Nobody likes losing elections. To do so is to suffer the rejection of things held dear. Still there’s always the next, which is a saving feature of democracy. Apparently the Republicans have no time for democracy: they want to short circuit the process and topple Obama right now. More particularly they want to topple Obamacare. […]

The great English Radical, William Cobbett, once said “I defy you to agitate a fellow with a full stomach”. Economic security and wellbeing make for a very comfortable if not complacent populace. Perhaps the contrary is true. Perhaps the source of our current malaise and the extremist threat to our democracy embodied in the Tea […]