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Arlen is a writer/blogger living in Monterey, CA. His political blog is thebigpicturereport.com. He also wrote a quotation quiz "What's Your QQ?" at the Monterey Herald for 9 years. see quotationquotient.com.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 12, 2024 The Night Joe Biden Woke Up
As his poll numbers stagnated and it became conceivable Donald Trump could return to power, Joe Biden needed to shake things up. His best opportunity to do so came up: his final State of the Union Address. Biden seemed to come alive and surprised most observers. But will his newfound energy be enough to make a difference? We only have until November to find out .
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 29, 2024 Merrick Garland Must Go
Merrick Garland was a poor choice to become Attorney General. He has dragged his feet on holding Donald Trump accountable for his multiple crimes, to the point that Trump can use his stalling techniques to avoid charges before the November election. And Garland's choice of Robert Hur to investigate Biden's mishandling of official documents turned out badly. Biden nominated Garland and needs to correct that mistake.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 1, 2024 Will Trump's Senility Save Us?
Conventional wisdom tells us President Biden will be facing the inevitable GOP nominee Donald Trump. But there are obvious signs that the ex-president is losing what's left of his mind, and that, combined with his endless legal problems, may take him down before we get to November.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 2, 2023 Trump Will Not be President--It Will be His Choice
There is only one logical way for Donald Trump to avoid what terrorizes him most, going to prison. Merrick Garland is probably uncomfortable with sending an ex-president to jail. The solution: a plea deal in which Trump will avoid prison, but it will have to be at the cost of agreeing not to run for president. It will be in the best interests of the country.
(8 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 3, 2023 Why American Elections Are a Sham
Our elections are far from fair and democratic. We rely on the electoral college to pick our presidents. More than once candidates with less popular votes became president. Besides that, the Supreme Court says that money equals speech, so that the wealthy in America have much more control over who gets elected than ordinary Americans.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 22, 2023 No Truth, No Facts, No Reality = No Democracy
With the rise of the Trump MAGA cult, democracy (or at least the version of it we have here) is in real danger. The appetite for a fascist-style authoritarian government is stronger than ever. Those of us who fear a MAGA power-grab need to step up to save our flawed democracy. If we don't, the results would be devastating.
(21 comments) SHARE Friday, April 14, 2023 Why Donald Trump Is Responsible For the Tennessee Travesty
Donald Trump has poisoned the political atmosphere so much that we can expect more incidents like the one in the Tennessee state House of Representatives. So much hatred and bitterness everywhere that politics is dysfunctional all across this nation.
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 27, 2022 Brace Yourself--Fascism Is Coming to America
With the midterm election just days away, it is entirely conceivable Republicans will be in control of one or both houses of Congress.
As the party gets more extreme, we can see them embracing the principles of fascism. We are close to finding out what American fascism looks like. It won't be pretty.
(65 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 1, 2022 America's Choice: Semi-Democracy or Fascism
Our election choices in this country are narrow. You will either get the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. The parties have set it up in this way to make our choices limited.
This time around the stakes are especially high, because the Republican Party seems to prefer fascism over democracy, Should the GOP regain power, Democrats may not get another chance to counter the right-wing MAGA takeover.
(8 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 27, 2022 The Trump Empire's Final Days
Why did Donald Trump fight so hard to overturn the 2016 election? Most likely because he realized that if he were the sitting president he would be immune to criminal charges. Not so if he was out of office.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 23, 2022 How Putin--and Trump--Ruined America
The efforts of Russian President Vladimir Putin to help assist Donald Trump become president paid big dividends. America has turned into a mean, intolerant, and bitter nation, split apart into two widely divergent political and cultural factions. Putin must be happy to see the results of his interference.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, May 20, 2022 The Last Days of American Democracy?
Democracy, as we know it in America, is in great danger. The Republican Party is nuts but they are surging. If they win back Congress in November, democracy will be in danger. They seem poised to win and Democrats appear hopeless. The Supreme Court draft resolution on abortion rights gives Democrats something to run on and energize their passive voters. Can they take advantage of this great opportunity?
(18 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 22, 2021 Fox News: A Whole Different Reality
Is Fox News a real news network? Most of us know it isn't. Rather, it is the public relations arm and propaganda machine for the Republican Party and Donald J. Trump. They have no concern for truth, facts and reality.
(60 comments) SHARE Friday, November 26, 2021 Putin Won. We Lost.
President Putin of Russia worked to get what he wanted. He helped get a compliant U.S. president installed, an American government divided and dysfunctional, with total political chaos. Russia should be happy with the result. American democracy, however, appears to be in serious danger.
(19 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 21, 2021 "It's the Media, Stupid!"
The gaping political divide in this country can be blamed mostly on the rise and popularity of right-wing fake media. Because of it, our democracy is endangered..
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 11, 2021 9/11: The Senseless Way We Handled It
Let's not dwell too much on 9/11. In so many ways it ruined our country, especially the way we handled it afterwards.
(10 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 19, 2020 The Eve of Destruction--Coming Soon?
The survival of life on our planet is in question, and it could be sooner than we are willing to acknowledge. It feels as if humankind doesn't take seriously the peril the Earth faces. The biggest existential threats to life on this planet can be boiled down to two: weapons of mass destructive and world climate change. Either one can destroy life on Earth.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 25, 2019 Democrat Party vs. Republic Party
Republicans taunt Democrats by using the name of the party as an adjective, i.e. Democrat Party. It's time for the party to fight back.
(10 comments) SHARE Friday, October 4, 2019 Capitalism Works Great--Except When It Doesn't
Here's a challenge: name an important problem in America today that is not caused or exasperated by capitalistic greed. It has ruined what is left of our democracy. A massive restructure of our economic system is desperately needed.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Is This How Fascism Begins?
Does America have some of the same conditions that spawned fascism in the 1930s? There are similarities, enough to make us worry.