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We are facing an era when the American right-wing has become politically and increasingly physically dangerous to the continuing survival of American civilization and democracy. Seeing that they face permanent status as a perennial loser in national popular votes and opinion, the current GOP leadership is increasingly a seditious and anti-democratic organization that at the […]
March 21, 2021
[This is the second piece in this series on the Good Cop/Bad Cop Routine in American politics] In the first part of this series on the good cop/bad cop routine in American politics, I didn’t go into how such a routine works within a broader social context in the United States. An open question from […]
March 1, 2021
[This is the first part of a multi-part series on the “good cop/bad cop routine” in American politics] I try to be open about my biases but feel I have arrived at a view of American politics that is neither simply ammunition for my political standpoint (I support both the leftmost members of Congress, “the […]
February 16, 2021
The Biden campaign and now Administration has gotten kudos from many of its supporters and voters for the contrast between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, both as people and as politicians. While I was and am a supporter of Bernie Sanders and the Squad and far prefer their approach to politics and policy to Biden’s, […]
November 27, 2020
We are living in fraught times in the US, with American democracy hanging by a few threads, as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have defeated President Trump and Vice-President Pence at the ballot box but not decisively enough to completely repudiate Trump’s four years of misrule and the Trumpist GOP as a whole. That now […]
November 2, 2020
November 1, 2020 As President Trump signals ever more clearly that he will attempt an electoral coup in the evening of November 3rd, 2020, almost regardless of the vote counts at that point, American democracy hangs in the balance. That a sitting President would openly and pre-emptively agitate against the counting of votes and against […]
October 29, 2020
As of late, Donald Trump is revealing himself to more and more people as a man with serious mental health problems. Some, including myself have been warning for 4 years or more of the dangers of having a man with Donald Trump’s psychological make-up in the Presidency. In 2016 I wrote this blog post as […]
October 18, 2020
America is facing an unprecedented challenge: the current-sitting President is threatening to steal the upcoming Presidential election before all votes are counted because it suits his narrow personal interests rather than accept the results of the votes of the American people. If thousands or even millions of votes are not counted, the 240 year history […]
October 5, 2020
We are living in an age filled with dark foreboding and the signs of a real physical apocalypse occurring on the earth, an apocalypse that is human caused. Unprecedented wildfires burn in drought-stricken California where I live, ice caps are melting, democracies teeter on the brink of autocracy and fascism, vast wealth inequality grows, and […]
December 17, 2016
While diagnoses of mental conditions under usual circumstances should be offered after a thorough mental health diagnostic interview by a mental health professional, we are facing a situation in the United States where the President elect, Donald Trump shows in his erratic behavior, apparent malevolent intent to destroy or debilitate valuable public institutions, and bizarre […]
Politics of a Sustainable Future 
July 22, 2021
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