Reading time: 4 minutes
The Republicans sure do seem intent on destroying the US. Defaulting on the debt would cripple our economy and create the conditions for them to usher in their GOP Dystopia.
Reading time: 4 minutes
The research of Karen Stenner on the authoritarian dynamic suggests that non-authoritarians become more liberal when confronted by deteriorating conditions. This tendency has saved us from fascism in the past and will now.
Reading time: 5 minutes
With the betting windows open on McCarthy’s time with the Speaker’s gavel, it is hard to imagine that the mess Republicans are making in Congress and in legislators across the country can be good for us, but it is. #ScienceFact. But, there’s math!
Reading time: 4 minutes
As much as I enjoy watching an asshole get his comeuppance, the problems that the Republicans are having in electing a Speaker of the House foreshadow much bigger problems to come. Cultural Evolution, Cultural Multilevel Selection, and the importance of cooperation for social success predict as much.
Reading time: 4 min
The GQP has unleashed a ravening beast to feed upon our democracy. To satisfy its appetite for extremism, the GQP must become even more divisive, so it will be religion as the driver until we get widespread violence.
Reading time: 6 minutes
Anger is now at the core of white identity. It is the foundation of grievance politics. You expect the base to be irrationally angry, but not the staffers and office holders, but you’re wrong. And it is that pervasive anger that is driving the fascism of the GOP.
Reading time: 5 minutes
The GOP has a concerted, well-organized, long-term, and well-funded plan to re-write our Constitution to make a more perfect minority-rule pseudo-democratic single-party autocracy. #VoteLikeUrDemocracyDependsOnIt
Reading time: 5 minutes
Election 2022 is shaping up to be the most consequential election since 2020! Democrats fear the loss of rights and our very democracy. The stakes are quite high. For Republicans, they have only their old tropes to stir up fear and angst with. Which will turn out the base?
Reading time: 6 minutes
The very things that we evolved to help us become the most dominant species on the planet are the very things that are killing us now. Find out why we can’t have nice things and maybe never will. How are we worseing our problems?
Reading time: 6 minutes
How will the GQP rat fuck the 22 election? They will do it from the inside out dismantling our democracy one elections official at a time. They will smeer a thin veneer of legality over the festering pile of shyte that they plan on making of the election.
Reading time: 6 minutes
The main reason mass shootings are a unique American problem is because Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott and all of the pro-death, misery, and injury politicians in the GQP have been bought and paid for by the merchants of death. The dark tetrad explains why
Reading time: 5 minutes
There are many ways to steal an election, you just look for the weak links and exploit them. Here’s all the ways that the Republicans will use to steal Election 2022.
Reading time: 4 minutes
The first of a two-part series on examining the reasons Americans don’t vote for politicians that support the issues they tell pollsters they support. Abortion is a good case study. Part two looks at the psychological reasons people don’t.
Reading time: 5 minutes
White people have an inner racist. That inner racist needs to be tamed by direct confrontation by its owner. Most white people don’t have what it takes to do so, so they vote based on racist dog whistles like CRT and defund the police. Simple as that.
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.
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.
Reading time: 5 minutes
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.
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.
Reading time: 5 minutes
We are seeing more violence perpetrated by MAGA Nation as the #COVID19 pandemic crisis worsens and the GQP psychopathic leadership and mass media extorts them with more extreme rhetoric. It is all just so depressingly predictable.
Reading time.5 minutes
The fight to preserve voting rights and our democracy feels more desperate by the day.. If our current leadership is being less than inspiring, let us take our inspiration from each other and from the most trying time in American history: the Civil War, the Gettysburg Address, and President Lincoln.
Ego stroking and addiction horror stories
Short Fiction and Other Things
"It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error"..Thomas Paine
A blog about just about anything and everything
Opinions By The Master Opinionater
Proud to have over one follower!
Thoughts and rants from another angry woman
In which I grow wildflowers and monsters, and homeschool one of them.
The Psy of Life 
Join the Conversation!