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Wealth Transfer – America’s Growing Plutocracy

While reading through a 1967 college text on Today's ISMs by William Ebenstein, I came across this statement on wealth…

14 years ago

Fear Mongering Over Debt and Deficits – It’s Happened Before, Why Then, Why Now?

Why are we, as a nation, no longer expressing concern about the employment deficit? Because the media and the politicians…

14 years ago

Social Dominance Authoritarians – Rule By Fearful Fantasies

In 2006, John Dean wrote this about neoconservatives in his book Conservatives Without Conscience: Neoconservatives are a relatively small group…

14 years ago

Violence Against Americans by Americans – Individual Action Is Only Part of the Story

Individual actions result from the influences of many factors. This is referred to as "systemic causation." Some factors are genetic…

14 years ago

The Hypothetical Left/Center/Right Scale – Has The Republican Party Become Extremist?

In E. J. Dionne's Where the 'No Labels' movement falls short, he states: The truth is that the American right…

14 years ago

Let The Mega and Ultra Rich Have Their Gift of Greed – They Have a New Way to Create Jobs

Let the mega and ultra rich take their capital-gains-based, inherited-without-struggle wealth and create high-paying jobs. Here's how. Thanks to the…

14 years ago

The Tea Party – The “Masses” for American Authoritarianism

In 2003, Laurence W. Britt, reviewed seven national regimes which followed the "fascist or protofascist model in obtaining, expanding, and…

14 years ago

Analysis of the Tea Party – Loyal Right-wing Authoritarian Followers

Professor Robert Altemeyer of the University of Manitoba collaborated with John Dean on Dean's book Conservatives Without Conscience (CWC), which…

14 years ago

The Koch Brothers, enabled by Citizens United, Want to Buy Our Government – Will You Vote to Stop This?

As written about earlier, there is an immense divergence in income growth for most of us, the bottom 90 percent,…

14 years ago

Bad Deeds for 9-16-2010

  Republicans Have Been Lying About the Deficit - The Treasury says that the deficit for August of this year…

14 years ago