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David Michael Green is a professor of political science at Hofstra University in New York. He is delighted to receive readers' reactions to his articles (dmg@regressiveantidote.net), but regrets that time constraints do not always allow him to respond. His website is www.regressiveantidote.net.
Monday, December 19, 2011 A Better World's In Birth (Maybe) (1 comments)
There's lots not to like about our times, that's for sure. Just the same, 2011 showed signs of progress.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 We Are Not Your Human Resources (3 comments)
The one percent in this country sees the rest of us--not as equals, or even as human beings--but as commodities put on this earth to serve them, no different from machines or infrastructure, computers or chemicals. To them, we're not human beings entitled to human rights and empathetic respect.
Monday, October 17, 2011 We Are Not Your Human Resources (4 comments)
After endless decades of downsizing and destruction, Occupy Wall Street is a real flickering of hope among the ashes.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 All The Bad News Fit To Print (3 comments)
t's all coming apart at the seams, folks, and the headlines scream out the evidence. But where's the surprise in that? That's what was supposed to happen.
Friday, August 12, 2011 The Grubby Species (2 comments)
Boy, it's hard being an American these days. If you find yourself looking at Washington and thinking there's no one there who's got your back, well that's because there's no one there who's got your back.
Saturday, July 9, 2011 Stupid Democrats, Stupid Republicans (2 comments)
Misunderstanding the politics of Barack Obama is the most obvious symptom of and American body politics which is utterly clueless.
Sunday, May 29, 2011 Dispatches From The End Of Empire (5 comments)
There is some good news these days, but it's hard to tell given the context. It's not a pretty picture.
Sunday, April 24, 2011 Trump Beats All (3 comments)
Donald Trump now tops GOP presidential polls. What does that say about America?
Sunday, April 17, 2011 Barack Had A Ball (5 comments)
Me? I'm struggling along like the rest of America. The president? He seems to be having a ball.
Sunday, April 10, 2011 And Now, For The Kill (4 comments)
You've got to hand it to the American oligarchy. It's been an incredible 30 year run. Now, with the budget cuts coming, the end it near.
Sunday, April 3, 2011 When Pigs Rule (15 comments)
This is not a society being ruined from some outside, uncontrollable force. This is, sadly, a society committing suicide by greed.
Sunday, March 27, 2011 Get The Hell Out of My Country (1 comments)
Some regressives want to purge certain Americans from the country for dragging the rest of us down. I say, Hell Yes!
Sunday, February 27, 2011 The Sole Remaining Stupidpower of the World (2 comments)
Could we get much dumber? It hardly seems so, given the way we've so assiduously aided in our own demise these last decades. Woo-hoo!
Sunday, February 20, 2011 Waking Up In Wisconsin (1 comments)
Is America's long national nightmare finally ending? That's probably too much to dream. Still, I sure like what I'm seeing on the streets of Wisconsin.
Sunday, February 13, 2011 Egypt, USA (5 comments)
Young people in Egypt have risen up to overthrow a ruthless kleptocracy. When will Americans do the same?
Sunday, February 6, 2011 Walk Like An Egyptian (2 comments)
The courage of the Egyptian street is as admirable as it is embarrassing for the United States, land of the neocons, and home of Obama.
Sunday, January 30, 2011 The Pseudo-State of the Pretend Union (2 comments)
I don't know what planet Barack Obama lives on, but mine's called Earth. Watching his state of the union speech suggests that things are much better in his universe than ours.
Monday, January 24, 2011 Civility? Whatever. Capitulation? No Thanks.
It's well past time to be blunt about our situation. Indeed, we cannot even hope to ameliorate it if we cannot even begin by labeling it. The truth is that there are economic predators out there seeking to take what we have so that they can live ever wealthier lives while ours are short, nasty and brutish because of their institutionalized and legalized theft.
Sunday, January 23, 2011 Civility? Whatever. Capitulation? No Thanks. (1 comments)
I sure do think that we could be better about how we do our politics, but I don't want civility if it means getting rolled by the right.
Sunday, January 16, 2011 Christina Green's Civics Lesson (5 comments)
Forget about Sarah Palin's recent idiocies. The murders in Tucson are driven by a far more profoundly disturbing logic, one that pervades American politics.
Sunday, January 9, 2011 All The News That Isn't
Lots of big news this last week or two. If, that is, you haven't been paying much attention this last generation or two.
Sunday, January 2, 2011 Happy New Year, 2030 (4 comments)
It's a brave new world, people. Get ready for all the great things the plutocracy has planned for us!
Monday, December 27, 2010 Learning From Lame Ducks
These clowns continually leave themselves wide open for withering attack, just as they did by opposing unemployment extensions for 'lazy' laid-off workers, or by opposing the pittance cost to provide health care for 9/11 first-responders, all based on the claim that we can't afford the spending, even though we absolutely must give massive tax cuts to billionaires.
Sunday, December 26, 2010 Learning From Lame Ducks (2 comments)
The lame duck session had a few surprises. But some things never change.
Sunday, December 19, 2010 Health Care and the Wages of Sin (7 comments)
The fundamental error at the core of the president's health care plan is a gift that will just keep on giving.
Saturday, December 11, 2010 The Assassination of America By The Coward Barack Obama (14 comments)
This week Barack Obama set new records in presidential capitulation. Why doesn't he just hand over the office to Sarah Palin and get it over with?
Sunday, December 5, 2010 What WikiLeaks Really Reveals (2 comments)
The regressives know that the people in a democracy just might not put up with their crimes and their lies, and thus secrecy must be jealously guarded, even if that requires the murder of a truth-teller. That, ultimately is the most substantial revelation that the WikiLeaks documents have so far produced.
Saturday, December 4, 2010 What WikiLeaks Really Reveal (3 comments)
All the goons on the right are up in arms about WikiLeaks, even though not much has (yet?) been revealed. What they really hate about it is the dreaded accountability.
Saturday, November 27, 2010 In The Year 2025 (3 comments)
A look at our future. Woo-hoo!
Sunday, November 21, 2010 Human Trafficking Is A (Non-) Metaphor For Our Times (1 comments)
It's time to face it: We are human resources for the aristocracy. Human (that's the inconvenient part), yes, but who cares? The operative term is resource.
Saturday, November 13, 2010 The Religion of Politics
Too many of us do our politics like we do religion. That's bad for the country. Very bad.
Saturday, November 6, 2010 Of Irony and Implosion (7 comments)
Yet another awful week in the life and near-death of the republic. How many more of these can we stand?
Sunday, October 31, 2010 Yes, Of Course They're Brownshirts. What The Hell Did You Expect? (3 comments)
The wheels are coming off the wagon in America right now, and it does indeed smell all too much like a Germany-in-the-1930s kinda moment. American politics have been driven to a fever pitch, even though no one is talking about the real problems the country faces.
Saturday, October 23, 2010 The Bush Lie (9 comments)
The project of turning Bush into a great president comes with a few, um, issues associated with it, however. Heck, even just rescuing him from the cesspool of the club of failed presidents requires no small miracle.
Friday, October 22, 2010 The Bush Lie (3 comments)
Trying to resurrect George W. Bush and turn him into a great historical figure is a heckuva project. But, then, this is America.
Saturday, October 16, 2010 The Ricky Ray Rector President (1 comments)
This guy managed to get through the last two decades without noticing just what the vicious thugs of the Republican Party are entirely capable of. This guy lived through the last two years of his own sinking presidency without noticing what these sick freaks have already been doing to him personally at every juncture.
Friday, October 15, 2010 The Ricky Ray Rector President (5 comments)
Oh my god. Barack Obama is far further gone than I had ever imagined. His recent interview with the New York Times suggests that he is quite delusional.
Saturday, October 9, 2010 How Do You Take Your Tea? With Heaping Spoonfuls of Irony, Of Course (1 comments)
The tea party movement is just one irony after another, starting with the fact that the people who made the current economic mess are now the ones most upset about it.
Saturday, October 2, 2010 Bucking Up For Barry (8 comments)
The president was right when he said that his administration was the "most successful in a generation in moving progressive agendas forward." Of course, he didn't mention that the presidents of the last generation were Reagan, Daddy Bush, Clinton and Baby Bush.
Friday, October 1, 2010 Bucking Up For Barry (8 comments)
The Obama Administration said this week that progressives need to "buck up". I agree. Otherwise, things could really get bad.
Saturday, September 25, 2010 The Dismantling of Civilized Society (1 comments)
Looking at the landscape in front of them as it appears to voters' blinkered vision, it makes perfect sense to desperately swing to the party not in government when the house is on fire and the party in government is showing up with squirt guns.
Friday, September 24, 2010 The Dismantling of Civilized Society (10 comments)
It's hard to escape it anymore: The show is over for America. The aftermath won't be pretty.
Saturday, September 18, 2010 Tea With Frankenstein: Please, No Masturbation (1 comments)
Democrats are the very reason for the tea party, this latest episode of American idiocy. Had the party done something with the grand historic opportunity handed to them two years ago, none of this would be happening.
Friday, September 17, 2010 Tea With Frankenstein: Please, No Masturbation (8 comments)
And you thought it's been bad so far. How 'bout those tea party folks, eh? Now the real fun begins.
Saturday, September 11, 2010 "I Have A Dream" 2010 Version (1 comments)
So Obama is just now figuring out that the country needs an infrastructure bill and another stimulus. He's right on top of things. Just not the things that matter.
Sunday, September 5, 2010 Our Long National Nightmare Isn't Over, It's Just Beginning (1 comments)
History will record - if there are historians left to record it - that this was a moment of monsters, cowards and indolents: those being the right, the supposed left, and the public, respectively. It's the worst of all worlds, and the combination is likely to be catastrophic.
Saturday, August 28, 2010 Our Bloody Valentine
I always thought it was as foolish and deceitful to claim victory in 2008 as it had been in 2003. And this is probably precisely what we're witnessing now, as political violence is once again ramping up in Iraq. we may have to 'win' the war yet a fourth time before we actually get out of there.
Friday, August 27, 2010 Our Bloody Valentine (1 comments)
How 'bout that Iraq war, eh? How many ways can you say 'disaster'?
Friday, August 20, 2010 The Tiger Woods of Nations (3 comments)
America is moral, pious and good at getting physical and making money. Just like Tiger Woods. Scratch the surface, though, and below the facade is a whole other story. Just like Tiger Woods.
Friday, August 13, 2010 Our Professional Failure (1 comments)
Liberals need to be drug tested, Robert Gibbs? Oh man. Now you're starting to really piss me off.
Saturday, July 31, 2010 Embarrassica The Mutilated (2 comments)
There seems to be no bottom to the well of corporate greed in America. It is killing us. They are killing us.
Friday, July 23, 2010 Our Impoverished Politics (2 comments)
It ain't like it used to be, that's for sure. This country once had ambition and legitimate bragging rights, with political rhetoric to match. Not any more.
Sunday, July 18, 2010 Why The Presidency Matters, And Why It's Okay To Believe So (1 comments)
Let me be blunt. Strong and successful presidents (meaning those who get what they want - whether that happens to be good for the country or not) do not accept "the best deal on the table." They take out their carpentry tools and the build the piece of furniture themselves. There is no other soapbox in the country - or even the world - that comes close to the power of the White House bully pulpit.
Sunday, July 11, 2010 Growing Up Globally
However disappointing the partial development of a world government might be at this time, it would in fact be more than helpful if one could be created purely for purposes of dealing with the most pressing global issues of our time, including environmental crises and war.
Friday, July 9, 2010 Growing Up Globally (1 comments)
Global problems demand global solutions. We have the problems, but definitely not the solutions yet. That's a problem that could well be catastrophic.
Thursday, July 1, 2010 How's That Recessioney, Oily Thing Working Out For Ya? (1 comments)
Clearly, the political branches of the US government have been fully captured by monied elites. Perhaps scariest of all, however, is the newly emboldened ultra-radical majority on the Supreme Court. And, Democrats wouldn't know what guts looked like if they were all board-certified gastrointestinal surgeons.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 How's That Recessioney, Oily Thing Working Out For Ya? (11 comments)
For thirty years now we've been adopting regressive politics, and now it looks like we're going to do it some more, right in the wake of their spectacular failure. Can 300 million people really be so out of their tree?
Friday, June 25, 2010 Mission Accomplished: The Reagan Occupation and the Destruction of the American Middle Class (8 comments)
The Reagan Occupation inches closer yet to a full-blown "mission accomplished". The middle class is on its knees and shrinking fast. Unions have been broken into irrelevance. Government, supposedly an agent of the public interest, has become a complete tool of those it is meant to monitor.
Thursday, June 17, 2010 Present Obama Doesn't Strike Again (6 comments)
I really didn't want another piece on Obama's failures this week. Watching his speech on the Gulf crisis was really nauseating, though.
Friday, June 11, 2010 The Do-Nothing 44th President (6 comments)
I don't really know what Obama is doing in the White House. He sure isn't governing.
Friday, June 4, 2010 What Lethal Arrogance Looks Like
Although some of Israel's behavior is understandable based on its history, this week's events in the Mediterranean were nonetheless horrifying.
Saturday, May 29, 2010 I Can't Wait For Barack Obama To Become President (1 comments)
If only Barack Obama was president right now, this mess in the Gulf would be so much better, or might never happened at all.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Fear Comes Of Age (3 comments)
Elena Kagan reminds me of Barack Obama, and both seem typical of their generation: all too often cowed into political silence.
Friday, May 7, 2010 The Age Of Ennui (2 comments)
Like the Brits who aren't quite sure what they voted for this week, Americans and others are stuck right now, wanting everything and nothing all at once.
Saturday, May 1, 2010 Suicide By Regressivism (3 comments)
We have spent the last thirty years dismantling the role of government in society, and the effects have been profound. And profoundly destructive.
Saturday, April 24, 2010 Hell Yes, Secesh! Don't Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out (5 comments)
I'm sick of hearing about how hard it is for all the folks in regressive states being oppressed by Washington. If they want to secede, I say go for it!
Thursday, April 15, 2010 Of Mice And Men
I will miss John Paul Stevens. He's the last of his kind, and the generation which has come after is, ahem, a lot less impressive.
Friday, April 9, 2010 Before And After (3 comments)
Every day, the USA looks more and more like Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe. That's not a good thing.
Sunday, April 4, 2010 Did Obama Sandbag His Own Health Care Bill? (23 comments)
It's difficult to explain Barack Obama's behavior on his own health care bill, unless one considers the possibility that he was undercutting it himself.
Friday, March 19, 2010 Stumbling About In the Graveyard of Empires (3 comments)
Just about everything that could possibly be wrong about American policy in Afghanistan is, in fact, wrong.
Friday, March 12, 2010 The Complete Idiot's Guide To Governing (3 comments)
Running a successful American government is actually not that hard to figure out how to do. There are lots of models for it. Obama and the Democrats should try it out.
Saturday, March 6, 2010 To Hell In A Handbasket (15 comments)
If it all feels like it's coming apart at the seams in American politics - and, indeed, America itself - it's because it is.
Saturday, February 27, 2010 Bipartisan Is Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Win (2 comments)
Bipartisanship is all the rage now. It's a bad idea today, because it's little more than code for doing nothing but maintaining a status quo that favors elites. But it's even a bad idea in general, since it undermines democracy.
Sunday, February 21, 2010 This Is Liberalism? (1 comments)
If Barack Obama and the Democratic Party are liberals, I'm the Queen of England. One of the great coups of the regressive movement has been to disappear an entire ideology.
Saturday, February 13, 2010 Lead, Follow, Or Get Out Of The Way (3 comments)
The dysfunctionality of American politics is widespread, and includes the public, the opposition party, the media and more. But we also suffer from a shameful lack of leadership.
Saturday, February 6, 2010 Just Gimme Some Truth
Watching Obama in action this last week raised the tantalizing question of what would it be like if we actually had a political class whospoke the truth? What a concept, eh?
Friday, January 29, 2010 An Ugly Week For The Human Race And Other Living Things (3 comments)
What a bad week it's been, between the Senate race in Massachusetts and the Supreme Court's bomb and Air America going belly-up. This week we went from grim to worse.
Thursday, January 21, 2010 Hey, Conan Obama: How About Now? Can You Hear Us Now? (5 comments)
Okay, Virginia, New Jersey and now Massachusetts. Democrats are really on a roll now, especially if you think party suicide is a good idea.
Sunday, January 17, 2010 Sarah and the Spiraling Sewer of Regressive Deceit (2 comments)
McCain willingly and knowingly endangered the country, purely for his own personal benefit. This man - who never let up in reminding us all of the vital importance of national security issues - put someone on his ticket who was so obscenely incompetent to run the country that she couldn't even pass a sixth grade history class. He wanted the personal glory of being president, and he thought she could draw votes.
Saturday, January 16, 2010 Sarah and the Spiraling Sewer of Regressive Deceit (13 comments)
The revelation this week that Sarah Palin knew absolutely nothing about the world when she was a candidate for the Vice Presidency is only the first of a boatload of regressive lies.
Sunday, January 10, 2010 The Implosion Of The American Political Consciousness (6 comments)
The practice of politics in America today is ugly, but for the real grim depths of our problem, take a look at our diminished political consciousness.
Sunday, January 3, 2010 The Perils of Passivity (8 comments)
It's ludicrous to think of Obama, Reid and Pelosi as some sort of tough guy enforcers. In fact, of course, they're as wimpy as can be. And that's an expensive characteristic indeed.
Saturday, December 26, 2009 Well, That Sure Sucked: Good Riddance To The Devil's Decade (8 comments)
Wow, and I thought the 80's were horrific. Actually, they were. It's just that this last decade was so much worse. I'm sure hoping for better looking forward...
Saturday, December 19, 2009 Now I'm Really Getting Pissed Off (48 comments)
When it comes to Obama, I've gone from admiration to hope to disappointment to anger. Now I'm fast getting to rage.
Friday, December 11, 2009 America's Race To The Bottom (15 comments)
It's all going to Hell in a handbasket. And why shouldn't it? Could we have possibly have been more stupid?
Friday, December 4, 2009 Present At The Destruction (2 comments)
Watching Barack Obama talk about Afghanistan the other night was like watching The Last Emperor. We've all seen the movie, and it doesn't end well.
Friday, November 27, 2009 How Dare You Clean Up Our Mess? (8 comments)
It's bad enough the disaster that the regressive right has left for us. Then they have the audacity to criticize those trying to clean it up. Without offering any alternative solutions of their own. Nice.
Thursday, November 5, 2009 Can You Hear Us Now? (1 comments)
Maybe, if we're lucky, the election results this week will wake up the Obama administration a little. People are frustrated, and want some action.
Friday, October 30, 2009 Big Bad Government Is Coming To Get You (4 comments)
Watch out for the government! It's coming to take away all your freedoms and enslave you. Like Europeans!
