Category: U.S. Politics
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Project 2025 and Fear in America
Reading Time: 2 minutesProgressives reject the use of violence, political or otherwise. This is especially true in this electoral cycle and this political atmosphere. The use of violence toward Donald Trump or anyone else is not only deplorable, it is inflammatory.
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The Deep State is in Ukraine and it’s Agribusiness
Reading Time: 3 minutesNATO expansion to Russia’s border, was probably a bluff, and Switzerland was probably in on it.
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The State of Israel is a False Friend
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe history of Israel’s dealings with the United States, as documented in a recently released FBI file, reads like a spy novel. The dates and details are recorded in an article entitled Isaiah L. Kenen: Foreign Agent to Founder of AIPAC
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Thoughts on the Eve of the Election
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere are three main concerns that might affect the way people vote in the coming election. My thoughts on the eve of the election include: fascism versus mafia rule; The Supreme Court’s abortion ban; and the question of how people who disagree with each other can live peacefully together. Fascism, Mafia Rule,…
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Rosicrucians, Fallen Angels, and American Politics
Reading Time: 4 minutesAccusations of leftist magic leveled by right-wing members of Congress led me to research the question of whether magic is really a leftist thing. The closest connection I was aware of was the association of the drug culture of the 1960s with shamanism. But I have always understood the Right’s connection to…
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Miser Joe Manchin Offends Faith-Based Allies
Reading Time: 2 minutesCatholic Democrat Joe Manchin’s position on the child tax credit has put him at odds with important allies such as the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, the National Association of Evangelicals, and Orthodox Union. Unfortunately, these groups are in a somewhat embarrassing position after objecting to the bill’s mandate that faith-run pre-kindergarten…
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Conservatives are Getting off Easy
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe have veered off track in this conversation. I’ve been trying to return to the days when we could dream about another way of life. If we thought about politics at all, we assumed our elected officials knew they’d reached a dead end and that it was time for a change. Those…
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The Return of Liberalism?
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Meritocracy Versus Just America I recently watched George Packer talk about his new book, Last Best Hope. I agree with most of what I heard in this interview (although there are hints that he is not an ally of progressives). Parker is calling for the return of liberalism. On the positive…
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America’s War Against Political Modernization, 1775-2020
Reading Time: 5 minutesAmerica’s political system has been described by Loren Goldner ((Goldner, Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic Man, Queequeg Publications, New York, NY, 2006)) and others as a Tudor Polity. The jury is still out on whether this was a positive or negative development. The United States’ System Compared to Great…