Category: Political Discourse
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The Lunacy of the Commons
Project 25 – A Blueprint for Autocracy Most of us who vote in western democracies, I hope, do so on the basis of information as knowledge. But what I’m discovering, is that Republicans, by and large, do not. Most cannot identify the principle aims of Project 25, the far-right ‘playbook’ for the deconstruction of democratic…
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Autocrat’s Should Be Banned
There should be a requirement in a democracy to accept the will of the people, and to accept the electoral process, or be invalidated as a candidate. For any candidate who abrogates the rule, he or she should subsequently receive a permanent lifetime ban from the political process as punishment. Convicted felons should be disqualified…
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You – As A Historical Republican Voter, Will Destroy America’s Democracy
It’s hard for most of us who are rational, living outside of the United States, to conceive of living in an autocracy. Most of us have no living memory of what living in an autocracy means, and very few WWII survivors remain alive, so there is no living public memory of fascism as an existential…
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How Will Your World Change If Trump Wins?
This question begs for an answer. In the past, when a dictator takes power, there is a brief respite prior to enacting mandates and edicts. There usually is a period of dismantlement, which in the case of the United States, began during trump’s first Presidency. The Supreme Court was the first victims of trump’s dismantlement…
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A Response To the End of Reason
Today I decided to remove myself from the toxic effects of Facebook and social media in general. The American election for the Presidency of the United States has, without question, become a toxic affair, more fitting black sites from the Dark Web, where hate speech espoused by social misfits and sociopaths can be found, prompting…
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The End of Hegemony – America Retracts
Donald Trump has signalled that the United States will leave NATO once elected. If he succeeds in this Presidential bid, America will indeed leave NATO, and NATO will functionally cease to exist. The infrastructure necessary extends far beyond simple manpower. Manpower in Europe is sufficient to withstand the demands of a mainland war with Russia,…
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Fake News and the Death of Journalism
The right wing of the Republican Party has managed to achieve what commerce and the dynamics of business could not in relation to the news industry and journalism as a whole. It has made it irrelevant. By simply declaring that ‘alternate facts’ are not just acceptable, but worthy of belief, without any proof, it has…
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The Pending Implosion
Implosions are events that occur without warning, yet with respect to America’s future, anyone who isn’t blind can see what’s coming. We are now on the verge of watching history repeat itself. When a dictator comes to power with an agenda for scapegoating, hatred and retribution, we are on the road to recreating the 1930’s…
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A New Beginning or the Beginning of the End?
If America elects trump and turns its back on ‘leadership’ in relation to democratic states, thereby seeking isolationism, America will bring about the next World War. How it occurs, and which spark initiates it is not central to its occurrence, isolationism, is. Just as Eisenhower ensured a stable democratic alliance against the Soviet Union, by…
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Hope verses Belief
I often wonder how people who never test their hypotheses become believers. Do they realize that their assertions are based on unproven and untested thoughts. I won’t call them possibilities, because they are unwilling to take part in the requisite work of gathering as much real and verifiable data as necessary. So why do ‘believers’…