Trump did not like it when Twitter fact checked one of his tweets in which he gave false information about mail-in voting. He responded to being fact checked by issuing an Executive Order targeting social media platforms. To give you a taste, it includes this snippet: The Executive Order is more of what Trump has …
After reading this post, Walker asked: Spoiler: A surprising number of people prefer a “strongman” to rule-of-law democracy. Let’s start with a definition of liberal democracy. I like Lincoln’s definition: “A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and balances , and always changing with deliberate changes of popular opinion and sentiments is the only …
After reading this post, Walker asked: Spoiler: A surprising number of people prefer a “strongman” to rule-of-law democracy. Let’s start with a definition of liberal democracy. I like Lincoln’s definition: “A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and balances , and always changing with deliberate changes of popular opinion and sentiments is the only …
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 …
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 …
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, …
