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The Grand Illusion, Part II

September 1st, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Lobbying, Media, Politics, taxes

Part II — Who is telling all those lies…and why? They met on the mall in Washington, that renowned place for great assemblies. They were baby-boomers and beyond and overwhelmingly white. (Maybe when you call a Liberal African-American President, raised by white grandparents a ‘racist” as Glenn Beck did, you may turn away people of [...]

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The Grand Illusion

August 30th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Lobbying, Media, Politics

Part I – Looming disaster and how we got here The Tea Party Movement is neither a movement nor has it anything to do with the traditions of freedom represented by the American Revolution. It is in fact, ironically, about the impulse of an uneducated and badly led society to permit the restriction of its [...]

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Republicans and Tea Party Demonstrators Are Not Populists.

April 19th, 2010 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, jobs, Lobbying, Media, Politics

Populism, as it relates to politics is a theory of action that demands that legislation be written on behalf of the people, and not the special interests. It is the ultimate in Democracy and the ultimate in good will towards man, working from the will of the people to provide remedies and sustenance for the [...]

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The Big Lie

October 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, Politics

The Big Lie. We know what that is…the concept, that is. It is not a new concept. It is the idea that if you tell a big enough lie and tell it often enough people will begin to believe it. But it has been revived in the last 30 years.The idea that, for example, you [...]

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