There Ain’t No Success like Failure
Do we support the “occupation” of the Senate Chamber as an expression of righteous anger over the feeling that the election was stolen? Not really, because it will not achieve anything.
Do we support the “occupation” of the Senate Chamber as an expression of righteous anger over the feeling that the election was stolen? Not really, because it will not achieve anything.
Mobilization and separation, not persuasion, is the way forward.
The United States has gone through at least six "party systems." Populism, war, or economic crises usually trigger a change from one system to another.
Decentralized decision-making is critically important in potential emergency situations, because only property owners have the skin in the game that that forces people to think long and hard about the consequences and side effects of their actions.
Mobilization and separation, not persuasion, is the way forward.
Tate Fegley reviews Elizabeth Hinton's book on mass incarceration, finding in it a good overview of US criminal justice from Kennedy to Reagan, but no clear, discernible thesis.
Abolishing the Electoral College is likely to worsen national conflict and disunity.
Unless the Left's opponents focus on changing voters' ideological drift to the left, candidates who want to actually win elections will have to keep moving left also.
The GOP is at its worst when it's run by the old Bush-Romney-Cheney faction that was in power before Trump. Will "Trumpism" endure, or will the party go back to its old warmongering, pro-establishment ways?