Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Monday, December 5, 2022

So the Former US President and Current GOP Candidate for the Presidency Calls for a Coup and the End of US Democracy — And?

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President Donald J. Trump 2 March 2019, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention...
Sunday, November 20, 2022

Salient Warnings Against Celebrating Results of Recent U.S. Elections Prematurely

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Gabriela Ruellan, Nine different shades of red to illustrate the look and scope of the color red, at Wikimedia Commons Two sobering assessme...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

In News: Win for Democracy; Role of Media; Kari Lake's Election Denialists; Abortion; Herschel Walker; Russian Genocide in Ukraine

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Tim Miller, " Democracy was on the ballot. And attempts to end it were met with universal scorn ," insists, pace  pundits who want...
Tuesday, November 8, 2022

As Election Day Arrives, Warnings, Predictions, Alarm Bells

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Alarm bell mechanism, from " Electric Burglar Alarm ,"  The Popular Science Monthly 18,1 (November 1880), p. 59   As Joyce Vance s...
Monday, November 7, 2022

When Many Citizens Embrace a Politics of Cruelty and Malice, the Future...

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Photo of wounded eagle uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by Gillfoto of Juneau, Alaska   Jamelle Bouie notes that the American system of democ...
Sunday, November 6, 2022

More on Pre-Election Dread: "There is a sizable movement in this country that seeks to literally vote out democracy"

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Greg Olear says a mouthful when he states,  This has been a week of profound unease. And as he notes, the primary source of our anxiety is,...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

"With Nationalists Topping the Polls in Two of Europe's Three Main Founding Nations, It's Hard to See How Any of This Is Worth Celebrating"

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The same politicians who claim they are for life fight living wages, want to cut food stamps & don’t want people to have health insur...
Monday, May 27, 2019

Why I Continue to Insist That It's About Racism, Misogyny, Xenophobia, and Homophobia: A Footnote to My Recent Response to Responses

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It's certainly true that every society or nation is different, and what applies to one won't necessarily apply to another. Bu...
Sunday, May 26, 2019

Why I Continue to Insist That It's About Racism, Misogyny, Xenophobia, and Homophobia: My Response to Your Responses

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Thank you all for your thoughtful and valuable responses to my reflections about the wave of manufactured rage (racist, misogynistic,...
Friday, May 24, 2019

The Wave of Manufactured Rage Sweeping Across Societies Now, and Silliness of the "Economic Alienation" Explanation: It's About Racism, Misogyny, Xenophobia, and Homophobia

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Shorn of any ideological hue, this is populism distilled into its purest form: a pared-back rage over an apparently corrupt political esta...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

"Good, Conservative People Who Reject Liberalism": White Southern Evangelical Attack on Social Contract & Why We Are Where We Are Now

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John Sharp, " Alabama just elected 'one of the most conservative governments we've ever had '":
Friday, October 5, 2018

The Sole — Crucial — Lesson the GOP Takes from Orwell: Boot Stamping on a Human Face — Forever

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The sole — crucial — lesson the GOP takes from Orwell: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human fac...
Thursday, August 10, 2017

Christopher Douglas and Kurt Anderson on How America Lost Its Mind (or How the Christian Right Broke America)

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Christian extremists took over @GOP and broke America with their #ChristianAltFacts . https://t.co/uD2dhuyI7K #YouDontKnowEvangelicals ...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Twitter on Mitch McConnell's Silencing of Elizabeth Warren and Coretta Scott King: "We Are Losing Our Democracy"

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I will not be silent about a nominee for AG who has made derogatory & racist comments that have no place in our justice system. — E...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

People United Will Never Be Divided: Huge Turnout As People March Everywhere Against Trump — Twitter Documentation As History Is Made

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It's OFFICIAL #WomensMarchOnWashington is biggest inaugural protest in HISTORY. Sorry Mr. Trump, THIS is what a populist movement loo...

The People United Will Never Be Divided: Arkansas Marches for Democracy and Against Trump

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Clip from Women's March, Little Rock, Arkansas, today #WomensMarch . pic.twitter.com/UicFdn6ibb — Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) January 21...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Who's Dismantling Liberal Democracy and Why? The Conversation We Need to Have

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We talk these days about the grand shift in liberal democracy — about the dismantling of the liberal democratic project worldwide — a...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

Trump and Dismantling of U.S. Democracy: "Movement of White Evangelical Southerners into Republican Ranks Was Fueled Initially by Civil Rights"

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This should not escape our attention, though the mainstream media persistently and conveniently choose to play games about this matter: ...

Donald Trump and the Attempt to Dismantle American Democracy: "Running Against Our Democracy Itself"

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Trump saying he won't accept election results is a slap in the face of heroes like John Lewis, who nearly died fighting for right to...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Treasury Department Announces Harriet Tubman Will Depose Andrew Jackson from Front of Twenty-Dollar Bills: Knickers Become Atwist

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As Amy Goodman and Dennis Moynihan state,  legendary abolitionist Harriet Tubman would seem to many of us to be the quintessence of w...