Let’s join the rest of the world and stop the unnecessary political charade that is having a debt ceiling and needing to raise it…

From the Council on Foreign Relations: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-happens-when-us-hits-its-debt-ceiling Thanks, also, to Nick Anderson. GOP hypocrisy, raised debt ceiling without question under Trump, Republicans responsible for debt

Considering right-wing extremism in America, perhaps our second President, John Adams, was right: “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

The complete quote: “I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy....

From our History section: on this day in 1981 Ronald Reagan signed the “Economic Recovery Act,” signaling the beginning of “trickle-down” economics, the decimation of middle-class benefits and the staggering rise of income inequality in America…

From History: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/reagan-signs-economic-recovery-tax-act-erta? increased deficits, tax breaks for wealthy, rise of oligarchy, anti-union, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, reduced government services, infrastructure impacts, Kemp

From The New Republic: “[the GOP knows] they cannot win hearts and minds [since] the demographics of the U.S. are inexorably shifting towards nonwhites and secularism,” so the GOP’s only hope is undermining democracy…

From The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/167100/republican-party-turning-america-into-hungary? Trump, treason, January 6, Jan 6, Big Lie, evangelicals, white supremacy