Tag: Socialism
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Back It Up Or It’s Bullshit
Nine years into the Donald Trump Era of American politics and our news media still can’t handle him. To this very instant, he handles them! A few journalists have always understood how to shut down sociopathic bullshit artists like Trump, but the overwhelming majority of journalists working here in America refuse to take notes and…
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The GOP Has Become America’s Worst Case Scenario
Sometimes, we have to assure ourselves we’re awake and not dreaming. Yes, the Republican Party really is doing what it’s doing. It’s natural for partisans to always see the worst case scenario sitting on their opposition’s shoulder. If the other guy wins? Welcome to the worst case scenario. To conservatives, that’s socialism. So, all Democrats…
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The Picture Definition Of “Treason”
“Treason” is a loaded word. At least it used to be. Like “Nazi” or “fascist” or “authoritarian”, “treason” was a word that, if you were the first to spew it, it meant you weren’t serious, that you were all feelings over facts. Ironically, in America, it’s still one hundred percent kosher to call anyone left…
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Oh, The Irony — It Will Be Corrupt Conservatives Who Turn America Into A “Socialist Paradise”
The only thing that scares a conservative more than “socialism” (their idea of it anyway) is diversity. Oh, they’ll tolerate diversity in the business they own. At the end of the day, they’ll happily pay minimum wage to whomever. But will they tolerate diversity in their country club — or worse, their neighborhood? Surely, you…
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Damn Right There’s A “Rough Beast Slouching Towards Bethlehem To Be Born” — It’s Republicanism & Permanent Minority Rule!
Just like Trump’s election caused people to seek therapy in droves (that’s a fact — it really, really did!), it caused people trying to articulate what this experience is like to pick up William Butler Yeats’ “The Second Coming”. Bits and pieces of the poem are now part of the vernacular — Things fall apart;…
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Fear Of The Word “Socialist” Is Soooooo 1950
Conservatives want to live in the past. It says so — right in their name: they want to CONSERVE. Considering as you can’t “conserve” the future, all you can conserve is the present — which owes pretty much everything to the past. Progressives — for comparison’s sake — want to PROGRESS — just like THEIR…