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“FOR THE PEOPLE” VS. “FOR THE TYRANNY”
On June 7, The PBS Newshour examined perhaps the foremost issue of our democracy: The For the People Act. Since November 3, when former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 Presidential election, he...
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NEEDED: A GEORGE PATTON FOR DEMOCRATS
Most Americans believe that Nazi Germany was defeated because “we were the Good Guys and they were the Bad Guys.” Not so. The United States—and its allies, Great Britain and the Soviet Union—won the...
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BIDEN NEEDS A LESSON FROM MACHIAVELLI
On June 7, The PBS Newshour examined perhaps the foremost issue of our democracy: The For the People Act. Since November 3, 2020, when former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 Presidential election,...
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“NEGOTIATING” REPUBLICANAZI STYLE: PART ONE (OF SIX)
Once again, Republicans are ruthlessly playing “chicken” with the nation’s financial security. And, once again, Democrats are responding with their trademark cowardice and ineptitude. On August 2,...
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“NEGOTIATING” REPUBLICANAZI STYLE: PART TWO (OF SIX)
By studying the “negotiating” methods used by Adolf Hitler, Americans generally—and Democrats in particular—can learn much about the mindset and “negotiating” style of today’s Republican party. A...
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“NEGOTIATING” REPUBLICANAZI STYLE: PART THREE (OF SIX)
In September, 1938, seven months after seizing Austria, German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler gave another exhibition of his “negotiating” methods. This time, the target of his rage and aggression was...
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“NEGOTIATING” REPUBLICANAZI STYLE: PART FOUR (OF SIX)
For the postwar Republican party, Adolf Hitler’s my-way-or-else “negotiating” methods would become standard operating procedure. During the summer of 2011, Republicans refused to raise the debt ceiling...
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“NEGOTIATING” REPUBLICANAZI STYLE: PART FIVE (OF SIX)
In April, 2011, the United States government almost shut down over Republican demands about subsidized pap smears. During a late-night White House meeting with President Barack Obama and key...
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“NEGOTIATING” REPUBLICANAZI STYLE: PART SIX (END)
In 2011, Republicans threatened to destroy the Nation’s credit rating unless their budgetary demands were met. President Barack Obama could have ended that threat via the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt...
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THE NEWS MEDIA: CHOOSING GLITZ OVER SUBSTANCE
“For men in general judge more by the eyes than by the hands, for every one can see, but very few have to feel. Everyone sees what you appear to be, few feel what you are….” So wrote Niccolo...
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NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI TO JOE BIDEN: “NICE GUYS FINISH LAST”: PART ONE (OF TWO)
Joseph Robinette Biden is fast approaching the one-year anniversary of his Inauguration as the 46th President of the United States. At 79, he has spent virtually his entire adult life in politics: As...
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NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI TO JOE BIDEN: “NICE GUYS FINISH LAST”: PART TWO (END)
President Joe Biden faces opposition not only from Republicans but Right-wing Democrats as well. One of these is West Virginia United States Senator Joe Manchin. On June 7, 2021, The PBS Newshour...
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ADVICE FOR DICTATORS
According to an October 29, 2014 story on National Public Radio, at least 10 North Korean officials had been executed for watching South Korean soap operas. If true, this brings to 50 the number of...
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MACHIAVELLI WAS RIGHT: DISTRUST THE RICH
For President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans, the single greatest achievement of their time in office was to drastically cut taxes on the wealthy (including themselves). It’s a view that...
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MACHIAVELLI’S VERDICT ON TRUMP: HE’S NO PRINCE
No shortage of pundits have sized up Donald Trump—-first as a Presidential candidate, then as the nation’s 45th President, and now as a potential Presidential candidate in 2024. But how does Trump...
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MACHIAVELLI: STUPID LEADERS CANNOT BE WISELY ADVISED
“There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth. But when every one can tell you the truth, you lose...
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MORE THAN FETUSES MAY BE ABORTED
In The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli, the father of modern political science, raised the question of “whether it is better to be loved than feared, or feared more than loved.” And he answered it: “The...
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AN NRA SOLUTION TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD’S TERRORISM PROBLEM
Guns and abortion—Republicans’ two most inflammatory issues. Who would have thought that the first might lead to a solution for the second? On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20...
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CHARACTER AND DESTINY: PART ONE (OF TWO)
“He appeared to need enemies the way other men need friends, and his conduct assured that he would always have plenty of them.” So wrote William Manchester about General Douglas MacArthur in his...
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CHARACTER AND DESTINY: PART TWO (END)
As a Republican Presidential nominee. Donald Trump attacked the integrity of the parents of an Army captain who died heroically in Iraq in 2004. For this, he took heavy fire from Democrats, veterans...
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