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Tag Archives: Trump
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
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
Posted in Politics, Sociocultural
Tagged 2020, Biden, congress, COVID-19, Democrat, election, fraud, insurrection, Republican, Trump
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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
Posted in Politics, Sociocultural
Tagged cabinet, consistency, Custom, government, president, protocol, Trump
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Census-ship
As I write this, the media is proclaiming that President Trump has backtracked on his various plans to include a specific question on the official 2020 census form. The item the Trump administration wanted would ask respondents if they were … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Sociocultural
Tagged census, citizenship, media, president, rights, Supreme Court, Trump, voting
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Impeach Now?
We are currently half-way through the first four-year term of President Trump. Almost from the beginning there have been calls for impeachment, and the polls show that some 40 percent of our citizens support this extreme measure. This is, of … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Clinton, congress, Democrat, impeachment, investigation, Mueller, Nixon, president, Republican, Trump
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Supreme Kavanaugh
The nomination and confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as the fifth radical conservative justice on the Supreme Court of the United States is now concluded. Our highest court is now firmly in the hands of the oligarchy. Yes, that’s what … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged #MeToo, abortion, committee, conservative, corporate, Democrat, GOP, judiciary, Kavanaugh, oligarchy, Republican, Senate, sexual harassment, Supreme Court, Trump
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NATO Defense
The first half of 2018 has demonstrated, clearly, two lessons that we should already have known and recognized about government in the United States; well, anywhere, really. The second of these I will get to later. I will begin, first, … Continue reading
Fear and Hoping
In last month’s post (on this same topic) I noted that many of the emotions of envy and fear and hatred displayed by modern conservatives are common human reactions to situations which seem unfair. I noted that I had experienced … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Sociocultural
Tagged bigotry, conservative, conspiracy, fear, Gilded Age, hate, history, inequality, influence, oligarchy, Republican, solutions, Trump, wealth
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