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My Essays


Wealth vs Prosperity
The Rich Create Wealth, But Not Prosperity This isn’t as timely as the current destruction of our democracy, but it’s still important. People make political decisions based on the state of our economy and their own feeling of security and prosperity. Even though I think he’s an overrated corporate Democrat, I do give James Carville some credit for his “It’s the economy, stupid!” phrase many years ago. It is about the economy. People who feel economically stable are not nearly
Mar 29


Right-Wing Violence vs the Myth of Left-Wing Violence
I can’t really share anything that hasn’t been articulately stated already. Charlie Kirk was a smart, energetic young man who used inflammatory rhetoric to spread an arch-conservative vision, and get very rich in the process. Though I disagree with just about everything he said and stood for, and will not be sending thoughts and prayers to anyone, I don’t believe he deserved to die. I disagree with those who have been justifying his death. I don’t think that there has been a
Mar 29


Is Trump a Fascist
Is Trump a Fascist? He Meets Almost All of the Criteria He admires Hitler. He believes that Hitler’s generals were preferable to America’s during WWII. He wished that he’d had Hitler’s generals instead of his own during his presidency. He admires modern-day dictators, including Putin, who Republican icon Ronald Reagan would have detested and fought against every day of his eight years in office. He laces his typically-racist rants against immigrants (“hordes of marauding rap
Mar 29


Historically Based Optimism
Don’t Surrender To Despair!
Mar 29


Cherry Picking
Conservative Christians and Biblical Cherry-Picking
Mar 29


Anger vs Hate
Different Things To Different People
Mar 29


California
You Don't Have To Love It – Just Leave It.
Mar 29


Abortion and When Life Begins
Abortion and When Life Begins: Only Right-Wing Christians Claim To Know While our minds are on authoritarianism and the destruction of democracy, we haven't been thinking much about the not-so-distant-future attempt to ban abortion nationwide. That form of tyranny will undoubtedly come soon. The Senate should be able to hold it off with the filibuster, but you never know what dirty tactics Republicans will use to cram it through. Or how Trump will threaten to cut off all fede
Mar 29
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