In 1776 and the years preceding and following the Declaration of Independence, America’s founding fathers wrested with the notion of how to put together a form of government that would restrain — by a fair set of laws — the human impulse to seek and gain personal advantage that was unfair to society at large. This nature-induced impulse of personal aggression, being part of the human defense mechanism, has been ravaging humankind forever — powering rape, murder, war and ruthless subjugation.
Yes, with slavery right under their noses — whose ways must inevitable somehow be fit into their noble pursuit…
Throughout history society’s violent underclasses traditionally filtered down into the many armies of kings and queens and ambitious tyrants to be used as mere cannon fodder in their endless wars. The military thus acted as a kind of safety relief valve for the buildup of society’s violent element by having them killed off in significant numbers as front line soldiers and sailors in battle.
These violent types ended up in armies and navies either because they were forced, perhaps as criminal punishment, or simply because they were unsuited for anything else in life stemming from their unstable personalities. Then, too…
The primitive reptilian mindset always makes a beeline for raw power by any means possible when opportunity presents itself, while on the other hand intellectual idealists strive and protest for truth and justice. It’s never a even or fair contest. Sooner or later the idealist gets nailed to a cross.
The reptilians have thuggish brute force, limitless lies, fanciful conspiracy theories, hate (that most powerful of unifying forces) and nature’s all-powerful tribal offset in their favor.
Throughout history democracy has been a fleeting anomaly, because it is out of step with the natural rhythm of the universe. The natural rhythm…
There should be only two instances where a doctor’s judgment may override the will of his patient. The first is obviously when his patient has been declared incompetent, say, in the case of advanced Alzheimer’s or if his patient is obviously psychotic to the point of being declared insane.
The other exception should be when a doctor’s patient insists on doing something that threatens society in general, like when a patient says he believes that vaccines are dangerous when there is a mountain of scientific evidence is to the contrary. Such people might claim it is there Constitutional right of…
If Republcans insist on painting the Democrats as dangerous socialists. The Democrats need to hit back hard calling out the GOP as the party of Q, crazies, insurrectionists and death. The term socialists is vague whereas the words insurrectionist and death conjure up images of violent extremism — international and domestic terrorists.
For decades the Republican party has been straining to come up with effective voter suppression tactics, the only way it could hope to cope with election’s where gerrymandering could not be effectively deployed as in Congressional elections. And then along came Donald Trump — known to kill all that he touches and eventually backed by the COVID 19 pandemic — to rescue the Republicans from their fading political standing as the US morphs ever faster into a full blown muticultual nation.
Yes, killer of casinos, product lines, nations and people — Donald J. Trump — arrived bringing with him his…
News flash, the geart Fox New is afraid to cover the impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump live. They obviously want to record, edit and mold the proceedings to better suit the tastes of their primetime hosts and audiences. I mean what the heck, why allow their customers to have to view things they would rather not know? Just keep on feeding the animals the red meat that they prefer.
Well, now we have seen the defense put forth by Donald Trump’s mob lawyers. It is simply to show that both Trump and the Democrats use the same tough rhetoric — words like fight. In fact Trump’s defenders must have shown Democrats using the word fight a hundred times to make their point. What they don’t point out is what those tough words were directed for and against. In Trump’s case such words were said to promote tyranny while in the case of the Democrats they were directed against tyranny. …
The main purpose of a democratic form of government is to protect the nation’s average citizens from the excises of the rich and powerful. In this capitalistic American society that also includes saving capitalism from itself. Neither wing of today’s Republican Party protects the nation from the excess of corporate America and the super rich.
Making up the two wings of the GOP, there is first the upper middle class Republican wing, mostly White but some folks of color, those old-line Republicans ideologues types who see themselves as the party’s true conservatives — small government, minimum taxes with few government…
James M. Ridgway, Jr.
Jim Ridgway, Jr. military writer — author of the American Civil War classic, “Apprentice Killers: The War of Lincoln and Davis.” Christmas gift, yes!
