Tag: politics

“As the election process evolves Trump’s chances of winning the presidency will be virtually destroyed because of how he has completely alienated the vast majority of women, Hispanics, African-Americans, Asians and the mass of Americans.”

“For the sake of our nation’s common good—mostly likely, for the sake of saving human civilization from encroaching climate destruction—I think we must expose the hypothesis that Democrats are beyond reform to testing by purely rational experiment.”

Looking at 7 different polls, it looks like Nevada's caucus might go to Bernie Sanders.

“The question thus facing “socialists” like Sanders is this: When all your idealistic visions for a more humane, more just, more equitable, and more rational society run head-first into the stone wall of the profit motive … which of the two gives way?”

“The overall composition of Congress is not going to change much at all after the election. So, really, the only way to reboot America is to have a smart, benevolent dictator.”

“This is NOT a normal election cycle—and anyone who describes it using the shopworn rhetoric of ‘business as usual’ is almost certainly either living in a cave or acting as a corrupt tool of the ‘toxic Establishment.’”

Round one goes not to the candidates but the media, which reasserted its dominance over the political process — for now.

“Just as democracy and peace are mutually reinforcing, perpetual war and perpetual corruption are mutually reinforcing. The concentrated power involved in conducting war corrupts; corruption undermines democracy, the surest way to peace.”

The lobbying industry, despite a small decline in revenue, is still the fastest way to make big bucks in Washington.

Hillary Clinton predictably pandered to African-Americans at the last presidential debate, again hoping to exploit identity politics to hoodwink black voters.