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Reopening the economy has become a partisan issue between the rule followers and rule breakers

Posted by TheConversation | Jun 13, 2020 |

By Michele Gelfand, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland Since Republicans, on average, are five times more likely than Democrats to believe it is safe now to resume normal business activity, reopening the economy has often been framed as a partisan issue. But within households, many families are having their own arguments about how lax or strict they should be about the threat of the virus. Is it OK to have friends over? Can we invite Aunt Sally to our birthday party? Can dad slip away to the golf course? Can mom get a haircut? These...

The Inevitability of a White Backlash to the George Floyd Protests

Posted by Reggie Jackson | Jun 12, 2020 |

“Revolutions which are not controlled and held within reasonable limits produce counter-revolution.” – Union General Nathaniel P. Banks 1864 We are in unprecedented times. Conversations and comments about racism are taking place on a scale never seen before in American history. That’s the good news. History tells us that there will be a price to pay. Many whites that are not protesting and not having positive conversations are stewing in their anger that “Black Lives Matter” is okay to utter out loud. They don’t believe racism exist. Even if they acknowledge it does, they don’t believe it’s systemic in...

Pandemic Capitalism: Searching for an alternative to the cruel absurdity of status quo politics

Posted by Common Dreams | Jun 8, 2020 |

The United States leads the world in COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. It is also among the global frontrunners for organized political idiocy, as President Trump’s deadly incompetence in managing the crisis has left many Americans in despair, their hopes for the future uncertain if not on life support. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported 1,504,830 total cases and 90,340 deaths from COVID-19 as of May 19. While state case reports vary, further waves of disease are likely unless vigilant public health measures, including greatly expanded testing, contact tracing, and quarantining, are in place. For Trump and his right-wing...

How Quickly We Forget: The Lost and Disrespected Victims of COVID-19

Posted by Reggie Jackson | Jun 5, 2020 |

“Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.” – Madeleine de Souvre After months of staying at home other than trips to the grocery store or pharmacy my wife and I went for a “leisurely drive” by the lakefront on Memorial Day. It was the saddest experience for me in recent memory. We saw hundreds of people because we went late in the day. I am sure that had we gone much earlier we would have seen...

Slave Patrols: America has yet to reckon with the racist roots of our criminal justice system

Posted by TheConversation | Jun 5, 2020 |

By Connie Hassett-Walker, Assistant Professor of Justice Studies and Sociology, Norwich University Outrage over racial profiling and the killing of African Americans by police officers and vigilantes has recently resurfaced following the death of George Floyd on May 25. Video footage a bystander took of Floyd’s death while a now-former police officer pressed his knee into the man’s neck quickly went viral. But tensions between the police and black communities are nothing new. There were many precedents to the Ferguson, Missouri, protests that ushered in the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014. Those precedents include the Los Angeles riots...

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them

Posted by Common Dreams | Jun 3, 2020 |

In response to the ideological cataclysm resulting from the coronavirus, the race has begun to replace a dying Neoliberalism. Three lines of thinking are emerging to fill that void. One is that the emergency necessitates extraordinary measures, but the basic structure of production and consumption is sound, and the problem lies only in determining the moment when things can return to “normal.” This is the dominant opinion among political and business elites. Representative of this outlook is the infamous Goldman Sachs-sponsored teleconference involving scores of stock market players in mid-March of this year, which concluded that “there is no...