Tag: Conventional wisdom

• Things Both Sides DON’T Do

  Some day, when Donald Trump is behind us and the Republican Party lies beside the Whigs in the American History Cemetery, we’ll have to turn our gaze on the news media. The press utterly failed us at the moment we most needed them to fulfill their Constitutionally mandated role as the last check on power.…

  A L Katz

  July 6, 2023

  American News Media, Branding, Corruption, Culture, False Patriotism, The Nature of Evil, Trump

  Both Sides Do It, Conservatives, Conventional wisdom, Gerrymandering, Horse Races, Progressives, Race Tracks, Retail Politics, Voter Suppression, Whigs

• Skin In The Game

  Simple fact of Life: games change when you have skin in them. A person will treat the home in which they live better if they own it versus if they rent it. Skin in the game. Elections are when Americans most have skin in the game. That’s the whole point of democracy – recognizing that…

  A L Katz

  November 5, 2022

  American News Media, Culture, Election 2022, New Ways of Thinking

  Civics, Conventional wisdom, Election 2022, Polling, Propaganda, Skin game, Skin in the game, swing voters, Violent crime, White suburban women, Young voters