Today in Progressive Totalitarianism
16th October 2022
To romanticise or demonise – not the only ways to frame working-class lives (The Guardian)
Fast food fever: how ultra-processed meals are unhealthier than you think (The Guardian)
The mystery lurking in California’s $8 gas prices (Washington Post)
The global economy is in chaos. Nobody’s coming to the rescue. (Politico)
IMF meetings have exposed the fragmentation of the global economy (The Guardian)
Officials ‘grinding to the bone’ to prepare for cash-bail reform amid what they call misinformation, politicization (Chicago Tribune)
Democratic Party Moved From Uncomfortable To Intolerable For Members: #WalkAway Founder
The WashPost Way: ‘Badass’ Journalists ‘Afflicting the Comfortable’ for ‘Radical Change’
Report: San Francisco ‘Woke’ Policies Turned City Into Open Drug Market Good–maybe all the druggies will move there and leave the rest of us alone.
Why Are Student Test Scores Plunging? Look At Politicized Education
National Conservatism Is New Deal Liberalism
Why high speed rail hasn’t caught on
Democrats Spent $2 Trillion to Save the Economy. They Don’t Want to Talk About It. (N.Y. Times) Possibly because it’s obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together that they just made it worse.
Obama Calls Dems a ‘Buzzkill’ on Cancel Culture, Policy
Nancy Pelosi Claims Dems Will Win Big – Apologizes For Saying Trump’s Name Out Loud On Colbert Show
List from Trump of Voting Irregularities