Tag: Gerrymandering
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Chicken Little, Journalist
I sure hope this isn’t a revelation: American journalism continues to fail America. I’m a news junkie. Cable news is always on in my office. But I don’t obsess so much on the news itself as our news media’s consistent inability to report it. And that’s even as it happens right in front of us! […]
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America’s Having An Ideological Argument, NOT A Political One
The GOP’s hate for democracy stands on one tectonic plate. Our love for it stands on another. America’s differences are ideological not political.
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Dear Democracy: The GOP Just Ain’t That “In To” You
It sucks having to be the one to break the bad news. Democracy is so good-hearted. It wants the best for the most people. To make that happen, democracy wants everyone to have a voice (one person, one vote!) and if the majority of us want to be governed a certain way, then by voting […]
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In Their Defense, Corruption Just Comes “Naturally” To Conservatives
Where corruption’s concerned, both sides don’t do it because both sides can’t. They don’t have the means. Put aside political labels for a second. Ideology may inspire corruption but without the money and power to realize those inspirations, ideology is a nice car without an engine. Those with money and power have the tools required […]
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Maybe There SHOULD Be A Red America And A Blue America
Apparently the Civil War solved nothing. That’s what happens when the side that loses the war ends up winning the peace that follows. Usually, it’s the winners who get to write a war’s history. In America’s case, the Civil War’s losers managed a very neat trick. They turned a war about slavery into a war […]
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The Truth Is Elections DON’T Matter – Not To Republicans
Ever notice how the news media loves to taunt Democrats? They don’t taunt Republicans the same way because Republicans won’t be taunted by people – the news media – they dismiss. Republicans are fact averse because facts don’t support most of what they want the way their feelings do. The Trumpification of the GOP didn’t […]
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Everyone Has Their Point Of View But Not Every Point Of View “Has A Point”
Does a raging, racist a-hole have a point? We know they have a point of view; they’re happy as hell braying it. But do these guys have a point to make? Do they? Is their racist, ignorant point really one we should take seriously? Consider the professional criminal. He knows what he’s doing is completely […]
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Why Are Republicans So Skilled At “Bullsh*t Kabuki”?
Last night, GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy treated America to a (literally) record-breaking performance. He stood in the House of Representatives — in theory to spew a few dishonest words about the BBB before the House voted on it — and then, like men do in a room, he hijacked it. Kevin spoke for eight plus […]