Let’s talk about cults just enough to see how they connect so clearly to Trumpism. Let’s start with the assumption that the word “cult” is used pejoratively. We don’t think of a cult as a good thing but we need to understand too that it’s a term used for otherness when in fact it applies…
First, a few paragraphs of hard to accept truths. I’ll let you know when we’re closer to a prognosis for better. One of the hardest lessons of our nation that elected this shameless anarchist racist imbecile is that his slogan really does tell it all. They want to go back. Of course they do. Back…
One of the more fascinating features of the Trump Age involves the difference between toadies and dupes. How did they get this way? WTF is wrong with these people? I put it this way because many of them we never thought were this damaged, and we never really quite believed they were this sick. But…
When Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil in 1651 I was still a lad. I jest. But I was assigned The Vast Work at least five times in college for classes in both philosophy and political science. I have reread it countless times, a privilege…
Can You Hear Over the Whirl of Marine One?Listen closely, Pandemonium is Optional His level of unhinged really has taken on new dimensions, hasn’t it? We currently live in a failing reality TV show and desperation for ratings is the tawdry underbelly of the current leader of the “free” world. The Amazon (the real one)…
It’s so easy to snooker the “objective” media. It’s as if they can’t not take the bait. And of all the candidates and voices who understand this, I think Beto really called it out best. I’ll get there in a second but let’s understand first how the non-Fox world of the True Fake Media plays…
We know what everyone is going to say before they say it. I make no claim to illumine so much as attempt to further the human pursuit of understanding. “Understanding” is one of the ways we try to make “order” in a world that refuses to give what what we believe we want. In a…
Trump is a racist, a white supremacist, a moral catastrophe. He is unfit to govern and unfit to lead this nation. If you can deny or excuse this I think there will come another time for you. Who will you say you were when you supported his vile claims upon America? Let Thomas Paine make…
An Accountability for Power Will Be Met With Fierce Resistance Justice has no arch towards goodness. I steadfastly reject that “hope” as little more than wishful thinking. It serves only to permit fictions of justice. Justice must be made and so it must first be imagined and considered—fantasies about goodness are nothing better than soporific…
As If We Needed MoreMore credible evidence the “leader of the free world” is a sexual predator, misogynist, and rapist. More example of the bankruptcy of moral character with no further appeal but to profit that allows murder to go unpunished, worse, unacknowledged, denied, made into false equivalence. More needless deaths of innocents fleeing oppression…