump. Pundits, politicians and the media seem to walk around in a state of disbelief that this buffoon retains any support at all. In reality, it’s no mystery. Look, nobody actually likes... Read more |
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Views Sunday, February 24, 2019 "Realists" Are Courting Global Devastation In a recent confrontation with representatives of the Sunrise Movement , Senator Diane Feinstein referred to herself as a “realist” when challenged to support the Green New Deal. She’s not alone. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi referred to the GND as a dream, and nearly every article about it... Read more |
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Views Saturday, February 16, 2019 The Real Danger to the Green New Deal—and the Planet—Comes From Neoliberal Democrats Predictably, Trump came out against the Green New Deal with a bombastic – and ill-informed – rant in a campaign style rally in El Paso. Here’s what he had to say: "I really don't like their policy of taking away your car, of taking away your airplane rights, of 'let's hop a train to California,' of... Read more |
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Views Sunday, February 03, 2019 Dear Democrats, Stop Substituting the So-Called "Possible" for What's Morally Necessary In a recent column in the New York Times , David Leonhardt cites a Kaiser survey on Medicare for all, and concludes that supporting it would be an "unforced error" for Democrats. Sherrod Brown, a genuine progressive, made the same observation . Richard Eskow, writing in Common Dreams last week... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 22, 2019 AOC’S 70 Percent Solution Shows US the Progressive Majority Has Been There All Along On several occasions, now, progressive candidates have endorsed the idea that we should tax the rich more, in contrast to the Republicans who have been on a decades long mission to reduce taxes on the rich and corporations. Usually, pundits have reacted as if the progressives had lost their mind to... Read more |
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Views Saturday, January 12, 2019 Why 'Fact-Checking' Gives Liars a Free Pass Look, let’s face it, the press has been enabling Trump in particular and the conservatives in general by the way it has been addressing the blatant lying, deception, misdirection, and other forms of lying. The fact that the controlling party in our country consistently lies to the American people,... Read more |
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Views Sunday, January 06, 2019 With Self-Inflicted Pay-Go Rule, Democratic Victory in 2020 Just Got Harder The day after I wrote this , "… Pelosi, Schumer and Hoyer are doing everything in their power to keep the progressive insurgency in check, and keep their neoliberal/corporate money machine in power," Nancy Pelosi and the neoliberals in Congress committed political harikari and gutted the entire... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 01, 2019 The War for the Democratic Party Continues Elizabeth Warren just threw her hat in the ring for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. If the Democrats were smart, they’d get in line behind her, or Bernie Sanders. Unfortunately, Pelosi, Schumer and Hoyer are doing everything in their power to keep the progressive insurgency in check,... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 22, 2018 Communities Without Consequences: Demographics and the Destruction of Democracy Even after more than two years, the notion that America elected an ignorant, racist, profane, incompetent, reality show buffoon as President still seems incomprehensible to the rational, reality-based world. What is even more inconceivable is that Trump seems to have taken some 40 percent of... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 08, 2018 Climate Change Is Likely to Come Sooner and Be Worse Than Latest Worst-Case Forecasts Suggest The news on climate change has been pretty grim lately, but the fact is, it’s possible—even likely—to be far worse than the already sobering news in the latest reports. Read more |