by Barbara Chiarello | Dec 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
While President Trump and his Senate enablers have made the wealthy even wealthier, the Democratic House continues to pass bills meant to meet the basic needs of everyday citizens, especially during the pandemic. The Republicans’ response? Make the term socialism...
by tombooker@gmail.com | Oct 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
A few summers ago, a distressed, disheveled, probably homeless woman was delivering a disjointed speech to Paramount Theater patrons waiting on line to get in. Most people ignored her. Some gazed at her surreptitiously. Suddenly, a police car drove up, and out came a...
by Barbara Chiarello | Oct 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Covid-19 requires Americans to face harsh truths. We must dismantle the sacrosanct American myth that deifies individualism so that we can embrace the social responsibility imperatives that will defeat this pandemic. When Trump refuses to require all Americans to...
by Barbara Chiarello | Oct 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
He snuck into our sacred halls of government trumpeting grandiose deeds to “make America great again” but really signaling the menacing message to his true believers that he would build a xenophobic, sexist, racist white patriarchy. Trump and his enablers are...
by Barbara Chiarello | Sep 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
America is suffering from whitism, a creed that rests on disabling lies. Whitism engenders the belief that the world was made to serve whites. Therefore, coal mining and manufacturing jobs must be coming back because why should whites have to adjust to a changing...
by Barbara Chiarello | Sep 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Trump has turned living in America into riding a roller coaster. He lies; we lurch from side. He fires his opponents; we close our eyes in fear for the Constitution. He mishandles the coronavirus pandemic; we suffer unnecessarily as the cars speed down too fast by...