To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, May 22, 2025

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Timeless Truths For Trying Times

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In a spoof of country music’s sad songs of heartache and woe, the old “Hee Haw” TV show periodically featured a couple of its regulars dejectedly wailing a song of total anguish: Gloom, despair, and agony on me Deep, dark depression, excessive misery If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all Gloom, despair, and agony on me For many Americans in 2020, that lament could be the anthem of our national […]

Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower
Populist author, public speaker and radio commentator Jim Hightower writes "The Hightower Lowdown," a monthly newsletter chronicling the ongoing fights by America's ordinary people against rule by plutocratic elites. Sign up at JimHightower.substack.com.