Apparently, it hasn’t dawned on this fellow that the “ideas of the political left” are functioning perfectly well in the social democracies all around the world. By what measure? Well, human happiness, for one. Countries that offer their citizens taxpayer …
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American Democracy
What journalist Chris Hedges says here is true, but I’m afraid we have a bigger and more immediate problem with the mayhem being created by Donald Trump, in an apparent effort to forestall the 2026 midterm elections.
Is Consumer Protection Necessary?
Consumer protection safeguards buyers from unfair, deceptive, or fraudulent business practices through laws, regulations, and agencies. Anyone who believes that corporations will police themselves must not be living on the same planet that you and I are.
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On Obediance
At left are the words of Erich Fromm, whom I would have called an early psychologist rather than a philosopher, but I suppose the boundaries are loose. In the main, most Americans, me included, are rule-followers, which is why we …
Tagged with: are rule-followers, At left are the words of Erich Fromm, but I suppose the boundaries are loose. In the main, me included, most Americans, that's precisely what we do. Having said that, the uprising of a fascist autocracy in the United States is not going to be acceptable for the vast majority of Americans. May this always be the case., which is why we stop at red lights. If our scientists tell us to have our children vaccinated against smallpox or polio, whom I would have called an early psychologist rather than a philosopher
What Our First Amendment Rights Actually Mean
I’m a strong believer in our right to free speech, as modified by the Supreme Court over the centuries. That includes the Trump supporters who want to call me a commie radical leftist because of my progressive beliefs (that mirror …
Trump in Desperation
The moron who composed the meme here actually got one thing right. Trump has shown us the endgame that many of us saw coming, i.e., desperation. He knows that the midterms will almost definitely result in his being removed from …
Noam Chomsky on Responsibility of Intellectuals
This sounds good on the surface, but the problem is that average Americans aren’t exposed to the thoughts of intellectuals, and even if they were, they a) couldn’t care less about them, or b) would reject them as “leftist propaganda,” …
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Conspiracy Theories Abound
Regarding the cartoon at left, a reader notes: Yeah, because NASA landed a man on the moon and flies drones on Mars by fudging numbers. Exactly. We live among people who believe that our climate scientists are all in on …
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Poverty in the United States
There is no doubt that poverty, ignorance, intolerance, and support of criminal tyrants are deeply interconnected. It’s a shame that nothing can be done to help these people.
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