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  • How the Republican party quietly does the bidding of white supremacists

    The lesson from Charlottesville is not how dangerous the neo-Nazis are. It is the unmasking of the Republican party leadership. In the wake of last weekend’s horror and tragedy, let us finally, finally rip off the veneer that Trump’s affinity… Continue reading

  • Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy

    Every demagogue needs an enemy. Trump’s was the ruling elite, and his charge was that they were not only failing to solve the greatest problems facing Americans, they were trying to stop anyone from even talking about those problems. “The… Continue reading

  • The Debt Ceiling Denialists « The Dish

     Some of the current GOP delusions: the deficit is rising (it isn’t); the debt is currently unsustainable (it isn’t); the public wants Obamacare ended (it’s split on even delaying it); climate change has nothing to do with human-produced carbon emissions… Continue reading

    The Debt Ceiling Denialists « The Dish

  • The Myth of Welfare Queens and the Reality of Racism

    Fiscal conservative politicians including some Democrats like Bill Clinton have presided over a massive and systematic redistribution of wealth into the 1 percent since the 1980s. For African-Americans this means that we lost over half of our collective and meager… Continue reading

    The Myth of Welfare Queens and the Reality of Racism

  • The Three Horsemen of the MOOCpocaplypse

    A small foray into the political after a few weeks of mostly concentrating on spirituality. But not too far in as my concern is prompted by my contemplation. I want to thank my good brother Lance W. for pointing out… Continue reading

    The Three Horsemen of the MOOCpocaplypse

  • Conservative Progress & Same-Sex Marriage

    I suppose in the circles that Matalin travels in, this would be considered uber-progressive. It def is a kind of progress. Republican political strategist Mary Matalin must have finally gotten the message that a growing number of Americans support marriage… Continue reading

  • The Irony of Right-Wing Secessionist Fantasies | The Nation

    In the wake of Obama’s victory, citizens in several states submitted petitions to secede from the United States. It is something of an irony that the very states seeking secession from “big government”—like Louisiana and Alabama—have been among the top… Continue reading

  • Demographic Maps @ Patchwork Nation

    Super nice demographic maps on this site. Very well worth the time & effort to study them. As the votes from the 2012 election have trickled in, the size of President Obama’s victory has grown – it’s now more than… Continue reading

  • Class Wars of 2012 – NYTimes.com

    …The important thing to understand now is that while the election is over, the class war isn’t. The same people who bet big on Mr. Romney, and lost, are now trying to win by stealth — in the name of… Continue reading

  • Epistemic Closure & the Reality-Based Center

    The article below is encouraging to me on many levels. I have feared that I was a Texan committing the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy. That is where you cherry pick the evidence to meet the conclusion you want to support. So… Continue reading

  • 5 glaring contradictions that sank the GOP – Salon.com

    What Obama’s win, alongside surging Democratic senators, disrupted was the dubious marriage between billionaires dying to own the government and fundamentalists dying to institutionalize universal morality. This election exploded Reaganite propaganda that “big government” is the problem by spotlighting the… Continue reading