Comrade Robert B Reich, one of the intellectual giants of our time, has put together a timely public service announcement.

If this poignant video doesn't make rightwing nutjobs take pause and see the danger posed by Cruz I don't know what will.



4 Reasons Ted Cruz is Even More Dangerous than Donald Trump

1. Cruz is more fanatical. Sure, Trump is a bully and bigot, but he doesn't hew to any sharp ideological line. Cruz is a fierce ideologue: He denies the existence of man-made climate change, rejects same-sex marriage, wants to abolish the Internal Revenue Service, believes the 2nd amendment guarantees everyone a right to guns. He doesn't believe in a constitutional divide between church and state, favors the death penalty, rejects immigration reform, demands the repeal of Obamacare, and takes a strict “originalist” view of the meaning of the Constitution.

2. Cruz is a true believer. Trump has no firm principles except making money, getting attention, and gaining power. But Cruz has spent much of his life embracing radical right economic and political views.

3. Cruz is more disciplined and strategic. Trump is all over the place, often winging it, saying whatever pops into his mind. Cruz hews to a clear script and a carefully crafted strategy. He plays the long game (as he's shown in Iowa).

4. Cruz is a loner who's willing to destroy government institutions to get his way. Trump has spent his career using the federal government and making friends with big shots. Not Cruz. He has repeatedly led Republicans toward fiscal cliffs. In the Fall of 2013, his opposition to Obamacare led in a significant way to the shutdown of the federal government.

Both men would be disasters for America, but Ted Cruz would be the larger disaster.

Make that five!

SALON: 5 reasons Ted Cruz is even more dangerous than Donald Trump

By ROBERT REICH

Both men are dangerous, but a Cruz presidency would set America back decades, warns the former secretary of labor

They'll know for sure once they figure out the exact number of reasons. Until then sit tight and make no attempt to leave.

On the other hand, our relations with Canada will be greatly improved!

At least they're being environmentally conscious by recycling old character assassination tactics rather than throwing them into landfills and creating new ones.

Ask Reich why do so many millenials vote for Sanders. FREE PIZZA!

Red Square wrote:Ask Reich why do so many millenials vote for Sanders. FREE PIZZA! [at Inequality For All movie]

The animal world has a counterpart to Socialism: Zoocialism. Being only animals with only very meager intellectual abilities animals look out upon the world and only see that some animals have more territory and so more food than other animals and some have less. The animals only see food, territory, and jungle law of might is right. There is much inequality of income in the jungle. But all animals are hungry!

If animals could understand the human condition they would explain it in the terms of animals and would come up with Zoocialism - the paradise on earth for all animals! Welcome to the zoo. What cage will you live in?

The Gifts of Zoocialism - perhaps a new cartoon show you will watch in The Next Tuesday Zone.

Margaret wrote:

Red Square wrote:Ask Reich why do so many millenials vote for Sanders. FREE PIZZA! [at Inequality For All movie]

The animal world has a counterpart to Socialism: Zoocialism. Being only animals with only very meager intellectual abilities animals look out upon the world and only see that some animals have more territory and so more food than other animals and some have less. The animals only see food, territory, and jungle law of might is right. There is much inequality of income in the jungle. But all animals are hungry!

If animals could understand the human condition they would explain it in the terms of animals and would come up with Zoocialism - the paradise on earth for all animals! Welcome to the zoo. What cage will you live in?

The Gifts of Zoocialism - perhaps a new cartoon show you will watch in The Next Tuesday Zone.

This "Zoocialism" concept occurred to me many years ago (though not the term Zoocialism itself) when I noticed that zoos are most often operated by left leaning do-gooders. I would ask them, "Don't you realize you're destroying the true nature of these animals by insulating them from the "dangers" of the real world?" They couldn't grasp the significance of my question. Reich is very much like those zoo keepers.