Tag Archives: Donald Trump

 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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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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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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Countering An Existential Threat: Trump & Project 2025

Posted on October 1, 2024 by greg

Existential risks are defined as “risks that threaten the destruction of humanity’s long-term potential.” Over the long term, climate change is an existential threat, and it is younger generations and those still to come who will more fully bear the … Continue reading →

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 How the Cult of Victimhood Dominates Politics

Posted on September 15, 2024 by greg

Victimhood is now a pivotal means by which individuals and groups see themselves and constitute themselves as political actors. Continue reading →

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Revenge of the Autocrats: The Battle Over Future Freedom

Posted on July 15, 2024 by greg

The term “collective narcissism” was first used by Theodore Adorno to describe the sentiment that gave support to Nazi rule in Germany in the 1930s. Continue reading →

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Collective Narcissist Supports Populism and Authoritarianism

Posted on May 15, 2024 by greg

Collective narcissism is a belief that one’s own group (the in-group) is exceptional but not sufficiently recognized by others Continue reading →

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Proposed Changes: Overview of Trump’s 2024 Social Contract

Posted on April 15, 2024 by greg

Change is a direction or set of decisions translated into actions that influence a difference in organizational operations, identity, and overall ethos. Social change refers to changes in the political or economic context of societies which affect the vast majority … Continue reading →

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