Unrepentant woke democratic socialist, semi-retired writer & editor, ukulele player, aficionado of ERB, Godzilla, tequila, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Stoics, Homer, scifi, trilobites, Horace, & Wodehouse. Pro-science, pro-vaccine, anti-crypto, avid reader, skeptic, bread baker & pasta maker, anti-creationist. Tax the rich! Tax the churches! # NeverVoteConservative Also on Bluesky: @cdncurmudgeon.bsky.social and Facebook, but left Xitter.
Unrepentant woke democratic socialist, semi-retired writer & editor, ukulele player, aficionado of ERB, Godzilla, tequila, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Stoics, Homer, scifi, trilobites, Horace, & Wodehouse. Pro-science, pro-vaccine, anti-crypto, avid reader, skeptic, bread baker & pasta maker, anti-creationist. Tax the rich! Tax the churches! # NeverVoteConservative Also on Bluesky: @cdncurmudgeon.bsky.social and Facebook, but left Xitter.
On March 9, Mike Baker and Steven Rich of the New York Times published a long exposé of the corruption of American politics by billionaires. They explain how underwriting political campaigns from those for local school boards to the presidency has enabled the very wealthy to lock in their policy preferences for tax cuts, deregulation, and cuts to the social safety net while also steering valuable government contracts to themselves.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-12-2026