Tag: Progressive Values
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Things Both Sides Don’t Do
The fundamental flaw of “both sides do it” journalism is that it’s inherently untrue. Democrats and Republicans both seek public office and both want to run he country “their way”, but aside from that? The two sides — conservative and progressive (let’s stick a pin in “Democrat” & “Republican”) — have almost nothing in common.…
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Conservatives vs Progressives Can Be Summed Up As “Me vs We”
Trumpism is conservatism on steroids (plus copious amounts of snorted powdered Adderall). If one had to sum up Trumpism in one word, it’d be “me”. “Me” is the one country Donald Trump has fealty toward. Well, “Me” and Vlad Putin. But that’s not ideological fealty. Trump isn’t loyal to Putin because he believes in “Putinism”.…
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Since “Republican” Now Equals “Trump”, Non-Trumpist Republicans Need To Re-Brand; I’m Here To Help
As much as they suck at governing, Republicans excel at marketing. Remember “Mission Accomplished”? The only thing “accomplished” was hanging that banner. While Americans vote with their hopes and dreams, Republicans only ever deliver smoke and mirrors. Missions UNaccomplished. Skies NOT blue. Plenty of children left behind. The words promise plenty. Too bad they’re all…
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There Simply Is No Conservative Way Out Of This Mess; Conservatism Put Us Here
How do pandemics happen? After the pathogen gets revved up — and finds its entree into human hosts — the next important event is denial. China denied it had a problem. That made their problem exponentially larger — and then made their problem EVERYONE’S problem. Coronavirus became OUR problem because we’re humans sharing the planet…
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By Their Very Nature, RW-ers Are Closed-Minded & Progressives Are Open-Minded
“Both Sides Do It” thinking (and journalism) would want us to believe that that headline is biased and wrong because both sides are equally closed-minded and open-minded. The fact is both sides are different not just because they want to be different but because they actually think differently. There’s even science to back that up…
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Ask A Conservative — “What Exactly Do You Want To CONSERVE?” — Bet You Won’t Like Their Answer
I know what Progressives want — it’s right in their name: progress. Progressives want to progress — into the future since you can’t progress into the present and you can’t progress into the past. THAT’S called “regress”. It’s also called “conservatism”. Just as the Progressive Ideal is there in our name, so too is the…
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Don’t Blame Conservatives For Being Troglodytes – Fear Of The New Is Hard-Wired Into Them
It’s not a mystery what any self-proclaimed “conservative” wants. As their name says, they want to “conserve”. The question – what do they want to conserve? You can take “the future” right off the table. You can’t conserve what doesn’t exist. Not only do Conservatives not want to “conserve” the future, they’d like to avoid…
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Every Day, I Feel More & More Hopeful; Here’s Why…
I’ll own it straight up: between a mood stabilizer & copious amounts of THC (we’re talking “COPIOUS”), I walk around most days in a state of perpetual bliss. But I do not, for two seconds, ever forget that I live in a shithole of a world. I live in the most fucked up times imaginable.…
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Does Anything Epitomize Conservative Thinking Better Than ‘A WALL’?
We stand on a precipice — one of many precipices we seem to end up standing on here in The Age Of Trump — being held hostage by Donald Trump’s campaign slogan ‘Build The Wall’. It’s absurd on it’s face. If you tried to WRITE this — as a script or a novel — you’d…