There are two main problems here: The rank-and-file Trump supporter couldn’t care less that his country is the laughing stock of the world. They’re getting exactly what they want from Trump: the mistreatment of everyone except white Christian males. The …
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I’d say it’s more like 60 years. It’s a regression to the purely patriarchal society we had before the rights of women, LBGTQs, and people of color began to emerge. It’s what those on the radical right mean when they …
From the all-seeing, all-knowing Ben Carson. Hmmmm. I wonder who actually is jerking our chains. Who could it possibly be? If only there were a clue, like pathological lying or refusing to condemn white supremacy.
By any measure, the United States is struggling with COVID-19, at least in part due to the fact that this has become a political matter–one in which the president believes that “playing it down” will improve his chances for re-election. …
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Given all the political dissonance in today’s culture, not to mention cognitive dissonance, I thought I’d throw a change-up, and offer a different look at the subject. Here’s a short video featuring American conductor, pianist and composer Michael Tilson Thomas.
I have a confession to make. Sure, I want Trump removed as soon as possible, so as to minimize the damage to our planet, to our social structures, and to the billions of people who are suffering as a result …
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It’s probable that fascism, in which a strongman takes control over a country and its people, has been around in one form another since the beginnings of organized society +/- 10,000 years ago. Given the imperfect nature of the human …
I find it very hard to believe that Camus (author of the profoundly existential and nihilistic short novel “The Stranger”) said this. It is, of course, reminiscent of Pascal, four centuries earlier, known for his “wager,” i.e., that a rational …
When the Trump administration is viewed in the cold light of history, which one(s) of its atrocities will be best remembered? Because of its import to the nation and its democracy as a whole, it’s a good bet that the …
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The venerable 20th Century journalist and cultural critic H.L. Mencken left us with this: ‘The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.’
