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Category Archives: Politics
Homeland Coup
In the United States we often comment unfavorably on the failures of democratic rule in other countries, the various insurrections and coups and corrupt elections, or the simple failures to transfer power from a losing administration to the winners of … Continue reading
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Tagged Biden, congress, coup, democracy, government, insurrection, January 6, military, president, riot, Trump, vote
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The Lost War
It is September of 2021 and the United States has completed a final withdrawal from Afghanistan after spending almost twenty years attempting to create a new Afghani national government. The conflict had cost the lives of more than 3,500 soldiers … Continue reading
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Tagged 9-11, 9/11, Afghanistan, foreign policy, Kabul, military, Taliban, Vietnam, war, War on terror, withdraw
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Just Say No?
As I write this the United States is in what appears to be the beginning of the third major surge of the Covid-19 pandemic, or maybe the fourth or fifth depending on how you define such things, with the number … Continue reading
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Tagged Coronavirus, Covid, flu, individual, mask, pandemic, society, vaccine
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Diversity War
Recent Facebook meme: “America – My Ancestors Didn’t Travel 4,000 Miles for the Place to Be Overrun by Immigrants” It is a continual and stupefying realization to me that a large percentage of self-professed “patriots” in the United States oppose … Continue reading
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Tagged American, Black, Chinese, code talkers, constitution, diversity, English, German, immigration, Italian, Japanese, Jewish, minorities, multicultural, multilingual, religion, war, World War II
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Freedom Two
Discussions about freedom in the 21st century tends to be about individual liberty, the type of freedom enshrined in the Bill of Rights to the Constitution. People have the right to speak freely, to protest, to openly practice their religion, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill of Rights, collectivism, constitution, democracy, freedom, government, individualism, pandemic, progress, revolution
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What infrastructure?
Infrastructure works to normalize behavior, to the point that certain things become relatively invisible and unnoticed. – Christy Pottroff, assistant professor at Boston College. Dollars & Sense, March/April 2021 The American Society of Civic Engineers repeatedly awards our overall national … Continue reading
Insurrelection Solved
In my previous month’s offering I stated that the United States, in the 2020 presidential election, dodged a bullet. That is to say, somewhat less briefly, that we avoided an attempted insurrection, one that was based on little more than … Continue reading
Insurrelection
After two months of uncertainty the 2020 election cycle has finally been completed. As usual, it has provided us with significant information about our electorate and the issues that motivate them. And as usual, the analyses provided by our political … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Biden, congress, COVID-19, Democrat, election, fraud, insurrection, Republican, Trump
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By Any Other Name
Some political labels are, at best, chameleons. It’s not their fault. They are complex constructs that inspire different responses in the minds of different people, involving innumerable stories that persist over decades. Their adaptive coloring matches the conceptual background provided … Continue reading
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Tagged Democrat, election, labels, Liberal, politics, popuist, Republican, socialist
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Customary Collapse
As I began writing this, in late September, 2020, I have just finished viewing the installation of the casket of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the statuary hall in the United States Capitol building. There were distinctive featuresin this ceremony; for … Continue reading
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Tagged cabinet, consistency, Custom, government, president, protocol, Trump
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