Category: Elections
Saving the Republic: Choosing and Winning Our Battles
Radical Centrism Papers: It's War. No Less - Part 2 See my Fierce Patriotism post from last week for the introduction this three part blog series. The concluding post in the series is scheduled for the end of this week and is called We Have Met The Enemy, and He Is Us. It will be a reflection on how each ...
What the Russians Did Very Well
Above: Just one of the many Russian fake news stories (this one about a pedophile sex ring involved with the Clintons and run out of a pizza shop in Washington D.C.) that found traction on social media, including being reposted by many of my neighbors! The story of what the Russians actually accomplished in the 2016 ...
Guys, It’s Not Trump! It’s the GOP
Above: The Georgia race — John Ossoff and the Elephant-in-the-Room Memos to Demos I: OK, it's been a year. Democratic candidates have now focused their hopes on tying Trump as the bogeyman to the local candidate in each of five elections. They lost them all. They are doing the same in the Virginia governor's contest that, ...
Time for Sanders Supporters to Grow Up?
Well, recent troubles with the party management and power structure of the Democratic Party illustrate that they seem to be as busy as the Republicans at tearing their party apart. A Salon editorial by Sophia McClennen published last spring, is one of the most articulate expression of the resentments of a substantial portion of the Sanders wing ...
The Loudmouth in the Bar
Remember Archie Bunker, a television avatar who became not a laughing stock, but a symbol of resistance for the common man. There’s a fascination with a loudmouth know-it-all in a bar. He’s the guy who treats the world like the male to male competition among certain species of birds or other animals: instead of beaks, ...
MetaDada 'Pacolypse 