-- It ends teachers' ability to deduct what they spend on supplies for their students.
-- It taxes graduate students' scholarships, tuition waivers and other essential steps to advanced degrees, slashing what's left of our professional education system.
-- It lets tax-free churches engage in partisan campaigns, allowing mega-rich donors to launder "purchases" of "pious" candidates.
-- It slashes support for wind power, solar energy, electric cars and other "Solartopian" advances while funding massive new tax breaks for obsolete, planet-destroying King CONG (coal, oil, nukes and gas).
There's much, much more.
Trump's "tax reform" and internet assault are at the cutting edge of a suicidal war being waged by the psychotic rich against the rest of us -- and the planet.
We are in Koyaanisqatsi: life out of balance. The center is not holding. Our social and ecological fabric is giving way. Our survival is at stake.
These turning-point elections in Virginia and Alabama give us hope.
Now the gritty substance of the war for our ability to communicate, and for the core of our life support systems, is in a different kind of play.
Like those elections, these are conflicts we cannot afford to lose.
So let's win. Again.
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