The chances are good that if your extended family got together for Thanksgiving dinner this year, there was a bitter political discussion. For Americans, according to Pew Research, values and beliefs are more polarized along partisan lines than at any point in the past 25 years, perhaps extended even…
Reactionaries are extremely conservative, especially opposed to social change, wanting to keep or return to past cultural values. Definitions always seem cut and dried, not allowing for nuance, but this definition perhaps lets us understand what is driven by the Grand Old Tea Party (GOTP, formerly less aptly called…
Americans, don’t misguide your anger about the shutdown and the near default, which permanently lost us some $24 billion in economic output, according to Standard and Poor (S&P). Apply reason to the issue so that you can correct the menacing forces that cause all our problems – there can…
The Navy Yard shooting rampage highlights the ravages of a gun culture, but soon we’ll need to look at the potential carnage caused by the budget fight and its hostage-taking. Republicans, with Ted Cruz standing at the forefront, are – in effect – figuratively holding a gun to Obama’s…
Are politicians like Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Michelle Bachmann, Paul Ryan, and Marco Rubio populist Tea Party vintage or just tools of the very rich? Is the obstruction caused by Tea Party representatives in Congress really grass-roots, or is it runaway ideologues playing for attention and uncontrolled by their…
Once upon a time in our America, an election was lost, but the power and voice of the people were heard. It was the majority of the people. The system worked, just as the founding fathers had intended. This angers a faction of the populace, the same populace that…
The plutocratic elite put a great deal of money, planning, and pressure on the endeavor to capture all elements of power: Wall Street, the media, the courts, and Congress, including all elements of the American culture.
“God dammed Obama.” He muttered as the pump continued to click off and on. “Son of a Bitch gas went up again, those bastard Muslim friends of his get richer!”
By: David Winston About six months ago, it became increasingly clear who would win the bid for the Republican nomination in the 2012 presidential elections: Mitt Romney. While many of the other contenders have surged in the polls intermittently, Michele Bachmann earlier this year, then Rick Perry, then Herman…
Click the pic to enlarge ---> Are you tired of all the empty rhetoric surrounding OWS and the Tea Party? Tired of people with loud mouths and no demonstrable intelligence barking off strings of facts, statistics, or opinions from philosophers and other social thinkers that either make no sense,…