We can all agree this year has been unlike any other. The coronavirus has changed the ways we work, learn and socialize. Schools have shifted to online-only teaching models; stores have shut down or limited capacities; and each day, we are sanitizing, distancing and wearing masks.
While it has been difficult, we are
grateful for those who have helped make this tough time a bit easier on all of us. Health care workers, waiters and waitresses, grocery cashiers, veterinarians, postal service employees, therapists and more â these people have kept this country running. Here are some of our 2020 heroes:
Dr. David Gonzales
Regarding Mark Landlerâs reporting in the
New York Times on Brexit (âBrexit already seems out of touch,â Dec. 25). One indication of when weâll be living in more honest and better times: when âpopulistâ is no longer used with such ignorance, conformity or even dishonesty.
For over 2,300 years, starting with the
populares of the ancient Roman Republic, âpopulistsâ were activists from the lesser classes fighting the oppressive rule of dominant classes. They were progressives or leftists. But today, âpopulistâ is mostly used to describe rightist movements who present no real challenges to those dominant classes. Things have become so corrupt that the billionairesâ friend, President Donald Trump, himself of all people, is labeled a âpopulist,â as in Landlerâs article. Itâs no help that the champion of the upper classes in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, also falsely is called a âpopulist.â Itâs tragic
This time we really, really mean it: Happy New Year!
Our first thoughts as 2020 comes to a close, of course, should be with the more than 300,000 people killed by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States – an almost unbelievable number – and those they left behind.
Our politics got so bad in 2020 that the incumbent who finished second in the presidential election has been trying to overturn the results by promoting bogus conspiracy theories – Hugo Chavez’s revenge from the grave. And, apparently, he has discussed the possibility of declaring martial law to force an election re-do in key states.
Can we just bring back mudslinging as the standard means of political warfare?
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