Angry and Confused: The Working Class Republican Voter
In my October diary, I noted the GOP has built an angry mob within their base who are not doing so well economically and have been encouraged to blame the wrong people and policies for their woes. An...
View ArticleAngry and Confused: The Working Class Republican Voter (part 2)
There's some very interesting data about how things have changed for the American middle class over the last 44 years (1971 to 2015) on the Pew Research Center (PRC) website. The middle class has...
View ArticleFree Market Economics in an Overcrowded World
One of the most fundamental problems facing mankind right now is overpopulation. There are just too many of us. The resources of the planet are finite, and we all know this, but in many ways we...
View ArticleAmerica a democracy? Not so much.
I've been contemplating the present sorry state of our American “democracy” and how we got into this mess. I say democracy in quotes because we no longer have a functioning democracy.Not when Congress...
View ArticleOur Dysfunctional Democracy: What Went Wrong?
In my last post, I posited that the proximate cause of our current dysfunctional democracy, in particular the severe dysfunction of Congress, has been our violation of the Brandeis law of democratic...
View ArticleThe Disturbing Legacy of the Wars on Drugs and Terror
As I was reading the section of Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow where she recounts the systematic weakening of Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment protections by Supreme Court decisions...
View ArticleRacism in a "Colorblind" America
Americans want to believe they live in a just society, one where hard work and perseverance is rewarded no matter who you are, where you came from, or how wealthy or poor your parents were. This the...
View ArticleHillary Clinton’s Dilemma
Ever since it became clear that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election, there’s been chatter among progressives and others on the left side of the American political...
View ArticleAuthoritarian Leaders Must Be Resisted Early and Vigorously
I receive a lot of email requests from progressive and environmental groups to sign their online petitions. My policy has generally been to sign those which concern issues or topics I’m particularly...
View ArticleNews from the Koch Republic – November 16, 2014
The Koch Republic is still formulating its response to President Obama's expected executive actions on immigration. Koch Republic employee (and Senator-elect) Tom Cotton of Arkansas noted: I don't...
View ArticleWake-up Call to the GOP Establishment: Disband Your Angry Mob!
For decades, the Republicans have been working hard to build a constituency consisting of the wealthy, who are relatively few, plus those Americans most easily manipulated, who sadly are many. The...
View ArticleDonald Trump: The Face of American Fascism?
On August 13, 1920, Adolf Hitler gave a speech entitled “Why are we Antisemites?” to a large crowd of supporters at the Munich Hofbrauhaus. During the two hour speech, he was interrupted 58 times by...
View ArticleAngry and Confused: The Working Class Republican Voter
In my October diary, I noted the GOP has built an angry mob within their base who are not doing so well economically and have been encouraged to blame the wrong people and policies for their woes. An...
View ArticleAngry and Confused: The Working Class Republican Voter (part 2)
There's some very interesting data about how things have changed for the American middle class over the last 44 years (1971 to 2015) on the Pew Research Center (PRC) website. The middle class has...
View ArticleFree Market Economics in an Overcrowded World
One of the most fundamental problems facing mankind right now is overpopulation. There are just too many of us. The resources of the planet are finite, and we all know this, but in many ways we...
View ArticleAmerica a democracy? Not so much.
I've been contemplating the present sorry state of our American “democracy” and how we got into this mess. I say democracy in quotes because we no longer have a functioning democracy.Not when Congress...
View ArticleOur Dysfunctional Democracy: What Went Wrong?
In my last post, I posited that the proximate cause of our current dysfunctional democracy, in particular the severe dysfunction of Congress, has been our violation of the Brandeis law of democratic...
View ArticleThe Disturbing Legacy of the Wars on Drugs and Terror
As I was reading the section of Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow where she recounts the systematic weakening of Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment protections by Supreme Court decisions...
View ArticleRacism in a "Colorblind" America
Americans want to believe they live in a just society, one where hard work and perseverance is rewarded no matter who you are, where you came from, or how wealthy or poor your parents were. This the...
View ArticleHillary Clinton’s Dilemma
Ever since it became clear that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election, there’s been chatter among progressives and others on the left side of the American political...
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