Democratic Democratic Party? It's Time - Jim Hightower, Humor Times

Sen. Bernie Sanders is a leader who actually leads, as he pushes for a really democratic Democratic Party.

Once again, Sen. Bernie Sanders is showing that he’s a leader who actually leads, pushing for a democratic Democratic Party.

While top Democratic Party lawmakers are hunkered down in their Washington bunker, immobilized by the President Donald Trump-Elon Musk oligarchic coup on America’s democracy, the feisty “little-d” democrat from Vermont is out in grassroots America, rallying workaday people with his National Tour to Fight Oligarchy. His effort has even caused the lethargic Democratic establishment to speak out. Against Bernie!

The party’s clueless cadre of insider consultants mocked Sen. Sanders for focusing on Trump’s clique of profiteering oligarchs: “Americans don’t understand the word oligarchy,” they clucked.

Excuse me, smart ones, but once again, you’re wrong. The oligarchy has become quite well-known to us commoners who’ve suffered from their healthcare outrages, voter suppression, anti-union greed, rampant price gouging, etc. To the shock of elites in both parties, Sanders has even taken his “Fight Oligarchy” campaign into red congressional districts, drawing thousands of mad-as-hellers in such Republican states as Iowa and Nebraska.

In a symbolic rejection of Bernie’s on-your-side populist rebellion, Hakeem Jeffries — the Democratic leader in the U.S. House — rushed out to Silicon Valley to hug the billionaire oligarchs of high-tech! Far from confronting the rise of monopoly power, Jeffries assured the Tech Bros that the “Party of the People” is there to serve them.

Meanwhile, Democratic congressional leaders held an internal “gripe-fest” last week. Not griping about Trump’s authoritarian assault — but about their grassroots constituents inundating them with calls and emails demanding that they grow spines and start fighting the rising oligarchy.

Sen. Sanders is showing the way for the Democratic Party to become … well, democratic! Connect with him at the Bernie Sanders Official Website.

To the Barricades: Trump Plans to “Fix” America’s Postal Service

Uh-oh. Trump is hearing voices again.

And the voices are telling him to do something truly stupid. As he puts it, “There is a lot of talk about the Postal Service being taken private,” adding that “It’s an idea that a lot of people have liked for a long time.”

Hmmm, I haven’t heard even one voice say our phenomenal public mail service should be privatized. Indeed, it is a widely popular government agency because it works for everyone – rich and poor, urban and rural.

When he claims that “a lot of people” like the idea of postal privatization, how many is a lot? Six? Six million? And what kind of people? Working stiffs, poor people, rural residents … who? He gives a coded answer to that when he refers to the Post Office being “taken” private. Oh? Taken by whom? Of course … by the corrupt profiteering billionaires who funded Trump. Their business plan is to have him hand the agency to them in the name of instituting “corporate efficiency” — meaning the privateers will go to three-day mail delivery, cut-off service to unprofitable poor and rural communities, raise prices, and fire legions of experienced postal workers.

They’re out to steal an essential public treasure, but they’re also trying to censor opposition to their political control of government. The Postal Service was created in 1792 in part to prevent royalists and oligarchs from controlling communications. If you think that’s not a problem in modern America, reflect on the blunt media censorship being imposed right now by Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and other petty potentates of corporate plutocracy.

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National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the book, "Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow," Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks.

Twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower is a modern-day Johnny Appleseed, spreading the message of progressive populism all across the American grassroots.

He broadcasts daily radio commentaries that are carried in more than 150 commercial and public stations and on the web.