Yet another deadly firestorm now swirls around Robert E. Lee.  As his statues head to the ash heap of history, a life defined by slavery, betrayal, and slaughter again divides our nation.   Lee was an icon of the Confederacy and the architect of its defeat.  He was a traitor to the United States of America who cost it uncounted lives….right up to now.     Lee’s gentlemanly portraits are a surface illusion.  He could be gracious and chivalrous, a dashing strategist and later a beloved college president. .     But his core was medieval and obsolete.  He was the ultimate undertaker of a culture of death.     Robert was the son of Henry “Lighthorse Harry” Lee, a Revolutionary officer descended from Virginia’s early slaveowners.  But in the early 1800s he served a year in debtor’s prison, and died when Robert was eleven, leaving the family disgraced.      

Well HALLELUYAH!!!

Al Gore now says he opposes the Electoral College.

A mere 16 years of lethal silence has been shattered!

Eight years of George W. Bush and eight months of Donald Trump ago Gore won the US popular vote by some 500,000 ballots. 

But the Electoral College intervened.

He went to the Supreme Court to protect a recount in Florida that would have won him the election.  But the infamous Bush v. Gore shut him down, 5-4.

Despite all the money and public effort that went into trying to protect the White House from George W. Bush, Al Gore went silent.  He resurfaced with a high-budget film about climate change. 

But Gore has said and done virtually nothing about the stolen election of 2000… or about protecting any US elections thereafter.

He continues to ignore then-Gov. Jeb Bush, his opponent’s brother, stripping some 90,000 black and Hispanic voters off the registration rolls in an election allegedly decided by 537 votes.  Since 2000, Al Gore has done nothing stop the massive disenfranchisement that helped sweep Trump into the White House. 

Sunday, August 13, 8-9:30pm
Ohio Statehouse, Broad and High Streets
Columbus DSA, ISO Columbus, Yes We Can, Columbus Citizens for Police Review and others will be hosting a vigil to remember the people killed and injured in Charlottesville. Join us to show that we will not back down in the face of organized hate.
 

Nine months after losing the presidency, the Democratic Party is in dire need of a course correction. Grass-roots enthusiasm for the party is far from robust. Despite incessant funding appeals and widespread revulsion for the Trump administration, the Democratic National Committee’s fundraising is notably weak. And the latest DNC chair, Tom Perez, sounds no more inspiring than his recent predecessors. When Perez speaks next to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, it’s a stark contrast between establishment cliches and progressive populism.

While a united front against the Trump regime would be ideal, mere unity behind timeworn Democratic leadership would hardly be auspicious. Breaking the Republican stranglehold at election time will require mobilizing the Democratic Party’s base on behalf of authentic populism. But the power structure of the DNC has other priorities.

Saturday, August 12, 6:30-11pm
1021 E. Broad St., outside, weather permitting
Facebook Event
Second Saturday Salon features the best of the Left with liberal thinkers, speakers, and performers. Mas Bagua provides the moving muscial background for this Salon. Come join the cult!