I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those of you who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution. Donald Trump (2023 speech) It’s hard to believe that it hasn’t even been a week since the election. I guess gnashing of teeth really slows down the passage of time. There have been plenty of analyses done already, and they will continue … Continue reading Postdiluvian Postmortem
The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world – and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end – is being destroyed. Hannah … Continue reading A Final Plea to Trump Voters
Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new delineations drawn over the old maps: it is from this new way of seeing the present that hope emerges for the future…Let us begin to imagine the worlds we would like to inhabit, the long lives we will share, and the many futures in … Continue reading Election 2024: The Aftermath
As we come down the home stretch of the shitshow that is the 2024 Presidential election, it has become clear that our problem is not just Trump, or his legion of followers, or even the entire American political system, which has tipped over completely into plutocratic servitude. What is really crippling us is a dysfunctional set of ideas, a system of zombie ideas so entrenched … Continue reading Hard to Kill: Zombie Ideas That Need Slaying
This fight is no longer between Democrats and Republicans. This is a fight between communism and freedom. It’s very serious fight. Donald Trump, August 27th An America where we care for one another, look out for one another, and recognize that we have so much more in common than what separates us. That none of us has to fail for all of us to succeed. … Continue reading Doom, Joy, and Reality: On the Moods of the 2024 Election
When combined with mail-in ballots, the system is *designed* to make it impossible to prove fraud. Elon Musk Tweet from 7/8/2024 We all know, intuitively, that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections, but it’s not something that is easily provable. We don’t have that number. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, 5/8/2024 Even before the baton pass from Biden to Harris, when … Continue reading Stop the Steal Redux: Why Conservatives Are Pushing All-In on Election Fraud…Again
An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted. Arthur Miller Those who are most asleep think they are most awake, being under the power of vivid and fixed visions, so that those who are most ignorant think they know most. Theodotus (2nd Century C.E.) There is, I think, a growing, deep, general awareness of a massive systems failure in our … Continue reading Strange Expectations: The Age of Magical Thinking Hits the Wall
Look, I view myself as a bridge, not as anything else. Joe Biden, March 2020 Bridge is nowhere; over the bridge, you feel an emptiness inside you. Bridge is nowhere. Mehmet Murat ildan Disclaimers: First, I am not a registered Democrat. I used to be, but in 2020 I changed over to the Green Party, and I’ve been voting those candidates ever since. Living in … Continue reading Bridge to Nowhere: Democrats After the Debate Debacle
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. Hosea 8:7 With the 2024 election looming like an autumn iceberg in the mist, many people, liberals and conservatives, are wondering: “How did we get here?” How is it that, with the world collapsing around us on multiple fronts, we’re again stuck with two doddering octogenarians, who no one really wanted, vying for … Continue reading Reaping the Whirlwind: The Conservative Dilemma
The Democrats should move on from identity politics. It’s not working. They are hemorrhaging the very voters they think they’re pandering to. Bill Maher It is somewhat customary now for liberals to criticize other liberals for being overly infatuated with identity politics. Bill Maher is typical of this sort of lecturing, recently opining, “the more you obsess over identity, the more you ignore the bread … Continue reading The Problem with Bill Maher: Identity Politics as Low-Hanging Fruit
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