POST 1130 From Wikipedia: A kakistocracy (/kækɪˈstɒkrəsi/, /kækɪsˈtɒ-/) is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.[1]: 54 [2][3] The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century.[4] [emphasis JA] That term was coined then, but we’re reviving that dreadful threat right now. With obviously predictive value, here are two variations of… [read more]
What It Looks Like
POST 1129 We begin with a quotation from Anne Applebaum, writing in The Atlantic about the conditions that precipitated the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. “There is nothing worse than hopelessness, nothing more soul-destroying than pessimism, grief, and despair.” We shed no tears for this brutal dictator and murderer, but don’t imagine that because… [read more]
How We Fell Off the Sled – v 2.0
POST 1128 A short while back I wrote that We’ve Fallen Off The Sled because we really have been dumped from our metaphorical transportation to a more perfect union. I had a perfectly serviceable 9-point post detailing how we did that, but I’m quite sick of election postmortems (likely, you are, too), especially when all… [read more]
A Thought Experiment and Explanation
POST 1127 A Balancing Act Everyone believes in freedom. Everyone wants it. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” You can read Jefferson’s “Liberty” (yes,he capitalized it)… [read more]
We Do Know What’s Coming – A Sampler
POST 1126 Today we take a quiet Sunday to club Republicans over the head for their excellently done sellout of America and the American people and the world class hypocrisy of so many. Sadly, we do know what’s coming. As soon as Trump began his awful run for the White House in 2015 it was… [read more]
The Campaign Cash Suck Game
POST 1125 NOTE: Read to the end for critical time sensitive information. The Final Money Grubber Tallies Instead of rejecting them immediately when I began to receive large numbers of emails soliciting donations to the Biden campaign in April, 2023, I began to collect them. Then I collected the emails sent from other candidates, too,… [read more]
Rebel: To Resist or Defy
POST 1124 I often listen to Jon Meacham’s marvelous podcast, Reflections of History, which I was doing recently while walking the dog. He presented the speech given by then-Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy on St. Patrick’s Day in 1954. Kennedy’s words have relevance today, so here is a small portion of Meacham’s presentation. Kennedy said, “Here… [read more]
How We Fell Off The Sled v 1.0
POST 1123 I had this nifty 11-point list of the many ways Democrats lost the election. It wasn’t pretty, but it was factual. Then, in a blinding flash of the obvious, I realized that only one of them was a root cause issue, a progenitor of all the rest. Indeed, it took only one of… [read more]
We’ve Fallen Off the Sled
POST 1122 There is no end of pundits punditing wildly in an effort to explain how Democrats managed to embarrass themselves and allow the country to be imperiled by power mad, greedy haters and traitors. We used to wonder why so many people would vote against their own best interests, but how did we get… [read more]
What Will Happen – Part 2 of 2
POST 1121 Preface This is Part 2 of 2 – Part 1 was published last Sunday, detailing some of what you can expect from the second Trump presidency, Some of what follows is snark or satire. Most is not. Criminality The sentencing hearing for the 34 criminal convictions of Trump in New York for fraud… [read more]
