by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 6, 2021 | • Politics, The Republicans
The GOP’s main voter bloc is shrinking The electorate is shifting – and not in the Republican Party’s favor A new deep dive into the 2020 electorate by Pew Research contains mostly bad news for Republicans, whose approaching demographic doom is less...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 5, 2021 | • Politics, Donald Trump, The Republicans
Occupy Democrats on FaceBook July 5th 2021 “A day in the life of Sue the Trump supporter… Sue gets up at 6 a.m. and fills her coffeepot with water to prepare her morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 4, 2021 | • Politics
American Insurrection In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, an investigation into how far-right extremist groups have evolved in the wake of the deadly 2017 Charlottesville rally – and the threat they pose...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 4, 2021 | • Politics, The Democrats
Mark Lilla: the liberal who counts more enemies on the left than the right ark Lilla has spent much of his almost four-decade career trafficking in a certain kind of hyper-scholarly intellectual debate. His witty, densely argued essays analyzing Hannah Arendt,...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 4, 2021 | • Politics, Democracy
In push to end gerrymandering, an unlikely state steps into the spotlight PORT HURON, Mich. – In a country where Democrats and Republicans have spent the past year battling over allegations of election fraud and attempts at voter suppression, the earnest scene...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 4, 2021 | • Politics, Income Inequality, Tax Policy
A Trump Tax Break To Help The Poor Went To a Rich GOP Donor’s Superyacht Marina The Rybovich superyacht marina lies on the West Palm Beach, Florida, waterfront, a short drive north from Mar-a-Lago. Superyachts, floating mansions that can stretch more than 300...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 27, 2021 | • Politics, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking, Religion
I grew up in an off-the-grid Christian commune. Here’s what I know about America’s religious beliefs The only time I saw Brother Sam in person, he was marching like a soldier as he preached, with sweat running like tears from his temples and the Bible a...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 18, 2021 | • Politics
…the passage of Obamacare was a traumatic event for Republicans. The wound it opened in the party’s psyche has not fully healed, and even more than a decade after its passage into law, they cannot reconcile themselves to its legitimacy. The passage of Obamacare,...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 14, 2021 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
Opinion | Warren Buffett and the Myth of the ‘Good Billionaire’ Warren Buffett appears to be the safest kind of billionaire: the good kind. Mr. Buffett is neither Zuckerbergian messiah nor Musky provocateur, neither Bezosist space cadet nor Sacklerian...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 14, 2021 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
The quote is from this Atlantic article… The Last Days of the President After leaving the presidency in 1969, Lyndon Johnson lived out the remaining four years of his life in retirement. One of his former speechwriters recounts how he spent it. On the night...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 14, 2021 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
Opinion | What the Rich Don’t Want to Admit About the Poor I’m not going to pretend that I know how to interpret the jobs and inflation data of the past few months. My view is that this is still an economy warped by the pandemic, and that the dynamics are...
