Wisconsin is not red or blue, and leaders should act like it.

U.S. torture proves costly at $42 million: Some of the highest ideals of our nation were tossed aside so lawlessness and extra-constitutional excesses could run roughshod in prisons overseas.

In winning the White House, flipping the Senate and perhaps keeping control of the House, Donald Trump and Republicans will follow the path of Grover Cleveland. Cruelty and stupidity will reign supreme.

Here’s why. … Good things can happen when you choose to be active and involved in moving the world to be closer to the one you hope to live in.

The difference in the reaction to an electoral defeat mirrors a gaping difference between the parties regarding respect for our Constitution, American democratic norms and basic decency.

The Cheney strategy was an abject failure that added few if any votes to the Democratic total, alienated voters who had no taste for the former GOP representative’s neocon extremism, and stole precious time from an agonizingly short campaign schedule.

he American people have spoken, loudly and clearly. They do not want a candidate like Vice President Kamala Harris, who called to our better angels, spoke of fairness and inclusion, had a resume worthy of the job, and came to the task with plans and not just grievances. They want Trump. They want the chaos. They want the anger. They want the hate. And that is exactly what they will get.

The party needs to move to the sensible center, but that will be powerfully resisted by the various interest groups that make up the party’s activist base. There needs to be an organized voice for moderation.

Americans and the banking system are addicted to cheap credit and low interest rates. Interest rates cannot be lowered by the FED without creating money and causing further price increases. And price inflation cannot be stopped unless the FED quits printing money. What now?

After many conversations, it appears that Milwaukee Public Schools is the last resort for many parents. The overriding sentiment from parents is that they are just stuck.

We need a new agenda that puts people first and relegates party politics to a back seat in Wisconsin.

Democrats, like myself, need to understand that running campaigns around large existential issues is a losing formula and that it doesn’t take the place of having real-life policy solutions to the problems everyday Americans face. Nor does running a campaign around the theme, “I’m not Donald Trump.”

It’s okay, even necessary, for a political party to do some soul-searching when it loses as badly as my party did last Tuesday. But let’s make a distinction between sober reflection and finger-pointing.

Here are 17 actual reasons that Democrats lost, in no particular order.

Painters union President Jimmy Williams Jr. says “working people deserve a party that… places their issues front and center.”

Trump and his legions of yes men will stage an all-out assault on America’s institutions and its most vulnerable people during the next four years.

Donald Trump prevails in a red-wave election, Tammy Baldwin survives, the WOW shift slows, State Senate Dems shine, Republicans keep the Legislature, and much more.

Harris’s journey in pursuit of the U.S. Presidency has moved American women one step closer to the highest office in the land. Harris’ inclusion in a small and coveted club, that I have dubbed the C.F.C.H. Crew, has built on the legacy of trailblazers Shirley Chisholm, Geraldine Ferraro, and Hillary Clinton. All these women have chipped away at the notion that women are incapable of leading this nation.

It is not uncommon in parts of Europe and the Middle East for scores of other nationals to undertake a wide array of jobs that otherwise would not be completed in the host nation. What makes white rural voters so fearful about the way the rest of the world operates, especially since there are not enough of them for the jobs which are needing to be completed?