The politics of hysteria has become the norm of politics in the cursed age of mass media and universal suffrage, because hysteria is the easiest of all emotions to appeal.
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A Short Word: The Funeral of Truth
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An Open Question: The World as It Is
...I am resolved to live in the world as it is while continuing to forcefully advocate for the world as it should be, and I have very good reason to believe that it is possible.
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A Short Word: The Smoke And Mirrors Economy
Trump's economy isn't any better than Obama's was.
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2020: The Perception is Reality Election
In these 3 key states that came within 78,000 votes of giving Hillary Clinton the White House in 2016, every Republican Senate candidate lost. Every single one.
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It’s The Economy, Stupid
I realize none of this is particularly politically correct, but it's still true.
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A Short Word: Delousing our Electoral System
Regardless of whether you think this is a good idea or a terrible idea, it's clearly past time for some kind of reform of our broken electoral process.
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The Generation Gap Will End The GOP
In less than 4 years, the Republicans destroyed what it'd taken them 8 years to build.
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The GOP: All-In on the Wild Card
For better or worse, the Republican Party has placed its bet on Donald Trump, and the fate of the party is inextricably linked with his.
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Lighting Caves, Popping Bubbles
It's time to burst everyone's bubble and force them into the sunlight, even if they run shrieking back into the comfortable captivity of their caves and safe spaces of their bubbles.
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How Pushing Price Over Principle Is Killing Conservatism
Whether you agree in whole, in part, or not at all with Reagan's politics, let's agree that Ronald Wilson Reagan could be considered a "subject matter expert" on American conservatism.
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The High Road: Walking the Walk
What is just, what is honorable, and what is dignified has long since been abandoned by both major political parties.
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Bait and Switch
For those who claimed that they would support the president-elect while holding him accountable for his actions and statements, there is no time like the present, or, in this case, the past.
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Who Is The Establishment?
There is a distressingly dwindling divide between economic power and political power in the United States today.
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A Short Word: Dissent is Liberty
There is a broad swath of Americans that now believe that it is somehow inappropriate for citizens to dare to speak to an elected official out of turn. This is terrifying.
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A Short Word: You Are Here
American voters have put a gun to the head of America's future in an ultimate game of Russian Roulette.
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Economics Speed Round: November 2016
As we look toward the end of the year and the 4th Quarter, the change in political leadership could change the economic landscape, depending on how quickly the Congress and White House can enact whatever policy they plan on pushing forward.
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Some Good News. Some Bad News.
This is a political alliance that will only end in tears.
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Poll Watching: Election Day 11/08/2016
Source is realclearpolitics.com, taking the last 7 polls, and dropping the highest and lowest as outliers. An average is taken of the remaining five polls.
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A Short Word: The Reckoning
For better or (more likely) for worse, this all comes to an end tomorrow, but tomorrow is likely only the beginning of what is to come.
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Poll Watching: Monday 11/07/2016
Source is realclearpolitics.com, taking the last 7 polls, and dropping the highest and lowest as outliers. An average is taken of the remaining five polls.
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Poll Watching: Monday 10/31/2016
Source is realclearpolitics.com, taking the last 7 polls, and dropping the highest and lowest as outliers. An average is taken of the remaining five polls.
