The statement at left has a certain surface-level appeal, but it’s inaccurate. What’s true: The United States was started by rich white male landowners, and its original laws were put into place to maintain the dominance of the wealthy Europeans. …
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The Truth about the American “System”
Tagged with: Brown vs. Board of Ed., neoliberalism that blossomed under Reagan, organized labor, post-WW2 booming affluence of the middle class, super-rich forged a way to use their wealth to take control of our lawmaking processes, the abolitionists of the mid-19th Century, the anarchists of the early 20th Century, the Civil Rights Act, the United States began its path toward oligarchy, the women's suffragists
Are Our Schools Keeping Secrets from Parents?
I don’t know a single person stupid enough to believe that schools keep the curricula secret from parents. You’re more than welcome to walk into your kids’ school, meet their teachers and administrators, leaf through the textbooks, join the PTA, …
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One Year from Now in American Politics
What do you think is going to happen when, in a few months, consumer prices haven’t fallen? Answer: Fox News and the MAGA crowd will drop the topic like a hot rock, and pretend that Trump never promised to lower …
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Along with the Rest of America, Tech Moves to the Right
America’s political sensibilities are moving to the right, along with many other countries like Hungary, Turkey, Italy, Slovakia, Croatia and the Czech Republic, and that’s sad, but it’s a choice that the people of the United States are free to …
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Tagged with: America's political sensibilities are moving to the right, billionaires who couldn't care less about the well-being of the common American much less the environment, Donald Trump a convicted felon, Donald Trump an adjudicated sex abuser, Donald Trump an indicted traitor to his country, hateful morons, Marc Andreessen at the forefront of the tech industry since the dawn of the Internet 30 years ago, we're surrounded by a growing number of poorly educated racists
The Depths of Our Disgrace
What we need to learn from the content of the meme here is that the majority of American voters simply don’t care that their leader is a convicted felon, and that he committed treason against our country. Many of us …
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The Democrats’ Position
Most decent people support this. But guess what? Overall, in the United States right now, it’s a minority position. At this point, we’re a nation dominated by greed and indifference to the well-being of others.
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Aristotle Was Prolific, But …
One thing we can observe about Aristotle’s writings from our modern standpoint is that we got a whole bunch of stuff wrong, and the quote at left is a good example. In fact, this specific quote was parodied by someone …
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Why Universal Healthcare Is Impossible in the United States
Private health insurance is a $1.7 trillion industry, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.08%. If you think the recipients of all this cash are going to step aside, just so Americans can enjoy the same benefits as …
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The United States Needs to be Honest with its Children
The position of many of today’s self-described “patriots” is offered at left. Apparently, the United States has reached a point at which we have to make a choice between: a) being honest about our history and the mistakes we’ve made, …
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A Word from Socrates on Justice
If you’re having trouble defining exactly what’s going wrong in the United States right now, you are to be forgiven. Yet, the words at left may be of service. We seem to be having just the tiniest bit of trouble …
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