Tag: American Exceptionalism

• Hey, White People, Go Back Where YOU Came From!

  Here’s the biggest open secret there is: the thing driving America’s national crisis to its boiling point is racism. In America, that only means one thing: white people being racist toward literally everyone else. Our problem isn’t Black people hating on Asian people, Asian people hating on Latinos, Latinos hating on Jews or Jews hating…

  A L Katz

  January 29, 2022

  American Exceptionalism, Corruption, Culture, Freedom, Racism, Republicanism, Slavery, The Nature of Evil

  All Men Are Created Equal, American Exceptionalism, Competition, E Pluribus Unum, Level Playing Field, Originalism, Racism, Ripple Effects, WASPS, White Supremacy, Whiteness

• Black Americans Understand America’s Promise More Than White Americans Ever Have

  The whole American franchise – our experiment in human self government – rests upon one thing: the vote. That’s where the self-government starts. If you screw with the vote, you’re screwing with the whole concept of self-government. If you stop some people from voting because of their race or creed in favor of others (because…

  A L Katz

  January 16, 2022

  American Exceptionalism, Corruption, Election 2016, False Patriotism, Freedom, Racism, Republicanism, Slavery

  All Men Are Created Equal, American Exceptionalism, Citizenship, Constitution, Constitutional Amendments, E Pluribus Unum, Experiment In Self-Government, Founders, Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, The Vote, Voting

• Republicans And Mediocrity: It’s A Love Thing

  The words “greatness” and “Republicans” only go together so long as one is being sarcastic. If the GOP had in word and deed remained “The Party of Lincoln”, it would have been entirely impossible for them to ever have become the Party Of Trump. The Republicans are not now the Republican Party that Lincoln joined…

  A L Katz

  December 15, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, American News Media, Corruption, Election 2020, False Patriotism, Racism, Republicanism, Treason

  American Exceptionalism, Corruption, Democracy, Diversity, Greed, Heather Cox Richardson, Marketplace Of Ideas, Mitch McConnell, Party of Lincoln, Power Sharing, QWERTY, Republicans

• Some Americans (White Ones) Think They’re The “Most Equal” Americans Of All

  The white, Christian, land-owning authors of America’s Constitution set us up for failure the moment they penned “All men are created equal” without actually meaning “all men”. They screwed the pooch just as badly (if not worse) by meaning JUST men. So, the fix was in from the start. America was doomed because while aspiring…

  A L Katz

  December 6, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, Corruption, Culture, Election 2020, False Patriotism, Freedom, Republicanism, Slavery, Trump

  All Men Are Created Equal, American Constitution, American Exceptionalism, Antonin Scalia, Bill Of Rights, Conservatism, Democracy, Diversity, E Pluribus Unum, Originalism, Slavery, Stolen Labor

• The American Dream Isn’t So Much “Success” As The Level Playing Field That Makes Success Possible

  American Exceptionalism is a very real thing. Let’s be crystal clear first what it isn’t: rich white guys and their money. That’s what rich white guys and their money want us to believe — that without them, America wouldn’t be America. That has always been top-of-the-line, the best-money-can-buy horse shit. Money has always played a…

  A L Katz

  November 11, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, Corruption, Culture, Freedom, Racism, Universal Basic Income (UBI)

  All Men Are Created Equal, American Exceptionalism, American Revolution, Bubonic Plague, E Pluribus Unum, L'Anse Aux Meaadows, Level Playing Field, Money, Pilgrims, UBI, Virginia Colony

• Would America Breaking Into Two Americas – Red V Blue – Really Be Such A Bad Thing?

  America is what happens when you let sleeping dogs lie and one of those dogs is racism. America has always had a jones for mythologizing itself. That’s because we have no common, longstanding history to stand on as people from every other country did when they came here. Aside from the Native Americans (wiped out…

  A L Katz

  October 18, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, American News Media, Corruption, Culture, Election 2016, False Patriotism, Racism, Republicanism, Rule of Law, Slavery, Treason, Trump, Universal Basic Income (UBI)

  All Men Are Created Equal, American Culture, American Exceptionalism, Blue States, Confederacy, E Pluribus Unum, Kellyanne Conway, Pathogens, Project Lincoln, Rule of Law, Second Civil War, Stolen Labor

• Who In Their Right Mind Would Vote Republican When Voting Republican Gets You Killed?

  Politics in America make little sense because too much of our “common wisdom” thinks everyone does everything for entirely political reasons completely divorced from any desire to actually govern. That “common wisdom” is deeply cynical and deeply conservative — as all “common wisdom” is, coming, as it does, from either long held knowledge or just…

  A L Katz

  August 27, 2021

  American News Media, Branding, Coronavirus, Corruption, Culture, Cyber War, Election 2016, Election 2020, Racism, Republicanism, Treason, Trump

  American Exceptionalism, American Politics, Both Sides Do It, Common Wisdom, Coronavirus, Cynicism, Diversity, E Pluribus Unum, Founding Fathers, News Media, Originalism, Steve Bannon

• America’s Exceptionalism — Its DIVERSITY — Will Save Us From The GOP’s Authoritarian Power Grab

  In his indispensable book “On Tyranny”, Timothy Snyder lays out the fairly predictable tick tock that democracies experience while succumbing to authoritarianism. It’s impossible not to see us well into that experience. Someone claiming to tweet for German film maker Werner Herzog put it this way (Herzog doesn’t do social media: the tweet itself is…

  A L Katz

  August 24, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, Culture, Election 2016, Election 2020, False Patriotism, Freedom, Racism, Republicanism, Slavery, Treason

  American Exceptionalism, Authoritarianism, Confederacy, Diversity, E Pluribus Unum, Hitler, Kochs and Mercers, On Tyranny, Permanent Minority Rule, Southern Strategy, Timothy Snyder, Werner Herzog

• Republicans Are The Spoiled Children Of American Politics

  Here in America, our family motto is E Pluribus Unum — out of many, one. It’s the good news and the bad news all wrapped up on one. The majority of the family has figured out that the family really and truly does best when more of the family prospers versus when, say, only a…

  A L Katz

  August 9, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, Corruption, Election 2020, Republicanism, Rule of Law

  All Men Are Created Equal, American Exceptionalism, Birth Order, Brett Kavanaugh, E Pluribus Unum, Founding Fathers, French Enlightenment, George W Bush, Manifest destiny, Originalism, Stop The Steal

• The GOP Is A Party Of Bullies

  Bullies and bullying are a universal evil.  If bullying ended at the schoolyard gate, that would be bad enough but, as we all know, bullying doesn’t stop there.  The whole schoolyard follows us through life — with bullies getting to be bullies forever like Hook-ified versions of Peter Pan.  Donald Trump is the worst kind…

  A L Katz

  June 26, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, Corruption, Culture, Election 2016, Republicanism, Rule of Law, Treason, Trump

  "Putin pays Rohrbacher and Trump", American Exceptionalism, Bullies, Bullying, Cheating to win, Corruption, E Pluribus Unum, Election 2016, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan, Peter Pan, Schoolyard Bullies