Thomas Paine was perhaps the original American progressive. He wrote in support of minority rights, incremental taxs, social security, public education, minimum wage, union rights, and even tuition vouchers. And they hated him for it.

Inception stars an ensemble cast of actors at the top of their game populating the dream of Christopher Nolan, maybe the most reliably good film maker in Hollywood right now.

If the Democrats are incompetent failures, that still sounds like the lesser of two evils compared to their megalomaniacal fascioconservative challengers. But that’s me.