When El Cerrito sends its musicians, they’re not sending their best

You would like it (History of Rock and Roll in 500 Songs) I think, and the most recent episode was a cool 2.5 hours on CCR that never stopped being interesting. Every time an episode drops and I wonder if it is more than I will want on a particular band the answer is always no

Did you just listen to the Andrew Hickey episode? You must have. If not then Aaron this is the answer to your original question

State reps in Wisconsin make something like $50k-$60k, it's a problem

But insofar as we democratic socialists do have an obligation to the national Democratic Party it would be good for us to get our membership organization house in order, so that there is a democratic left org that doesn't embarrass our elected officials

I wish that they could see that the "democratic socialist" identity has the big advantage of not being weighed down by the Democratic Party's past commitments, many of which are anchors around the party

Sometimes I think that the Democratic Party doesn't know how to solve that problem and so they direct displaced anger at us

For our part, those of us on the democratic socialist side of things have the problem that no matter where we fit in the party, right-media is going to present some left-wing extremist as representing the party to generate outrage for its audience

Or they can 2) get behind a really significant voting reform that would alter the party structure in this country so that the democratic socialist people and the mainline liberals are in different parties, even if frequently in coalition

They can either 1) say things like the above, work to normalize it and explain that this isn't ooga-booga authoritarian socialism and whether or not one agrees with it, having a handful of state-run grocery stories and higher taxes on the rich is not the end of freedom

Here is my review of @attackerman.bsky.social's Reign of Terror from when it came out; no book connects these dots better newrepublic.com/article/1631...

Tellingly, Bill Kristol had an appreciation this morning and I was sort of relieved to find an area of serious disagreement

Glad to know it will find a home

I’ve been the editor for about a year and a half (with Natasha Lewis) and I would not support the publication of anything that matches that description

If you’d like to find another place for the piece I would be interested in it for Dissent. You could write a preface describing this experience. Not the same reach as Time but do let me know if you’re interested!

It’s not. your opinion has been verified as correct by me, a person with an opinion

I will stop quoting sections of GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM when they stop being relevant. us.macmillan.com/books/9781250135599/gangstersofcapitalism/