Thirty years later we have reached THE EXACT OPPOSITE POINT, where our own government is handing over these lands to extractive industries to mine for coal and cut down old growth forests. The Secretary of the Department of Interior, a former official in the oil and gas industry, is said to have chortled,
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A president bent on consolidating power can disguise a bloodless massacre as efficiency. Loyalists are promoted, independent thinkers pushed aside, while a compliant military command is cultivated to support a coup. Generals are trained to analyze data, detect patterns, and anticipate threats from abroad. If they cannot recognize this pattern emerging from within, they will have turned a blind eye to the peril now stalking the Republic.
The Power in Money and Politics
Hiring the hit men
There are none as blind as those who refuse to see
Everywhere I go lately, people whisper the same question: are we sliding into another blacklist era? They point out what happened to Stephen Colbert. They point out what happened to Jimmy Kimmel. They point to other entertainers whose shows, jokes, or politics suddenly seemed to cost them work.
Why Democrats Need a Year-Round Voter Engagement Strategy
To date, unfolding right in front of us, the current culmination of this is Project 2025, spearheaded by far-right Heritage Foundation and others. It is the Trump regime playbook, and was devised by far right political intellectuals, including Christian nationalists, and is the plan to dismantle democracy, sector by sector, smashing guardrails against autocracy one-by-one.
I have the argument dozens of different ways. Video of Congresswoman Lisa McClain (from March 25th) is routinely recycled: Trump could have the cure for cancer and the democrats would still be upset. Normally this is the kind of trolling or red-meat-to-the-MAGA-base kind of statement I ignore, but these are not normal times. In critical thinking there are several ‘smell tests’ that can be applied to check the soundness of an argument. Fallacies and contradictions are always things for which critical thinkers should lookout.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the major countries of the world have been aligning in two different blocs: NATO (which includes most European nations, the United States, and Canada), Japan, and South Korea, on one side, and Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and India on the other.