Tag: Diversity

• Treason Kabuki (For Idiots)

  Politics and theater go together like peanut butter and jelly… like hopes and dreams… like a slap in the face and the sharp pain that goes with it. For five plus years now, America has been treated to a remarkable performance by the Republican Party. They are actively attempting to stop America from ever becoming […]

  A L Katz

  March 25, 2022

  American Exceptionalism, American News Media, Corruption, Culture, Cyber War, Election 2016, False Patriotism, Republicanism, Russia, The Nature of Evil, Treason, Trump

  All Men Are Created Equal, American Exceptionalism, Authoritarian, Bad Actors, Diversity, E Pluribus Unum, Kabuki, peanut better and jelly, Permanent Minority Rule, Putin pays Rohrbacher and Trump, Secret Sauce

• White Supremacy Is The Thing Conservatives Really Want To Conserve

  I take conservatives at their word. Well, at their name: conservatives want to conserve. Fair enough. The obvious question is “what”. WHAT do conservatives want to conserve? Just to narrow it down – we know it can’t be the future, it doesn’t exist yet. There’s nothing to conserve. That limits conservable things to the present […]

  A L Katz

  February 21, 2022

  Branding, Corruption, Cyber War, Election 2020, Music & Culture, Republicanism, Rule of Law, The Nature of Evil, Treason, Trump

  All Men Are Created Equal, Conservatism, Conservatives, Culture War, Cynicism, Diversity, Kabuki, Newt Gingrich, Originalism, Ronald Reagan, White Supremacy

• Republicans And Mediocrity: It’s A Love Thing

  The words “greatness” and “Republicans” only go together so long as one is being sarcastic. If the GOP had in word and deed remained “The Party of Lincoln”, it would have been entirely impossible for them to ever have become the Party Of Trump. The Republicans are not now the Republican Party that Lincoln joined […]

  A L Katz

  December 15, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, American News Media, Corruption, Election 2020, False Patriotism, Racism, Republicanism, Treason

  American Exceptionalism, Corruption, Democracy, Diversity, Greed, Heather Cox Richardson, Marketplace Of Ideas, Mitch McConnell, Party of Lincoln, Power Sharing, QWERTY, Republicans

• Some Americans (White Ones) Think They’re The “Most Equal” Americans Of All

  The white, Christian, land-owning authors of America’s Constitution set us up for failure the moment they penned “All men are created equal” without actually meaning “all men”. They screwed the pooch just as badly (if not worse) by meaning JUST men. So, the fix was in from the start. America was doomed because while aspiring […]

  A L Katz

  December 6, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, Corruption, Culture, Election 2020, False Patriotism, Freedom, Republicanism, Slavery, Trump

  All Men Are Created Equal, American Constitution, American Exceptionalism, Antonin Scalia, Bill Of Rights, Conservatism, Democracy, Diversity, E Pluribus Unum, Originalism, Slavery, Stolen Labor

• “Originalism” is Racism In A Judicial Robe

  I almost admire the conservative ability to wardrobe utter bullcrap as serious legal argument — and get away with it. “Originalism” is one hundred percent pure, unadulterated bullcrap. The tell? It holds this truth to be “self evident” — that “all men are created equal”. Except the white, Christian, land-owning men who wrote and stood […]

  A L Katz

  November 19, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, Corruption, Culture, Racism, Republicanism, SCOTUS, Slavery, Treason, Trump

  All Men Are Created Equal, Antonin Scalia, Bible and Slavery, Civil War, Diversity, E Pluribus Unum, Miscegeny, Originalism, Paul Brest, Republican agenda, Slavery

• There Absolutely Is A “Culture War” Aflame In America — White Culture Versus Everyone Else

  Both sides don’t have a “Newt Gingrich” on their bench (or in their past). Only the Republicans do. Remember Newtie (“The Man Who Broke [American] Politics”? Back when Bill Clinton was POTUS, Newt served as 50th Speaker of the House of Representatives and drove the “Impeach Bill Clinton Cos A Blow Job” train as hard […]

  A L Katz

  November 4, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, American News Media, Corruption, Culture, Election 2016, Racism, Republicanism, The Nature of Evil, Trump

  Bill Clinton, Cannabis prohibition, Conservatism, Culture War, Diversity, E Pluribus Unum, Fascism, Harry Anslinger, Kevin McCarthy, Newt Gingrich, Progressives, Putin pays Rohrbacher and Trump

• Conservatism Can’t Think “Outside The Box” Because Conservatism IS “The Box”

  For all of conservatism’s many negatives, “truth in advertising” isn’t one of them. To its credit, conservatism will tell you right up front what it’s all about and what it wants our collective future to be: our past It’s right there in conservatism’s name — conservatives want to CONSERVE. Fair enough. Conserving the environment is […]

  A L Katz

  August 28, 2021

  Afghanistan, Corruption, Election 2016, Election 2020, Racism, Republicanism, Treason, Trump

  All Men Are Created Equal, Conservatism, Diversity, E Pluribus Unum, Electoral College, Hegemony, Innovation, Level Playing Field, New And Improved, Originalism, Racism, White America

• Who In Their Right Mind Would Vote Republican When Voting Republican Gets You Killed?

  Politics in America make little sense because too much of our “common wisdom” thinks everyone does everything for entirely political reasons completely divorced from any desire to actually govern. That “common wisdom” is deeply cynical and deeply conservative — as all “common wisdom” is, coming, as it does, from either long held knowledge or just […]

  A L Katz

  August 27, 2021

  American News Media, Branding, Coronavirus, Corruption, Culture, Cyber War, Election 2016, Election 2020, Racism, Republicanism, Treason, Trump

  American Exceptionalism, American Politics, Both Sides Do It, Common Wisdom, Coronavirus, Cynicism, Diversity, E Pluribus Unum, Founding Fathers, News Media, Originalism, Steve Bannon

• America’s Exceptionalism — Its DIVERSITY — Will Save Us From The GOP’s Authoritarian Power Grab

  In his indispensable book “On Tyranny”, Timothy Snyder lays out the fairly predictable tick tock that democracies experience while succumbing to authoritarianism. It’s impossible not to see us well into that experience. Someone claiming to tweet for German film maker Werner Herzog put it this way (Herzog doesn’t do social media: the tweet itself is […]

  A L Katz

  August 24, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, Culture, Election 2016, Election 2020, False Patriotism, Freedom, Racism, Republicanism, Slavery, Treason

  American Exceptionalism, Authoritarianism, Confederacy, Diversity, E Pluribus Unum, Hitler, Kochs and Mercers, On Tyranny, Permanent Minority Rule, Southern Strategy, Timothy Snyder, Werner Herzog

• Our Right To Vote Is A National Security Issue

  Winston Churchill put it this way: “democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried.” It’s damned hard to pull off. Mind you, Churchill spoke those words about democracy sucking immediately after he LOST AN ELECTION. That’s the hard part about democracy — the peaceful transfer of […]

  A L Katz

  August 16, 2021

  Corruption, Cyber War, Election 2016, Election 2020, Republicanism, Rule of Law, Treason, Trump

  Cyber War, Diversity, Donald Trump, Gerrymandering, No Taxation Without Representation, Permanent Minority Rule, Right To Vote, Trump-Russia, Voter Suppression