by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 23, 2017 | • Politics, Democracy, The Democrats
Seth’s Blog We may dream of the mass market, but the mass market doesn’t dream of us. Almost no one visits your restaurant, almost no one buys your bestselling book, almost no one watches the Tonight Show. Rare indeed is a market… Growth comes from...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 19, 2017 | • Politics, Democracy, Donald Trump
What can Plato teach us about Donald J. Trump? A lot says British-American author and blogger Andrew Sullivan. WATCH the first of our viewpoints – the “delicious spectacle” of Donald...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 6, 2016 | • Politics, Democracy, Donald Trump, Sociology
The United States Is Not an Apocalyptic Wasteland, Explains Steven Pinker Donald Trump’s rise to power was driven in part by an apocalyptic narrative according to which, in a phrase, you are in grave danger. This is consistent with many people’s intuitions...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 6, 2016 | • Politics, Democracy
It was the Democrats’ embrace of neoliberalism that won it for Trump | Naomi Klein They will blame James Comey and the FBI. They will blame voter suppression and racism. They will blame Bernie or bust and misogyny. They will blame third parties and independent...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 5, 2016 | • Politics, Democracy
Evan McMullin tweetstorm on resisting the incoming regime Some of you will recall Evan McMullin as one of the three major alternative candidates in the 2016 presidential election, after the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein....
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 29, 2016 | • Politics, Democracy, Donald Trump
Trump’s NYT transcript: Read it, and weep for our country I urge everyone to take the time to read the entire transcript of Donald Trump’s on-the-record interview with the New York Times. It will make you cringe, grimace and maybe even cry. Some of it has...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 5, 2016 | • Politics, Democracy, The 2016 Presidential Race
How to Get Beyond Our Tribal Politics News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. Whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump wins Tuesday, understanding the psychological causes of our...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 27, 2016 | • Politics, Democracy, Right Wing Lunacy
The Disinherited: There is a reason that the white American underclass is so out of step with the rest of America: if you live in a pretend world for long enough you snap The Disinherited: There is a reason that the white American underclass is so out of step with the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 27, 2016 | • Politics, Democracy, The 2016 Presidential Race
How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system. It was January 1975, and the Watergate Babies had arrived in Washington looking for...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 14, 2016 | • Politics, Democracy, Donald Trump, The 2016 Presidential Race
Startling and disturbing. Have I ever said that I think Trump is an authoritarian proto-Fascist? The 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights – Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 10, 2016 | • Politics, Democracy, Donald Trump, The 2016 Presidential Race
Donald Trump’s Threat to Jail Hillary Clinton Was the Only Debate Moment That Mattered ST. LOUIS-The most important part of Sunday night’s presidential debate happened within the first 20 minutes. The rest wasn’t uninteresting-at one point, Donald...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 29, 2016 | Democracy
What is Citizens United? | An Introduction What is Citizens United? The short answer is it’s two different but related things: a Political Action Committee (PAC) in Washington, D.C., and a Supreme Court case about election spending in which the aforementioned...
