History teaches time and time again that an overly-idealistic crusader for Cause ends up being the trigger for its demise. In Bernie’s case: Cause was a more progressive America. Overturning …

Who Is To Blame For Overturning Roe v Wade? Bernie Sanders. appeared first on POLITUSIC.

Day after day Ignorance and Hate continue to kick us in the face. America at rock bottom is when Ignorance and Hate punch each other in the face and both …

America At Rock Bottom: 1 or 2 Terms Of Donald Trump? appeared first on POLITUSIC.

For republicans, personal belief defines freedom, rather than freedom providing space to define belief. It’s perfectly backward and an abuse of free speech. The Republican Party has a problem, and …

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Feel the Bern and MAGA are the same. They are brothers. They are destined to increase extremism and alienate the majority of citizens who prefer government be run by people …

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And thusly went The United States loudly into the night… The recipe to slowly poison a democracy is simple: one part hubris, one part hyper-nationalism, and add reactionary elections to …

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This was written July, 2017. For updated 2018 midterm election analysis read: Why democrats will STILL lose the 2018 election. The race is on and democrats will lose. Again. For …

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If you want to impeach someone: impeach the Democratic Party. Impeach your-own-damn-self for allowing the Presidency of Donald Trump to pupate over the last 8 years and emerge from the …

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A country’s moral compass loses its North when the measure of Value is transactional rather than principled. To keep life interesting, we tend to seek out new experiences. Most of mine …

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Trump supporters aren’t political supporters – they’re superfans. One month into office, Donald Trump held a campaign rally in Melbourne, FL1 Approximately 9000 people attended – many waiting since the early …

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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of facts and falsehoods. Puppet Trump gets his words from Steve Bannon and his power from …

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(… not intentionally, of course… that would require foresight, deliberation and planning…) After a weekend of airport chaos and cries of constitutional crisis, Sean Spicer took to the podium to …

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Millions of voters who put Donald Trump into the White House have no time in their daily lives to know what’s happening in his administration. The first week of President …

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Trump is the perfect American President. He’s the Platonic puppet showman for this entitled, selfish, under-educated excuse of a country that values money more than morality. Republicans insist that if …

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Paranoid Progressive Post For The Week: I spent some time on Donald Trump’s facebook page this morning, paying particularly close attention to the comments. Ignoring the Obama bashing, it helps …

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POLITUSIC has been trolling right-wingers for years by means of the reinforcing-bias Google search. The most common we get on this website are angry republicans searching, “why democrats are destroying …

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Is America already great, or do we need to make America great again? This might be the only area in the 2016 presidential election where both candidates are correct: America …

Is America Great or Isn’t It? Democrats vs. Republicans vs. American History. appeared first on POLITUSIC.

In 2014 POLITUSIC offered a political theory that the act of assigning blame is a core difference between the development of right wing vs left wing ideology. Two years later, …

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This topic has dominated POLITUSIC gatherings lately: why do so many American voters decide on a candidate based on personality rather than policy? Most voters over 30 will defensively claim …

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“What would Alpha do?” A preface: Some credit for this beta male analysis must be given to one of my favorite authors, Christopher Moore, who wrote a book that humorously analyzes beta …

American Politics and the Beta Male. appeared first on POLITUSIC.

PREFACE: “Party of emotion” is credited to commentary seen with Jonathan Capehart, and “Gravity of Discontent” to Thomas Frank within the same scenery. While it’s doubtful I’ll add qualitatively to their comments …

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We can’t push a pin in the timeline of American History when it happened, but at some point American culture crossed the boundary of “We the People” and fell into “Me …

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UPDATE 01/20/2017: Tea Party, President Trump – they’re part of the same swing of the pendulum… I don’t know about you, but when I close my eyes and visualize American …

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Back in the day (… yes, I am allowed to start Sweet Memory sentences such ways…); back when the family lived close enough to sit around the same table on …

Why People Argue About Politics appeared first on POLITUSIC.

I miss the time when wars were fought by governments. It was easy then. Clear. There was no such thing as rebels with missiles or terrorist cells with high explosives. …

Where Does War End? War Never Ends. appeared first on POLITUSIC.

Related Article: Tea Party Purification America loves an underdog. Once the underdog wins authority, however, we no longer cheer for him. The Tea Party’s purpose is to cheer and shout …

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Sideshow, stage show, or anti-government-fanatic’s peepshow – whatever you call the Ted Cruz Tea Party Express to Political Obscurity, the extreme right wing’s absolutism is all it will take to …

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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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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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Zombies do like their brains. So, too, will the political scientists and strategists of the next generation of national campaigns (because let’s face it, zombies are expensive and not many …

Republican vs Democrat Brain: The Zombifaction of Political Strategy. appeared first on POLITUSIC.

When a threshold is crossed it cannot be uncrossed. When we have a life experience it cannot be un-exerienced. We can’t unhappen 9/11. We can’t erase WWII from our cultures, …

Which Came First, Political Belief or Experience? Information Bubbles. appeared first on POLITUSIC.