Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

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Monday, September 3, 2018

Happy Labor Day 2018









Labor built this country. Without it, the millionaire and billionaire corporatists would not have been able to build a thing.




And these last observations on John McCain's passing:



John McCain’s Funeral Was the Biggest Resistance Meeting Yet

 Two ex-Presidents and one eloquent daughter teamed up to rebuke the pointedly uninvited Donald Trump. McCain’s grand funeral—the Obama adviser David Axelrod called it an exercise in “civic communion”—underscored a fact that is often lost about Washington these days. The city is much more bipartisan, in some respects, than it has ever been, more united than it may currently seem, in its hatred of Donald Trump.

Some are more forthright about this than others, for understandable reasons. Others are circumspect, especially the elected Republican officials who have now publicly bowed to Trump after trying and failing to stop his ascendance in their party. But their presence at McCain’s funeral suggested that the final chapter has not yet been written in the Republican drama over what to do about the crude interloper who has taken over their party.

McCain certainly died hoping for something other than the current, slavish devotion to Trump that many Republicans on Capitol Hill now profess, and that is what his funeral was meant to remind us. Watching John Boehner and Elizabeth Warren, David Petraeus and Leon Panetta, Al Gore and Madeleine Albright and Paul Ryan glad-hand in the pre-noon hours of September 1st, there was no doubt of what their presence there, together, was meant to convey.






1 comment:

Jerry said...

Happy Labor Day!!

It's sad the Labor movement seems to have stalled, just when we need it.