Tag: Politics
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Let’s Roll Up Our Sleeves and Get to Work
Like so many of you, I am in deep despair. I cannot believe that we will spend the next four years with a foul-mouthed, thin-skinned, misogynistic, race-baiting demagogue as our President. I cannot believe that he won over a highly-qualified, well-respected stateswoman who had more job experience than any non-incumbent in recent memory. I cannot…
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More Thoughts on Third-Party Voting and Game Theory
I got a lot of pushback on the last thing I wrote about the “Bernie or Bust” movement, so let me try again to explain why, rationally, it makes no sense to vote third party within the current system. If you don’t want to read the whole thing, skip to the end, where I link…
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So You’re Gonna Vote Third Party, Huh?
I posted a link to this Slate article on my Facebook page today, and got an interesting reply from a friend (name withheld since the post wasn’t public): Trump would mop the floor with her in a General election based entirely upon the attacks he’d use that Sanders has not. There is that email thing…
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How The Republican Party Can Regain Power
I’m giddy with excitement over our new President-Elect, but some of my friends on Facebook are really bumming me out. I’m sure some of them actually think we’re in the End Times now that Obama was won. I truly do sympathize – I am Pro-Life, and I do care about ending abortion. But a political…
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Elite
You know, I don’t care if the President is the smartest guy in the room. I don’t even care if he (or she) is in the top 5. But he damn sure needs to be smart enough to hire smart people, and he sure as hell needs to be smart enough to understand what they…
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Right-wingers: The Playground Bullies of Politics
I just thought the last line of this interview with Robert Reich was funny. I read it and thought, man, he’s exactly right.
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Could We Be Heading for 4-Party General Election?
With the events of the last 3 weeks, we’re really looking at an interesting scenario for November. Hillary Clinton’s campaign continues to insist that it will court superdelegates to win the nomination, no matter the damage to the party, if she hasn’t won a plurality of committed delegates. It certainly doesn’t look at this point…