Last Monday's total solar eclipse brought night to the daytime skies over my city. When it occurred, street lights turned on, and the air became cold and damp as if it were three in the morning. Night's dark sojourn at 2:20 in the afternoon lasted for two minutes. Then the afternoon returned unscathed to its normal 2024 cost-of-living crisis routine.
So well said John …. We’re heading down exactly the same track in NZ - we’ve been going in that direction since 1984 but it’s taken yet another turn for the worse since the election of our latest crop of corrupt lunatics 😫
"It has essentially become a election over who will have the best table manners when they serve up the vulnerable, the refugees, the migrants as well as the worker into the fascist jaws of the 1%"
AMEN, this expresses the true undercurrent of these "choices" (felt this about John Tory vs Rob Ford too, but didn't/don't have your language to express it so well!).
So well said John …. We’re heading down exactly the same track in NZ - we’ve been going in that direction since 1984 but it’s taken yet another turn for the worse since the election of our latest crop of corrupt lunatics 😫
What an insightful piece. It is time for us to organize anew and go beyond what our forebears accomplished during the FDR presidency
"It has essentially become a election over who will have the best table manners when they serve up the vulnerable, the refugees, the migrants as well as the worker into the fascist jaws of the 1%"
AMEN, this expresses the true undercurrent of these "choices" (felt this about John Tory vs Rob Ford too, but didn't/don't have your language to express it so well!).