It appears possible that Trumpism is waning here in the U.S. and progressive forces are beginning to take hold. A sign of this is the return of organized labor, perhaps to a point of strength that existed in the mid-20th …
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What We Won’t Miss When Trumpism Is Gone
Most Americans simply wish their country could return to where is was only one short decade ago. At that point, it would have been unthinkable for a U.S. representative with no training in science to address the director of the …
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Why Conservatives Resent Progress
What RFK said here is true, but I think it might be useful to ask why certain people want to prevent our society from moving forward. I would suggest that this is the notion of fear. If you look at …
Society’s Loss of Its Capacity to Think
What mid-20th Century screenwriter/TV producer Rod Serling, famed for “The Twilight Zone,” said 50 years ago seems to have come true. There really is no other explanation for Trumpism, a set of beliefs so lowly and base that it’s really …
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Political Strategist James Carville on the 2024 Election
Not to split hairs, but the 2024 election is not an opportunity to end Trumpism for good, if by the term you mean the hate and ignorance of the many tens of millions of MAGA Americans who carry this terrible …
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No Children?
Throughout the millennia, couples have been opting not to have children, and for many, the reason has been reluctance to bring boys and girls into a hostile and cruel world. IMO, this way of thinking has been heightened by climate …
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What Can Trigger America’s Renaissance?
From the 1989 film “Field of Dreams”: The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball …
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Trumpism and Its Antidote
I’m afraid I have bad news: No donations are going to change the belief systems of tens of millions of hateful idiots. Having said that, we are capable of electing people who believe in democracy and rule of law, and …
Returning to Normalcy after Trump
Maybe it’s too early to start thinking about reestablishing a society of respect for human decency after we get past our bout with Trumpism. As suggested in the photo here, it would be foolish to think that the journey will …
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Trumpism Is Going to Be Hard to Undo
A reader mentioned recently that we can’t expect Trump’s removal to change much in American society, at least anytime soon. He reasoned that Trump granted us permission to act like ass****s to one another, and there is no mechanism by …
