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Patrick Walker is co-founder of Revolt Against Plutocracy (RAP) and the Bernie or Bust movement it spawned. Before that, he cut his activist teeth with the anti-fracking and Occupy Scranton PA movements. No longer with RAP, he wields his pen and his activist network to wage holy war for climate justice. Hoping to help build a counterculture of revolt, he also writes quirky, highly literate song lyrics for the rising indie band God's Comics. A happily married man for over 10 years, Patrick has lost his beloved wife Ginger to colon cancer. He resides with his ineffably charming Sheltie dog Jasmine in East Amherst, NY.
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Saturday, December 22, 2018
Russiagate vs. Climate Genocide: How Democrats Cover Up Trump's Worst Crime A hard-hitting piece exploring how Democrats, for fear of raising policy topics embarrassing to their own party leadership, have refused to discuss issues that would paint Republicans in not merely a negative, but a criminally insane light. Foremost of these is Trump's openly conducted, beyond-genocidal climate policy, which Democrats have reprehensibly covered up under perhaps unprovable Russia collusion charges.
Saturday, December 22, 2018Russiagate vs. Climate Genocide: How Democrats Cover Up Trump's Worst Crime A hard-hitting piece exploring how Democrats, for fear of raising policy topics embarrassing to their own party leadership, have refused to discuss issues that would paint Republicans in not merely a negative, but a criminally insane light. Foremost of these is Trump's openly conducted, beyond-genocidal climate policy, which Democrats have reprehensibly covered up under perhaps unprovable Russia collusion charges.
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Sunday, January 27, 2019
Forum Perversion: Why Progressive Media Should BAN Climate-Troll Comments Highly controversial--and more philosophical than my typical political article--this piece makes a compelling case for why climate-change-denying comments should be BANNED from political articles in progressive/leftist publications. Damning them as "forum perversion," it paves the way for arguing that if such defenses of pseudoscience are allowed, a flood of comments from the Flat Earth Society should be allowed too.
Sunday, January 27, 2019Forum Perversion: Why Progressive Media Should BAN Climate-Troll Comments Highly controversial--and more philosophical than my typical political article--this piece makes a compelling case for why climate-change-denying comments should be BANNED from political articles in progressive/leftist publications. Damning them as "forum perversion," it paves the way for arguing that if such defenses of pseudoscience are allowed, a flood of comments from the Flat Earth Society should be allowed too.
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Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Climate Enemy Biden: The Extinction Rebellion's Top Recruiter This piece analyzes Joe Biden's presidential candidacy from a highly original angle: the extreme menace he poses to the Green New Deal and effective climate action. And perhaps the greater menace is not Biden's own deeply inadequate climate policy, but the considerable danger of him losing to climate terrorist Donald Trump. Indeed, the climate peril of Biden's nomination is the best reason to join Extinction Rebellion NOW.
Wednesday, May 22, 2019Climate Enemy Biden: The Extinction Rebellion's Top Recruiter This piece analyzes Joe Biden's presidential candidacy from a highly original angle: the extreme menace he poses to the Green New Deal and effective climate action. And perhaps the greater menace is not Biden's own deeply inadequate climate policy, but the considerable danger of him losing to climate terrorist Donald Trump. Indeed, the climate peril of Biden's nomination is the best reason to join Extinction Rebellion NOW.
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Thursday, December 19, 2013
Is McKibben Ready for Hillary? The Climate Sure as Hell Isn't Since Bill McKibben has begun to sing a saner tune on Obama's climate negligence (or perhaps better, treachery), I relent and acknowledge him for the climate hero he is. BUT we must keep up the pressure on McKibben, for he's one of the few climate activists with a large enough following to make climate action possible. He must NOW get more political--and above all, stab a lethal electoral knife through climate vampire Hillary.
Thursday, December 19, 2013Is McKibben Ready for Hillary? The Climate Sure as Hell Isn't Since Bill McKibben has begun to sing a saner tune on Obama's climate negligence (or perhaps better, treachery), I relent and acknowledge him for the climate hero he is. BUT we must keep up the pressure on McKibben, for he's one of the few climate activists with a large enough following to make climate action possible. He must NOW get more political--and above all, stab a lethal electoral knife through climate vampire Hillary.
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Saturday, December 13, 2014
Pitchforks against Plutocracy: CONSCIOUSLY Waging the Class War to Win Here it is, folks: my FULL rationale for building a peaceful but aggressive "Pitchforks against Plutocracy" movement--a COMPREHENSIVE quest to win the class war, whose uniqueness lies in pursuing REALISTIC "brainiac" electoral strategies (and protest and civil disobedience at need). A group smart and flexible enough to draw inspiration from BOTH anti-Christian democrat Thomas Paine AND genius Christian democrat Blaise Pascal.
Saturday, December 13, 2014Pitchforks against Plutocracy: CONSCIOUSLY Waging the Class War to Win Here it is, folks: my FULL rationale for building a peaceful but aggressive "Pitchforks against Plutocracy" movement--a COMPREHENSIVE quest to win the class war, whose uniqueness lies in pursuing REALISTIC "brainiac" electoral strategies (and protest and civil disobedience at need). A group smart and flexible enough to draw inspiration from BOTH anti-Christian democrat Thomas Paine AND genius Christian democrat Blaise Pascal.
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Monday, May 13, 2019
Announcing Bernie or Bust 2.0: Electoral Warriors for the Green New Deal While classified as an op-ed because of its heavy opinion component, this important article is also NEWS. The original Bernie or Bust, which provoked the hostile attention of major establishment critics like Bill Maher and Paul Krugman (and coverage in Rolling Stone), was clearly newsworthy. Its timely revival--to save the Green New Deal from dangerous establishment enemies like Joe Biden--should be front-page news.
Monday, May 13, 2019Announcing Bernie or Bust 2.0: Electoral Warriors for the Green New Deal While classified as an op-ed because of its heavy opinion component, this important article is also NEWS. The original Bernie or Bust, which provoked the hostile attention of major establishment critics like Bill Maher and Paul Krugman (and coverage in Rolling Stone), was clearly newsworthy. Its timely revival--to save the Green New Deal from dangerous establishment enemies like Joe Biden--should be front-page news.
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Thursday, August 20, 2020
The New Satyagraha: Progressives' Leverage under LOTE As the theoretical explanation and justification for what resistance under Biden MUST look like to succeed, this is probably my most important piece. It might seem really "outside the box," but given the stakes (saving civilization) and the long odds (successfully pressuring Democrats AFTER electing them), it seems just what the doctor (Dr. King, a deep admirer of Gandhi?) ordered.
Series: Tracts for Our Times (9 Articles, 12187 views)
Thursday, August 20, 2020The New Satyagraha: Progressives' Leverage under LOTE As the theoretical explanation and justification for what resistance under Biden MUST look like to succeed, this is probably my most important piece. It might seem really "outside the box," but given the stakes (saving civilization) and the long odds (successfully pressuring Democrats AFTER electing them), it seems just what the doctor (Dr. King, a deep admirer of Gandhi?) ordered.
Series: Tracts for Our Times (9 Articles, 12187 views)
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Thursday, October 30, 2014
Life Beyond Bullsh*t: Of Bernie and Blackmail As noted in the previous piece in this OEN series ("Democrats' Deadly Electoral Disease: Deep State Bullshit"), bullsh*t is now the chief component of U.S. political discourse. Specifically, bullsh*t policies and policy talk dictated--to BOTH parties--by our sinister shadow government, the Deep State. With our climate crisis menacing human survival, "it's time to take the bullsh*t by the horns"-- by a BLACKMAIL pledge.
Series: Bernie's Donkeys: Rebranding Democrats as Sanders' Party (3 Articles, 4994 views)
Thursday, October 30, 2014Life Beyond Bullsh*t: Of Bernie and Blackmail As noted in the previous piece in this OEN series ("Democrats' Deadly Electoral Disease: Deep State Bullshit"), bullsh*t is now the chief component of U.S. political discourse. Specifically, bullsh*t policies and policy talk dictated--to BOTH parties--by our sinister shadow government, the Deep State. With our climate crisis menacing human survival, "it's time to take the bullsh*t by the horns"-- by a BLACKMAIL pledge.
Series: Bernie's Donkeys: Rebranding Democrats as Sanders' Party (3 Articles, 4994 views)
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Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Weaponized Truth: The Indispensable Movement's Key to Success An article I didn't planned to write, this eloquent defense of the Indispensable Movement's "verbal revolution" against critics is perhaps my most potent ever. Fans of political satire--and of the Kama Sutra--will especially relish my delicious political usage of the euphemism "mouth Congress."
Wednesday, October 4, 2017Weaponized Truth: The Indispensable Movement's Key to Success An article I didn't planned to write, this eloquent defense of the Indispensable Movement's "verbal revolution" against critics is perhaps my most potent ever. Fans of political satire--and of the Kama Sutra--will especially relish my delicious political usage of the euphemism "mouth Congress."
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Sunday, June 2, 2019
Climate Terrorism: The Politically Farsighted Way to Impeach Trump This article makes a highly original--and, needless to say, controversial--case not just for impeaching Trump, but for impeaching him on grounds of climate terrorism. While I can only hope against hope my piece will make as revolutionary a splash, my best analogy here is Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," whose timely, sensible ideas--amidst oligarch-controlled public opinion--seemed unthinkable heresy until he laid out the case.
Sunday, June 2, 2019Climate Terrorism: The Politically Farsighted Way to Impeach Trump This article makes a highly original--and, needless to say, controversial--case not just for impeaching Trump, but for impeaching him on grounds of climate terrorism. While I can only hope against hope my piece will make as revolutionary a splash, my best analogy here is Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," whose timely, sensible ideas--amidst oligarch-controlled public opinion--seemed unthinkable heresy until he laid out the case.
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Monday, October 13, 2014
THIS Changes Everything: Bernie as Dems' New FDR As Naomi Klein memorably demonstrates in "This Changes Everything," a better world--or global apocalypse--IS truly possible. But the price of that better world is a RADICAL transformation of our societies and economy. I here propose a political roadmap to the beginnings of that better world: Democrats--led by Bernie Sanders, their new FDR-- seizing overthrow of Citizens United as their "killer" 2016 issue.
Series: Bernie's Donkeys: Rebranding Democrats as Sanders' Party (3 Articles, 4994 views)
Monday, October 13, 2014THIS Changes Everything: Bernie as Dems' New FDR As Naomi Klein memorably demonstrates in "This Changes Everything," a better world--or global apocalypse--IS truly possible. But the price of that better world is a RADICAL transformation of our societies and economy. I here propose a political roadmap to the beginnings of that better world: Democrats--led by Bernie Sanders, their new FDR-- seizing overthrow of Citizens United as their "killer" 2016 issue.
Series: Bernie's Donkeys: Rebranding Democrats as Sanders' Party (3 Articles, 4994 views)
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Today's Poor People's Campaign: Too Important Not to Criticize The current revival of Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign is by light-years the most important movement in American politics--the first prospect for a REAL resistance attacking the corrupt system that gave us Trump. But to succeed, it's crucial that today's PPC stay true to the radical, truthtelling heritage of Dr. King. Bruce Dixon of Black Agenda Report recently published an important critique of PPC; I continue it.
Wednesday, May 16, 2018Today's Poor People's Campaign: Too Important Not to Criticize The current revival of Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign is by light-years the most important movement in American politics--the first prospect for a REAL resistance attacking the corrupt system that gave us Trump. But to succeed, it's crucial that today's PPC stay true to the radical, truthtelling heritage of Dr. King. Bruce Dixon of Black Agenda Report recently published an important critique of PPC; I continue it.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Greenwald's Bombshell, the GND, and Democrat Extortion I wrote this UNPLANNED piece in a hurry, seeking to exploit the timeliness of Glenn Greenwald's brilliant reporting on a new U.S. "pandemic"--one of suicidal despair. Here I take Greenwald's insight one step further, explaining how he unwittingly makes the best imaginable case for a peaceful Green New Deal.
Series: Tracts for Our Times (9 Articles, 12187 views)
Wednesday, September 2, 2020Greenwald's Bombshell, the GND, and Democrat Extortion I wrote this UNPLANNED piece in a hurry, seeking to exploit the timeliness of Glenn Greenwald's brilliant reporting on a new U.S. "pandemic"--one of suicidal despair. Here I take Greenwald's insight one step further, explaining how he unwittingly makes the best imaginable case for a peaceful Green New Deal.
Series: Tracts for Our Times (9 Articles, 12187 views)
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Monday, July 22, 2019
The Bipartisan BIG LIE: Trump's Climate Genocide Is Normal This piece highlights a shocking truth: that US citizens live daily in the presence of a "big lie" as outrageous and dangerous as any told by Hitler and Goebbels. Namely, that Trump's assault on an imperiled climate is normal policy we can pass over in silence rather than an unprecedented crime against humanity. Unlike the Nazis' "big lie," this one is perpetrated by deafening bipartisan silence and not constant repetition.
Monday, July 22, 2019The Bipartisan BIG LIE: Trump's Climate Genocide Is Normal This piece highlights a shocking truth: that US citizens live daily in the presence of a "big lie" as outrageous and dangerous as any told by Hitler and Goebbels. Namely, that Trump's assault on an imperiled climate is normal policy we can pass over in silence rather than an unprecedented crime against humanity. Unlike the Nazis' "big lie," this one is perpetrated by deafening bipartisan silence and not constant repetition.
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Thursday, September 10, 2020
"Shithole Election 2020": Choosing the Lesser Tyranny This article details--and justifies--the type of no-holds-barred rhetoric needed to resist Joe Biden AFTER voting for him. But what's more, in making the arguments justifying that rhetoric, it's probably--starting with its title--the most brutally honest analysis of the 2020 U.S. election you'll ever read.
Series: Tracts for Our Times (9 Articles, 12187 views)
Thursday, September 10, 2020"Shithole Election 2020": Choosing the Lesser Tyranny This article details--and justifies--the type of no-holds-barred rhetoric needed to resist Joe Biden AFTER voting for him. But what's more, in making the arguments justifying that rhetoric, it's probably--starting with its title--the most brutally honest analysis of the 2020 U.S. election you'll ever read.
Series: Tracts for Our Times (9 Articles, 12187 views)
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Monday, June 2, 2014
The Left's Dangerous, Self-Defeating Lie: Democrats = Republicans The political left has, in recent years, compiled a regrettable history of shooting itself in the foot. If we wish to end that pattern and strategize successfully, we must see reality as it is--and above all, avoid basing our strategy on LIES, like saying "Democrats are the same as Republicans." While FAR from perfect, they're simply NOT, and failing to see this may stymie strategic exploitation of REAL fissures among Dems.
Monday, June 2, 2014The Left's Dangerous, Self-Defeating Lie: Democrats = Republicans The political left has, in recent years, compiled a regrettable history of shooting itself in the foot. If we wish to end that pattern and strategize successfully, we must see reality as it is--and above all, avoid basing our strategy on LIES, like saying "Democrats are the same as Republicans." While FAR from perfect, they're simply NOT, and failing to see this may stymie strategic exploitation of REAL fissures among Dems.
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Friday, October 26, 2018
How the Rats Revolt: "Ratting Out" Democrats' Electoral Extortion This article, part of a two-part series, involves fresh thinking--perhaps revolutionary thinking--on a perennial problem for the left. Namely, how to approach the problem of lesser-evil voting. If the "Rats' Revolt" suggested by Ralph Nader and and embraced by Chris Hedges is willing to embrace my revolt strategy, our movement could be the sword that severs the divisive and paralyzing lesser-evil voting dilemma.
Series: Slashing the Gordian Knot of Lesser-Evil Voting (2 Articles, 3092 views)
Friday, October 26, 2018How the Rats Revolt: "Ratting Out" Democrats' Electoral Extortion This article, part of a two-part series, involves fresh thinking--perhaps revolutionary thinking--on a perennial problem for the left. Namely, how to approach the problem of lesser-evil voting. If the "Rats' Revolt" suggested by Ralph Nader and and embraced by Chris Hedges is willing to embrace my revolt strategy, our movement could be the sword that severs the divisive and paralyzing lesser-evil voting dilemma.
Series: Slashing the Gordian Knot of Lesser-Evil Voting (2 Articles, 3092 views)
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Saturday, November 3, 2018
Ratting Out Chuck Schumer, Democrats' Low-Profile Teflon Don This tactical follow-up to my piece on the message and strategy has it all! No cow is too sacred here, not even Bernie Sanders or the Poor People's Campaign. But all my satire and outraged criticism is in a great, desperate cause: to fight EFFECTIVELY for climate justice before it's too late--for human civilization.
Series: Slashing the Gordian Knot of Lesser-Evil Voting (2 Articles, 3092 views)
Saturday, November 3, 2018Ratting Out Chuck Schumer, Democrats' Low-Profile Teflon Don This tactical follow-up to my piece on the message and strategy has it all! No cow is too sacred here, not even Bernie Sanders or the Poor People's Campaign. But all my satire and outraged criticism is in a great, desperate cause: to fight EFFECTIVELY for climate justice before it's too late--for human civilization.
Series: Slashing the Gordian Knot of Lesser-Evil Voting (2 Articles, 3092 views)
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Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Political Dynamite: Poor People's Campaign and the Movement for a People's Party Combining MLK's resurrected Poor People's Campaign with the political strategy of the Movement for a People's Party could result in political dynamite--peacefully exploding a two-party system (and above all, a Democratic Party) that has served progressives badly.
Wednesday, April 18, 2018Political Dynamite: Poor People's Campaign and the Movement for a People's Party Combining MLK's resurrected Poor People's Campaign with the political strategy of the Movement for a People's Party could result in political dynamite--peacefully exploding a two-party system (and above all, a Democratic Party) that has served progressives badly.
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Sunday, December 22, 2013
Of Cincinnatus and Mary Poppins: Why Sanders Must Be President For real, across-the-board progressives--the type who DEMAND climate action, Bernie Sanders is our Cincinnatus. That is, a truly rare pol personally unambitious for highest office, but willing to take it if the common good demands. But lacking the Roman Senate's dictatorial mandate, he is importantly, an ELECTABLE Cincinnatus. Why? Because he, like Mary Poppins, offers the populist sugar to make the climate medicine go down.
Sunday, December 22, 2013Of Cincinnatus and Mary Poppins: Why Sanders Must Be President For real, across-the-board progressives--the type who DEMAND climate action, Bernie Sanders is our Cincinnatus. That is, a truly rare pol personally unambitious for highest office, but willing to take it if the common good demands. But lacking the Roman Senate's dictatorial mandate, he is importantly, an ELECTABLE Cincinnatus. Why? Because he, like Mary Poppins, offers the populist sugar to make the climate medicine go down.
