Posted in seeker, tagged democracy on April 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Robert Reich’s The Fed and Democracy is short and illuminating. If the Democrats haven’t shot themselves in the foot by election day—or if they’ve so thoroughly done it that no one can help them—I’m writing in Reich for president.
Posted in seeker, tagged democracy, rules for fools on February 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
You can’t make a third party in a two-party system.
History has the clue: The only successful new party in the US required a great issue to be born. Then, because the system is designed for one party of the conservative rich and one of the liberal rich, the Whigs dissolved and the Republicans took their [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged democracy, history, Thomas Jefferson on January 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Hamilton Versus Jefferson on Popular Rule. A short set of quotes by Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. (But the collector apparently doesn’t know that one was Jefferson paraphrasing the Leveler Richard Rumbold who said, “There was no man born marked of God above another, for none comes into the world with a saddle on his [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged democracy, socialism on January 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Based on what I’ve found online so far, the Social Democrats USA are nutjobs—if you know a kinder word for people who supported the Vietnam War, Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people, and the Iraq War today, I’d love to hear it. Their idea of socialism seems like a form of national socialism: socialism for [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged democracy on September 15, 2007 | 28 Comments »
After a day’s reflection, I’ve realized I can’t become a tax protester. Perhaps this is only rationalization, but here are the reasons:
1. Personal: Emma has Type 1 diabetes and posttraumatic stress disorder as a consequence of breaking both elbows and dealing with the US’s abysmal health care system for over a year; I will not [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged democracy, Israel, religion on January 29, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s an excellent question asked in Israel’s Arab problem hits home | Salon.com. The writer is a Jew who is not quite as objective as he might be. He writes, for example, “Arabs living in what was to become the state of Israel either fled or were expelled (this depends on whose narrative you buy, [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged democracy on December 14, 2004 | 6 Comments »
I like Michael Moore, but he’s gone wrong with It’s Time to Stop Being Hit, a letter quoting and praising Mel Giles for applying the victim metaphor to Democrats. Essentially, Giles is saying that much of the current attempt by the Dems to assess what went wrong is analogous to victims blaming themselves for being [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged democracy on November 19, 2004 | No Comments »
Harry Reid of Nevada will become the Democrats’ leader in the Senate. He’s a teetotal Mormon who opposes abortion and was a co-sponsor of a constitutional amendment banning flag-burning.
I remember my father sitting up with a shotgun because word was out that the Klan would burn our home. For a moment in the early 1960s, [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged democracy on November 18, 2004 | 7 Comments »
I’ve been quiet so you may grieve. I know you want a lot more time than this. But I think it’s time to get back to work. Here’s how:
1. It’s not useful to blame others. Nader and Bush were not our problem. Gore and Kerry are our problem. Their tepid Republican-lite platforms that made [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged democracy on November 3, 2004 | 2 Comments »
I’ve gone through my blog and deleted many of the political posts; I’m not erasing my past; everything on the web is archived somewhere. I’m just streamlining my blog. Why anyone would come here for political thought is beyond me. I’m just a talesmith, a storywright, a guy who makes stuff up.
These are the things [...]
