There’s nothing enviable about the task confronting the five Republican hopefuls running against Trump, especially when you consider the chorus of boos they receive if they’re bold and honest enough to point out that Trump lost a free and fair …
Category: Renewables – Politics
Euphemisms Can Destroy the Meanings of Our Words
Polite society lives in a world of euphemisms. If you have a low IQ, it may be more tactful to refer to you as “intellectually challenged” than “stupid.” This phenomenon is even taken to the point of jokes; if you’re …
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Narcissism
Before the advent of Donald Trump, the term “narcissism” was used very seldom in America; it normally came up only in the context of the Greek myth in which a young man was so taken by his own image, reflecting …
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Rejecting “The Great Reset”
In the politics of conservative Americans, the term “The Great Reset” refers to their desire to take government and social norms back to some point in the past. Though it’s unclear exactly how far into the past would satisfy those …
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Another Message to Republicans Re: Promoting Things Americans Truly Despise
As suggested in the meme here, another reason the Republicans are getting killed at the polls is their effort to throw sand in the gears of the U.S. military. I’m referring of course to Alabama Republican senator Tommy Tuberville’s ploy …
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The Making of Tyranny
As suggested by the Arabic proverb here, we face a real threat from Donald Trump who says that, if re-elected, he will use the federal government to punish his enemies. If America gets this wrong in 2024, it will be …
Watershed Event in U.S. Politics
As I mentioned in a post yesterday, American politics has reached a point where one of its two major parties, the Republicans, seems to have become aware that it offers nothing of value whatsoever to its base. Its platform consists …
Kentucky: Wow!
Perhaps what happened in Kentucky’s gubernatorial election yesterday (see left) is evidence that the American people have seen enough. Enough of the criminal insanity, the gun mania, the rejection of science, the suppression of women, and the religious fundamentalism. This …
Why We Elect Idiots
Perhaps “idiots” is the wrong word. The actual driver behind our electing the people shown at left is that many of us are desperate to be told that what we believe is true, even though if it’s plainly incorrect. Take …
“Ex-Republicans”
With Trump’s crimes all over the media, a bible-thumper as House Speaker, jackasses like Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene, and the concerted effort to ban abortion, one would think there would be massive defections from the Republican Party. Astonishingly, …
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