Author: statusquobuster

Finding Hope In A Dismal World Joel S. Hirschhorn For so many, hope is down the drain.  Hard to fault them.  Abundant evidence shows our insane world sliding down a global cheese grater.Fish are dying in the Great...

Stop being a compliant consumer.  Face the ugly truth.  Don’t get fooled by the stock market.  Accept the need for the mistreated middle class to become the revolutionary class.  The British military...

Americans have always accepted a certain level of economic inequality as the inevitable consequence of an open capitalist society where some people through their own efforts do better than others.  The presumption is that...

Democracy Dreaming Joel S. Hirschhorn What is this thing called democracy?  So easy to talk about, so difficult to make real.  Pure democracy is not what our Founders gave us.  Who would want a simple majority to...

American: So you mean that if you Australians don’t vote, you get a fine?   Australian: Yeah, and when you Americans don’t vote you get George W. Bush. As surely as politicians lie, citizen apathy produces...