Lady in Blue has a few legal questions: I’ll answer them. For me, though, the real questions are why Trump is trying to cause so much trouble and what he hopes to accomplish. First: Can Trump override the governors? A: No. If the citizens of a state think that their governor is infringing their first …
LetsNotRepeatThePast asked: There is no book that brings together my threads because I draw from a very broad range of scholarship (history, philosophy, political psychology, law, Constitutional history, etc). But here are my recommendations for reading that has most helped me understand how we got here, and how we get out. These are the books …
Part I is here. Part II is here. We come now to the part when the Leader decides people must be willing to risk death (and die) and the Fox-Trump-GOP—conditioned to obey a leader—falls in line. The goal of a hierarchical government is to preserve the hierarchy. In contrast, the goal of a democratic (fairness) …
Part I is here. Recall: Where we left off: The hierarchical leaders who want the freedom to lie and steal and cheat have a problem: Persuading their victims to vote for them. One way the GOP gets votes is by nurturing and stoking racial grievances. They get certain people to vote against their economic interests …
Andy King asked: By this he meant call from the Right Wing that people should be willing to die for the economy. If you missed it, here’s the clip of Trump saying that health care worker are “warriors” who are “running into death, just like soldiers run into bullets . . . incredible to see, …
If you’re on Twitter, perhaps you’ve seen people calling for violence. I assume it’s happening on other social media as well. It looks like this: Why on earth do people think there is ever a good time to panic? I entirely fail to understand what good comes from putting our hair on fire. Will we …
Dr. Rick Bright testified this morning before the House Subcommittee on Health. What started on Twitter as me live tweeting the hearing turned into a Twitter discussion about the GOP, truth, and fairness. Dr. Bright filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that he was removed from his position because he objected when Trump wanted “flood the …
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As you can see, I started off answering a question about Trump’s taxes, and then got a bit irritated with some of my followers on Twitter. After the Supreme Court oral arguments yesterday on whether Congress and a New York grand jury can have access to Trump’s taxes and financial records, a Twitter follower asked: …
In response to my post How Fairness Wins, Andrew Cuda asked about the connection between hierarchical thinkers and conspiracy theories: It’s a good question. Short answer: Embracing the hierarchy mindset requires rejecting factuality and entering a world of myth. This answer will also explain why Bill Barr and pals reject rule of law and think …
This question was in response to my thread on hierarchy and fairness: How do Democrats overcome the GOP’s baked-in advantages? Spoiler: Democrats win by being the party of fairness. It isn’t easy, but Democrats have numbers on their side. The GOP, by its very nature, has baked-in advantages. That’s why a small group on the …
