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If you lived or worked in Allentown Pennsylvania during the 1980s you would sooner or later meet Mayor Joe Daddona. Joe was Mayor of Allentown nearly 30 years. If Allentown was a football team, its residents the players, Joe Daddona was the coach. Joe was a dependable champion for Allentown.
Downingtown Mayor Josh Maxwell has the same friendly, helpful, dependable, personality as Joe Daddona.
Josh is about the age of my children. The last US generation to get an affordable college education.
Now. in 2018, most public school students that want a college degree have two choices, go into extreme debt or enlist in the military. That’s as long as an "active-shooter" doesn’t cut short their possibility of a college education.
I think our newest voters know Republicans, mostly Republicans, are denying them the possibility of a good life or life itself and they’re mad as hell.
I think Josh Maxwell can be a champion for our newest voters.
The events of the last few days have taken the world by surprise.
February 22, 2018 11:15 am
We should have seen it coming. Maybe some teachers did.
I started school in 1949. We had the threat from nuclear bombs. In first grade we had air raid drills. But there were no bombings. Nobody back then worried about school shootings.
A generation is growing up with the constant threat of being shot while at school. Can you think of a book or movie or period in history where the threat of being shot is a standard part of a child's education? This is something brand new.
The threats on the lives of the newest generation continue if they go to college.
There are some country club, Eisenhower Republican politicians, the kind we had in the 1950s, but they seem to be dying off. The energy in the Republican Party is coming from the Alt-Right Nazis.
"Nikolas Cruz is not alone in transforming his embrace of Donald Trump into real-world violence. The Southern Poverty Law Center reports that since 2014, at least 43 people have been killed, and more than 100 injured, by the so-called "alt-right" movement, with 2017 by far the most lethal year.
Donald Trump has unleashed a flood of white supremacist and other right-wing violence in the United States. This is a function of a larger sociopolitical dynamic. His right-wing movement -- and that of today's post-civil rights era Republican Party, more generally -- draws its strength from the racist lie that white people, especially white men, are the true victims of oppression in America. Trump has given his supporters permission to be violent: This is the most primitive form of social dominance behavior.
Trumpism is also a reminder that racism, on a fundamental level, is interpersonal and structural violence."
FROM:
Salon
Trump and Parkland: Vicious racism as permission for violence
The killer wore a MAGA hat and expressed the same views as Trump’s worst supporters. Think that’s a coincidence?
CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
02.22.2018•4:59 AM
2018 elections ride on a tsunami wave of young people fed up with the constant threat of being shot at school. The undercurrent of the tsunami wave is, Atomwaffen and the SIEGE parallax: how one neo-Nazi’s life’s work is fueling a younger generation
The Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee are watching from their million dollar beach parties. It’s a wild ride in 2018.
The 2018 surf is like never before. Some people will catch the wave. Josh is already standing up.
Daily Local News
By: Staff Report
POSTED: Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018 - 4:35 p.m.
There is so much I can’t write and some things I can’t even say about Coatesville. Niccolò Machiavelli could have written his books about Coatesville.
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