politics
Politics does not dictate our collective cultural mindset as much as it simply reflects it; We've got to look in the mirror sometimes, and we've got one.
Gangs of the United States
Devlin Bronte Rachele Bedford, Pennsylvania Saturday, October 3, 2020 Dear Evan, In your last letter you had asked me if I thought Biden or Trump would be the better choice for America. You asked which had the better idea, which could lead America to a place of greatness. You also asked which one’s plans would create a situation of long lasting greatness for our nation. Unfortunately I can’t give you a simple answer. Just to say this man or that man has the better idea would be meaningless to the point of impotency. These are serious times and we need the best answers we can find. The best answer I can give is one which will shed a light on our situation and truly help you to understand it as well as the solution to our nation’s ails. I feel it would be better to break it down into parts. Once you have all the parts you will be able to put it all together and fully understand my answer to your question.
By V. H. Eberle5 years ago in The Swamp
Chaotic First Presidential Debate
Many Americans on Tuesday, after months of being clogged by the COVID-19, tired after a long summer of rapidly spreading wildfires and social equality protests, enduring mass joblessness, and becoming very pessimistic about government from long stretches of toxic political talk turned people turned TVs on to hear what the two men competing for the country's most noteworthy office had to say for themselves.
By Giorgi Mikhelidze5 years ago in The Swamp
If Johnson “Resigns” would it harm Support for Independence?
If 2020 were a book it would be the Necronomicon. H.P. Lovecraft created a universe where Humans are irrelevant to the Great Old Ones and those who exist between the dimensions. We have plausible candidates for the Idiot God Azathoth and the endlessly baying gods who surround him. We have a candidate for Nyarlathotep the crawling chaos radiating contempt for his masters while pouring chaos into the void and we have the backbench unionist shoggoths. To them humans are as irrelevant as the law.
By Axel P Kulit5 years ago in The Swamp
Naive Little Brats
As someone who has more or less always identified as someone firmly on the left side of the political aisle, it has become clear to me since 2016 that an emboldened and distinctly naive group of leftists have allowed themselves to become Trump's metaphorical key to the White House doors. Youtube's leftist firebrands like Jimmy Dore, Kyle Kulinski and Krystal Ball have all wittingly (no, I don't mean unwittingly) paved the way for a President Trump presidency.
By Todd Schultz5 years ago in The Swamp
Through the Eyes of Children, a Look Back at the 2016 Election
Photo by Bill Smith It’s getting very close to election day and some local kids are decidedly not among the undecided. “Hillary Clinton is running against “wrong” Donald Trump,” jibed Melissa. But they don’t see it in all rights like their elders.
By Rich Monetti5 years ago in The Swamp
1928
On November 6, 1928, the United States held its presidential elections in which the Republican Herbert Hoover Roosevelt defeated the Democrat Alfred E. Smith by a margin of 2.5 million votes. Citing his reputation as a strong executive and humanitarian, Hoover gave only eight campaign speeches while riding the wave of Republican economic prosperity.
By Something Complicated5 years ago in The Swamp
Are We Seeing the End of Democracy?
I have said since 2016...since the election results were confirmed...Trump will not leave power quietly! Many over the years have told me that my "hate" for our President comes from the media telling me what to think. I don't need the media to convince me that this man should have never been elected to the highest office in the nation. I've been here for a while, and I have a really good memory. Before social media...before the vast internet.
By Chantal Spurgeon5 years ago in The Swamp
Dominic Raab: Speaking to Kay Burley of Sky News.
Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, has been speaking to Sky's Kay Burley, regarding COVID, in the UK. Dominic Raab outlined new measures brought in by the government and the re-enforcing of old rules. The fear of a new lockdown has been a major worry for many. The UK, as a whole, is facing a new spike in COVID-19, as the Autumn period for the UK officially began yesterday.
By Nicholas Bishop5 years ago in The Swamp
Let's Talk About Justice
I'm going to be honest, while I frequently stay up to date on politics, I never knew how much Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or RBG for short, influenced women's rights. Her famous quote "Women belong in all places where decisions are being made," is a perfect representation of how women need to be involved in politics.
By Grace Genet5 years ago in The Swamp
THE FIRE THIS TIME
James Baldwin wrote, “One’s bitterness begins to be palatable and hatred becomes too heavy a sack to carry.” Indeed, these days hating is tasty. It’s the number one flavor once you tune in to your news of choice or log on to Facebook. A Senior Engineer recently got fired by Mark Zuckerberg for sharing evidence that the social media site lets conservative online ruckus slide. While liberal users posting news about Trump’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic often spend thirty days in Facebook jail. Somehow the condition of COVID has been branded with race and class. Does this truly overlap and interplay? Or just distract? It ain’t droves of Black and Brown spreading the pandemic from the Sturgis Motorcycle rally.
By Tanya Kennedy5 years ago in The Swamp
Why are far-left notions always fashionable?
For many, it is generally accepted that far-left ideologies are tantalisingly alluring, yet unavoidably unworkable. Nevertheless, this does not stop supporters of such movements from promoting the cause as often as they can, in any way they can.
By Daniel McNay5 years ago in The Swamp
Unipolar Order
A unipolar order in the international world can be described as an allotment of power in which one state, the superpower, exercises its influence in terms of culture, economy, and military. It illustrates the nature of the global system at any given time. In the unipolar order, the superpower or the leader state normally dictates the internal politics and the communal character of the sub-ordinate states that are parts of the hegemonic subject of influence.
By Bella Ortiz5 years ago in The Swamp
