… they're not sending their best.  They're sending their rapists, their criminals, their bribe-takers, their wife-beaters, their tax-evaders, their dead-beat dads, their security clearance failures, their adulterers, their misogynists, … [Read more...]

"There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals.  For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be 'the man in the street.'  Arguments must therefore be crude, … [Read more...]

H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920 : "As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.  On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land … [Read more...]

In an Iowa speech he will give this afternoon, Joe Biden calls out Trump for "fanning the flames of white supremacy." "How far is it from Trump's saying this 'is an invasion' to the shooter in El Paso declaring 'his attack is a response … [Read more...]

How many more innocents have to die? We can't wait until next year.  We must put an end to this mass murder race war madness now. If inciting white supremacist, fascist terror violence isn't an impeachable high crime, it should be. … [Read more...]

A demagogue is a leader who makes use of popular prejudices, false claims and promises in order to gain power by pandering to fear and emotions to shut down reasoned deliberation. Though separated by more than 200 years of history, … [Read more...]

Trying to make sense of the political chaos in our world today, I am reminded that in a democracy we get the government we deserve. George Orwell summed up our current predicament succinctly in Animal Farm : "A people that elect corrupt … [Read more...]

Harry Truman said : " The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know." Some folks may think that Trump's vile racism is new.  Well, think again.  Back in the mid- 1800's bigoted xenophobia was called nativism and there was … [Read more...]