Here are a few excerpts from the latest Harper’s Index:
- Number of congressional districts that border Mexico: 9
- Number that are represented by a Republican: 1
- Votes by which that district’s congressman won reelection in November: 926
- Ratio of the number of Democratic House seats held by women in 1989 to the number held today: 16:89
- Of the number of Republican House seats: 1:1
- Percentage of Americans who did not vote in the midterm elections who say they wish they had: 61
- Percentage of the global population who say they would move to a different country if given the opportunity: 15
- Percentage of Americans who say they would: 16
- Chances an American has held off seeking health-care treatment in the past year because of costs: 3 in 10
- Percentage change in the number of annual complaints filed to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since 2016: +34
- In the number of publicly announced enforcement actions by the CFPB: –74
- Percentage decline since 2010 in the number of IRS auditors: 35
- Year in which the IRS last had so few auditors: 1953
- Percentage of US police departments since 2014 that have reported relaxing hiring standards for prior drug use: 54
- Percentage of US parents under 50 who say it’s unlikely they will have more children: 71
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“The American People will take Socialism, but they won’t take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to ‘End Poverty in California’ I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.” ~~Upton Sinclair in 1951 letter to Norman M. Thomas
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On this date at Daily Kos in 2012—The death of the Republican dog whistle:
In the idealized version of the GOP primary, establishment Republicans would curry favor with their Wall Street pals while sending coded dog whistles to their foot soldiers—on race, immigration, reproductive freedoms, etc. Those dog whistles would motivate the GOP base without revealing their true radical nature to the American mainstream. It was a genius system while it worked, one that saw no parallel on the progressive side.
But the days of the dog whistle are over. The election of President Barack Obama created an entire cottage industry trying to prove how un-American and Kenyan he supposedly is, while Republicans like Rep. Pete Hoekstra run blatantly anti-Asian ads. Republicans laugh about electrocuting immigrants who will cut off your head in the desert if they're not stopped, while passing laws openly hostile to brown people. Attacks on homosexuals have escalated to new hysterical highs as society becomes more tolerant and open to equality.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Hey, kids! Stay in school! Or don't. Whatever. YouTubers are making a mint chewing food on camera. A real Harvard law prof has declared the Constitution unconstitutional. And Armando joins us in witnessing the "national emergency" trainwreck.
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