Political Messaging
What are the goals, probable benefits, and tactics for setting up a messaging campaign for a progressive political organization?
Getting Swing Voters to Lend Some Weight to Your End of the Seesaw
When is the best time to start engaging with the next following election? And a related question, when is the best time to try and convince someone to vote for your side?
The Wild West in the White House
The accumulating wreckage of the second Trump administration and how his thoroughbred billionaires are abetting the devastation.
The Hungry Pie Lover: An Allegory
A fictional account of a restaurant owner who thinks much of his menu and disparages his competition. The tale is related through the person of a potential customer.
Washington Waging War on West Virginia?
Criticism of Governor Jim Justice blaming the Biden Administration for delays in highway construction in West Virginia.
The Older Generation Regards The Younger Generation
A thought exercise about where the differences between older and younger generations lie, with a focus on the situation in red state West Virginia.
MAGA: An Honest Analysis of the Acronym
An analysis (from a leftist perspective) of what the letters in the MAGA acronym stand for.
My Morals Are Stronger Than Your Morals
The difference between conservatives and progressives or liberal and their electoral success or not is complicated. Lakoff attributes this to messaging and Haidt to moral differences.
Tangled Trees, Tangled Truths
Thinking about how our divided politics, which is so mixed up and tangled, that it looks similar to the kind of tangling that physicists and biologists deal with.
Charity — The Worlds Solution to Wealth Inequality
Does the institution of charity and the practice of charitable giving come from our human nature or is it actively promoted by businesses and governments who are trying to deflect their responsibility to prevent the need for charity.
Who Am I to You?
There is a pervasive tendency to label people we don’t like for some reason that offends us. Many labels are pejorative, meant not just to describe, but to tar.
The Tyranny of the Minority
Photo by Randy Fath on Unsplash How is that polls consistently show ---- sometimes by a margin of 70 to 30 --- that Americans favor stricter gun control measures such as comprehensive background checks, but there is no chance that Congress will pass stricter gun…
The Left, the Right and the Center
We're a politically polarized country and, with the exception of a relatively small number of centrists, people align themselves with the political left or the political right. This article plants itself squarely on the left and presents that side of the issue. Feel free to disagree.