Shutting down the media is the first step that every authoritarian figure takes in securing his position of total and unassailable power.
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Biden and the Working Class
The meme here reminds us of the incredible challenge facing Democrats in their quest to win over working-class voters. Where Trump looted the U.S. Treasury and gave trillions of dollars to billionaires and corporations, Biden is doing everything in his …
Overturning “Citizens United”
When we look at everything we want from government: better education, universal healthcare, common sense gun laws, etc., we see immediately why all these items are out of our reach; Big Money is interfering with our lawmaking processes. The most …
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The Cruelty of American Politics Breaks Our Hearts
There is great deal to be said for free enterprise, but maybe there is even more to be said for putting limits on the exploitation of the desperately poor. Ask yourself: what political philosophy put an end to child labor …
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Trump: “I Killed Roe v. Wade”
My wife often asks me, “How can any woman vote for Trump?” I have no good answer, other than some morons still believe that Trump alone can make America great again, that he can close the border, and stop the …
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The Working Class and American Politics
One of the great mysteries in U.S. politics is how the Democrats lost their connection to the working class. Until very recently, there was a huge stasis in this country in which labor aligned with the Democratic party, and management …
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The Relationship Between Higher Education and Liberalism
There is a philosophical conversation that is prominent in present-day America re: liberalism and its strong correlation to higher education. In particular, do universities manufacture liberals, or are better educated people naturally liberal in their belief systems? My mom and …
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Trump Supporters Are Hard to Insult
As illustrated in the meme here, one never knows what news revelations are going to make a real impact on the American people, and which will be forgotten at once, if not entirely overlooked. When this story broke during the …
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Most People Don’t Have the Bandwidth to Make Social Changes, and It Gets Worse….
Comedian and social critic George Carlin nailed an important point here: very few of us have the resources (even if we have the inclination) to devote any major portion of our lives towards making improvements in human civilization. And many …
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Free and Fair Elections
No one could have foreseen Trumpism and the vicious attack on our nation’s American democracy it represents. And now, even after the insurrection has been put down and its participants brought to justice, the GOP still has sufficient power to …
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