The meme here happens to come from a Trump supporter, its author implying that all those who oppose him are blind to the obvious truth: their man is an honest and effective servant of the people, who was ousted through …
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Is Trump wanna-be Glenn Youngkin seriously a live candidate in the Virginia gubernatorial race? I doubt it. Sure, like every state, Virginia has its rural regions and the yokels, most of whom support Trump, who inhabit them. But the state’s …
Urging people to get involved in politics has been around for a very long time. As Plato put it: One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. I’m …
There must be dozens of online references to people’s claiming that their studies have qualified them to have an opinion on a subject that differs from those of trained experts in the field. It’s sickening to hear a Trump supporter …
This isn’t the only joke we encounter about the mental state of the undecided voter in the coming U.S. presidential election. From American humorist David Sedaris:
Prejudice. Judging before the fact. A preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. I find myself doing that nowadays, and it doesn’t make me proud of myself. The photo here depicts a woman at a political …
I have to give this guy credit; he’s the total package, with the gun, the beard, the paint peeling from the porch railing, and the Confederate flag. He actually would have won a prize even without the pig, but the …
Most people are good, and do the right thing whenever possible. The kind people of Iowa voted out nine-term Republican racist-from-hell Steve King in the GOP primary. Yes, this good news is tempered by the fact that a) he lost …
This speaks to a bitter irony: the average Trump supporter would be far better served with Bernie Sanders’ platform than that of their fearless leader.
It’s said that “good laws need good science.” Thus the cause for alarm that the “Trump administration is breaking with 75 years of precedent by attempting to interfere in how science is practiced by the U.S. government, according to three …
