Political Musing
The Useful Fiction Act II: The Long Game
At the start, it wasn't a Republican or a Democrat issue, it was a plutocrat capitalist issue, and they think in multi-decade time spans. It pays to have patience
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Where I spend way too much time reading about, thinking about, and writing about politics. It is just a reflection of how fucked up American politics is at the moment. Perhaps one day I will be able to write about Guitars again. I am not holding my breath though
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The Useful Fiction Act I: The Accident
The Middle Class. It resonates, and it is almost a God given American right, but what is it really? Act I of 4 on the Middle Class.
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The Cronkite Moment Isn't Coming: Why This Hole Is Deeper Than the Last One
People keep waiting for the moral shock that turns the tide. That's not how this works anymore. And there's a reason Republicans aren't losing any sleep over it.
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The Longest Game: John Roberts and the Quiet Murder of Voting Rights
This didn't happen last week. This took fifty years of careful, deliberate work. And the man who did it went to his office every day in a nice suit and called it jurisprudence.
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PART TWO: No Offramp
Biden tried the restoration thesis. Here's what it taught us.
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PART ONE: The Table Was Always Crooked
The infrastructure of distrust was assembled over decades. Some of it was earned. The rest was sold to us.
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One True Church: The Republican Party and the Logic of Rome
If the Democrats are like the messy Protestant universe, the Republicans are pure Catholic hierarchy.
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The Protestant Party: Why Democratic Dysfunction Is Actually a Feature
Next up: How the Democratic party eerily mimics the Protestants in America. Some powerful analogs to explore
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God's Precinct: Why American Politics Is Actually a Denominational Dispute
Our politics look an awful lot like the messiness of the main branches of religion in this country, are there solid parallels? Start of a series
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You Loved to Hate It Until You Needed It (Spirit Air)
The Spirit Airlines obituary nobody earned the right to write
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The Comforting Fiction of Clean Money
If only it were so easy as to just reject the mega dollars from corporate villians, alas, there are plenty of other factors that sully that dream
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The Democrats Didn't Lose Their Brand. They Sold It for a Song
And the bill of sale was signed in 1971, long before most of us were paying attention.