Well.....drink some of this! Premium

6 months ago on Mike Luckovich

Given the power of money and it’s control of the two parties, the choice we are given creates the illusion of some of democratic process. Look at the panic displayed by the Democrats after the debate. An overt angst-fest over the potential loss of revenue from big money donors!!! Right before our eyes!
7 months ago on Ted Rall

My cynical, age addled take is in agreement with everyone who sees crass self interest as being the underlying motivation to much of what we see here. Trump is just more obvious about it. So I sit on my front porch rocker and scream “throw all the bums out!”. Unfortunately that means throwing out many of the upcoming generation of leaders we see in the wings. They’ve learned the game well.
7 months ago on Ted Rall

The general idea behind “Free…….” is to advocate a liberation from a powerful, dominant and established structure (government, cultural standard, religion etc) that takes advantage of relatively powerless individuals under their control. What’s going on on the campuses is more to the idea that what we are witnessing real in real time is a slaughter of a people who are associated to some degree with a radical political movement within it. Argue that the price they are paying is proportional to the abhorrent cruelty of October 7th, and I have to leave you. It’s like someone saying that what happened that day was “unprovoked”. Read the history of the region from unbiased sources. Like they do in colleges and universities. Like these students do.
8 months ago on Ted Rall

He is holding the office of Executive of the country that has the American dollar, the world standard of trade value, the largest and most powerful military, and is the leader of a capitalistic-corporate-industrial complex that influences the lives of almost every inhabitant of this planet. I’m thinking there’s some significant amount of influence here.
8 months ago on Gasoline Alley

As I like to tell my friends….“y’know when I die you guys are all gonna disappear”
8 months ago on Ted Rall

The power in this process belongs to the two political parties in this country plain and simple. The policy making decisions and the candidates they endorse are determined by well entrenched corporate interests. The extent that his can be successfully portrayed as “democracy” demonstrates the extent to which we have been hoodwinked as an “electorate”.
9 months ago on Mike Luckovich

I often have a problem with the use of the term “disenfranchisement”. This is clearly the opposite.
11 months ago on Ted Rall

Got it. I never dwell in the lower spaces of the web page….
11 months ago on Ted Rall

Ted has a podcast?
12 months ago on Ted Rall

For all of these musings about a better way of electing our representatives, lets agree that a sense of “engagement” in the process by “we the people” would be a good thing. Let’s also acknowledge that we are a long way from this in our sophisticated version of American democracy.