It seems odd to suggest that our democracy is in peril, but I’m starting to wonder. Are we at risk of seeing this democratic experiment be swept aside? I’d have laughed about this even a few weeks ago, but now? I’m not so sure. I wonder if this is the beginning of the American collapse. Republicans have used local power to rig elections, so that...
Jesus fucking Christ! Banned words? Thought crimes? Is this Trump guy a halfwit or what? I talked about this in Control the Language to Control the Argument, but that was complex language control by smart people. Trump is just bone-thick stupid; he can’t pull this off, can he? Sure, Trump put political commissars into our agencies to ensure ideological purity. To Donald Trump! And sure,...
Donald Trump, in his effort to crush the American federal government, has started the first Republican Putsch. Several news sources report that the EPA funneled federal funds through a no-bid contract to partisan Republican groups. The avowed purpose was “media monitoring”. That really means using Republican dirt-research firm America Rising to search out anyone in the agency who criticizes the EPA, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt,...
No, Alabama wasn’t a national election, and no, this is not all about us, or America as a whole. It was an Alabama election, and it speaks about Alabama more than anything else. After Doug Jones’s victory last night in Alabama’s Senate election, the talking heads are patting themselves on the back so hard they’re going hurting themselves. It was not so much a rejection...
I can’t help but wonder why the New York Times decided to deliver a tailor-made dirty trick against Robert Mueller. Just as Doug Jones wins his election in Alabama, the Times reported “In Texts, F.B.I. Officials in Russia Inquiry Said Clinton ‘Just Has to Win’“. From somewhere, they got copies of the texts between Agent Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. Because of those texts, Mueller...
The Republican model campaign is to find divisive issues, then use them to make us hate each other. They’ve been following that model for a long time. I saw the beginnings decades ago, and I’m probably missing more. Each time Republicans find another wedge issue, they shred the fabric of our society, and our culture. It’s horrible, and un-American, and, at least so far, highly...
A close friend asked me recently when the allegations of sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and (yes) sexual assault by leaders in government and entertainment will stop. My answer: “You better hope these types of allegations NEVER stop.” Watchdogs can never sleep. Whistle-blowers must act when conscience demands it. The rest of us need them. Control systems in the United States are far from perfect, and...
As much as I’m delighted by the current upheaval on sexual assault, we’re stuck with an open question: how much is too much? Where do we really want to put moral and ethical threshold for removal from office? So far, we’re pretending that we already know when sexual crimes are damning. Today, with one more accusation of inappropriate kissing, dozens of Senators and Congresspeople abruptly...
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