Don’t Ask the MAGA Crazies to Come To Their Senses. Chaos and Destruction ARE Their Senses. . The Republican Party has published its 1,000 page plan called “Project 2025.” It is a plan to completely dismantle the American government in just six months. They intend to destroy our democratic republic and establish a dictatorship with… [read more]
The Right Books To Ban
Yeah, I know that book banning is a tyrannical exercise in mind control that’s typical of authoritarian, subjugation-creating regimes. We all know that it’s a key tool to end freedom and eliminate rights. And none of us has forgotten history’s recounting of murder squads that were a direct outfall of such draconian control of the… [read more]
Idiotica – Part 2
“You Never Thought This Could Happen” Idiotica You already know that lots of Republicans champion autocrats (read: dictators) Putin, Erdoğan and Orbán. These Americans wildly cheer these strongmen who have killed democracy in their countries. It’s shocking to recall that just a few short years ago Republicans were the hardliners against such despots and their… [read more]
Idiotica – Part 1
Economy Idiotica “The biggest picture is that the post-1980 economy failed to deliver the broad-based benefits that Reagan and his allies promised.” That’s from a piece by David Leonhardt, Explaining Bidenomics. Focusing on the signal and not on the phony Republican noise, look at this chart. In the 1920s we had our 1%, just as… [read more]
Or Not
Civics – Or Not In order to graduate from my public high school I was requried to take a course in civics and pass the exam. That education was required in nearly every public high school in those days. In the 1980s this course often became optional or, in many schools, civics classes weren’t available… [read more]
Reality Jokes from the 1950s
Q. What do you call couples who practice the rhythm method of birth control? A. Parents Q. What do you call teenagers who are taught abstinence as the only acceptable form of birth control? A. Parents Amazingly, according to some bible thumpers, some Republicans and a former Republican Party platform, only abstinence is to be… [read more]
Heroes
9/11 happened. It wasn’t a few paragraphs in a history book or a script for a bombastic political speech. It was exactly what it was, a terrorist attack on our nation twenty-two years ago tomorrow. I learned long ago that what we see on TV of disasters like floods, hurricanes, tornadoes and fires doesn’t and… [read more]
TR
Labor Day is supposed to be more than a three-day weekend or the last barbeque of the summer. It’s a day to honor those who labor. Joe Biden gets that. Perhaps no national leader has understood this better than Teddy Roosevelt. Steve Schmidt highlighted this in his post on Monday by including an address by… [read more]
What Have/Could We Become? – Part 2
Find Part 1 here. Letting loose the behavior geek that resides inside my skin, I’m always trying to figure out what seems impossible to figure out, like understanding why common sense people would say and do self-harming things. Let’s start. with an explanation. The predominant and overriding passion of our time is what Eugene Robinson… [read more]
What Have/Could We Become? – Part 1
Ed. note: Be sure to read Frank Levy’s response in the Comments section at the bottom of this post. Eugene Robinson wrote in The Washington Post on August 24, To understand how completely Donald Trump has transformed the Republican Party, all you had to do was watch Wednesday’s debate and Trump’s surrender to Georgia authorities… [read more]
