Authoritarianism

Fascist Politics for Protecting and Empowering a Demagogue

The distinct strategies of fascist politics include: the mythic past, propaganda, anti-intellectualism, unreality, hierarchy, and victimhood. Other strategies also included…

7 years ago

How do Lies Become Accepted as Fact? Please Don’t Help!

The professional messengers of Nazi Germany and the Republican Party know there are two key factors for turning a lie…

7 years ago

Full Employment at a Living Wage Is Impossible With a National Balance Budget

A federal government with a sovereign currency has a unique responsibility/capability - A Balanced Economy. Unlike the federal government, you…

7 years ago

Ending This Long Era of Worsening Injustice

RE: Democracy In Chains by Nancy MacLean and Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean ... Since - Brown v Board…

7 years ago

Privatizing Publicly Funded Resources Abuses Citizens – It Puts Profit Before People

Putting profit before people has led to decades of poisoning our air, our water and our soil. Some of this…

8 years ago

False Equavilancy Reinforces Beliefs in an Alternate Reality

I've posted multiple times about my concerns with profit-centric MSM and their requirement to put profit before the common good…

8 years ago

The Libertarian Stealth War On America’s Democracy

After decades of refining his extreme, right-wing, ideas on control by the wealthy, James McGill Buchanan, professor at the University…

8 years ago

Why Privatize Social Security? More Wealth Transfer for the 1%

Right-wing authoritarian Republican politicians, like Paul Ryan, believe that the individual is solely responsible for their success or failure. Their…

9 years ago

Ready For Rule by a Dictator? – When Will The People Respond?

Since 2005, I’ve written 425 blog posts, , and most of them have been about America's growing authoritarian state. I’ve…

9 years ago

Understanding Your Right-Wing Authoritarian Neighbors And Why You Can’t Re-wire Their Minds

Based on the work of others, primarily Professor George Lakoff, an expert in cognitive linguistics - how the brain uses…

9 years ago