About Andy Hailey
Vietnam Vet, UT El Paso Grad, Retired Aerospace Engineer, former union rep, kid of a WWII WASP, Vet for Peace, universist, web admin, blogger - helping to expose America’s growing Authoritarianism.
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/the-wawg-blog.org
Professor Robert Altemeyer of the University of Manitoba collaborated with John Dean on Dean’s book Conservatives Without Conscience (CWC), which I have referenced often. Professor Altemeyer has also written an on-line book about
- Related WAWG Article: <a href="http://wp.me/pegMB-1b4" target="_blank" title="Members of the Tea Party are the red-white-and-blue shirts who are leading the way to a fascist America.">The Tea Party – The “Masses†for American Fascism</a>
Posted in Authoritarianism, Disdain of Educated & Artists, Enemy/Scapegoat
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Tagged Fascism - Here?
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Conservatives without conscience (CWC) are imagining that the mega and ultra rich will create jobs if they are certain they can keep their excessive tax breaks. The only thing certain about job creation is – it’s not happening. First of … Continue reading →
- Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.cbpp.org/files/2-28-09tax.pdf" target="_blank" title="Restoring the top two tax rates as proposed would affect fewer than 1.9 percent offilers with any small-business income in 2009">VERY FEW SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS WOULD FACE TAX INCREASES UNDER PRESIDENT’S BUDGET</a>, <a href="http://www.epi.org/economic_snapshots/entry/webfeatures_snapshots_20081022/" target="_blank" title="Not only are many of these stimulus options more effective, but they also have the added benefit of assisting those hardest hit by the downturn">Stimulating the economy - Maximum economic bang for the buck</a>
- Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/22-statistics-that-prove-the-middle-class-is-being-systematically-wiped-out-of-existence-in-america-2010-7" target="_blank" title="United States had the largest and most prosperous middle class in the history of the world, but now that is changing at a blinding pace.">22 Statistics That Prove The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out</a>, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/facts-about-inequality-in-america-2011-11?slop=1#slideshow-starthttp://www.businessinsider.com/facts-about-inequality-in-america-2011-11?slop=1#slideshow-start" target="_blank" title="our average wages are still falling behind inflation, and social mobility is at an all-time low"> 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America</a>
Posted in Common Wealth
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Tagged Mega Rich RWA
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The brain learns by repetition. The more repetition the more, and stronger, the links between neurons for remembering those repeated items. Adding NOT to a conservative statement only reenforces the neural connections for it. Nixon said, “I’m not a crook.” … Continue reading →
As written about earlier, there is an immense divergence in income growth for most of us, the bottom 90 percent, and the income growth of the mega, top 1 percent, and ultra, top 0.1 percent, rich. This point is made … Continue reading →
- Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.pbs.org/fmc/book.htm" target="_blank" title="Social change in the United States during the twentieth century">THE FIRST MEASURED CENTURY: An Illustrated Guide to Trends in America, 1900–2000</a>, <a href="http://www.rationalrevolution.net/articles/recession_cause.htm" target="_blank" title="A basic understanding for what caused The Great Recession.">How Reagan Sowed the Seeds of America's Demise</a>, <a href="http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/" target="_blank" title="The most comprehensive independent analysis of the U.S. labor market">The State of Working America 2008/2009</a>, <a href="http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html" target="_blank" title="Wealth is equally divergent between the bottom 99 and the top 1 percent">Wealth, Income, and Power</a>
- Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3309&emailView=1" target="_blank" title="Top 1 percent held a larger share of income in 2007 than at any time since 1928">Recent Gains of Bottom 90 Percent Wiped Out</a>, <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer" target="_blank" title="The Kochs are longtime libertarians who believe in drastically lower personal and corporate taxes, minimal social services for the needy, and much less oversight of industry." >COVERT OPERATIONS</a>
Posted in Corporate Intrusion
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Tagged Mega Rich RWA
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An article about Congress deciding its next pay raise, had this to say about the richest 235 of them: Senators had a median reportable net worth of $1.79 million in 2008, the last year such data were available, down from … Continue reading →
Do you wonder why Democrats have gone from a significant victory in 2008 to looking at big losses in Congress in 2010? Do you wonder what it is the Republicans know and what the Democrats need to learn to avoid … Continue reading →
- Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com/resource-center/cognitive-policy/why-voters-arent-motivated-by-a-laundry-list-of-positions-on-issues/" target="_blank" title="The values, frames, and arguments that make sense of the political process.">Why Voters Aren’t Motivated by a Laundry List of Positions on Issues</a>, <a href="http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com/2009/08/20/the-policyspeak-disaster-for-health-care/" target="_blank" title="It is vital that progressives learn how the political mind works in order to succeed.">The Policyspeak Disaster for Health Care</a>
Posted in Empathy
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There’s a commercial where citizens are complaining about taxes on energy and how that will “kill jobs.” That may be true or just rhetoric. But if these taxes cause the long term reduction in pollution of our air, land and … Continue reading →
RE: Ron Paul to Sunshine Patriots: Stop Your Demagogy About The NYC Mosque!,  Representative Paul, I think John Dean, former counsel for Richard Nixon’s White House, best described those inflicting this insult on the nation as “Conservatives WIthout Conscience” – also … Continue reading →
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Posted in Authoritarianism
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The population of Lebanon is 95 percent Arab and is mostly of the Muslim faith with a large Christian population, but only around 200 Jews: Muslim 59.7% (Shia, Sunni, Druze, Isma’ilite, Alawite or Nusayri), Christian 39% (Maronite Catholic, Greek Orthodox, … Continue reading →
Governor Dean, Your optimism is admirable relative to achieving a compromise between those that have such strong ‘feelings’ over the civic center in NY. However, history shows that right-wing authoritarians (RWA), not just their leaders, don’t compromise. They do not … Continue reading →
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