(page 1) https://www.politusic.com/extreme-political-views/ Left-leaning political and social articles to help you understand American politics, appreciate music, and laugh at being human. Thu, 16 Feb 2017 01:46:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://www.politusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/pt-square-96x96.png (page 1) https://www.politusic.com/extreme-political-views/ 32 32 Republicans Blame Media for Everything. Is GOP Forever Stuck in a Different Reality? https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/republicans-blame-media-everything/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/republicans-blame-media-everything/#respond Thu, 04 Aug 2016 15:17:45 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=17265 POLITUSIC

The rigid right wing of the Republican Party locked itself into a bunkered reality long ago. Their information bubble is incredibly effective at isolating their lives from dissent and differing …

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Save The Planet: Blame Obama. Republican Global Warming Denial Politics. https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/republican-not-scientist-climate-change-denial/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/republican-not-scientist-climate-change-denial/#respond Sat, 07 Jun 2014 22:30:36 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=12344 POLITUSIC

Save The Planet: Blame Obama No, really. I’m serious. Tea Party tenacity is all about how you spin the disaster of the day. The key to making policy progress aimed …

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Tea Party: Why Are Democrats Destroying America? Answer: Your Brain. https://www.politusic.com/rants/democrats-destroying-america/ https://www.politusic.com/rants/democrats-destroying-america/#respond Sun, 01 Dec 2013 21:33:48 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=10920 POLITUSIC

Conservative republican brain theory: relentless negative repetition serving as the keystone of the long term electoral and fundraising tactics of the extreme right have created permanent connections in the republican …

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GOP Barnstorming For The Brainless https://www.politusic.com/rants/gop-brainless-defunding-obamacare-attempt/ https://www.politusic.com/rants/gop-brainless-defunding-obamacare-attempt/#respond Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:21:54 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=10326 POLITUSIC

Once again the Republicans in the House are trumpeting that they are locking in cuts and trying to defund Obamacare. To see the absurdity and futility of it all, you …

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Tea Party, Meet Prohibition: Why The Tea Party Will Fall Apart https://www.politusic.com/politics/dysfunction/tea-party-doomed-like-prohibition-no-compromise/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/dysfunction/tea-party-doomed-like-prohibition-no-compromise/#respond Wed, 07 Aug 2013 22:13:11 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=9667 POLITUSIC

Related: Fix Political Dysfunction The Tea Party could benefit from understanding why Prohibition failed. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America wasn’t repealed because near …

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Favorite Search: Did The Democrats Destroy The World? https://www.politusic.com/best/did-democrats-destroy-the-world/ https://www.politusic.com/best/did-democrats-destroy-the-world/#respond Mon, 08 Jul 2013 20:53:34 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=9504 POLITUSIC

Honestly, I feel a bit bad that we here at POLITUSIC have another “democrats will destroy” theme as our favorite incoming search this day – but the truth of the …

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Republicans: Get Off My Lawn!! (and) Farm Bill Fails! https://www.politusic.com/politics/dysfunction/republicans-to-world-get-off-my-lawn-farm-bill-fails/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/dysfunction/republicans-to-world-get-off-my-lawn-farm-bill-fails/#respond Thu, 20 Jun 2013 20:42:11 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=9012 POLITUSIC

The Republican Party seems to be continuing down its path of self-destruction. So much so that today even Speaker of the House, John Boehner, seems to be giving up. Farm …

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How To Fix Dysfunction In Congress: Be Immature https://www.politusic.com/politics/theory/solve-dysfunction-politics-washington/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/theory/solve-dysfunction-politics-washington/#respond Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:07:04 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=8766 POLITUSIC

Government needs passion directed towards reasonable political and social goals, rather than what we’re stuck with now: great passion directed at crazy goals, or dispassionate complacency swatting at meaningless ones. The …

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Wayne LaPierre, NRA Responsible for Creating Extremism https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/wayne-lapierre-nra-creates-terrorists/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/wayne-lapierre-nra-creates-terrorists/#respond Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:49:50 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=8443 POLITUSIC

Who or what motivates and encourages an sort of extremist to perform acts of terror assumes some responsibility for that terrorist act. The NRA, like Al Qaida and other religious-based terrorist organizations, …

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This Week In Republicanland: New Law, Must Own Gun In Georgia Town https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/republicanland-must-own-gun-georgia-town/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/republicanland-must-own-gun-georgia-town/#respond Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:48:17 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=8273 POLITUSIC

Convinced the U.S. government is out to get them, the extreme right-wing culture in America has more in common with the average North Korean than they do the average American. …

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North Dakota Personhood Bill: Babies Have the Right to Keep and Bear Arms https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/north-dakota-personhood-bill-babies-guns-snowball-republicans/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/north-dakota-personhood-bill-babies-guns-snowball-republicans/#respond Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:43:55 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=8141 POLITUSIC

… believe it or not, that’s what we’re talking about when it comes to personhood laws like North Dakota and a smattering of other republican lead states: an embryo has the same human …

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Favorite Quotation: Rand Paul, Monkeys and Meth https://www.politusic.com/best/favorite-quotation-rand-paul-monkeys-and-meth/ https://www.politusic.com/best/favorite-quotation-rand-paul-monkeys-and-meth/#respond Fri, 15 Mar 2013 02:34:57 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=7862 POLITUSIC

The honorable Senator from the great state of his father’s shadow has used this phrase before (his recent Senate filibuster, we think), but when it’s followed by the laughter of …

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Paul Ryan is a One-Hit Non-Wonder. A Political “Call Me Maybe” https://www.politusic.com/politics/paul-ryan-one-hit-non-wonder-political-broken-record-obamacare/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/paul-ryan-one-hit-non-wonder-political-broken-record-obamacare/#respond Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:37:19 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=7748 POLITUSIC

The distinguished man from Wisconsin is stuck on a bad political gig as if he’s the opening act for a Vanilla Ice / Los Del Rios tour. Scratch that. Paul Ryan is …

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What’s In A Name? Political Partisan Identity and Policymaking https://www.politusic.com/politics/theory/whats-in-a-name-partisan-identity-and-policymaking/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/theory/whats-in-a-name-partisan-identity-and-policymaking/#respond Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:53:34 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=7680 POLITUSIC

“Republicans are chasing their own imagination. We think that in our dreams we create new and undiscovered worlds… but in truth it’s just an overlapping reality of things we’ve already …

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Has The Tea Party Become Political Terrorists? https://www.politusic.com/politics/dysfunction/tea-party-washington-become-political-terrorists/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/dysfunction/tea-party-washington-become-political-terrorists/#respond Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:52:22 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=7629 POLITUSIC

It’s quite a valid question, honestly. Had the members of the Tea Party “caucus” not been elected, would the behavior and actions they have taken be seen as an attack? …

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Politics, Government and Physics. All Tends Toward Disorder. https://www.politusic.com/politics/dysfunction/politics-government-civilization-and-physics-all-tend-towards-disorder/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/dysfunction/politics-government-civilization-and-physics-all-tend-towards-disorder/#respond Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:02:37 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=7599 POLITUSIC

It’s hard to pass man-made laws when the laws of the Universe are against you… If you think it’s hard to convince a three-year old to behave like an adult, …

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Three Party Political System in the United States: Democrats Should Split. https://www.politusic.com/politics/theory/three-party-political-system-in-the-united-states-democrats-should-split/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/theory/three-party-political-system-in-the-united-states-democrats-should-split/#respond Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:29:50 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=7567 POLITUSIC

Create a three-party political system in the United States by means of Democrats splitting into two parties – not republicans. This opens the doors for passing more policy and unlocking …

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Favorite Search: Wacky World of Gun Toting Republicans https://www.politusic.com/best/favorite-search-wacky-world-of-gun-toting-republicans/ https://www.politusic.com/best/favorite-search-wacky-world-of-gun-toting-republicans/#respond Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:19:05 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=7435 POLITUSIC

Recently someone landed at POLITUSIC in search of some examples of the “Wacky World of Gun Toting Republicans“. Of course, we highly encourage people with differing political views to share them here …

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Increase In Right Wing Paranoid Political Ads. Guns & Taxes. https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/significant-increase-in-paranoid-gun-and-security-advertising/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/significant-increase-in-paranoid-gun-and-security-advertising/#respond Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:10:08 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=7252 POLITUSIC

Shortly after VP Joe Biden was asked by President Obama to put together the latest gun safety task force, the level of advertising for the paranoid right-wing has skyrocketed. (In …

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Don’t Reward the Mediocrity and Self-Imposed Fiscal Crises of the U.S. Congress https://www.politusic.com/rants/us-congress-dont-reward-mediocrity-and-self-imposed-crises/ https://www.politusic.com/rants/us-congress-dont-reward-mediocrity-and-self-imposed-crises/#respond Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:24:35 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=7173 POLITUSIC

Let’s face it: the Republican Party is a fractured mess. After the Speaker of the House, John Boehner, allowed the more extreme and non-compromising part of his party complain and …

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NRA To America: Yes, We Are Paranoid, Scared, and Illogical. https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/nra-to-america-yes-we-are-paranoid-scared-and-illogical/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/nra-to-america-yes-we-are-paranoid-scared-and-illogical/#respond Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:22:07 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=7035 POLITUSIC

NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre is a frightened man. Not politically, but frightened in his soul. It’s that base, primal fear that motivates everything he does in life. The NRA “press conference” on …

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Alternative to Gun Laws: Create Alternatives to Guns https://www.politusic.com/rants/alternative-to-gun-laws-give-alternatives-to-guns/ https://www.politusic.com/rants/alternative-to-gun-laws-give-alternatives-to-guns/#respond Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:47:58 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=7018 POLITUSIC

Guns are a product just like anything else. That’s why the NRA and gun manufacturers lobby so aggressively, and advertise the way that they do: to sell the product. The second amendment …

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Arrogance Ends All Empires, Political Parties, and Social Structures https://www.politusic.com/rants/arrogance-ends-all-empires-political-parties-and-social-structures/ https://www.politusic.com/rants/arrogance-ends-all-empires-political-parties-and-social-structures/#respond Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:45:34 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=6712 POLITUSIC

Humility is difficult – and it’s becoming more and more difficult to find in everyday America. History is easy – and yet it’s becoming more and more “un-studied” insofar as …

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What’s Up With John McCain? Benghazi. Politics. Grumpy Old Man. https://www.politusic.com/rants/whats-up-with-john-mccain-benghazi-politics-grumpy-old-man/ https://www.politusic.com/rants/whats-up-with-john-mccain-benghazi-politics-grumpy-old-man/#respond Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:49:18 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=6704 POLITUSIC

Is the good senator from “papers please” Arizona still angry about losing the 2008 election? Why is John McCain pounding his chest about Benghazi over, and over – and over – again in …

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What IS IT with Republicans and Guns?!? https://www.politusic.com/rants/what-is-it-with-republicans-and-guns/ https://www.politusic.com/rants/what-is-it-with-republicans-and-guns/#respond Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:21:43 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=6661 POLITUSIC

Simple Equation: Guns + Paranoia = Bad I am not a gun owner – but I used to be, and my father is. I grew up in gun cultures; those …

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Has the Republican Party Turned Into a Cult? https://www.politusic.com/rants/has-the-republican-party-turned-into-a-cult/ https://www.politusic.com/rants/has-the-republican-party-turned-into-a-cult/#respond Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:11:04 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=6278 POLITUSIC

Watching a Mitt Romney political rally today in one of the swing states, it really feels like a cult; packed full of inside jokes and cursory chuckles; hoots, whoops, hollers, and bent …

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What Makes Democrats Like Mindless, Spineless Primates https://www.politusic.com/rants/what-makes-democrats-like-mindless-spineless-primates/ https://www.politusic.com/rants/what-makes-democrats-like-mindless-spineless-primates/#respond Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:25:48 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=6147 POLITUSIC

While I clearly “side” more with liberals, I’m sick and tired of Democrats acting like they are a herd of 1000 sheep who refuse to boldly cross an impasse, because …

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What Makes Republicans Like Mindless, Mean Primates https://www.politusic.com/rants/republicans-mindless-mean-political-primate-policies/ https://www.politusic.com/rants/republicans-mindless-mean-political-primate-policies/#respond Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:28:46 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=6111 POLITUSIC

Right-leaning and probably even moderate America: I’m here to offend, so be ready. We call them rants for a reason. Republicans are primates in mind and soul (those who have …

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What Happens if Obama Wins the Election? (Truth & Sarcasm Edition) https://www.politusic.com/politics/presidential/what-happens-if-obama-wins-election-2012-presidential/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/presidential/what-happens-if-obama-wins-election-2012-presidential/#respond Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:44:52 +0000 http://www.politusic.com/?p=5445 POLITUSIC

If Obama Wins a Second Term… … the sky will fall, all the guns will go “poof” into smoke, the Muslim Brotherhood will raise their flag over the State Department, …

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