Thanks for the clarification, but no one with any sense gives a damn about what your husband thinks about people’s right to choose how many (including zero) kids they want to bring into this world. The reasons for refraining from …
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Strong Unions
It appears possible that Trumpism is waning here in the U.S. and progressive forces are beginning to take hold. A sign of this is the return of organized labor, perhaps to a point of strength that existed in the mid-20th …
American Voters’ Dilemma
I love this lawn sign. You can re-elect someone you already know to be a criminal sociopath, or can choose someone else.
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Caring for One Another
I’m sure most of the U.S. was energized by what Teddy Roosevelt said here 120 years ago, but it seems that this “ship has sailed.” Current-day American capitalists are completely uninterested in the quality of the average person’s life. Yet …
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Two Very Different Vice-Presidential Nominees
The meme here reminds us that Trump’s choice of Vance as his running mate was absolutely bizarre. Did the Republican ticket really need more hate and stupidity?
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What Made Trump
The Trump phenomenon can be explained as the “perfect storm” in which an ignorant and angry U.S. electorate came across a demagogue whose lies they found irresistible. Also supported by billionaires, Trump was swept into power, where, over a period …
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Democrat Rallies
The Trump supporters who bought the Big Lie “reasoned” that Biden couldn’t have gotten anywhere near 81 million votes, because he didn’t have rallies. The truth, of course, is that the typical Democrat has an extremely limited appetite for going …
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Could You Save with Trump?
It depends on who you are. If you’re extremely wealthy and hoping for an additional tax break, then of course you can save with Trump–at the expense of governmental programs that improve the lives of the common American, educate our …
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Trump Supporters and Mental Illness
Neuroscientist/atheist/author Sam Harris says, and I paraphrase, that what perturbs him the most about religion is that one person suffering a delusion is thought to be mentally ill, but hundreds of millions of people with delusions are simply considered to …
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Is Trumpism “Weird?” Or Is It Perhaps Even Worse?
Most of us would agree that Trump and his support base are “weird,” in the sense that everything these people stand for: the pathological hatred of immigrants, the rejection of science, the peeling back of human rights, etc., represent giant …
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