People forget how close Jesse Jackson Sr. came to being the Democratic nominee for President in 1988. Could he be nominated today? https://open.substack.com/pub/kellyjohnston/p/remembering-us-senator-jesse-jackson?r=2yvflv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Here's a terrific book Republicans should read about how Colorado Democrats turned an extreme, mid-term gerrymander into a successful juggernaut that won elections. Wait, what just happened in Virginia? https://kellyjohnston.substack.com/p/a-book-review-the-blueprint-how-democrats
MEMORIAL DAY
THE TRAGEDY AND THE TRAVESTY
The death of a Homo Sapiens in an act of war is both a tragedy and a travesty. For a woman to go thru the pain of childbirth delivering a son to grow up and be blown to smithereens by the son of another mother of a different country is truly an obscenity.
The males of all other species - wolves, gorillas, lions, etc to guarantee the evolution of their species into the future mark their territory. There is no male wolves in Canada contemplating the invasion of the US to conquer the American wolf packs.
Below is a listing and my analysis of all the wars male American homo sapiens have fought killing and being killed by other males.
War (and years of U.S. military involvement)
Number of fatalities
American Civil War (1861-1865)
620,000
The American Civil War was truly a travesty. THE US was a Christian country founded by Christians who had fled Europe to escape...
