Author: craigshields

There is a vast difference between the demographic of “working families” and the uber-wealthy, the two groups that re-elected Trump.  In particular: Working families tend to be poorly educated, a phenomenon that’s only getting worse with each passing year.   Too …

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If I were to show this to a science classroom of high school students who have B-or-better grades, the majority of them would understand instantly that this is just one example of the onslaught of misinformation that is circulating around …

Misinformation: Who Profits from Making the U.S. Dumber? Read More »

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If you take the damage Trump inflicted on our country (and the rest of the world) yesterday and multiply it by the number of days in four years, you get a startlingly large amount.  Yet it’s finite, and more to …

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There is no way of knowing the degree to which the meme here describes Trump’s true motivation for his despicable act, but there is no doubt that today there are millions of armed, hateful morons in this country who feel …

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Bernie Sanders delivers the truth about the real power structure in the United States, and adds, “We must fight back.”

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From her Wikipedia page: Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian. She is a professor of history at Boston College, where she teaches courses on the American Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, the American West, and the Plains Indians. She …

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I thought these people where the salt of the Earth.  True patriots who observed a day of pure love.  Are you saying that perhaps we’ve been misled?

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I would say it’s largely disinformation campaigns that focus on poorly educated Americans. You won’t find Europeans who believe that climate change is a hoax or that COVID-19 was planned and implemented by some government. In the same vein, you …

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From The New York Times: President Trump’s inaugural address was a misleading assessment of the U.S. It has a growing economy, falling inflation, slowing illegal immigration, a record-breaking stock market, the lowest levels of violent crime in years and a …

Trump to the Rescue Read More »

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“They’ll regret it every single day?”  What galaxy do you live in? MAGA voters are going to get 100% of what is most important to them.  Sure, the price of eggs and gasoline will not come down, but there will …

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