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Where the Delusional Cult Goes From Here, And How We All Depend on Truths We Can Source

November 21, 2020November 21, 2020Douglas BrooksLeave a comment

If the Trump Cult fails according to the template we can expect a transition of power—Biden will be President on January 20th and the insanity will have “lost,” for now. It’s not going to be that simple because in this case the cult is no small faction or isolate. It is now a major...

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Disbelief as Asset and Vulnerability, Knowledge as Trust and Accountability

November 18, 2020November 21, 2020Douglas BrooksLeave a comment

Rajanaka taught me to follow the evidence, be prepared to change my mind (not that anyone likes to do that), and look with askance upon certainty. Certainty is, after all, more dangerous than ignorance. Misinformation helps form the shadow of doubt when we are eager (for any number of reasons) or have reason to...

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Politics at the Altar of White Nationalism

November 16, 2020November 21, 2020Douglas BrooksLeave a comment

The former Republican Party has made explicit that it’s path to white nationalism is now complete. Strangely enough, the coup won’t be Trump maintaining power over a duly elected President Biden. It will be that the only major political opposition to those who seek governance based on sane institutions and values of democracy has...

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America’s Fraud

November 12, 2020November 21, 2020Douglas BrooksLeave a comment

I think it’s time to get honest about what is most likely going to unfold as a “nation.” As whole-heartedly as I endorse and deeply admire President-Elect Biden’s efforts to unite and reconcile and compromise, I think there is almost no chance that anything meaningful will be accomplished in Congress. We will have an...

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Biden’s Steady Ship and Trump’s Incitements to Violence

November 11, 2020November 21, 2020Douglas BrooksLeave a comment

We know we can expect even worse from Trump and his minions for weeks to come. We know that his media enablers, particularly Fox, Breitbart, Rush, InfoWars, and the rest, will do their part to further the lies and disinformation. They form a threat to the republic in ways our 18th century founding documents...

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We Will Do This Together

November 3, 2020November 21, 2020Douglas BrooksLeave a comment

The State of the Union is on the line. There will be a tomorrow one way or the other. It’s going to be hard even in victory. I am thankful for all of those far more vulnerable than I who have had the courage and the goodness to protest, to show up, to vote....

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The Day Before the Days After

November 2, 2020November 21, 2020Douglas BrooksLeave a comment

Will America take the next step to being a multi-racial, multi-ethnic democracy or choose rule by the authoritarian minority? It seems to me that there are two ways that we can fail this test and only one way—maybe—we can head off certain debacle. First, the majority fails to appear in the crucial places where...

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Thoughts and Prayers, Jokes and Empathy

October 18, 2020November 21, 2020Douglas BrooksLeave a comment

Yesterday we were talking a bit about the power of humor and how it can convey a desire to bring change, especially when it is charged with more than crass ridicule or obvious rebuke. And also, how a joke can become light to the shadows of indecency. N.B., when writing about being funny its...

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Impunity is Soulless*

August 28, 2020November 21, 2020Douglas BrooksLeave a comment

Trump has lived a life without consequences, without accountability, slathered in privilege and autarchy. We are supposed to be a nation governed by the rule of law in which everyone agrees that no person receives privilege of exemption, where acts of impunity are shamed and then prosecuted. But why we have learned from Trump...

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Binaries Apply

August 26, 2020November 21, 2020Douglas BrooksLeave a comment

It’s usually imprudent to reduce matters to binaries. Too many things happen in the in between. But not this time. This time it’s not a choice. That is where we have arrived. It is binary. It’s the simplest test of character but not between candidates. That has already been revealed. It is  America’s test....

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