Putin in Ukraine: Predicting a Personalist Ruler using Groupthink
Reading time: 5 minutes
Can we predict what Putin is going to do? Groupthink is the best tool we have in predicting Putin and figuring out the best way to stop him!
Undermining Biden, Supporting Putin: The Dangers of the Sportification of Politics
Reading time: 5 minutes
The Republican effort to undermine the Biden administration makes it that much more likely that #Putin will win in #Ukraine. Putin is literally attacking the Western democratic way of life. We must see ourselves as one people in order to win this war.
Millennials Lead the Charge in Reducing Explicit and Implicit Racial Bias
Reading Time: 6 minutes
Are we becoming less racist? There’s good news and bad news! Good news until 2016, we were becoming less. After 2016, we don’t know, but you know, don’t you?
Should We Be the Beatles or the Stones? Whither Goes the States?
Reading Time: 4 minutes
Should the US make like the Beatles and break up or the Stones and stay together? Which is better for us as a country and a world? It’s a tough question.
“Elite of the left behind” or Democracy is Too Much of a Risk, Give Us White Minority-Rule Autocracy Instead
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Sociologist, Arlie Hochschild, describes MAGA Nation and the Insurrectionists as the elite of the left behind. I describe them as seeing democracy as too much of a risk that a Black or Brown will be elevated, minority-rule autocracy is a sure thing.
How Big Business Got Woke and Dumped Trump — But Maybe It’s Not True Anymore?
Reading time: 5 minutes
Time recently published an article outlining out Jeffrey Sonnenfeld marshalled America’s CEOs to oppose the Republican authoritarian power grab from the Big Lie to the 6 January Insurrection to voter suppression and nullification laws, but their enthusiasm for that opposition has fractured and grown confused just like our electorate’s has.
Charles Koch, Racial Animus, Critical Race Theory Furor, and What to Do About It
Reading time: 4 minutes
Anyone who supports either the Big Lie or the 6 January Insurrection false flag theory are clearly anti-democratic. It is clear that the goal is to create this single-party pseudo-democratic minority-rule autocracy that will quickly and efficiently transfer the nation’s wealth to the one percent, all them to intimidate all rivals, and duke it out with China as they divvy up the remainder of the world’s natural resources.
How the GQP Divisive Politics is Destroying the American Way of Life
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United we stand; divided we fall, so why is the GQP deliberately dividing us with its divisive politics? They want us to fall. How do we beat them? We aren’t divided. To save our democracy, we must find ways to reach those in MAGA Nation and convince them to leave it.
Threat to national survival: sexual prejudice in times of COVID 19 prejudice in Poland — Psychology @ Goldsmiths
Reading time: 4 minutes
We have good news for once! Conservative regressive social policies propagated during times of national crisis, like the #COVID19 pandemic, backfire and cause the electorate to turn against the governments pushing them. Maybe there is hope for the 2022 election. Maybe.
The Medieval Witch Hysteria Teaches About Today’s Pandemic and Stolen Election Hysterias
Reading time: 6 minutes
We’re seeing MAGA Nation acting crazier and crazier with them taking ivermectin, avoiding the ICU’s, and nebulizing hydrogen peroxide to treat #COVID19 and even though the AZ fraudit found the election to be legitimate, they still believe it had fraud and the election was stolen. What’s the end game here? What do other hysterias have to teach us about how this one will end?
A Quickie: Our “Failure” in Afghanistan was a Failure of Assimilation and Acculturation
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The reasons we didn’t remake Afghanistan in our image are manifold, but perhaps the most salient are due to our failures to understand the importance of culture.
The Texas Anti-Abortion Law Illustrates the Qualities of Authoritarians Left and Right
Reading time: 6 minutes
Man, you’re going to want to read this one even if it is TL;DR. We’ve hit the treasure trove of authoritarian qualities and characteristics that explains a lot of the cray-cray we’re seeing across the country.
A Quickie: GQP Scapegoating of Blacks and Immigrants Will Drive Increases in Hate Crimes and Violence
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All fascist and authoritarian movements need a scapegoat. It is clear that #COVID19, the Delta Variant has upended their plans to run on anti-immigrant fear mongering, so they are just making everything bad is because of immigrants and by extension the replacement theory. Here’s an example.
A Quickie: Social Determinants of Health + the #COVID19 Pandemic = Huge Drop in US Life Expectancy
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Trump’s gross negligence during the #COVID19 pandemic amounts to genocide. Not only has he reduced the average life expectancy of the US by years, the effects on the life expectancy and health of the American people will be felt for years to come.
The Distortions to Our Expectations Social Media Causes Detrimentimental to Our Democracy
Reading time: 6 minutes
I don’t know about you, but my social media feed is full of disappointment over the DoJ, the DAs, and various and sundry investigations not yet resulting in any lock him up! The kind of distortion of our expectations that social media can create is detrimental to our democracy.
Our Increase In Violent Crime is Trump’s Fault
Reading time: 4 minutes
You’da thunk that with everyone. — okay all the progressive liberal thinking types — at home most of last year, there’d’ve been no crime to speak of much less murder and mayhem, but no, violence, murder, and gun sales all increased last year. Why? You know why. Trump.
Ultrasociality: The Size and Complexity of our Society Means We have to rely on Each Other to Survive
Reading time: 4 minutes
Why is truth, honesty, good-faith negotiations, and expert opinion necessary for us to survive as a people and as a democracy? Because our society is too complex for one person to understand it all completely. We must rely on others to make decisions in our best interest.
The Shameless Lies of the Shameless Liars of the GQP Threatens Our Democracy
Reading time: 5 minutes
The lies the GQP tells just keep getting taller and taller. Soon they will tower above the clouds. Surely this amount of lying will have some detrimental effect. Surely shamelessness cannot be healthy.
The Civil War Never Ended: ‘Sum Of Us’ Examines The Hidden Cost Of Racism — For Everyone — Fresh Air on NPR
Reading Time: 5 minutes
On 17 February, Fresh Air sub-host, Dave Davies, interviewed author, Heather McGhee, about her new book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. She talked about the many ways that White America chose to withdraw publicly funded services rather than allow Black Americans equal access and how that has changed the very fabric of our society and hurts us all. Must listening to.
The Civil War Never Ended: Understanding Deep Culture and Racism
Reading time: six minutes
An explainer explaining the link between racist dog whistles and our racist deep culture. If folks can’t get it after this, I don’t know that they ever will.
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