Conservatives claim that Donald Trump’s electoral victories show that his Republican Party, not the Democrats, now represent the working class. Â
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Special Note: Please go to my interview with Brian Callanan of the Seattle Channel on his podcast Seattle News, Views, and Brews. I describe why Donald Trump won the...
The breakthrough technologies of the printing press and data digitization allow the masses to access information. That flood of new information crumbled the legitimacy...
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Republicans lean on government...
Released July 1, 2023
Both parties provoked Federal debt crises for decades, yet they willfully deny the possibility of the US defaulting on future loan...
The leadership of both the Democrat progressive wing and the Republican reactionary wing voted against passing the legislation to allow the debt ceiling to...
There is a Strategy for Not Defaulting on Federal Loans
Unfortunately, the media and both parties have tended to conflate a shutdown with defaulting. That...
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While the Republicans and Democrats do a slow tangle to lift the debt ceiling to avoid...
Originally published in the Seattle Times on 7/27/21
In opening Eric Dean Wilson’s book, “After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of...
The Democrats have been losing blue-collar voters for the last decade; this legislation could reverse that trend.
The Democrats and the Republicans are struggling over...
Originally published October 20, 2019, in the Seattle Times
In Civilized to Death – The Price of Progress, author Christopher Ryan proposes the most controversial...
Written by Nick Licata
It’s simple; the robot that replaces every worker or reduces their pay will be taxed.
The Robot Maria Fritz Lang's 1927Â Metropolis
Taxing robots...
Historic Levels of Unemployment Claims and Business Shutdowns Have Required the Greatest Surge in Government Debt Since WWII
            Because of the Covid-19 pandemic the Federal...
Written by Nick Licata
The 2020 new year marks a historic landmark for dramatically improving many people’s living standards by increasing the minimum hourly wage....
Originally Published September 24, 2018
Urban Politics - USA
By Nick Licata
Below is my keynote address to the Seattle Real Change newspaper, published by those who...
By Nick Licata, former Seattle City Councilmember, who invited demonstrators to Seattle and marched with them; and, author of Becoming A Citizen Activist –...