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Category Archives: American Politics
National Sales Tax? Let’s Have the Plutocratic Sales Tax
We have a severe problem of economic inequality, both here in America and also across the globe as a whole. There is a very small class of plutocrats, extremely wealthy individuals, and the decision-makers in the largest corporations, who have … Continue reading
We Weren’t Dealing Well with Climate Emergency, Now Ukraine Emergency Makes It Worse
(Original post, dealing with climate emergency, was greatly revised to cover Ukraine invasion and re-published Feb. 28, 2022.) The climate emergency has the potential to destroy all our comforts and conveniences, and possibly our lives – and we aren’t dealing … Continue reading
Any Bravery Left, in our Sick New World? Updated June 2021
Let’s start with some context. The Great Depression of the 1930’s was a worldwide event, the economic effects reached at least 90% of the world’s population in significant ways. World War II, that followed (with the two events developing over … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, corona virus, current world history, History, Uncategorized
Tagged corona virus, economic history, Economics, History, pandemic, politics, world history
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Trump: The Suicide of Civilization?
The election of Donald J. Trump to the American Presidency in 2016 represents a stunning victory of ignorance over intelligence, a triumph of fraudulent salesmanship over honest customer service. To the extent that Trump succeeds in boosting irreversible climate change … Continue reading
No, Public Managers Shouldn’t Get Business Manager Salaries
Author’s note: This article is a result of my recent foray into local activism, investigating the situation of my dysfunctional local agency that provides water to myself and thousands of my neighbors. The results of that investigation are a bit … Continue reading
Why Opinion Polls Aren’t As Scientific As Claimed
There is a fundamental misrepresentation, a basic exaggeration, being perpetrated by companies doing telephone opinion polling, which makes their claims of “accuracy” false …the whole problem is they just can’t get a truly random sample by telephone. Continue reading
The Power of Voting Against
Is this a summer of discontents? It certainly seems less than satisfactory to me, mainly because of what management is doing to me in my first job situation, yet also for a certain lack of vigor, of spirit, in the … Continue reading
Posted in 2010 Elections, American Politics, Democrats, Greens, Republicans
Tagged Democratic Party, elections, Green Party, November 2010, Republican Party, voting
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Doubly Damned: Nepotist and Libertarian
Rand Paul represents two themes I don’t like in American politics, Libertarianism and nepotism. Includes a simple reform to effectively help prevent nepotism in American politics. Continue reading
Posted in -KY, 2010 Elections, American Politics, Libertarian
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Will the Republicans Ever Stop Lying?
There was a time when leading Republicans told something like the truth. While there have been moments approaching clarity from individuals, in general the Republican party machine’s message has not followed this path since somewhere around Goldwater in ’64 or … Continue reading