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Technate of America – The Last Utopians

Posted on January 26, 2026 by greg

Following the crash of 1929 people looked around for a more efficient system to replace the slow movement of capital and to counter the barriers to market projects. One of the solutions that was discussed in the 1930s was a … Continue reading →

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A Message on Tariffs From the Past

Posted on December 10, 2025 by greg

“People react to fear, not love,” explained Richard Nixon, a scaremongering maestro whose cries for “law-and-order” were a coded message to white citizens worried about black crime. “They don’t teach that in Sunday school. But it’s true.” Populist economic policy claims … Continue reading →

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A Response to The One Percent

Posted on November 1, 2025 by greg

According to a Congressional Budget Office report, you need at least $787,712 in income per year to make the top 1%, but this varies by where you live. As of 2023, the top 1% of American households owned 30.0% of … Continue reading →

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Consequences of the Tea Party and the Search for Truth

Posted on October 1, 2025 by greg

Big Oil and Big Tobacco partnered with the Koch brothers to take over the GOP. Charles and David Koch were key figures, using their wealth to fund anti-regulation thinktanks and organizations like Americans for Prosperity to promote the Tea Party’s … Continue reading →

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The Danger of Conspiracy Theories

Posted on September 1, 2025 by greg

QAnon emerged in October 2017 from cryptic internet postings purported to originate from a high-level US official. Drawing on almost all previous conspiracy theories, it asserts that Donald Trump is engaged in a secret war with a Satanic pedophile cabal, … Continue reading →

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Understanding Trump’s Use of Gaslighting

Posted on August 1, 2025 by greg

Gaslighting behavior has always been present in history, to a degree. It is par for the course whenever a person or entity wants to exert as much control as possible over others. By some accounts, politicians’ lying is a rational … Continue reading →

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A Call for Change, Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Posted on July 1, 2025 by greg

Mark Twain noted: Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason. Continue reading →

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Response to the Failure of Trickle-Down Economics

Posted on June 1, 2025 by greg

Critics argue that tax cuts for the wealthy may not be reinvested in ways that benefit the broader economy, and may instead be used for other purposes. Continue reading →

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Responding to the Cult of Fear in Politics

Posted on May 1, 2025 by greg

A cult is a group of people who organize around a strong authority figure. Cults, like many other groups, attempt to expand their influence for the purposes of power or money. No one joins a cult; they are recruited by … Continue reading →

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Project 2025: a Blueprint for Corporate Dystopia

Posted on April 15, 2025 by greg

Corporate dystopia is a future or alternate history where corporate power has lead to an oppressive society, a society that fails to meet at least some peoples needs, or otherwise fits the typical definitions of a dystopia. Continue reading →

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