Category: American Exceptionalism
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The Truth Is Elections DON’T Matter – Not To Republicans
Ever notice how the news media loves to taunt Democrats? They don’t taunt Republicans the same way because Republicans won’t be taunted by people – the news media – they dismiss. Republicans are fact averse because facts don’t support most of what they want the way their feelings do. The Trumpification of the GOP didn’t…
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Have We NOT Learned Yet? Rich Guys Getting Into Politics Is Bad For Our Politics
This morning, the LA Times reports, Rick Caruso – the really-really rich real estate guy running for LA mayor – lent his campaign another $4 million, making the total amount Rick’s lent his campaign a cool ten million dollars. Hey, it’s not everyone who can self-finance a run for mayor of LA. But then, isn’t…
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The Republican Party IS “The White Man’s Burden”
Rudyard Kipling wrote his fawning poem “The White Man’s Burden” in response to America’s takeover of the Philippines after winning the Spanish-American War in 1899. Now, to be fair to Kipling himself, he came from a particular time and, in his case, from a very particular place (he was born in British India in December…
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Russia Won’t Subdue Ukraine And America’s Right Wing Won’t Subdue The Rest Of America
Someone should write this down so we can all remember it next time: whenever humans fail to learn the lessons history’s trying so desperately to teach us, it’s a dead certainty that humans will repeat those exact mistakes again and again. Megalomaniacal “leaders” who think they can “rule the world” ALL inevitably fail. No one…
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In America, Justice Is Surrounded By A White Wall
The great comedian and social commentator Dick Gregory had a great line about finding “justice” in American prisons. “That’s what you’ll find,” Gregory continued, musing on the word: “Just us.” How much American law, I wonder, has been written by white men with the sole purpose of over-empowering themselves while under-empowering or completely disempowering everyone…
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If Trump “Wins” The White House Again, It Will Mean Our Republic Is Already Dead
Our news media exists in a strange nether world where the Republican corruption from one story – their acceptance of the Big Lie – never laps over into a story about the very same corrupt Republicans running for office or “governing”. The press has a remarkable ability to turn from a story about Republicans visibly…
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The Only Problem With The Rule Of Law Is That It Can’t Enforce Itself
A great idea is only that – a great idea – until somebody drags it kicking and screaming into reality. Inventions don’t invent themselves. An engaged, sentient mind must do the inventing. Humans aren’t the only intelligent creatures capable of “inventing” things. Prior to the first beaver building its first dam, no such thing existed.…