Here, Samuel L. Jackson provides a fresh insight into today’s Republican party. It’s the polar opposite of the idea we all learned as children: live and let live. People who aren’t straight white Christian males are the enemy.
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The Republicans Squirt to the Right
At 2GreenEnergy, we talk a great deal about the incredible transition in the politics of the Republican party of the United States. When I was growing up in the 1960s, Republicans were actually fairly sane people. Nobody was trying to …
Ayn Rand and the Virtue of Selfishness
From a reader: Okay… confession: I only physically read about a quarter of it. I’ll make an even greater confession: I read “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead” back-to-back when I was a teenager, and they meant a great deal to …
Trump and Food Stamps
A couple of facts, for those who still put a value on the truth: Trump has had little to nothing to do with work requirements and government sponsored supplemental nutrition, and more Trump voters every day are regretting their choices. …
Liberalism: A Question from a Reader
Good question John. Thanks for asking. A partial answer lies below.
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U.S. Department of War Loses its First and Only War
What this British fellow fails to understand is that here in America, Trump supporters: Think it’s great that Trump’s cabinet is full of Fox News “journalists” and that we’ve renamed a federal government department without the approval of congress, Don’t …
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Impressive Levels of Stupidity
Without doubt, stupidity is part of Trumpism, but it’s only a part. Meanness is also essential. People with any real compassion for others don’t have what it takes to be a member of the MAGA base.
Power and Corruption
As Aristotle said (plus or minus): Only people who do not seek power are qualified to hold it. In retrospect, the United States hadn’t gotten burned too badly until Donald Trump came along.
How We Regard the World’s Social Democracies
Here’s a video on a subject we discuss a great deal here: Americans’ attitudes toward the social democracies in countries like Norway. The woman has an interesting perspective.
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Working Class Voters Embrace the GOP
American workers who are facing agonizing and preventable deaths predominantly vote for the party that is condemning them to that horrible fate. That’s just one of the many disgusting facets of today’s life in the U.S.
