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Monday, September 14, 2015
A Sad Love Story: The Conservatives in My Area and Me I got to engage in meaningful conversation with a conservative radio audience for more than a decade before the pull of the destructive force that's taken over the right led them into the darkness. I feel a sense of loss, and I have not stopped seeking ways of re-awakening the better angels of their nature.
Monday, September 14, 2015A Sad Love Story: The Conservatives in My Area and Me I got to engage in meaningful conversation with a conservative radio audience for more than a decade before the pull of the destructive force that's taken over the right led them into the darkness. I feel a sense of loss, and I have not stopped seeking ways of re-awakening the better angels of their nature.
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Thursday, September 10, 2015
If I Were Bernie Sanders I'd Challenge Trump to a Duel Bernie Sanders challenging Donald Trump to a one-on-one debate has promise of boosting Bernie, exposing what's gone seriously wrong with the Republican, and improving the political health of our troubled nation. Here's why.
Thursday, September 10, 2015If I Were Bernie Sanders I'd Challenge Trump to a Duel Bernie Sanders challenging Donald Trump to a one-on-one debate has promise of boosting Bernie, exposing what's gone seriously wrong with the Republican, and improving the political health of our troubled nation. Here's why.
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Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Why Voters Think Trump's Act is Honest Voters think Trump is candid, means what he says. But there are two obvious ways that Trump is anything but candid. Which raises the question: how is it that such an obvious poseur is seen as honest? I offer an answer here.
Tuesday, September 8, 2015Why Voters Think Trump's Act is Honest Voters think Trump is candid, means what he says. But there are two obvious ways that Trump is anything but candid. Which raises the question: how is it that such an obvious poseur is seen as honest? I offer an answer here.
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Monday, August 31, 2015
Trump: An American Caesar George Will, for a change, has it right: the Trump phenomenon represents the rise in America of "Caesarism": A strong man, rising in power, based on a cult of personality. Trump's postures are like those of the 20th century "Caesar," Benito Mussolini. Arrogant, full of himself. All about power and winning. All about a kind of greatness that is not what genuinely has been great about America.
Monday, August 31, 2015Trump: An American Caesar George Will, for a change, has it right: the Trump phenomenon represents the rise in America of "Caesarism": A strong man, rising in power, based on a cult of personality. Trump's postures are like those of the 20th century "Caesar," Benito Mussolini. Arrogant, full of himself. All about power and winning. All about a kind of greatness that is not what genuinely has been great about America.
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Monday, August 10, 2015
How to Steal a Democracy Here's a how-to manual that describes what has happened in America in our times, as a group of rich and powerful people, eager to become still richer and more powerful, have followed a clever, long-term strategy to turn the United States into an altogether different -- less just, less humane, less honest, and far less democratic -- society than what it has been, and what is called for by American ideals.
Monday, August 10, 2015How to Steal a Democracy Here's a how-to manual that describes what has happened in America in our times, as a group of rich and powerful people, eager to become still richer and more powerful, have followed a clever, long-term strategy to turn the United States into an altogether different -- less just, less humane, less honest, and far less democratic -- society than what it has been, and what is called for by American ideals.
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015
The Civil War Was Lost. It's Time We Finally Won It. Some said that it was a distraction when, in the wake of the Charleston church massacre, the conversation focused on the Confederate flag instead of on the problem of inadequately regulated guns. I don't agree. The gun issue is important. But the Confederate flag issue points to the heart of our present national crisis.
Wednesday, August 5, 2015The Civil War Was Lost. It's Time We Finally Won It. Some said that it was a distraction when, in the wake of the Charleston church massacre, the conversation focused on the Confederate flag instead of on the problem of inadequately regulated guns. I don't agree. The gun issue is important. But the Confederate flag issue points to the heart of our present national crisis.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Strike While the Donald is Hot Donald Trump's rise to frontrunner status in the Republican presidential race, not just despite but because of his disgraceful rhetoric, provides the Democrats (and Liberal America generally) an excellent opportunity to expose the atrocity that the Republican Party has become.
Wednesday, July 29, 2015Strike While the Donald is Hot Donald Trump's rise to frontrunner status in the Republican presidential race, not just despite but because of his disgraceful rhetoric, provides the Democrats (and Liberal America generally) an excellent opportunity to expose the atrocity that the Republican Party has become.
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Monday, July 27, 2015
What's Taking Over America In a piece running in newspapers in my conservative part of Virginia, I argue that we are well on the way to losing our democracy to the corporate system, and that this system is revealing in several ways that the spirit that animates it is morally very dark. Indeed, within living memory, it seems that the corporate system has undergone serious moral degradation.
Monday, July 27, 2015What's Taking Over America In a piece running in newspapers in my conservative part of Virginia, I argue that we are well on the way to losing our democracy to the corporate system, and that this system is revealing in several ways that the spirit that animates it is morally very dark. Indeed, within living memory, it seems that the corporate system has undergone serious moral degradation.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015
All Anyone Should Need to Know about Scott Walker How telling it is that more of our national income than ever goes into corporate profits, and less than ever into wages, Scott Walker has handed more money to the corporations and waged war against the workers.
Wednesday, July 15, 2015All Anyone Should Need to Know about Scott Walker How telling it is that more of our national income than ever goes into corporate profits, and less than ever into wages, Scott Walker has handed more money to the corporations and waged war against the workers.
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Monday, July 13, 2015
A Culture of Dogma We see a political culture in which there is a remarkable -- and unhealthy -- uniformity of belief, or at least of political positions expressed. This "culture of dogma" is visible in the history of the South, from the days of slavery onward, and it now pervades the Republican Party, whose base is in the South. This political culture is a sign of an anti-democratic abuse of power.
Monday, July 13, 2015A Culture of Dogma We see a political culture in which there is a remarkable -- and unhealthy -- uniformity of belief, or at least of political positions expressed. This "culture of dogma" is visible in the history of the South, from the days of slavery onward, and it now pervades the Republican Party, whose base is in the South. This political culture is a sign of an anti-democratic abuse of power.
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Tuesday, July 7, 2015
God or gods, a Train of Thought That Ends Up Illuminating What We Need Illuminated My mind wondered into the question: why is it that the ancient Greeks and the ancient Hebrews, though they lived in essentially the same world, came to such different conclusions about the fundamental nature of reality-- conclusions represented by the choice of many gods versus One God? That train of thought leads me to speak more directly to the challenge of our times here in America, at a time of national crisis.
Tuesday, July 7, 2015God or gods, a Train of Thought That Ends Up Illuminating What We Need Illuminated My mind wondered into the question: why is it that the ancient Greeks and the ancient Hebrews, though they lived in essentially the same world, came to such different conclusions about the fundamental nature of reality-- conclusions represented by the choice of many gods versus One God? That train of thought leads me to speak more directly to the challenge of our times here in America, at a time of national crisis.
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Thursday, July 2, 2015
Dylann Roof and a Culture that Turns the Truth on Its Head "You rape our women," Dylann Roof is reported to have declared just prior to shooting nine black people in a Charleston church. And in that, he showed a mentality that reflects something deep in the culture. It is a mentality that deals not only in falsehood, but in proclaiming the very opposite of the truth. And this template of standing the truth on its head extends far beyond the specific issue of interracial rape.
Thursday, July 2, 2015Dylann Roof and a Culture that Turns the Truth on Its Head "You rape our women," Dylann Roof is reported to have declared just prior to shooting nine black people in a Charleston church. And in that, he showed a mentality that reflects something deep in the culture. It is a mentality that deals not only in falsehood, but in proclaiming the very opposite of the truth. And this template of standing the truth on its head extends far beyond the specific issue of interracial rape.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015
When Events Amaze What is happening with regard to the emblems of the Confederacy is striking in its speed, and beyond anything I would have predicted. Why is it happening-- particularly among some on the right who have shown for years a shameless inability to admit error or change directions? It is one of those events that show us that our idea of what's possible is likely way too constricted.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015When Events Amaze What is happening with regard to the emblems of the Confederacy is striking in its speed, and beyond anything I would have predicted. Why is it happening-- particularly among some on the right who have shown for years a shameless inability to admit error or change directions? It is one of those events that show us that our idea of what's possible is likely way too constricted.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015
When Disgraceful Political Conduct Becomes Acceptable In this op/ed piece running in the newspapers in my conservative area of Virginia, I argue that an important part of the dysfunctionality in our political system is that politically disgraceful conduct is nowadays often rewarded. The Republicans' refusal(e.g. in Virginia)to expand Medicaid is a case in point. That rejection has no justification, but is motivated solely by the insistence on turning our politics into war.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015When Disgraceful Political Conduct Becomes Acceptable In this op/ed piece running in the newspapers in my conservative area of Virginia, I argue that an important part of the dysfunctionality in our political system is that politically disgraceful conduct is nowadays often rewarded. The Republicans' refusal(e.g. in Virginia)to expand Medicaid is a case in point. That rejection has no justification, but is motivated solely by the insistence on turning our politics into war.
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Thursday, June 4, 2015
Bernie's Movement, Hillary's Challenge The strong turnout for Bernie Sanders campaign events suggests a popular movement may be gathering behind his campaign. This will pose a challenge to Hillary Clinton, even if she secures the nomination: will she persuade those in Bernie's "movement" that she is more part of the solution than of the problem? It's a problem akin to that faced by Hubert Humphrey in 1968. That one ended badly-- for Humphrey and the nation.
Thursday, June 4, 2015Bernie's Movement, Hillary's Challenge The strong turnout for Bernie Sanders campaign events suggests a popular movement may be gathering behind his campaign. This will pose a challenge to Hillary Clinton, even if she secures the nomination: will she persuade those in Bernie's "movement" that she is more part of the solution than of the problem? It's a problem akin to that faced by Hubert Humphrey in 1968. That one ended badly-- for Humphrey and the nation.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015
The GOP's "Religious Freedom" Fiasco: What Is, and Is Not, the Good News It's great that the pandering to the bigots backfired. But the role of Big Money in bringing about this welcome spectacle reminds us about where the real threat to America's future lies. The GOP distracts its base with these culture war issues, but we should not let ourselves also be distracted from the main battle.
Thursday, April 2, 2015The GOP's "Religious Freedom" Fiasco: What Is, and Is Not, the Good News It's great that the pandering to the bigots backfired. But the role of Big Money in bringing about this welcome spectacle reminds us about where the real threat to America's future lies. The GOP distracts its base with these culture war issues, but we should not let ourselves also be distracted from the main battle.
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Sunday, March 29, 2015
Big Money vs. The People: The Main Political Battle of Our Times Published as an op/ed in newspapers in my very red congressional district in Virginia, this piece argues that the major battle in America today is not over the issues many focus on -- abortion, immigration, gun rights, etc. -- but over whether the United States will be governed for and by the people, or whether Big Money will transform America into a different kind of society altogether.
Sunday, March 29, 2015Big Money vs. The People: The Main Political Battle of Our Times Published as an op/ed in newspapers in my very red congressional district in Virginia, this piece argues that the major battle in America today is not over the issues many focus on -- abortion, immigration, gun rights, etc. -- but over whether the United States will be governed for and by the people, or whether Big Money will transform America into a different kind of society altogether.
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Thursday, March 19, 2015
Taking on the Man Who Would Be Virginia's Scott Walker From the way the Koch Brothers have invested in this politician, one can reasonably infer what he would do with the power he's expected to seek two years from now. Hence a larger possible significance of the decision of my wife, who has never before run for political office, to challenge him in his race for the state Senate-- challenge him on the basis of his being a tool of the plutocracy, helping steal power from the people.
Thursday, March 19, 2015Taking on the Man Who Would Be Virginia's Scott Walker From the way the Koch Brothers have invested in this politician, one can reasonably infer what he would do with the power he's expected to seek two years from now. Hence a larger possible significance of the decision of my wife, who has never before run for political office, to challenge him in his race for the state Senate-- challenge him on the basis of his being a tool of the plutocracy, helping steal power from the people.
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Saturday, March 14, 2015
Thou Art the Man: A Message to the Republican Base I don't know which is more troubling: to have a political party that has gone rogue, that respects neither the will of the people nor the norms of American politics; or to have the base of a supposedly conservative party rewarding conduct from its leaders that would formerly have been regarded as disgraceful and destructive of our democracy and its traditions.
Saturday, March 14, 2015Thou Art the Man: A Message to the Republican Base I don't know which is more troubling: to have a political party that has gone rogue, that respects neither the will of the people nor the norms of American politics; or to have the base of a supposedly conservative party rewarding conduct from its leaders that would formerly have been regarded as disgraceful and destructive of our democracy and its traditions.
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Sunday, March 8, 2015
Antonin Scalia, No Judge He Supreme Court Justice Scalia wrote a whole book on how the meaning of a statute should be construed. Following his stated principles, Scalia should unhesitatingly reject this latest challenge to Obamacare, argued last week before the Court. Instead, according to observers, he seems determined to ignore principle to get a victory for his side. If or when he does that, he will show once again: he's a political hack in robes.
Sunday, March 8, 2015Antonin Scalia, No Judge He Supreme Court Justice Scalia wrote a whole book on how the meaning of a statute should be construed. Following his stated principles, Scalia should unhesitatingly reject this latest challenge to Obamacare, argued last week before the Court. Instead, according to observers, he seems determined to ignore principle to get a victory for his side. If or when he does that, he will show once again: he's a political hack in robes.
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