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The slide toward authoritarianism in the US.

All of the Rearguard Battles

By 196973pwpadmin | August 30, 2025August 30, 2025 by 196973pwpadmin

Photo credit: Humphrey M, Unsplash All of the Rearguard Battles The realization that all of the movements for peace and a better world had come up short struck me recently. Since around 1973 in my case, there had not been one instance of a clear victory to defeat the forces of reaction. That’s one hell of a long time! It’s one hell of a lot of failures! The last unequivocal achievement that I can name…

How patriotism is expressed

The Fourth

By 196973pwpadmin | July 4, 2025July 6, 2025 by 196973pwpadmin

Photo credit: Library of Congress The Fourth It was July 4, 1981, and I drove around a rotary in Narragansett, Rhode Island. On the car radio, the DJ almost seemed to plead in her delivery about the country still being ours, that we had to act, and that saving the nation from Reaganism was foremost in her mind. The antiwar movement from the Vietnam War was not quite in the rearview mirror of history. Now,…