NOTE: This first meme features a quote from American socialist activist and trade unionist Eugene Debs (1855-1926). Debs was recently highlighted in a piece by Michael K. Smith in CounterPunch. According to Smith, Debs “[made] socialism as American as the Liberty Bell.”
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
THE RISE OF FASCISM IN THE U.S.
• Derek Johnson on the “Courage to Call Fascism by Its Name”
• James Greenberg: “I Am in Mourning for America”
• “If a Praying Minister Isn’t Safe, None of Us Are”
• Historian John Lestrange on the Meaning and Manifestations of Fascism, Past and Present
• James Greenberg on Trump’s “Larger Design” – the Construction of a Military Dictatorship
• “A Power Grab the Likes of Which This Country Has Never Seen”
THE FAILURES OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
• Authoritarianism With a Blue Sticker
• Robert Reich on the “Big Ugly Cave” by Senate Democrats
• Kshama Sawant on the Democrats’ Shutdown Cave
• David Norton: “The Democratic Party Serves Capital, Not You”
• Mike Figueredo: “Elected Democrats Have No Real Interest in Doing What the Base Wants”
• Tony Pentimalli on the Fallacy of the “Safe Political Center”
ISRAEL AND GAZA
• Two Years of “Indescribable Horror”
• No Justice, No Peace
• Progressive Perspectives on Kamala Harris’s Book, 107 Days
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM
• Matthew Cooke on the Fallacy That Socialism “Doesn't Work”
• No, Hitler and the Nazis Weren’t Socialists
• Socialist Equality Party: Quote of the Day
• “Hopeful and Grounded”: Omar Fateh’s Vision of Democratic Socialism
• Mark Harris: Quote of the Day
ZOHRAN MAMDANI
• Zohran Mamdani and the Future of the Democratic Party
• Progressive Perspectives on Zohran Mamdani’s Win in New York City
• Matthew Cooke on the Real “Mamdani Effect”
• Trump and Mamdani: “A Case Study in How a Bully Behaves When He Can’t Rely on Fear”
BUTCH WARE
• Butch Ware on “Red & Blue vs Green Politics”
• Butch Ware: Quote of the Day – October 6, 2025
• Butch Ware on His Run for California Governor and the Wider Goal of Disrupting the Duopoly
• “The Moment Is Ripe”: Butch Ware on Building a “True Oppositional Alternative” to the Duopoly
SIGNS OF HOPE
• Kanipawit Maskwa: “The Land Still Remembers”
• “The Answer, Actually, Is Hope”
• Eddie Glaude: A “Radical Refusal” Is Happening
• “One Badass Lady”
• What the Wind Says
See also:
• Memes of the Times – September 21, 2025
• Memes of the Times – July 27, 2024
• Memes of the Times – May 21, 2020
• Signs of the Times – April 25, 2017
• At the Minnesota Capitol, Signs of the Times (May 16, 2011)
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