Yes, most Americans have progressive values when it comes to things like universal healthcare, quality education, wealth inequality, and environmental responsibility. But I honestly believe that the reason progressives are doing well in the polls and the primary elections is …
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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.
Trumpism Entering the World
At left is how I feel about Trumpism. I may be limited in how I can go about preventing it from entering the world, but I’ll be damned if it will happen through me.
Persist, Resist
Here we have a few words of Epictetus, one of the Stoic philosophers, whose thoughts are characterized by the idea that our lives should not be cushy, but rather the opposite, guided by self-sacrifice in order to live by the …
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Putting Trumpism Behind Us
Most of the people on Earth are hoping desperately that all this criminality and insanity is over soon.
Is the World Truly Getting Worse?
The “word of the day” today is “pejorism,” the belief that the world is becoming worse. If a survey were taken of all literate people on Earth, I’d bet that a good 80% would identify as pejorists, primarily on the …
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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 …
What We Won’t Miss When Trumpism Is Gone
Most Americans simply wish their country could return to where is was only one short decade ago. At that point, it would have been unthinkable for a U.S. representative with no training in science to address the director of the …
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Why Conservatives Resent Progress
What RFK said here is true, but I think it might be useful to ask why certain people want to prevent our society from moving forward. I would suggest that this is the notion of fear. If you look at …
Society’s Loss of Its Capacity to Think
What mid-20th Century screenwriter/TV producer Rod Serling, famed for “The Twilight Zone,” said 50 years ago seems to have come true. There really is no other explanation for Trumpism, a set of beliefs so lowly and base that it’s really …
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