John Funiciello

the “leader of the free world” has been accused of sexual predations by multiple women and has not had to answer for any of the charges. Meantime, other celebrities have lost their jobs and their positions and their potential increasing wealth. Trump has gotten off scot free. Why is that?

President Donald Trump is busy every day and the only work that seems to draw his interest is to delegitimize every agency of government and, most important, to delegitimize the function of America’s free press, the right to report that is a vital part of the First Amendment.

Not all of it can be attributed to a Donald Trump presidency, even though he has proven to be a racist, a misogynist, an Islamaphobe, a bully, and a friend to white supremacists. He certainly has unleashed the dogs of division, but what we are seeing right now has been around for a long time. Trump is not the cause of the national toxin, but he is the symptom.

Corporate-run media outlets are, and should be, blamed in large part for the concentration on the horse race and not on the issues important to society, but the biggest share of the blame goes to the politicians, whose concentration on continuing their flow of money from corporations and the rich prevents them from addressing the dire need of the people to see a little slice of the federal discretionary budget.

if Trump actually took the advice of his brother and avoided strong drink, it may be the only example of his taking anyone’s advice on anything. Rather, he seemed to want to show that he can do just about anything better than just about anyone else.

even though the U.S. is only about 5 percent of the world’s population, yet uses about 25-35 percent of the world’s resources, the aggression is not about to stop.

As union power dwindled, so did America’s middle class, because, when unions were at full strength and about 35 percent of workers were in unions, the gains made in pay, benefits, and pensions were passed along to the other 65 percent of workers who were not in unions.

Have you heard much about the poverty rate among black and other minority children? Most people have not. It’s not of interest to the mass media and it surely is not of interest to Trump, Republicans, and most politicians, in general.

Over many years, the rich and the corporations have used every other institution to destroy the power of unions and, therefore, the power of workers. They have used the courts, the state legislatures, the Congress, the education systems, television, magazines, and newspapers.