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Bernie's Health
The Clinton campaign has gone after Sanders by trying to plant doubts about his ability to serve as President, due to his health. I don't know about Bernie's health, but I have great concerns about his age.
I have other doubts as well. I ask if someone as far left as he appears to be, could ever win in places like the Midwest and the South. I don't ( Read more... ) -
Democracy in the US
I originally posted the following in another community in response to someone who believes that American Democracy merely exists on paper. I really like what came out of me in this post, and I have decided to post it here ( Read more... ) -
Democratic Debate
And so, the third Democratic Debate has taken place. Although many hopeful Republicans were hoping that Hillary and Bernie would go after each other, fangs and claws ready to rip each other apart - a scene that could easily be imagined in a Republican debate, featuring that master of insult and chaos Donald trump - no such episode occurred. Bernie ( Read more... ) -
Trump or Cruz? What are people thinking?
So at this point, it appears that either Donald Trump or Ted Cruz are going to get the nomination for president. Moreover, tens of thousands of people cheer wildly while either of these men make the most outrageously bigoted, or false statements.
The talking heads like to say that these two candidates are attracting so many followers because people ( Read more... ) -
Panic
Once again, this country has been thrown into a panic. A threat had been issued that a school will be blown up in LA (also in NY), and your average American sheep is up in a panic. It does not matter that this is finals week in LA, and it is just as likely that the threat was made by some pimply high school student who spent more time partying than ( Read more... ) -
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My God! There are so many things happening in the world right now, and I have so much to say about all of them, that I don't know where to start. I suppose as a first step, I should write down the topics that grab my gut, and organize them in that way.
Election Issues:
Donald Trump
Is Ted Cruz any better than Donald, or is he merely a more polished ( Read more... )
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Ferguson
In a way, it does not matter what the circumstances of the murder of Michael Brown were. What does matter is that there is probably no one in this country who does not believe that it is possible that officer Wilson killed Brown because of his perception of blacks, and that he had no regard of Brown as a human being. Americans have heard about such ( Read more... ) -
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Let me tell you one of the things that really confuses me. It is so obvious to me that the Republican Party is using brainwashing techniques to get people to vote for them. They are obviously using the ingrained bigotry of many of the citizens of this country to turn people against Obama and his administration. Of course, they are not doing this ( Read more... ) -
Reading and Enlightenment
I have been reading further about the Revolutionary war. I have been reading from several sources. Some of them follow the conventional mythology about how great the founding fathers were, but some of the sources are quite cynical about the motivations of the founding fathers. They say that when the founding fathers spoke about “we the people” and ( Read more... ) -
More about our History
I have been fascinated to learn that many of the political battles that are being fought in Washington today are almost identical to the fights that took place in Washington's, Adams', and Jefferson's time. Even in those days, there was a fight of the elite against the common man; there were fears by the Federalists that the filthy masses would ( Read more... )