Ruminations

There’s 7 New People Born

Bryan Watson8 years ago02 mins

Into this world came this song. It certainly wasn’t on the radio, but I had bought the album – my second Dylan album – and listened to it, late at night, in the living room, on the hi-fi console, with my headphones on, in stereo.

When I first heard it, it was just “the next track” on the album. But halfway through, I stopped and moved the needle back to the beginning. I listened. Then played it again. And again. And again.

I learned, in 5 minutes, about poverty. Farming. South Dakota. Pain. Helplessness. Desperation. Terror. Loss.

Good Government

Review: ‘Gunfight, My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America’

Lisa Pruitt3 years ago3 years ago020 mins

But guns have long signaled something different in rural places than in urban ones. Just as significant, guns now signify something radically different than they did a few decades ago. In short, guns have become highly politicized, both a cause and a symbol of our nation’s accelerating polarization

THEIR own self-interest? Or ours?

Bryan Watson8 years ago02 mins

I think people always operate in their own self-interest. Always.

And I think we rarely know what someone else sees as their own self-interest. Instead, we impose on them what we believe they should be interested in.

A People In Motion

Bryan Watson4 years ago4 years ago04 mins

The story of America cannot be told in terms of what we are or what we have been. The American story is that we are a people in motion – we are going someplace. Someplace better than where we are or where we were. It’s not about where we are, it’s about the journey we are on.
It’s not about what we are, it’s about what we are trying to become.

Candidates: How Do You Decide?

Bryan Watson6 years ago5 years ago01 mins

We elect people to do one thing only – to make decisions.

But we never ask them the fundamental question: ”How do you make a decision?”

Impeachment

Bryan Watson7 years ago03 mins

I am confident that any bill of impeachment passed by the House will not only fail in the Senate – it will never go to trial in the Senate. Senate boss McConnell has shown that he is perfectly willing to simply ignore House-passed bills, so they never get a hearing, never get a vote, never…

TWOFER: Tax and Health Care Cuts

Bryan Watson9 years ago01 mins

Trump has two top legislative priorities: “Tax Reform” and “Repeal the ACA”. Today, they intersected: his “Tax Reform” plan cuts exactly one tax from the ACA – the 3.8% Medicare tax on Net Investment Income for high-income taxpayers. It has long been a badly-kept secret that the driving force behind “repeal the ACA” has been…

Biden Paused – A Missed Opportunity

Bryan Watson2 years ago01 mins

Saturday night would have been the time to shift to a wholly-positive campaign. To inspire voters. To call them to “Yes, we can”, “We Dare to Dream”, and “We have before, we will again”.

My Stand – do you have one?

jfrusch8 years ago01 mins

On being a liberal. What a liberal values.

The Death of the Death of Obamacare

Bryan Watson9 years ago01 mins

It took the Resistance, the nationwide gaggle of Indivisible groups, ADAPT protesters, health care advocates, and the people themselves to bring this reality to the forefront. They marched and shouted, they posted and tweeted, they emailed and called and sang, they carried photos of their friends and family, yes, they disrupted and got arrested – but mostly they told their stories.

Winning Elections

“Our Sacred Honour”

Nobody Likes a Sore Loser

Biden Paused – A Missed Opportunity

“Fear was a big part of it”

Declaration of Independence Day – A Weekly Remembrance

There’s 7 New People Born

Review: ‘Gunfight, My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America’

THEIR own self-interest? Or ours?

A People In Motion

Candidates: How Do You Decide?

Impeachment

TWOFER: Tax and Health Care Cuts

Biden Paused – A Missed Opportunity

My Stand – do you have one?

The Death of the Death of Obamacare