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Connecting Project 2025 and Scopes Monkey Trial

Posted on March 30, 2025 by greg

Project 2025 calls for establishing a government that would be imbued with “biblical principles” and run by a president who holds sweeping executive powers. Christian nationalism believes that the Christian Bible, as God’s infallible law, should be the basis of … Continue reading →

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How Our Loneliness is Feeding Authoritarianism

Posted on March 15, 2025 by greg

Throughout the 16th century, loneliness was often evoked in sermons to frighten churchgoers from sin – people were asked to imagine themselves in lonely places such as hell or the grave. But well into the 17th century, the word was … Continue reading →

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Political Doublespeak and the Breakdown of Society

Posted on March 1, 2025 by greg

The art of political doublespeak is the deliberate use of obscure and ambiguous language. Continue reading →

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 When Symbolic Violence Turns into Symbolic Warfare

Posted on February 15, 2025 by greg

The title, The Fountainhead, refers to the source of human progress which, according to Rand, is ego – act on the virtue of rational self-interest. By 2018 Ayn Rand and her novels had become widespread cultural reference points among wealthy … Continue reading →

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Trump and the Politics of Neoliberal Distraction

Posted on February 1, 2025 by greg

Research, conducted on humans and macaque monkeys, concludes that our ability to focus is designed to work in bursts of attention, rather than uninterruptedly. For instance, while it may seem that you are continuously focusing on reading this article, the … Continue reading →

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On the Road to Authoritarianism: The Challenges

Posted on January 15, 2025 by greg

Throughout most of U.S. history, when prosperity and opportunity have been more broadly shared, especially for women and people of colour, it’s been hand-in-hand with the expansion of democracy and individual freedoms, not their curtailment. Structural and systemic economic unfairness … Continue reading →

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Trump As the Conduit for the Alt Right: The Consequences

Posted on January 1, 2025 by greg

Digital media has played a significant role in the rise of right-wing populism, facilitating the circulation of extremist propaganda. Around the world populist movements are wreaking economic destruction and social turmoil in the name of moral principles. The biggest takeaway … Continue reading →

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How Disinformation Supports Post-truth and Authoritarianism

Posted on December 15, 2024 by greg

Postmodernism is defined as the reaction to assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality. Postmodernism says that there is no real truth. It says that knowledge is always made or invented and not discovered. Postmodernism is based … Continue reading →

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The Plutocracy and Big Money: the Cost of Money in Politics

Posted on December 1, 2024 by greg

Billionaires do not hesitate to present their ideology as interpretation of truth. Hedge fund billionaire Bob Mercer and his family spent millions in GAI (Government Accountability Institute), Breitbart and Cambridge Analytica during the 2016 campaign to get Trump elected. Hillary … Continue reading →

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Shapeshifting Supports Republicans Getting Back into Power

Posted on October 31, 2024 by greg

Shape-shifting means either you don’t want to be understood as you are in your core, or that there’s not a real shape to who you are; you just morph into whatever advances your interests depending on the circumstances. Continue reading →

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