The Rosen Report

(photo- President Franklin D. Roosevelt acceptance speech for 1936 Democratic Presidential nomination, Philadelphia's Franklin Field)  Introduction -- The 2022 election result was in many respects a mixed bag, though many positive spinmeisters of the mainstream media have tried to declare it "a victory for democracy." While we are relieved for the moment that it didn't signal the end of democracy, we are still confronted with an unfolding monstrosity which has incubated within today's Republican Party, and emerged publicly in it's full white nationalist "cristo-fascist" hoods and robes, flanked by a large contingent of modern day brown shirts. Our democracy is on a ventilator and barely hanging on to life. Nonetheless, thanks to the recent increased participation of younger voters, we still have a recourse through politics to make meaningful changes for the good, and this is hopeful, but comes at the 11th hour. The GOP agenda for the next two years w...