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Ill-Advised Brief Statement From a Distant Corner

Woodrow Wilson censored the media and put political enemies in jail. Despotic fascism. Ah, but he was low-key and not a blathering lunatic, so we tend to forget. Besides, the fascist right normalizes such extremism. It was 1953 when Harry … Continue reading

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Do You Hear What I’m Hearing?

Not sure the 1/6/21 hearings will make a dent. People don’t track. They’re kept busy with life trouble, from plagues and supply chain shortages to gnawing anxiety and collapsing healthcare.  Distraction from the coup. Evidence from the hearing could not … Continue reading

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Marched Through Chaos Into Tyranny

“From chaos to monarchy,” is the GOP’s rallying cry. They don’t want anarchy. Exactly the opposite. They want a king, a permanent tyrant. Authoritarianism is their addiction.  Most GOP followers or supporters don’t care if the strong man is conservative … Continue reading

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Simply and Possibly Our Last Chance

“Innocence is suspicious and often proof of guilt.” This is the fascist mentality. The Mittbot might well have said this and it’s the whole mindset behind the GOP obsession with non issues and phony scandals such as Whitewater, Vince Foster, … Continue reading

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Get Up And Fight Back

Someone walks up to you and your loved ones and begins swinging an axe and just chopping the bloody hell out of your loved ones. Bet you stand there “loving” them and “forgiving” them and saying, “Oh, there’s still hope” … Continue reading

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Snowed In by NSA Obfuscation, or: Duped Into Debating the Wrong Thing, Again

The media, backed by corporate, are fogging this NSA/Snowden (snowed in?) discussion by conflicting what he did — whistle-blowing to draw attention to crimes –to focus instead on false issues like personal privacy. They are doing this by linking every … Continue reading

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IFF

Enlightened, rational adults think the teabaggers are ignorant and backward thinking but they are actually just representatives of a different, enemy culture, the one our ideals fight against. The one America was founded to fight against. The one that dominates … Continue reading

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