The right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis swim in a sea of Republican not-sees. Here are various tactics they use not to see.

No Republican senate has confirmed a Democratic president's Supreme Court nominee since 1895. So there should not be any expectation that Democrats ought to vote to confirm a Republican nominee, especially if that nominee is dodgy.

Obama tried nominating someone fairly right-wing, hoping Republicans would make an exception, but they held out for an extremist.

Focusing journalism mainly on exposing corruption and cruelty tends to teach people a right-wing viewpoint — that you can't trust anyone.

Jefferson wrote about one widespread kind of political conflict, between trusting the people to participate in government or excluding them. But the conflict in the US today is only partly about that. The main question at stake is whether the rich can reduce most people to desperate penury and convert them into serfs.

As stores close, retail workers lose out to big tech.

Customers lose, too — there are fewer things we can buy without oppressive tracking. I won't buy anything from Amazon, because no data base should attach my purchases to my name.

We don't have to permit this to happen.

Is Bezos Holding Seattle Hostage? The Cost of Being Amazon's Home.

Here is an economic explanation of why a gradually increasing tax on fossil fuels, returned directly to households by dividing up the money, would boost the economy for everyone while pressuring all people and businesses to use less fossil fuel.

Returning the tax to households, if done in proportion the number of people in each household, would be almost equivalent to an unconditional national income.