POLITUSIC https://www.politusic.com/ Left-leaning political and social articles to help you understand American politics, appreciate music, and laugh at being human. Wed, 18 May 2022 23:16:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.politusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/pt-square-96x96.png POLITUSIC https://www.politusic.com/ 32 32 How democrats can win every election: snow storms. https://www.politusic.com/politics/malarkey/how-democrats-can-win-every-election-snow-storms/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/malarkey/how-democrats-can-win-every-election-snow-storms/#respond Wed, 18 May 2022 23:16:59 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=21438 POLITUSIC

The worst president in the history of the United States might have actually done democrats a favor: he’s managed to completely polarize how people vote. Democrats and independents vote by …

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American Democracy Will Die Without A Center Majority Resurgence https://www.politusic.com/rants/american-democracy-will-die-without-a-center-majority-resurgence/ https://www.politusic.com/rants/american-democracy-will-die-without-a-center-majority-resurgence/#respond Sun, 15 May 2022 19:51:00 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=21424 POLITUSIC

A two party system is difficult enough for democracy, but it becomes inoperable when it loses a center majority. America has crossed that threshold. There’s an inverse relationship between political …

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Who Is To Blame For Overturning Roe v Wade? Bernie Sanders. https://www.politusic.com/rants/who-is-to-blame-for-overturning-roe-v-wade-bernie-sanders/ https://www.politusic.com/rants/who-is-to-blame-for-overturning-roe-v-wade-bernie-sanders/#respond Sat, 14 May 2022 20:36:03 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=21376 POLITUSIC

History teaches time and time again that an overly-idealistic crusader for Cause ends up being the trigger for its demise. In Bernie’s case: Cause was a more progressive America. Overturning …

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Republicans Want Extremism: It Gives More Power To SCOTUS https://www.politusic.com/politics/dysfunction/republicans-want-extremism-it-gives-more-power-to-scotus/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/dysfunction/republicans-want-extremism-it-gives-more-power-to-scotus/#respond Tue, 10 May 2022 23:03:41 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=21430 POLITUSIC

Mitch McConnell might try to make a facial expression and say he “does not condone _____” when speaking about the ever-growing Q-Anon, “democrats are pedophiles” wing of his, the Republican …

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America At Rock Bottom: 1 or 2 Terms Of Donald Trump? https://www.politusic.com/politics/presidential/america-at-rock-bottom-1-or-2-terms-donald-trump-president/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/presidential/america-at-rock-bottom-1-or-2-terms-donald-trump-president/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2020 00:27:26 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=21343 POLITUSIC

Day after day Ignorance and Hate continue to kick us in the face. America at rock bottom is when Ignorance and Hate punch each other in the face and both …

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Trump, Flags, Chanting, Nazis, and a Ladder https://www.politusic.com/politics/presidential/trump-american-flags-chanting-nazis/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/presidential/trump-american-flags-chanting-nazis/#respond Sun, 20 Sep 2020 01:32:16 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=21305 POLITUSIC

Global consensus is that nothing can ever be compared to Nazi Germany. No current or future atrocity could be worse than The Holocaust. Thus far that is correct. But there’s …

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Republicans Love Of Conspiracy Theories, 1st Amendment Abuse https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/republicans-love-conspiracy-theories-first-amendment-danger/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/republicans-love-conspiracy-theories-first-amendment-danger/#respond Fri, 11 Sep 2020 17:31:17 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=21268 POLITUSIC

For republicans, personal belief defines freedom, rather than freedom providing space to define belief. It’s perfectly backward and an abuse of free speech. The Republican Party has a problem, and …

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Why Do Republicans Believe Trump’s Lies? Option Two… https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/why-do-republicans-believe-trumps-lies-option-two/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/why-do-republicans-believe-trumps-lies-option-two/#respond Mon, 07 Sep 2020 20:54:59 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=21261 POLITUSIC

When first attempting to answer the question, “Why do republicans believe Trump’s lies?” we left out another option: but they don’t give a crap. Honorable and Honest don’t exist in …

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Why Do Republicans Believe Trump’s Lies? https://www.politusic.com/politics/dysfunction/why-do-republicans-believe-trumps-lies/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/dysfunction/why-do-republicans-believe-trumps-lies/#respond Sun, 06 Sep 2020 21:05:57 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=21207 POLITUSIC

Not only did Donald Trump show his followers they could be racist-like-their-grandpappy without a white-hooded hint of shame, Trump pushed cultural-change defiance beyond the point that any rational person thought …

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The Republican Base is Crazy. And Stinks. Here’s Why. https://www.politusic.com/politics/dysfunction/the-republican-base-is-crazy-and-stinks-heres-why/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/dysfunction/the-republican-base-is-crazy-and-stinks-heres-why/#respond Mon, 31 Aug 2020 00:04:30 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=21176 POLITUSIC

America is young and dumb (we’ve all been there). Grown-up countries have been saying it for years. Brash and ignorant, mistaking mistakes of inexperience for originality, America is a problem …

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How Joe Biden Can Win: Commit To One Term https://www.politusic.com/politics/presidential/how-joe-biden-can-win-commit-to-one-term/ Sat, 21 Mar 2020 17:11:14 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=21149 POLITUSIC

Joe Biden has two, equally stubborn problems to solve if he wants to win the presidency: Bernie Sanders supporters and Donald J. Trump. Any person who isn’t brainwashed by right-wing …

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2020 Presidential Election: Trumpism or a Berniebust. Where’s Truth & Reason? https://www.politusic.com/politics/theory/2020-election-truth-or-trumpism-bernie-sanders-is-donald-trump/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/theory/2020-election-truth-or-trumpism-bernie-sanders-is-donald-trump/#respond Sun, 23 Feb 2020 17:07:04 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=21124 POLITUSIC

Feel the Bern and MAGA are the same. They are brothers. They are destined to increase extremism and alienate the majority of citizens who prefer government be run by people …

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Democrats Will (Still) Lose The 2018 Midterm Election https://www.politusic.com/politics/democrats/democrats-will-lose-the-2018-election-congress-senate/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/democrats/democrats-will-lose-the-2018-election-congress-senate/#respond Tue, 09 Oct 2018 16:48:40 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=21031 POLITUSIC

Democrats will lose the 2018 midterm elections because they still don’t understand why so many people dislike them. It’s the typical case of excitable democrat behavior: get hysterical about good …

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The Next Republican Long Con: More Power To The Senate https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/republicans-next-pan-give-more-power-to-senate/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/republicans-next-pan-give-more-power-to-senate/#respond Sun, 07 Oct 2018 14:51:29 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=20987 POLITUSIC

It took 30 years and a deal with the Donald for the Republican Party to ram its conservative court from dreamland to reality. That America now has a conservative and …

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Democracy Dies When Elections Are Reactionary https://www.politusic.com/politics/theory/democracy-dies-when-elections-are-reactionary/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/theory/democracy-dies-when-elections-are-reactionary/#respond Wed, 13 Jun 2018 23:20:47 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=20859 POLITUSIC

And thusly went The United States loudly into the night… The recipe to slowly poison a democracy is simple: one part hubris, one part hyper-nationalism, and add reactionary elections to …

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“Donald Trump!”: The Final Rebel Yell Of The Confederacy https://www.politusic.com/rants/donald-trump-final-confederate-rebel-yell/ https://www.politusic.com/rants/donald-trump-final-confederate-rebel-yell/#respond Mon, 04 Jun 2018 23:21:15 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=20839 POLITUSIC

Say his name in the south and applause burst like shells raining on the battlefield. Many cheer, some holler and a few hoot: “Don-ald Trump!  Don-ald Trump!”…. The modern Rebel …

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Democrats Need To Embrace The Deep State https://www.politusic.com/politics/democrats/democrats-need-to-embrace-the-deep-state/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/democrats/democrats-need-to-embrace-the-deep-state/#respond Tue, 29 May 2018 21:33:34 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=20786 POLITUSIC

Sadly and sans surprise, as democrats three-legged-race toward the 2018 midterms they continue to behave like privileged schoolyard children. Directionless and loafers untied, democratic activists think “RESIST” will magically translate …

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Social Media Destroyed Truth. OK… Now What? https://www.politusic.com/politics/malarkey/how-social-media-killed-truth-society/ Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:05:45 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=20675 POLITUSIC

Whether we know it or not, we are all de-centered egos now. We are all linguistic, historical, social beings struggling for some new interpretations of ourselves, our language, history, society, and culture. …

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Republicans, Guns, and Mass Shootings: Toddler Logic https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/republicans-guns-and-mass-shooting-response-toddler-logic/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/republicans-guns-and-mass-shooting-response-toddler-logic/#respond Thu, 22 Feb 2018 23:16:33 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=20645 POLITUSIC

Having lost all hope for people occupying the conspiracy world that controls the meeker minds within the extreme right wing, POLITUSIC would like to address the rest of the Republican …

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What Trump Doesn’t Understand: HE IS Political Discord Thusly Sowed https://www.politusic.com/rants/trump-doesnt-understand-he-is-the-sowed-discord/ Sun, 18 Feb 2018 16:43:17 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=20600 POLITUSIC

President Trump is no longer his own brand: he is the mascot of Russian political sabotage. “NO COLLUSION!” Trump once again tweets… Following Mueller’s latest indictment pinpointing 13 Russians and …

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Mueller’s Challenge: Indicting Ignorance https://www.politusic.com/politics/presidential/muellers-challenge-indicting-ignorance/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/presidential/muellers-challenge-indicting-ignorance/#respond Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:52:15 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=20503 POLITUSIC

The Trump family are ignorant about all things non-Trump. It’s safe to believe that Don Jr. is intimately familiar with every strand of his hair, but still has no idea …

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Tough Talk: Hardline Evangelicalism Is Bad For Democracy, Society https://www.politusic.com/rants/evangelicalism-bad-democracy-society/ https://www.politusic.com/rants/evangelicalism-bad-democracy-society/#respond Tue, 14 Nov 2017 22:07:38 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=20463 POLITUSIC

I like faith. I have faith. I have no issue with faith, only those who exploit it. That being clear, read on this rant. Talking about faith has more pitfalls than …

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Is Donald Trump The Most Cowardly President Ever? https://www.politusic.com/politics/presidential/trump-spineless-cowardly-president-ever/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/presidential/trump-spineless-cowardly-president-ever/#respond Mon, 13 Nov 2017 18:20:09 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=20397 POLITUSIC

Donald Trump is an incomplete man. He is not fully evolved. He is – and hopefully someday soon will be – undone. As the Trump klan wrapped up its celebrity …

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Settle Down Democrats, You’re Still Going To Lose In 2018 https://www.politusic.com/politics/democrats/dems-will-lose-2018-elections/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/democrats/dems-will-lose-2018-elections/#respond Wed, 08 Nov 2017 17:08:34 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=20352 POLITUSIC

As expected, democrats began their self-reassurance Morris dance the moment it became clear election night in Virginia would end well. For the rest of the world, however, it was no …

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Obamatons Can Work With Trumpsters To Turn Bad Politics Into Good Policy https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/democrats-work-trump-turn-bad-politics-good-policy/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/democrats-work-trump-turn-bad-politics-good-policy/#respond Fri, 29 Sep 2017 02:15:09 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=20265 POLITUSIC

Democracy isn’t a spectator sport, and it isn’t a gift granted by an orator or strongman. Self-governance requires a lot more than merely shouting your desire for it – a …

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Steve Bannon: Out Of The White House, But His Influence Rages On https://www.politusic.com/politics/presidential/steve-bannon-fired-white-house-alt-right-far-from-over/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/presidential/steve-bannon-fired-white-house-alt-right-far-from-over/#respond Fri, 18 Aug 2017 18:00:35 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=20225 POLITUSIC

Yet another Friday news dump, and yet another senior staffer leaves the Trump White House: Steve Bannon, the architect of Trump’s presidency, is gone… from the White House, anyway. What …

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Defining Extremism: It’s All About The Flag https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/define-conservatism-flag-symbols/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/right-wing/define-conservatism-flag-symbols/#respond Sun, 13 Aug 2017 20:15:36 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=20125 POLITUSIC

Without a symbol around which to rally, would extreme conservatism die a quiet death? If we take away the symbol, would we take away a part of their identity? A …

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Save Humanity From Itself: Stop Twitter https://www.politusic.com/politics/malarkey/save-america-kill-twitter-one-month/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/malarkey/save-america-kill-twitter-one-month/#respond Sun, 13 Aug 2017 03:40:37 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=20133 POLITUSIC

Social media is directly responsible for the antisocial behavior that dominates Western Culture. Social media condones – and actively promotes – the total isolation of ideology… because doing so makes …

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ParaDem Theory: Steve Bannon Orchestrates White House Leaks https://www.politusic.com/politics/democrats/democrat-theory-of-the-day-steve-bannon-orchestrates-white-house-leaks/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/democrats/democrat-theory-of-the-day-steve-bannon-orchestrates-white-house-leaks/#respond Sun, 06 Aug 2017 23:39:20 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=20079 POLITUSIC

…we get nothing from the effort short of a thumb-flipped Canadian quarter that mocks our struggle from every possible angle. When the totality of Trump’s supporters would rather spit in …

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Jeff Sessions: No Dignity, Foolishly Dedicated, Or A Master Actor? https://www.politusic.com/politics/malarkey/jeff-sessions-no-dignity-foolishly-dedicated/ https://www.politusic.com/politics/malarkey/jeff-sessions-no-dignity-foolishly-dedicated/#respond Wed, 26 Jul 2017 00:13:43 +0000 https://www.politusic.com/?p=20028 POLITUSIC

When in a crowded room, Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ demeanor hints of a battered spouse – even before he became the latest punching bag of President Trump’s insecurity. Sessions is taking …

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