The movement in US politics to the far right

Living in the Land of Trump

Library of Congress, Unsplash Hugues Matthews, Unsplash Adventure Albanic, Unsplash Living in the Land of Trump Donald Trump is a disaster and a national disgrace, but his rise to authoritarian and absolute power, with a few federal judges nipping at him, was completely predictable within the confines of the federal government. I trace Trump directly back to the cue-card reader, Ronald Reagan. Reagan began the vicious right-wing attacks against the government that led in a…

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voting and elections

“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”

Photo credit: publicdomainphotos.net “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” by Howard Lisnoff Emma Goldman was pretty much on the money with her observation. Was that 100 years ago? Why write about voting just over one year from the time of Joe Biden’s infamous disastrous debate? Other presidents have been incapacitated in office and have continued on. Woodrow Wilson comes to mind. There’s a president who was at least as bad as Donald Trump…

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