Facebook Posts on other-2018

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How badly do you want a job?	2018-12-30	29	3			3				other
The year in review	2018-12-30	81	-	1	1	6				other
Who's going to be our Voltaire?	2018-12-28	110	4		3	16				other
A Christmas message	2018-12-24	86	-		1	3				other
Reviewing the Boston Massacre -	2018-12-10	48	2			3	1			other
What does quantum mechanics imply about the human world?	2018-12-09	66	2		1	21				other
Can we escape our genetic programming?	2018-12-07	27	-							other
More reflections on the Bush Sr era -	2018-12-05	42	1			17	1			other
They shall not grow old - contemporary echos of two wars	2018-12-05	35	-			3				other
neo-con vs neo-cons	2018-11-25	176	19	2	6	28	1			other
What a heroic norm-breaker is like	2018-11-23	293	30	2	13	32	2			other
Expect more dirt in your future -	2018-11-23	46	2			9	1			other
An internet of things - an internet of threats	2018-11-20	19	-							other
Income inequality in Silicon Valley!	2018-11-19	43	1		1	1				other
Left behind - Trump country and East Germany	2018-11-19	31	1							other
“Trump Is Right About Nationalism"	2018-11-19	96	8	4	1	65				other
Pitch defileth the hand that toucheth it	2018-11-19	30	-							other
It wasn't just suburban educated women	2018-11-18	65	7	1	2	11				other
Haven’t they learned that the president always gets the	2018-11-18	86	7	1	2	14	1			other
Measuring the triumph beyond globalization -	2018-11-16	39	-			21				other
Pinter saw it all coming.	2018-11-13	32	-			7				other
Education pays off for centuries	2018-11-09	27	-							other
This is the swamp that has not receded at all	2018-11-04	52	-		1	1				other
All they needed was a leader -	2018-11-04	136	5		5	14	2			other
Persecution and survival -	2018-11-04	82	1		1	1				other
Gary Hart looks back	2018-11-04	63	1	1	1	6				other
Does the future look like Viktor Orban?	2018-11-04	40	-							other
Alt-right classics	2018-11-04	62	1			5				other
Could losing the House be a Trumpist plot?	2018-11-04	63	-	2		13				other
Sample ballots	2018-11-04	29	-			2				other
Californians rush to register to vote -	2018-11-04	51	4	1		1				other
Dark money is a national security issue	2018-11-02	193	22	10	10	42	1			other
Gerrymandering is big business -	2018-11-02	136	8	3	6	25				other
report the story the way that I want it reported	2018-11-01	170	18	3	5	49	1			other
How come elitists always end up in charge?	2018-11-01	85	1	4	5	38	1			other
What happens after the election	2018-11-01	74	2	1	3	53	1			other
Former Republicans chime in -	2018-11-01	130	15	9	1	162	2			other
Revenge against robocallers	2018-11-01	62	4		1	6				other
Dirty tricksters alive and well	2018-11-01	63	5	1	1	12				other
The Obama voters that voted for Trump are voting Democratic	2018-11-01	76	9		6	13				other
Each of us, as part of our national defense,	2018-10-31	158	10	1	3	4				other
Washington's Letter to Newport	2018-10-30	39	2			1				other
Mueller still interested in Stone -	2018-10-30	32	5			19				other
Evolution of the Republican Party -	2018-10-30	53	-	1	2	20				other
the most insignificant office that ever the invention of	2018-10-30	64	4		1	98				other
What better choice to study state security -	2018-10-30	35	3			3				other
Chinese tourism might decline	2018-10-30	28	2		1	1				other
Petrification of wealth inequality	2018-10-30	38	1			11				other
Sure enough, it's a new version of the (mythical) Dan	2018-10-30	85	6	5	1	486				other
There's a bunch of Republican Congressional Representatives	2018-10-30	34	2	1	1	6				other
What if everybody voted?	2018-10-29	43	-	1	2	11				other
Is House of Cards reality?	2018-10-29	41	-			2				other
The cultural revolution lives on in Xinjiang -	2018-10-29	34	2		1					other
History of the social safety net	2018-10-29	126	5		5	17				other
Bakersfield deserves better - and so does the rest of	2018-10-29	130	7	7	4	25				other
A conservative argument for a split Congress	2018-10-28	66	2		2	10				other
Stock market drops are a bad thing -	2018-10-27	28	-			3				other
Conversion of a party of ideas to a cult of personality -	2018-10-27 2018-11-06	21176 18788	316	330 79	146 97	988 694		6	58	other
Conversion of a party of ideas to a cult of personality -	2018-10-27	39	1		2	9				other
Does gender affect economic outlook?	2018-10-27	49	1	2		1				other
Nothing new about indicted or convicted criminals running	2018-10-27	58	3	1	2	8				other
Difference between entertainment and journalism	2018-10-27	315	29	8	7	67	1			other
What happens when you keep building office space	2018-10-27	17	-							other
Trying to decide on California ballot initiatives?	2018-10-25	25	1							other
Is Trump right about INF?	2018-10-24	37	1		1	6	1			other
Social media business models changing	2018-10-24	74	3		3	8				other
Henry Waxman warns Democrats - don't be like Republicans	2018-10-24	60	4		1	12				other
Nothing new under the sun	2018-10-23	73	2		2	15	1			other
Where the new Supreme Court might like to go -	2018-10-23	64	1	4	3	14				other
Where the money goes and where it comes from	2018-10-23	35	2		1	7				other
So what if you haven't accomplished anything in Congress	2018-10-23	184	5	1	3	26				other
Unprecedented interest in midterm election, unprecedented	2018-10-23	409	5	5	8	33				other
How to convert the global leader into just another	2018-10-21	58	1		3	3				other
Update - nobody is backing off -	2018-10-21	29	1		1	8				other
It's not bribery if it's about an initiative	2018-10-21	95	9		5	26				other
It was never a secret!	2018-10-21	148	7	2	7	41				other
Ever been glad you had a street address?	2018-10-20	575	43	11	26	78	1			other
Negroes for Goldwater	2018-10-19	440	32	7	12	91	1	1		other
Seeing is believing - or is that believing is seeing?	2018-10-19	108	2	1	3	16	1			other
If you are going to be inconsistent - you might as well	2018-10-19	112	5	3	3	15	1			other
The group attempted to sow conflict along racial lines and	2018-10-19	39	3		2	28				other
We learn by making mistakes	2018-10-19	30	-							other
Voter suppression - one of the pillars of Republican power	2018-10-19	255	31	4	15	45				other
Finally phone companies doing something about robocalls -	2018-10-19	50	3			3				other
None of the politicians want to talk about the elephant	2018-10-17	50	1		2	3				other
Democratic optimism for California Congressional seats	2018-10-17	47	5		1	3				other
McConnell's come to the sad conclusion -	2018-10-16	597	54	35	12	146	1			other
Connected loneliness and connected communities	2018-10-15	74	3			15				other
Not a good time to be a journalist -	2018-10-14	66	1		1	3				other
The first Trump constituency is still hoping for something	2018-10-14	77	6	1	2	12				other
Wealth inequality - if the tax code don't get you -	2018-10-14	58	-		2	16				other
Legal tax deferral and conversion	2018-10-14	209	6		6	38				other
Do you prefer a dangerous freedom to peaceful slavery?	2018-10-11	25	-							other
How safe are your elections?	2018-10-11	39	-			3				other
Penance for working for Putin	2018-10-11	69	6	1	2	7				other
Putin's men are getting sloppy	2018-10-10	29	-		1	2				other
Where the voters' true interests lie	2018-10-10	32	-		1	5				other
grievance academics, grievance politics	2018-10-10	48	-		1	8				other
Who needs good teachers if we are going to cede world	2018-10-10	241	11	3	8	30				other
The corrosion of conservatism	2018-10-10	69	5	1	3	6				other
There's no final technological solution to exponential	2018-10-10	50	-			7				other
Centrist Democrats endorse rules changes to break gridlock	2018-10-10	30	1		1	4				other
Extremes rush in where centrists fear to tread	2018-10-10	26	1			2				other
Remember Impeach Earl Warren!	2018-10-10	100	7	2	2	14				other
political hazards of preaching to the choir	2018-10-10	82	5	2	3	19				other
How to easily find a 53,000 vote advantage	2018-10-10	74	9	2	2	12				other
Irony is dead	2018-10-10	215	31	18	6	99				other
Something remarkable happened that got overlooked	2018-10-09	74	5	1	1	19		1		other
How can we increase voter turnout in midterm elections?	2018-10-09	33	-		1	5				other
What makes a perfect Supreme Court Justice?	2018-10-09	162	13	5	4	35				other
Nuclear war, climate change, technological disruption	2018-10-09	22	-			1				other
The Saudis were nice to Trump -	2018-10-09	254	9		8	23				other
The twin pillars of Republican political power -	2018-10-07	148	3	2	6	129	1			other
Full employment	2018-10-06	51	1			10				other
Reclaiming the center and leading by example	2018-10-06	192	3		2	4				other
For every action, a reaction?	2018-10-06	138	2	1	3	27	1			other
A new meaning for getting in Dutch	2018-10-06	290	10		9	41	1			other
Tax breaks for wealthy real-estate investors	2018-10-05	130	12	1	8	17				other
geopolitics vs geoeconomics	2018-10-05	64	3			9				other
It's not just a matter of having the right parents -	2018-10-05	35	2			2				other
It's already happening in China	2018-10-05	60	3		2	4				other
Not News	2018-10-05	170	28	17	1	40				other
The Trump administration says it's taking on China	2018-10-05	75	2		2	2				other
Supply and demand	2018-10-05	31	1							other
Maybe it's time to undermine the business model of social	2018-10-04	23	-							other
The unvarnished tribalization of national life	2018-10-04	444	17	1	8	173	1			other
Above and beyond the law - it's not just the Trumps	2018-10-04	104	11	1	3	22	1			other
Finding your way around politicalscrapbooknet	2018-10-04	28	-		1	5				other
Somebody who knows all the right people	2018-10-04	1074	80	27	30	132				other
How Congress helped the Trumps (and other billionaires)	2018-10-04	85	14	3	4	29				other
Win some, lose some	2018-10-04	141	12	6	3	51				other
Next time, Mr President, please streamline the process	2018-10-04	173	13	2	7	19	1			other
November 7, 2018 - a day of reckoning	2018-10-04	60	4	4	1	12				other
Don't like the idea of American hereditary nobility?	2018-10-04	222	8	4	6	17				other
Real news or fake?	2018-10-04	208	11		6	19	1			other
Fraud from top to bottom	2018-10-04	74	2		3	11				other
A war against reality on all fronts	2018-10-04	60	2		1	6				other
More than 80 percent of Americans with college degrees	2018-10-03	307	14	1	10	83				other
What we get for foreign aid and the UN	2018-10-03	32	-			24				other
Foreign influence on a budget	2018-10-03	39	1			24				other
Steel is surging	2018-10-03	70	-		2	35				other
How should the Democratic Party approach 2020?	2018-10-03	67	2	1	1	35				other
Trump administration finds Federal overreach less	2018-10-03	65	2	1	1	17				other
National texts -	2018-10-03	154	7	2	2	17				other
Another attack on the business model of social media	2018-10-03	23	-			1				other
Kavanaugh traded support from legal scholars for support	2018-10-03	155	11	4	4	43				other
Devin Nunes is not a farmer. And American agriculture	2018-10-02	114	13	4	5	40				other
Do we need stronger parties?	2018-10-02	41	-	1		9				other
We aren’t what we own. We’re what we disown.	2018-10-02	65	11		2	11				other
Deterrence worked for nuclear weapons.	2018-10-02	23	-			1				other
How's your GRAT?	2018-10-02	75	1		2	13				other
The bottom 90 percent are still poorer than they were	2018-10-02	225	13	2	11	9				other
Prostitution always diminishes both parties	2018-10-02	99	7		1	4				other
Can crowdlaw save democracy in Europe and America?	2018-10-02	35	3			2				other
Of course Brazil is completely different from US	2018-10-02	14	-							other
Civil litigation to right wrongs inflicted by fake news	2018-10-02	92	5		3	9				other
Looking for bipartisan foreign policy	2018-10-02	46	4			5				other
Bits and buds and bubbles	2018-09-30	19	-							other
Ukraine - where Putin might have miscalculated	2018-09-30	168	11		5	63				other
What happens when America abandons the leadership role -	2018-09-30	83	9	2	1	9				other
Do you know the difference between mean and median?	2018-09-30	650	49	20	22	126				other
The Medium-sized Lie - the platform for subverting	2018-09-30	118	8	1	3	125				other
Should the Speaker of the House represent the majority	2018-09-30	97	3		1	58				other
Self restraint - the most important leadership quality -	2018-09-30	68	6		2	5				other
Who decides who gets to pay lower rent and who gets to	2018-09-30	34	1			4				other
Shibboleth - the essential difference between northern	2018-09-30	43	1			3				other
Do you excel at your hobbies?	2018-09-29	47	-			1				other
Trump's ratings look good for four more years	2018-09-29	111	11	3		28	2			other
No package deals	2018-09-29	113	2	1	1	19				other
The root cause of the housing crisis - it's not zoning or	2018-09-29	91	7		2	11				other
Trump thinks lower oil prices are a good thing	2018-09-29	21	-			3				other
Who is Adam Waldman?	2018-09-28	42	4	1	1	14				other
Malleable ideology	2018-09-28	39	1			5				other
New points to add to political-theses.net	2018-09-28	43	-		1	6				other
Time to catch up with the rest of the civilized world	2018-09-28	82	5		1	7				other
The Trump administration doesn't have a problem with	2018-09-28	47	1			34	1			other
Undermining the business model of social media	2018-09-28	31	2			3				other
Thinking of trying multi-level marketing?	2018-09-28	25	-							other
What's funny about principled realism?	2018-09-28	36	-	1		37	1	1		other
Building an overseas empire the old-fashioned way	2018-09-28	107	12	2	2	49	2			other
Portfolio theory applied to political campaign	2018-09-28	48	2			4	1			other
Defending national sovereignty	2018-09-28	95	5		2	17	3			other
One could almost feel sorry for Republican senators up	2018-09-28	262	29	9	9	101	1			other
If you are not at the table, you are on the menu	2018-09-27	42	2	1		7	1			other
Making expensive preconditions affordable	2018-09-27	41	2	1	1	7				other
When you are the leader, you owe something to your	2018-09-27	80	2		1	15				other
Election insecurity - it's all about the money and the	2018-09-27	40	1		2	15				other
Bad bets for real estate investment	2018-09-27	20	-							other
Still trying to cut taxes on the rich	2018-09-27	54	2	1	2	18				other
“I love WikiLeaks!”	2018-09-27	68	3	2	2	32				other
Real leadership	2018-09-27	80	7		1	31				other
Feeling anxious? Do something about it - register	2018-09-27	126	10	6	6	34				other
A new approach to foreign aid - cash	2018-09-27	35	-	1		6	1	1		other
Bannon finds sympathetic audiences abroad	2018-09-26	86	6	2	2	97				other
Who pays for your candidates?	2018-09-26	84	4	2	5	35				other
Sorry PR's, your complexion is too dark for statehood	2018-09-26	310	21	7	4	80	1	1		other
putting rape culture on the ballot across the country	2018-09-26	98	12	1	4	15				other
There needs to be a way to get rid of an incompetent	2018-09-26	156	15	8	5	57				other
It's not easy to distinguish the real agents of the Putin	2018-09-21	52	7		1	7				other
Fascism is more a method of gaining and keeping power than	2018-09-21	93	-		4	15				other
Who is really "the resistance" ?	2018-09-21	26	-			10				other
What's the common downside of interconnected technology?	2018-09-21	25	1			1				other
doxing - easy to do, hard to prevent	2018-09-21	34	-			8				other
Fail better!	2018-09-21	25	-							other
Actually doing something positive for former coal country	2018-09-21	62	1		2	15				other
We learn more from our mistakes than from our successes	2018-09-21	39	-			2				other
Delusion or salesmanship?	2018-09-20	82	4	5	2	15				other
China got a navy and now it's making bases for it - to	2018-09-20	33	1			1				other
It's not a good year to get over-confident	2018-09-20	34	-	1	2	12				other
Bono describes the idea of the United States of Europe	2018-09-20	61	-	1	1	15				other
North Korean sanctions - reality TV	2018-09-20	22	1							other
The Vast Wasteland	2018-09-20	40	2			4				other
Will the old workers get the new jobs?	2018-09-20	24	-			1				other
Did somebody forget that higher oil prices are good for	2018-09-20	34	-			2				other
Honorable military service SHOULD be a fast track to	2018-09-20	109	5		1	3				other
Rising income inequality eventually defeats equal	2018-09-20	66	2		4	5				other
Differences between religious and secular conservatives	2018-09-20	59	-		1	6				other
Schools for gifted, income inequality, and the Democratic	2018-09-20	39	2			3				other
The history of Putin's election interference	2018-09-20	117	2	2	2	15				other
What's a recession without a clear dominant cause?	2018-09-19	14	-							other
Remarkable - 58% of Floridians have opinions about	2018-09-19	74	1		2	4				other
"Really helping the people and places that have	2018-09-19	34	-		1	6				other
Technology provides another asymmetric terrorist threat	2018-09-19	31	-			44				other
A doctrine of retreat?	2018-09-19	19	-			6				other
Solutions for the working homeless	2018-09-19	116	6	6	4	28		1		other
Kicking the can down the road doesn't make it go away	2018-09-19	65	5	1	1	22	1			other
Borrowed from a non-bank recently?	2018-09-18	34	1		1	7	1			other
An opportunity for Trump to be as great as Jimmy Carter	2018-09-18	47	4		1	11				other
Once again, the Poles have broken the code.	2018-09-18	324	23	3	5	181	1			other
At last, some good news about dark money	2018-09-18	88	14	2	2	22	1			other
Problem Solvers committing to House rules changes to Break	2018-09-18	47	2		1	7	1			other
Another guilty plea, another cooperator	2018-09-18	918	69	4	31	245	1			other
American Identity Crisis	2018-09-18	30	-			7	1			other
Fake news is nothing new	2018-09-18	61	-		2	14				other
Massachusetts needs ranked-choice voting	2018-09-18	14	-			5				other
Public libraries - Carnegie was right.	2018-09-18	583	24	1	8	44	2			other
Foreign policy - the left needs to figure it out	2018-09-17	36	-							other
Signs of a market top	2018-09-17	133	8	5	2	25	1			other
Unmanageable debt is the match that lights the fire -	2018-09-17	112	5		5	17				other
Saving Wall Street looks and feels bad	2018-09-16	44	-			3	2			other
"We are, as a nation, better educated, more tolerant,	2018-09-16	31	1			4				other
Politics is local as well as national -	2018-09-16	157	4	2	4	23	1			other
Moving from concerned to active	2018-09-16	70	4		1	17				other
Millenials and the economic collapse	2018-09-16	73	5		1	14	2			other
Building the new world order	2018-09-15	126	9	3	4	23	1			other
Not a model for a Trump autobiography	2018-09-14	44	4		1	3				other
It's time to end the racist imperialist tradition and make	2018-09-14	69	5	3	1	10	2			other
A recovering American economy means higher interest rates	2018-09-14	49	2		1	3	1			other
Want to get hands on talking to a red district from a	2018-09-14	33	-			1				other
Roger Stone receives a well-deserved compliment	2018-09-14	115	19	2	5	68				other
The reactionaries win every time they get progressives to	2018-09-14	203	4	4	3	30				other
Need a reason to look the other way? We'll help you!	2018-09-14	83	4	1	1	11				other
What are the boundaries of a disaster?	2018-09-14	98	6	1	4	26				other
What's good for the billionaires is good for you.	2018-09-14	148	6	1	6	23				other
Ever wonder how your email gets across the ocean?	2018-09-13	15	-			3				other
The dark side of crypto technology	2018-09-13	15	-			1				other
What made America great?	2018-09-13	283	13	10	14	53	1			other
The permanent fix to gerrymandering	2018-09-13	33	3	1	1	5				other
If you don't have any retirement funds, why not sell your	2018-09-13	46	2	1		6	1			other
The political purposes of language of classification	2018-09-13	63	4	1	2	19				other
Trump owes nothing to his predecessors, and hence nothing	2018-09-13	68	1		1	20	2			other
Don't you love the convenience and immediacy of online	2018-09-13	14	1		1	2				other
After ten years, no lessons learned	2018-09-13	106	5	4	5	21				other
A/B marketing applied to politics -	2018-09-13	40	1		1	14	1			other
The real Kavanaugh threat	2018-09-13	151	7	2	8	32	1			other
TRUMP IS THE GREATEST PRESIDENT OF ALL TIME!!!	2018-09-13	100	11	8	1	47				other
If the student makes a mistake, it is up to the student	2018-09-13	50	1	1	1	11				other
"true" and "false" do not deserve	2018-09-13	68	-	3	1	34	1			other
immigration - it's not just rapists sneaking in with	2018-09-13	32	2			7				other
The free press evolves to meet new challenges	2018-09-12	62	6			17				other
All about the 2008 collapse -	2018-09-12	11	-							other
Stick by Jeff Sessions because we're stuck with Jeff	2018-09-12	93	5	3	3	26				other
It couldn't happen again, could it?	2018-09-12	52	2		3	19				other
China and Russia find common ground	2018-09-11	107	6	1	4	20				other
Financial crises tend to radicalize electorates -	2018-09-11	24	-							other
The decline of organized labor and the plight of the	2018-09-11	96	9	3	3	28				other
How will Anonymous explain this to his children?	2018-09-11	67	4	1	1	8				other
giveaways to the powerful, loss and risk for the powerless	2018-09-11	33	1	1		1				other
Two small steps toward a better political future	2018-09-11	156	12		4	13				other
Pennsylvania, Florida, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan	2018-09-11	29	1	1		5				other
If at first you don't succeed -	2018-09-11	547	33	15	21	178				other
Florence Foster Jenkins, Donald Trump, and Don Juan in Hell	2018-09-11	39	-			1				other
The heart of a salesman	2018-09-10	229	9	11	4	44				other
Why Bruce Ohr?	2018-09-10	81	6	1	2	15				other
Proposition 13 - still popular in spite of itself	2018-09-10	63	2		1	10				other
The Kochs don't like Trump	2018-09-10	162	8	2	5	26				other
Why democracies have so much trouble with future crises	2018-09-10	62	1		1	9				other
Trumponomics - let no past mistake remain unrepeated	2018-09-10	52	2		1	13	1			other
When did you last change your mind on a significant	2018-09-08	36	4	1		4				other
If you can't dig up something - then make up something	2018-09-07	91	4	1	3	28				other
register - inform - think - donate - vote - reform	2018-09-07	56	5	1		13				other
op-ed: a deep state conspiracy	2018-09-07	366	21	6	8	93				other
How can President Trump become as great as President	2018-09-06	27	-			1				other
Slicing up nation states - leading to peace or war?	2018-08-30	37	1			3				other
At last, blame the boomers instead of the millenials	2018-08-30	53	-	1	1	7				other
Independents Day	2018-08-29	36	2			2				other
What does it take to visit the Oval Office?	2018-08-29	44	1	1		5				other
Muslim Brotherhood a force for democracy?	2018-08-29	82	2		2	10	1			other
What's going to happen in Florida?	2018-08-29	27	-	1		2				other
Why tariffs are usually a terrible idea	2018-08-29	61	1		4	5				other
China has become a naval power	2018-08-29	40	1		1	5				other
In the Central Valley, "farmer" sounds better	2018-08-28	24	2			1				other
register - inform - think - donate - vote - reform	2018-08-28	54	4	2	1	8				other
Protecting the iGens considered harmful	2018-08-27	50	2							other
Look what the wind has blown back	2018-08-27	81	2		2	13				other
Be done with caucuses!	2018-08-27	81	3	3	2	14				other
Splitting the Trump Vote	2018-08-27	50	3			4				other
register - inform - think - donate - vote	2018-08-27	27	-			1				other
Mueller better not be looking forward to a new career	2018-08-26	48	1		1	9				other
The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Trump Party!	2018-08-26	136	7	1	3	16	1			other
Coming soon to theatres near you - an interview with	2018-08-26	92	4		3	8				other
The real crime wave engulfing America	2018-08-25	127	6	2	6	19				other
In the greatest traditions of American democracy	2018-08-24	73	1		2	16				other
Extra barriers for female candidates	2018-08-24	154	12		3	16				other
Legislative and judicial branches cooperate to compromise	2018-08-24	34	-			2				other
Trump administration delivers on another campaign promise	2018-08-24	82	3	5	1	37				other
A free press can still do productive investigative	2018-08-24	132	13	1	4	17		1		other
Trump might be right about one thing	2018-08-23	226	1	9	1	48				other
When it's all over	2018-08-23	163	9	5	1	50				other
What are politicalscrapbooknet sources?	2018-08-23	17	-			1				other
If prosecutors grant immunity, they expect something	2018-08-23	65	4	2		6				other
Ode to an institution	2018-08-23	124	6	2	2	14				other
Impacts of technology foreseen 20 years in advance	2018-08-22	29	-							other
Trump's lasting achievement - an activist judiciary	2018-08-22	207	8	1	8	34				other
Rising income inequality is dangerous even when all incomes	2018-08-22	64	2		2	3				other
Of course Wyoming likes Republican ranchers	2018-08-22	70	1		1	5				other
Another target for the California 7 Project	2018-08-22	205	16	4	6	26		1		other
It’s usually something we don’t anticipate that ends	2018-08-22	35	-		1	1				other
The slippery slope of collaboration	2018-08-19	173	10	4	6	15				other
If it's good for the billionaires -	2018-08-19	158	9		5	4	1			other
If nobody ever had to die... then children would	2018-08-18	53	3		1	4				other
Not unlike the president? That's understating the case!	2018-08-17	32	-							other
Our ancient instincts survive beneath a veneer of	2018-08-17	28	-							other
Does Turkey belong in NATO?	2018-08-17	53	2	1	1	4				other
Trust-busting was popularized by a Republican, Theodore	2018-08-17	37	-		1	2				other
the broader influence of celebrity culture on politics is	2018-08-17	80	6		1	12				other
There aren't any forgotten Americans in Plains	2018-08-17	696	57	9	16	95	1			other
If it's good for the billionaires, it's good for the	2018-08-17	82	9	1	2	9				other
2018 tactics and future strategy	2018-08-16	34	-		1	3				other
No good deed goes unpunished, and no good law can't be	2018-08-16	50	1		1	4				other
Afghanistan or a carnival?	2018-08-16	43	2		1	3				other
In some unknown future, on some strange and novel shore,	2018-08-16	31	1							other
Income inequality was getting worse BEFORE the tax cut	2018-08-16	56	5	1	2	7				other
Environmental terrorists?	2018-08-15	78	4	2	1	19	1			other
A Free Press Needs You	2018-08-15	104	3		6	12				other
Is the Treasury Dept helping or hindering the Senate	2018-08-15	73	7	3	3	15				other
The Republican Party is now the Trump Party.	2018-08-15	63	6	8	2	31		1		other
Getting to a data privacy law in California	2018-08-15	33	-							other
Why inflation so often fells Trumpian leaders	2018-08-14	73	6		2	9				other
markets can ignore unsound conditions for a long time —	2018-08-14	115	4	1	6	11				other
How are violent leftists different from violent rightists?	2018-08-13	62	6	1		26		1		other
After the midterm elections in November, the whole party	2018-08-13	58	5		3	10				other
a woman who happens to have been far better at her job	2018-08-13	97	13	3	3	7				other
Why the Turkish economy matters	2018-08-13	83	5		3	10				other
Republican women - don't run this year	2018-08-13	52	3	4		14				other
It's tough being the economic superpower	2018-08-12	40	-		2	5				other
The epitome of bipartisan achievement	2018-08-12	50	3		1	5	1			other
Declining PAC money - a choice no Republican makes	2018-08-12	67	5	1	1	5				other
Good result, but a bad precedent?	2018-08-12	30	-			2				other
The future of the earth - it's ultimately about struggle	2018-08-12	59	3		3	3				other
President Swalwell?	2018-08-12	131	19	3	2	27				other
Attention women who support Trump!	2018-08-12	161	11	3	5	37	1			other
Social democracy or democratic socialism?	2018-08-12	114	6	3	1	13		1		other
Populist economics	2018-08-11	87	-	2	2	11				other
Democratization of technology	2018-08-11	32	-	1		3				other
Wrong answer from the wrong candidate	2018-08-11	66	4	2	2	8				other
Political scrapbook updated their website address.	2018-08-11	16	-							other
Trump makes our allies quake - our enemies, not so much	2018-08-10	130	9		4	23				other
Fighting the last war - it's what generals do	2018-08-10	61	4		2	7				other
Signs of a market top? Drink craft beer, don't invest	2018-08-10	32	-							other
"When the economy is doing well and everybody seems	2018-08-09	69	3		2	1				other
Better to let some people think you're corrupt than prove	2018-08-09	188	23	4	9	46	1			other
Will the next Speaker of the House encourage or accept	2018-08-02	22	1			1				other
Ranked choice voting gaining traction	2018-08-02	81	5		3	12				other
There's more to winning than being against	2018-08-02	101	6	1	4	48				other
Which is worse - social media platforms responding to or	2018-08-02	53	2	1	4	10				other
Aluminum imports are only a security threat coming from	2018-08-02	80	3	1	3	19				other
Started by a 400-pound teenager in his bedroom?	2018-08-02	69	5	1	1	17				other
Charter schools in California	2018-08-02	44	1		1	6				other
Have there been too many postings on this page?	2018-08-01	37	-							other
Causes and effects of demographic change	2018-08-01	47	2			8		1		other
How dark money works -	2018-08-01	87	5		3	11				other
If the President won't tether to reality, why should	2018-08-01	94	4		3	41				other
I dream of things that are not, and say, yes they are!	2018-07-31	84	6	1	2	6	1			other
Who pays for Medicare for All?	2018-07-31	48	1		1	4	1			other
Young veterans try to re-invigorate Congress -	2018-07-31	44	5		1	3				other
Right-wing economists encourage Trump to abolish tariffs	2018-07-31	28	1			3				other
The democratization of weapons of mass destruction	2018-07-31	107	15	4	1	18				other
Full speed ahead for Putin interference	2018-07-31	106	7	1	4	14				other
The rich get richer and the poor get distracted	2018-07-31	192	13	5	12	23				other
Tariffs are a tax on Americans	2018-07-30	63	3		1	2		1		other
Constitutional localism	2018-07-30	46	-			2				other
Why wait for Congress to relieve America's hard-pressed	2018-07-30	89	5		3	19				other
Where your ancestors came from has a lot to do with how	2018-07-30	101	5	1	2	21				other
What are Trump's goals?	2018-07-30	81	7	1	5	21				other
Even the Kochs don't trust Trump to do the right thing	2018-07-29	130	12	2	3	31	1	1		other
I don't have to listen to what you say because I have	2018-07-29	46	-			2				other
What are Putin's goals?	2018-07-29	63	2		4	8				other
Two glimpses of the future - which one will prove true?	2018-07-29	51	3			5				other
Socialism in action?	2018-07-27	91	2	1	3	15				other
Millenials - it's up to you!	2018-07-27	144	23	1	9	22				other
Whatever became of the KGB?	2018-07-26	72	4	1	2	5				other
Look at how Norwegians have enhanced the American language	2018-07-26	54	1		1	3				other
Expect social media companies to destroy their business	2018-07-26	38	1			9	1			other
Americans and Russians playing together in Macedonia -	2018-07-26	80	5	1	3	16	1			other
Trade wars are not only easy to win, they are easy to	2018-07-26	22	-			3				other
Ranked choice voting training	2018-07-25	26	-			2	1			other
Writing new rules to change a do-nothing Congress	2018-07-25	29	2			2				other
Bringing basic political rights to residents of Federal	2018-07-25	54	5		1	4	1			other
Proudly following a great American tradition	2018-07-25	119	6	1	6	16				other
The Trump tax law is working even better than expected	2018-07-25	156	6		5	20				other
This is what happens when benefits are defined but how to	2018-07-25	43	-	1		3	1			other
NRA, Putin, and keeping the dark money dark	2018-07-20	279	19	14	10	80	1			other
Making America Great Again for Billionaires - do-nothing	2018-07-19	61	3		3	14				other
Sowing discord and divisiveness	2018-07-19	65	5		3	20				other
About George Soros	2018-07-17	73	1		1	6	1			other
We need less dark money, not more	2018-07-17	396	19	7	9	63	2			other
"Treason against the United States, shall consist	2018-07-16	153	14	7	7	50				other
Warning lights flashing - is it 9/10 yet?	2018-07-16	44	1			1				other
When you are leveraged to the hilt, any increase in costs	2018-07-15	86	3	2	5	10				other
Measuring gerrymandering mathematically	2018-07-15	59	1		1	7	1			other
Truth decay in the post-shame world	2018-07-15	134	3	1	4	9	1			other
The Putin regime is not America's friend	2018-07-15	164	8	1	8	32	1			other
Russian election business practices	2018-07-14	109	12		6	20				other
This is why we have over-reaching Federal regulation	2018-07-14	134	9		7	21	1			other
Time to Depopularize "Populist" ?	2018-07-14	41	2			3				other
politicalscrapbooknet greatest hits	2018-07-13	34	-			3	1			other
Dismantling American Imperialism in DC and the other	2018-07-13	91	7	2	5	20				other
What can we do about Russian election interference?	2018-07-13	63	-		2	1				other
Payday for Putin	2018-07-13	72	2		1	8				other
It's amateur hour world-wide from now on	2018-07-13	217	10	2	4	22				other
How much justice can you afford?	2018-07-13	127	16	3	4	17				other
Pardon me!	2018-07-12	128	28	4	4	23				other
Foreign agent by accident or intent?	2018-07-11	24	1		1	4				other
A former Republican writes about the World Cup and	2018-07-11	52	1			3				other
About the Trump Party, formerly known as the Republican	2018-07-11	122	8	1	6	28				other
Tariffs don't work - yet nobody who could slow down Trump	2018-07-11	108	11	3	2	26	1			other
Is Robert Mueller a principal or inferior officer?	2018-07-11	85	9	3		22	1			other
On confirming Trump's Supreme Court nominations...	2018-07-09	67	2		2	22	1			other
Goetterdaemmerung in real life....	2018-07-09	180	14	4	9	31				other
The World Ends in San Francisco	2018-07-02	51	3			6				other
Cutting taxes: it worked once, so try it again!	2018-06-29	223	11	2	5	21				other
Time to change the rules of the House?	2018-06-22	90	3	1	1	14				other
Amazing what you can buy for $5000 in Nevada...	2018-06-22	93	5		3	7				other
Two conservatives tackle the question: do we need more	2018-06-22	155	2	3	5	22	1			other
Trump's greatest legacy:	2018-06-22	179	6	3	6	32				other
Wagner's Ring continues in San Francisco	2018-06-20	31	-							other
More privacy settings that shouldn't be left to default	2018-06-15	26	1			1				other
More new jobs created by the Trump administration	2018-06-15	73	5	3		9				other
How things change in 11 years:	2018-06-13	35	-			4				other
What income inequality means...	2018-06-13	184	-	1	3	8				other
This is what exponential change looks like...	2018-06-13	113	3		3	7				other
The new Nigerian economy	2018-06-13	36	-		1	3				other
Time out!	2018-06-13	34	-							other
No need to save the earth...	2018-06-12	46	2		1	4				other
If Donald Trump were an agent for a foreign dictator,	2018-06-12	43	3		1	7				other
Maine tries preferential voting today	2018-06-12	32	-			3				other
Was the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act really intended to cause	2018-06-11	86	-		4	13				other
Labor is losing ground against capital...	2018-06-11	26	-			2				other
How much medical care can you afford?	2018-06-06	31	-			5	1			other
2026 for Medicare, 2034 for Social Security	2018-06-05	58	2	1	2	4				other
There's a reason it's called Tax Cuts and JOBS Act...	2018-06-05	62	1		3	11				other
Even the president tells the truth sometimes....	2018-06-05	29	-			3				other
Fire safety: local journalism to the rescue again	2018-06-05	26	-			1				other
As always, blame the Jews....	2018-06-05	30	-	1		6	1			other
Remembering Gerald Ford and Bush 1...	2018-06-04	34	-							other
Maybe foreign investors know something about the Silicon	2018-06-04	22	-							other
Default social media privacy settings are often not what	2018-06-04	24	-			1				other
Republican Party has become Trump Party	2018-06-01	156	13	6	3	33	2			other
Don't list too many years of experience on your resume...	2018-05-31	35	-							other
Remembering Culbert Olson, a progressive California	2018-05-31	38	-			1				other
Ranked choice (preferential) voting is taking hold in	2018-05-31	26	-			3				other
It's happened... Republicans now come in third in	2018-05-31	100	14	4	2	29				other
Orange County top-two chaos	2018-05-30	30	1			5				other
"Some things are true even if Trump believes them	2018-05-30	37	-			6				other
Reboot your router now!	2018-05-30	41	-			1				other
Do corporate directors have any other obligation besides	2018-05-30	44	4		1	2				other
States rights works both ways	2018-05-30	33	1			4				other
Endorsements for California June 5 Primary	2018-05-30	35	1			1				other
Repo man sees a recession starting	2018-05-24	26	1							other
When your strategy is losing, double down... as long as	2018-05-24	24	-							other
Centrists Are the Most Hostile to Democracy csv nmd ntd rmd rtd	2018-05-24	33	2			3				other
Even though you can't believe any political advertising	2018-05-23	43	-	1	1	11				other
Maybe California housing prices won't keep rising	2018-05-23	65	4		1	6				other
Bigger banks are better, right?	2018-05-22	54	4			6				other
Things aren't always what they seem... skim milk	2018-05-22	44	1			5				other
There's gold in them thar deserts...	2018-05-22	33	2			2				other
The kind of Republican we need - for a blue November	2018-05-22	29	2			2				other
As suspected, the Republican leadership doesn't REALLY	2018-05-22	26	1	1		10				other
political scrapbook and related websites	2018-05-21	93	-			2				other
Playing with Fire - 1968 and 2016	2018-05-21 2018-06-03	2427 2103	11 3	1 1	11 9	216 82			24	other
The Eternal Business Cycle	2018-05-21 2018-06-03	1456 1370	5 1	3 2	3 3	116 30			67	other
Consistency of Republican Word and Deed	2018-05-21 2018-06-03	1815 1192	156	17 9	36 33	128 35			10	other
California Gubernatorial Primary	2018-05-20 2018-06-03	3081 2791	21	44 23	9 8	633 502	2		4	other
More on Paul Ryan's missing legacy	2018-05-20	33	-			2	1			other
Time to talk about something else	2018-05-20 2018-06-03	1599 1081	96 1	10 3	35 33	156 39	2		8	other
Can Democrats ever address the Trump base?	2018-05-20 2018-06-03	1141 1075	55	69 23	21 20	120 16	1		18	other
Deferring difficult decisions - who's to blame?	2018-05-20 2018-06-03	1251 1235	66 2	2 2	20 20	122 49	1		16	other
Could President Pence be removed?	2018-05-20 2018-06-03	1524 1455	131 3	41 33	34 34	269 54	1		8	other
Social Media Fast Response Team	2018-05-19	111	4	3	2	24				other
Tracking Technology	2018-05-19	29	-			1				other
The impeachment bandwagon breaks down	2018-05-18 2018-06-03	676 625	45	3 2		57 43	3		37	other
DACA - Will Paul Ryan leave a legacy?	2018-05-18 2018-06-03	1480 1033	107	29 24	20 20	134 27			9	other
Who's going to pay for the past - much less the future?	2018-05-18 2018-06-03	1573 1257	31	47 14	16 16	153 83			11	other
Could President Pence be impeached?	2018-05-18 2018-06-03	2181 1064	211	92 24	56 14	488 49	1		10	other
Unelectable candidates are a gift to the opposition	2018-05-17	40	6		1	11	1			other
Why pay for news?	2018-05-17 2018-06-03	1666 736	42	13 10	25 23	134 23			18	other
Kicking the can down the freeway - state taxation	2018-05-17	26	-			3				other
What's the Democratic platform for 2018 and 2020?	2018-05-15	52	1	2		8				other
What did Jesus really teach about women?	2018-05-15	55	-		1	7				other
Modern Cold War - winning at home	2018-05-15	20	-			1				other
What are the modern monopolies and trusts?	2018-05-15 2018-06-03	1573 1164	73	1 1	27 26	90 14	1		18	other
Deflating the tires of the impeachment bandwagon	2018-05-15 2018-06-03	463 347	8	5 4	3 2	104 61		2	5	other
Why pay $100 and more for a theater ticket if you sleep	2018-05-15	29	-			1				other
Would you really want your town to be like Silicon Valley?	2018-05-15 2018-06-03	846 828	11			26 23			58	other
The Most Ideological Candidate WHO CAN WIN	2018-05-15 2018-06-03	876 822	19	3 2	9 9	63 18		1	40	other
MeToo - The Political Issue of the Century?	2018-05-15 2018-06-03	563 500	46 2	11 3	3 3	23 49			39	other
Would you really want your town to be like Silicon Valley	2018-05-10	331	2			7				other
Deflating the tires of impeachment	2018-05-10	56	-			21				other
Who has left the Trump administration with most of their	2018-05-10 2018-06-03	3159 2616	63 1	14 7	27 22	378 309			6	other
Which is the dog and which is the tail?	2018-05-08	77	2	1	1	21				other
What happened to your Federal tax cut?	2018-05-08 2018-06-03	2196 1369	147	31 12	51 48	203 42		1	9	other
What's good about economic concentration?	2018-05-08	38	2		1	7				other
Stock buybacks	2018-05-08	25	1		2	1				other
Bomb Voronezh!	2018-05-08	23	1		2	3				other
Foreigners and dirty tricks: it's not just the Russians	2018-05-08	74	1	1	1	8				other
Where can the homeless go?	2018-05-08	54	2	1	1	9				other
Remembering Stewart Brand	2018-05-08	26	-			4	1			other
Compound interest and the public debt: whatever happened	2018-05-08	10	-							other
Sales tax is a bad way to finance state and local	2018-05-08	28	1		1	11				other
Mail-in ballots go out to California voters	2018-05-08	23	-							other
Transparency Is the Mother of Fake News	2018-05-08	27	-			1				other
Gnawing Away at Health Care	2018-05-08 2018-06-03	1948 1395	106	33 5	34 31	208 23			16	other
Why Are So Many Democracies Breaking Down?	2018-05-08	59	5	1	2	12				other
Between a rocky primary and a hard election	2018-05-06	48	2			10	1			other
State-sponsored IRA programs	2018-05-06	49	1	1		9				other
Appreciating John McCain	2018-05-06	49	4			6				other
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the Trump administration would	2018-05-06 2018-06-03	1392 1112	82	4 3	19 18	132 60			13	other
Three ways of looking at the modern Republican party	2018-05-06 2018-06-03	2704 2139	215 1	52 21	34 33	277 103	1		8	other
Register and vote in the primary election!	2018-05-06 2018-06-03	12238 6555	533 18	115 40	429 334	1019 188			10	other
Kicking the can down the road - who's to blame?	2018-05-06 2018-06-03	1941 1622	72	4 1	28 3	196 103	1		27	other
Typography: a debate worth having	2018-05-05	301	12	6	5	77	1			other
Can Democrats ever address the Trump base?	2018-05-04 2018-06-03	1066 737	58	76 2	25	193 21	2	1	60	other
California Primary June 5 !	2018-05-03 2018-06-03	6781 3858	297 6	91 33	186 181	397 22		2	20	other
Be the future you want the world to become:	2018-05-03	47	1		1	8				other
Robots of the world, unite!	2018-05-03	94	1	1	2	6				other
System rigged by big money	2018-05-03	70	3	1	2	12				other
Replace the Electoral College?	2018-05-03 2018-06-03	3036 2830	18	43 9	5 5	674 246	2		13	other
President Pence?	2018-05-02 2019-11-08	3815 9703	15	16 49	2 5	953 729	1	2	18	other
Statutory Employee or Independent Contractor?	2018-05-02	36	1			5				other
It's time to welcome China as a great economic power	2018-05-02	27	1			7				other
Republican candidates move closer to the president	2018-05-02 2018-06-03	2719 2559	6 1	5 2		271 137			25	other
What are the modern monopolies and trusts?	2018-05-01 2018-05-08	642 536	2		3 1	64 23			30	other
Silicon Valley's housing crisis is becoming insoluble	2018-05-01 2018-06-03	4188 4126	6	5 4	2 2	476 379			9	other
Still looking for more take-home pay in your paycheck?	2018-05-01 2018-05-08	290 205	18	1	2 2	34 3			32	other
Not all Republicans are liars!	2018-05-01 2018-06-03	2792 2661	12 1	13 6	5 5	552 260			13	other
Democratic Strategy in 2018	2018-05-01 2018-06-03	2398 2393	2 2	5 4	2 2	289 153			22	other
Progressives should not take California voters for granted	2018-05-01 2018-06-03	3370 2853	21	17 11	10 8	486 122	1		28	other
Russian Trolls' prime target is... Russians	2018-05-01 2018-05-08	264 180	1		1 1	30 10			26	other
Only the Best People Serve.... Time	2018-05-01	108	3	1		15				other
Republican Strategy in 2018	2018-04-30 2018-06-03	3178 3140	14 1	18 11		386 312			11	other
Technology Trends	2018-04-30	25	-			5				other
National Summit for Democracy	2018-04-30	166	5	3	2	29	1			other
Karl Marx is 200	2018-04-30	33	-			3				other
Signing bonus for blue-collar workers	2018-04-30	40	1			4				other
Marco Rubio is not impressed by tax cut bill	2018-04-30 2018-06-03	2704 2351	14	22 14	7 5	265 171	1		20	other
What is bipartisan problem solving?	2018-04-25 2018-06-03	1695 1628	37 1		2 2	82 15	1		157	other
It's hazardous to mess with Social Security	2018-04-25	54	2			5				other
California - Liberalism's Golden Dream?	2018-04-25 2018-06-03	2344 2202	34	13 5	6 4	152 35			60	other
Angels in America still matters	2018-04-25	57	1		1	4				other
More on the new tax law:	2018-04-25 2018-06-03	2011 1854	6	3 1	5 2	195 167	1		20	other
Where do wars come from?	2018-04-24	25	-			1				other
Still looking for more take-home pay in your paycheck?	2018-04-24	41	-		1	2				other
Preferential voting allows minority representation	2018-04-24 2018-06-03	3948 3561	49 1	20 5	32 30	435 189			15	other
Media should shut up about mass killers	2018-04-24	56	2	1		9				other
Dunning-Kruger: is this why women tend to be more	2018-04-23	35	-			2				other
Municipal Internet - acting locally for net neutrality	2018-04-22	40	1			1				other
Don't Define Benefits without defining how they will	2018-04-22 2018-06-03	4837 4305	29 1	26 9	16 11	577 294			13	other
What happens if the provisions in the new law are made	2018-04-22 2018-04-30	1930 1772	- 1	1	5 2	119 39			51	other
The Alt-Right is also beyond parody	2018-04-20	61	3		1	15				other
Is Tribe more important than Ideas?	2018-04-20 2018-04-30	1779 1363	19	48 8	6 1	281 145			14	other
You are the Product, not the Customer!	2018-04-20	26	-			1				other
An Unexpected Appreciation of Lawyers - by de Tocqueville	2018-04-20	78	4	1	1	27	1			other
Repeat: Do not act like Republicans in the primaries!	2018-04-20	66	4	1	1	8				other
Trump can't pass laws, but he can sure repeal them	2018-04-19	37	1			3				other
"Impeach Trump" might be the wrong battle cry	2018-04-18 2018-06-03	2088 1561	23 1	36 2	9 2	358 60	1		30	other
Fomenting Division - it's not just the Russians	2018-04-17 2018-04-30	1811 1592	9 1	9 4	5 4	206 54			37	other
Do we need political parties?	2018-04-17 2018-05-08	474 439	1			24 6			117	other
Tax Too Boring for Trump, but not for House	2018-04-17 2018-06-03	2648 2512	7	5 2	6 5	268 218			16	other
Did you need to file Form 1040-EL ?	2018-04-17	30	1			3				other
California to mandate net neutrality	2018-04-17 2018-04-30	1855 1577	25	10 3	6 5	169 55			36	other
Why California Republicans can't be parodied	2018-04-17 2018-06-03	3365 3257	47	32 9	8 8	448 238			13	other
Time to replace your router?	2018-04-17 2018-04-30	1768 1683	1 1		3 3	170 92			22	other
Challenging the Duopoly - tackling do-nothing politics	2018-04-16 2018-06-03	2431 2197	50	10 2	9 9	140 84		5	30	other
A Republican New Deal is much like a Democratic New Deal	2018-04-16 2018-06-03	2207 2063	10	1	3 3	209 51			65	other
Oregon was too optimistic about defined-benefit pensions	2018-04-16	48	-			6				other
Land Wars in Asia: can't stay out and can't get out?	2018-04-16	40	-		1					other
When did the Democrats become the party of Fiscal	2018-04-16 2018-06-03	2207 1906	31 1	21 4	12 6	298 82		1	30	other
State and Local Tax Deduction - what's the progressive	2018-04-15	95	2	1	1	21				other
Liberal or Progressive?	2018-04-15 2018-04-30	1240 1167	3		1	78 58			34	other
A Bias Toward Action can lead to Bad Foreign Policy	2018-04-15 2018-06-03	3407 2808	135	18 8	37 34	342 118			19	other
It's Tax March Day!	2018-04-15 2018-04-16	1380 1368	-		1 1	38 16	1		125	other
Personal Change Leading to Social Change	2018-04-13 2018-04-14	2196 2005	9 1	2	3 3	211 109			18	other
Local Journalism - ignore it and it will go away	2018-04-12 2018-04-14	1420 1046	6	1	6 3	46 23			87	other
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown	2018-04-09 2018-04-13	1347 1265	3	1 1	1	50 19	1	1	105	other
Trump Administration bravely defends your right to make	2018-04-09 2018-06-03	4180 3369	128	11 7	49 45	361 98			23	other
Don't make it easier for the Republicans to retain control	2018-04-09 2018-06-03	3103 3043	45 3	26 11	13 12	310 246		1	15	other
Middle America Reboots Democracy	2018-04-09 2018-06-03	3434 3263	26	22 4	5 5	320 220			21	other
Reproductive Rights, #MeToo, and the 2018 primaries	2018-04-07 2018-06-03	3072 2981	3	12 9	2 1	214 31			159	other
Unwritten Rules	2018-04-07	28	-							other
Are Economic Recoveries 100% csv nmd ntd rmd rtd	2018-04-05	42	1			5				other
Civil Forfeiture - guilty until you are proven innocent	2018-04-05 2018-04-13	2971 2298	21 2	4	19 12	303 86		1	23	other
How much would you sell your personal information for?	2018-04-05 2018-04-13	1686 1593	6 1		2 1	139 96			21	other
Simple Retirement Investment Advice: Buy and Hold	2018-04-05	40	-			8	3	1		other
Remembering REVEREND Dr. King	2018-04-03	34	1	1		4				other
Middle America Reboots Democracy - Putnam and Skocpol	2018-04-03 2018-04-13	413 342	2			28 16			42	other
What Happens When You Fast-Track a Tax Bill?	2018-04-03 2018-06-03	2803 2516	59 1	11 4	16 13	204 35	1	1	70	other
Join SAM?	2018-04-02	51	-			4	1			other
#MeToo - The Political Issue of the Century?	2018-04-01 2018-04-13	604 517	44	8 3	5 5	27 47			43	other
Political scrapbook added a button to help you learn more	2018-04-01	33	1			2				other
The Most ... Candidate WHO CAN WIN	2018-03-30 2018-04-13	1501 1287	9		3 3	147 38			53	other
Consistency of Republican Word and Deed	2018-03-30 2018-04-14	1890 1695	12	1	4 4	285 107			19	other
politicalscrapbooknet back on facebook	2018-03-30	7	-							other
Conspiracy!	2018-01-29	38	-			4	1	1		other
Should Oprah Winfrey run for President in 2020?	2018-01-08	55	-			8				other
The Eternal Business Cycle	2018-01-05	27	1			2				other
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How badly do you want a job?

In the face of all experience, people still sign up for
these...

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2018/12/12/chief-staff-oscars-host-popchips-spokesperson-allure-doomed-job/

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topic other

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impact 13
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likeimpress 3
negative 0
posted 2018-12-30
ratio 4
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sumclicks 3
title How badly do you want a job?
topic other
wordrate 0
words 22
ID 779303505747504
URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/779303505747504
audclicks 3
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impress 56
likeclickusers 4
likeimpress 3
likeuimpress 38
likeusers 3
likeuusers 26
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oimpress 56
oreach 29
posted "12/30/2018 03:08:10 PM"
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type Link

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The year in review

You could read hundreds of posts, or you could just read
this one.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2018/12/30/feature/dave-barrys-year-in-review-2018

==

topic other

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comments 1
impact 16
impactrate 0
negative 0
posted 2018-12-30
ratio 10
react 8
reactrate 0
shares 1
sharesrate 0
sumclicks 6
title The year in review
topic other
wordrate 0
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audclicks 6
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impress 128
likeclickusers 3
likeuimpress 79
likeuusers 56
matchedlinkclicks 5
matchedotherclicks 1
oimpress 128
oreach 81
posted "12/30/2018 05:59:45 AM"
postlinkclicks 3
postotherclicks 1
reach 81
sharesimpress 1
sharesusers 1
type Link

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Who's going to be our Voltaire?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/opinion/trump-voltaire-enlightenment.html

==

topic other

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impact 21
impactrate 0
likeimpress 4
negative 0
posted 2018-12-28
ratio 4
react 23
reactrate 0
shares 3
sharesrate 0
sumclicks 16
title Who's going to be our Voltaire?
topic other
wordrate 0
words 9
ID 778263602518161
URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/778263602518161
audclicks 16
audreach 14
engaged 17
impress 153
likeclickusers 15
likeimpress 4
likeuimpress 100
likeusers 4
likeuusers 81
matchedlinkclicks 9
matchedotherclicks 7
oimpress 153
oreach 110
posted "12/28/2018 08:48:33 PM"
postlinkclicks 9
postotherclicks 5
reach 110
sharesimpress 3
sharesusers 3
type Link

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A Christmas message

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-christmas-message-fear-not/2018/12/24/8642eff2-07b7-11e9-88e3-989a3e456820_story.html

for one who desperately needs it but wouldn't take time
to readi it -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/i-am-all-alone-an-isolated-trump-unleashes-a-storm-of-yuletide-gloom/2018/12/24/382fdd88-07a4-11e9-a3f0-71c95106d96a_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-incompetent-impulsive-and-amoral-heaven-help-us-all/2018/12/24/b78e25d2-07bb-11e9-a3f0-71c95106d96a_story.html
==

topic other

=====

impact 8
impactrate 0
negative 0
posted 2018-12-24
ratio 21
react 4
reactrate 0
shares 1
sharesrate 0
sumclicks 3
title A Christmas message
topic other
wordrate 0
words 20
ID 775778379433350
URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/775778379433350
audclicks 3
audreach 3
engaged 4
impress 116
likeclickusers 4
likeuimpress 66
likeuusers 59
matchedlinkclicks 3
oimpress 116
oreach 86
posted "12/24/2018 05:30:46 PM"
postlinkclicks 3
reach 86
sharesimpress 1
sharesusers 1
type Link

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Reviewing the Boston Massacre -

through the lens of Black Lives Matter.         John Adams
wasn't out best president, but he was an able attorney.

 https://theamericanscholar.org/black-lives-and-the-boston-massacre

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topic other

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hide 1
impact 16
impactrate 0
likeimpress 2
negative 1
posted 2018-12-10
ratio 8
react 6
reactrate 0
sharesrate 0
sumclicks 3
title Reviewing the Boston Massacre -
topic other
wordrate 0
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likeclickusers 3
likeimpress 2
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likeuusers 46
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negusers 1
oimpress 74
oreach 48
posted "12/10/2018 06:51:05 PM"
postotherclicks 2
reach 48
type Link

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What does quantum mechanics imply about the human world?

Is there an objective external reality?     Can it be
measured?    Can two different observers observe the same
event and get the same result?     Which aspects of quantum
reality scale to the human world?

 https://www.quantamagazine.org/frauchiger-renner-paradox-clarifies-where-our-views-of-reality-go-wrong-20181203/

General relativity seemed relevant only at cosmic scales
originally, but now it's built into daily life

 http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps.html

Will there be similar discoveries about quantum mechanics?

Is Trump's gut as good a measure of reality as any other?
The philosophical argument is much older than quantum
mechanics.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism

==

topic other 1

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impact 218
impactrate 0
likeimpress 2
negative 0
posted 2018-12-09
priority 1
ratio 2
react 24
reactrate 0
shares 1
sharesrate 0
sumclicks 21
title What does quantum mechanics imply about the human world?
topic other
wordrate 0
words 91
ID 765944560416732
URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/765944560416732
audclicks 21
audreach 4
engaged 5
impress 97
likeclickusers 5
likeimpress 2
likeuimpress 67
likeusers 2
likeuusers 57
matchedlinkclicks 1
matchedotherclicks 20
oimpress 97
oreach 66
posted "12/09/2018 07:14:09 AM"
postlinkclicks 1
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sharesimpress 1
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type Link

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Can we escape our genetic programming?

 https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-real-roots-of-midlife-crisis-768224228

 https://aeon.co/ideas/the-bad-news-on-human-nature-in-10-findings-from-psychology

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topic other

=====

impact 0
impactrate 0
negative 0
posted 2018-12-07
reactrate 0
sharesrate 0
title Can we escape our genetic programming?
topic other
wordrate 0
words 9
ID 765137123830809
URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/765137123830809
impress 50
likeuimpress 29
likeuusers 24
oimpress 50
oreach 27
posted "12/07/2018 10:04:03 PM"
reach 27
type Link

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More reflections on the Bush Sr era -

The end of the new world order

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/us/politics/george-bush-cold-war.html

Evangelicals vs Republican establishment

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/12/05/how-george-hw-bush-enabled-rise-religious-right

There's always a ruling elite.    That's not bad if they
take their noblesse oblige seriously

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/opinion/george-bush-wasps.html

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impactrate 0
likeimpress 1
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ratio 2
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likeimpress 1
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negclicks 1
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oreach 42
posted "12/05/2018 07:43:42 PM"
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type Link

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They shall not grow old - contemporary echos of two wars

The name of a Fathom event struck a bell - but it took
a while to remember which bell.  It was lines of a poem
on a plaque honoring the war dead of Carleton College
in a lounge in Willis Hall.  The poem is better known in
Commonwealth countries that celebrate Remembrance Day on
November 11 -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_of_Remembrance

On the 100th anniversary of the armistice, a movie has
been created about that war -

 https://www.fathomevents.com/events/they-shall-not-grow-old

==

When that bell rang, another echoed.   Near that plaque
was another commemorating a real American war hero,
Frank Shigemura

 https://apps.carleton.edu/150/stories/?story_id=1422793

 http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Frank%20Shigemura/

and the quieter sacrifices of his parents to honor his
memory.  And coincidentally, another Fathom event this
month recalls that era -

 https://www.fathomevents.com/events/george-takeis-allegiance

==

That's why everybody needs to study some history and
some people need to become experts.  History repeats
itself, but never exactly.  Somebody needs to be able to
accurately discern what's repetitious and what's unique
about contemporary events.  Nobody can be an expert in
everything, so don't disparage the expertise of others.

What have these events got to do with us today?

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_balance_of_power#World_Wars

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans

What have we learned - and what have we forgotten?

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age
shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.  At the going
down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.

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topic other 1

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priority 1
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posted "12/05/2018 11:53:38 AM"
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neo-con vs neo-cons

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-is-now-the-party-of-neo-confederates/2018/11/25/d5d9dd88-f109-11e8-bc79-68604ed88993_story.html

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comments 2
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impact 17
impactrate 0
likeimpress 19
negative 1
posted 2018-11-25
ratio 3
react 56
reactrate 0
shares 6
sharesrate 0
sumclicks 28
title neo-con vs neo-cons
topic other
wordrate 0
words 3
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matchedlinkclicks 9
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negclicks 1
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oimpress 214
oreach 176
posted "11/25/2018 09:52:36 PM"
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sharesimpress 6
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type Link

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What a heroic norm-breaker is like

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/opinion/sugihara-moral-heroism-refugees.html

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comments 2
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impact 47
impactrate 0
likeimpress 30
negative 2
posted 2018-11-23
ratio 3
react 79
reactrate 0
shares 13
sharesrate 0
sumclicks 32
title What a heroic norm-breaker is like
topic other
wordrate 0
words 6
ID 756228121388376
URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/756228121388376
audclicks 32
audreach 21
commentsimpress 2
commentsusers 2
engaged 40
hideclicks 2
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likeclickusers 32
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likeusers 29
likeuusers 140
matchedlinkclicks 13
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negclicks 2
negusers 2
oimpress 376
oreach 293
posted "11/23/2018 01:16:43 PM"
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type Link

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Expect more dirt in your future -

it's a growth industry.

Some think the Democrats were wasting their time before
the election focusing on real issues that actually affect
voters.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-war-room-blasts-endless-stream-of-criticism-at-democrats-with-warren-its-latest-target/2018/10/18/ffe1c0bc-d216-11e8-8c22-fa2ef74bd6d6_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/technology/definers-public-affairs-tim-miller.html

 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/roger-stone-associate-jerome-corsi-says-he-negotiating-plea-agreement-n939501

Roger Stone didn't invent this stuff but he is a
self-proclaimed master.     Maybe that's a good enough
resume to get a Freedom Medal -

 https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/11/miriam-adelson-gets-presidential-medal-of-freedom/

But Newt might think it belongs to him -

 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/

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impact 76
impactrate 0
likeimpress 2
negative 1
posted 2018-11-23
ratio 3
react 12
reactrate 0
sharesrate 0
sumclicks 9
title Expect more dirt in your future -
topic other
wordrate 0
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ID 756173441393844
URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/756173441393844
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likeimpress 2
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likeusers 2
likeuusers 42
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negclicks 1
negusers 1
oimpress 60
oreach 46
posted "11/23/2018 11:35:08 AM"
postotherclicks 7
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type Link

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An internet of things - an internet of threats

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/opinion/water-security-vulnerability-hacking.html

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impact 0
impactrate 0
negative 0
posted 2018-11-20
reactrate 0
sharesrate 0
title An internet of things - an internet of threats
topic other
wordrate 0
words 9
ID 754187951592393
URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/754187951592393
impress 34
likeuimpress 21
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oimpress 34
oreach 19
posted "11/20/2018 07:44:00 AM"
reach 19
type Link

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Income inequality in Silicon Valley!

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/18/silicon-valley-wages-have-dropped-for-all-except-highest-paying-jobs-report/

Non-technology wages have not kept up with inflation.

There's another point of view, at least nationally -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-arent-stagnating-after-all/2018/11/18/055edb38-e9dc-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html

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Left behind - Trump country and East Germany

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/opinion/economy-trump-red-blue-states.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/11/18/are-trump-voters-better-off-than-they-were-two-years-ago-especially-compared-to-clinton-voters/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/11/19/why-did-trumps-lies-fail-so-badly-important-new-data-provides-a-clue/

 https://www.brookings.edu/research/countering-the-geography-of-discontent-strategies-for-left-behind-places/

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“Trump Is Right About Nationalism"

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hes-evolving-once-a-sunny-conservative-rubio-goes-all-in-on-trumpism/2018/11/18/16b62e4c-e9e9-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html

Pitch defileth another hand.

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Pitch defileth the hand that toucheth it

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/opinion/mattis-border-trump.html

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It wasn't just suburban educated women

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/opinion/sunday/trump-is-beginning-to-lose-his-grip.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

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Haven’t they learned that the president always gets the
last laugh?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/opinion/sunday/trump-bankers-fraud.html

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Measuring the triumph beyond globalization -
universalization

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-inevitable-tragic--and-ultimately-necessary--death-of-the-kilogram/2018/11/16/5e8650ae-e90c-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html

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Pinter saw it all coming.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/opinion/culture/harold-pinter-death-play.html

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Education pays off for centuries

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/11/09/years-after-jesuits-were-expelled-towns-near-their-missions-still-have-higher-education-incomes

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posted "11/09/2018 09:09:30 PM"
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This is the swamp that has not receded at all

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/world/europe/oleg-deripaska-russia-oligarch-sanctions.html

There are opportunities available to billionaires that
will not be available to you.

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All they needed was a leader -

who would faithfully follow their lead

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/us/politics/far-right-internet-trump.html

And now they're mainstream.       And acting on it.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/midterms-test-whether-republicans-not-named-trump-can-win-by-stoking-racial-animosity/2018/11/04/bb5f00ac-e059-11e8-ab2c-b31dcd53ca6b_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-militia-groups-head-to-border-stirred-by-trumps-call-to-arms/2018/11/03/ff96826c-decf-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/04/racist-magical-negro-robo-call-oprah-targets-stacey-abrams-georgia-governors-race/

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Persecution and survival -

it's such an old story.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/opinion/sunday/jews-pittsburgh-anti-semitism-prayer.html

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Gary Hart looks back

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/opinion/sunday/trump-hart-presidency.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/politicians-sex-lives-used-to-be-off-limits-one-scandal-changed-everything/2018/11/07/2d9cf4ce-c7f2-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html

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Does the future look like Viktor Orban?

Bannon thinks so -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/opinion/hungary-orban-republican-party-trump.html

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Alt-right classics

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/guess-whos-championing-homer-radical-online-conservatives/2018/11/02/af3a49f6-dd40-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html

A lot of it is the same genre as "slavery was in the
Bible so it must be OK."

One of the things that makes a great work of art is its
ability to reflect back to viewers in many times, places,
and conditions in a way that suggests new ideas to the
viewer.      Different viewers get different ideas.

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Could losing the House be a Trumpist plot?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/04/could-losing-house-actually-help-trump/

Probably not, but it could be advantageous to Trump in
2020 if his base gets tired of immigration.

One could hope that a closely divided House might be an
incentive for cooperation to get things done, but McConnell
is not going to let anything through the Senate that he
doesn't like, whether he's majority or minority leader.

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Sample ballots

Organizing For Action has a new tool with sample ballots
for every community in the U.S., so you can see what you'll
be voting on -

 https://www.ofa.us/lets-get-ready-to-vote/

Here's another -

 https://www.ballotready.org/

or for California

 http://votersedge.org/ca

Look out for fair redistricting ballot measures if you
live in one of ndrc's target or watch list states -

- Colorado: Amendments Y and Z - Michigan: Proposal 2 -
Missouri: Amendment 1 - Utah: Proposition 4

Thanks to NDRC for pointing out the new tool -

 http://www.democraticredistricting.com

More at

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting

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election

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Californians rush to register to vote -

while landlords rush to raise rents to market levels

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/02/californians-register-to-vote-in-record-numbers-for-tuesday-midterms/

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/03/as-prop-10-looms-some-landlords-raise-the-rent/

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Dark money is a national security issue

 https://www.publicintegrity.org/2018/10/25/22375/russian-money-and-influence-have-poured-through-cracks-us-legal-wall

A few Democratic candidates have decided to decline PAC
money - that's a start.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/12/us/money-politics-dean-phillips.html

There are several efforts to raise consciousness about
unlimited dark money -

 http://www.americanpromise.net/

 https://democracy21.org/

 https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/money-politics

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations

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Gerrymandering is big business -

it's critical for Republican power in several states.

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/30/michigan-gerrymandering-redistricting-voters-not-politicians

Much better to get rid of it forever.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting

 https://democraticredistricting.com/

California got past it several years ago -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Citizens_Redistricting_Commission

democracy

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report the story the way that I want it reported

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/11/01/fox-friends-anchor-accidentally-confirms-shows-mission-propaganda/

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How come elitists always end up in charge?

 https://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/drain-swamp-richest-members-trump-administration.html

The end state of most political revolutions ends up about
the same as before - if the people are lucky.     Unlucky,
they end up worse off.

At the end, there is always an elite running things.
Why is that?

One possible explanation is that being intensely interested
in politics is not normal.  Most people can think of more
gratifying ways to spend their lives.   Who wants to be
a politician?    Who wants their child to grow up to be
a politician?

50 years ago, polls showed that most American women would
like it if their sons became President, but most American
women would not like it if their sons became politicians.
Those moms were unclear on the concept of the President's
jobs.   Part of it is to be the biggest and baddest dog in
his political pack, in order to direct the insane ambitions
of his allies.  If you can't do that, you won't become
President, or won't be for long.

But most people have a saturation level for political
input, and eventually tune out of continuous revolution.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_revolution
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution

So the people that end up running the show are the
people that find running the show interesting.    That's
automatically an elite.

A small community of subsistence farmers without too
much spread in wealth and other power can govern itself.
Everybody understands all the issues about equally well.
Direct democracy has a chance of working, though many
citizens hate the endless boring meetings.    Jefferson was
opposed to Hamilton's industrialization schemes because
he feared it would be the end of democracy -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffersonian_democracy

In a complicated technological society, nobody understands
all the issues well, and many people don't understand any
of the issues at all, and decisions have to be delegated
to people that do understand or at least pretend to.
Nobody has figured out how to manage something without
understanding it.

 https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm

So there are elite bureaucracies.  Does anybody think that
an anonymous Wall Street bureaucrat will consistently make
better decisions for you than an anonymous Washington
DC bureaucrat?  But that's the Trumpist proposition -
deregulate to unleash the power of the billionaires to make
your life better.    You know, the kinds of guys that run
cable companies, cell phone companies, airlines, oil, gas,
and coal companies, big banks, big drug companies, wall
street brokerages, and of course, real estate speculators.
That'll show those elites how we drain the swamp!

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What happens after the election

Making the most plausible guesses at this time - that
leaning districts will end up the way they are leaning now,
and that tossup districts will be decided on the basis of
local factors unique to each district, and so about half
will go one way and half the other - Democrats will gain
a narrow majority in the House and the Republicans will
retain a narrow majority in the Senate.     Even the most
optimistic Democratic projections do not foresee enough
votes to get around a McConnell filibuster in the Senate.

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/us/elections/house-race-ratings.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/us/elections/senate-race-ratings.html

So then what happens?      It's hard to imagine Mueller
coming up with anything that isn't already known or assumed
that would suddenly convince a third of the Republican
Senators to admit that they've been completely wrong all
along, and to vote for impeachment, no matter how much
they'd rather deal with a President Pence.      So that
seems to be a dead end right now.       As a campaign
maneuver, the timing would seem to be best for a Democratic
House vote for impeachment in  the spring of 2020,
during the primaries, while the Republican Senators are
campaigning for re-election, and perhaps subtly for higher
office, before the Republican presidential convention.
The idea is to force the Senators to take a stand that
will either cost them base support in the primaries or
will cost them independent support in the general election.
They will mightily resist that.

Meanwhile the Democrats should perhaps study the people
that have been most successful in getting Trump to do
their bidding - foreign dictators.       Take a Democratic
proposal, make some very minor policy concessions to Trump,
then put his name on it in gold letters and present it
for signing at an enormous photo-up, preferably with
a big parade.      Or devise a compromise deal to pass
some psychologically important policy of minor actual
significance, as a package with something that is really
important to Democrats.

Alas, a more likely outcome is that the Senate and the
House will pass bills that are always DOA in the other
chamber.      And so Congress will do nothing bad for
two years.     And nothing good.    Figuring out how to
get Trump to sign what little might emerge will be the
least of the challenges.

All of which is not to say that the 2018 election doesn't
matter.     If the Republicans retain control of both
houses, Trump will be fully unleashed to be fully Trump.
So get out and vote.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/opinion/republican-party-lies.html

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Former Republicans chime in -

They hold many traditional conservative Republican points
of view, and they aren't going to become Democrats, but
they are voting Democratic this time.       What happens to
them after the election?   They'll have to decide based
on the results of the election and how the remaining
Republicans react to those results.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-saved-155-lives-on-the-hudson-now-lets-vote-for-leaders-wholl-protect-us-all/2018/10/29/554fd0e6-d87c-11e8-a10f-b51546b10756_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/sick-and-tired-of-trump-heres-what-to-do/2018/10/31/72d9021e-dd26-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/vote-against-the-gop-this-november/2018/06/22/a6378306-7575-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-only-way-to-save-the-gop-is-to-defeat-it/2018/08/09/dc70b75a-9c10-11e8-b60b-1c897f17e185_story.html

If the GOP loses control of Congress and decides that
it lost because it wasn't Trumpy enough, then it will
be truly a lost cause.       Democrats will continue to
figure out how to attract back those who voted for Obama
and then Trump.     The Democrats will be glad to leave
the racists, anti-semites, and fascists to the Trumpists.
They can follow the path of the American Independent Party
to oblivion -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Independent_Party

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Revenge against robocallers

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/31/robocalls-gone-wild-illegal-calls-cost-firm-9-million/

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Dirty tricksters alive and well

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/us/disinfo-text-messages-mailers.html

In short, "free" campaign information in paper
mail, email, newspaper/radio/TV ads, phone texts, or
anywhere on the internet has to be presumed guilty until
proven innocent.  Courts rulings mean that there is no
effective penalty or remedy for deceptive campaigning.

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The Obama voters that voted for Trump are voting Democratic
again -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/opinion/when-trump-voters-go-for-democrats.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-a-groundbreaking-candidate-in-west-virginia-big-money-and-attention-come-with-downsides/2018/10/31/84e0f4f8-d6d2-11e8-aeb7-ddcad4a0a54e_story.html

But it sounds like the change that they are hoping for
can't come from Washington.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#First%20Trump%20Constituency

This first constituency is desperate.

Meanwhile, in another universe, another faithful Republican
constituency is getting driven away -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/us/politics/republicans-trump-house.html

Think of it as the third Trump constituency -

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Third%20Trump%20Constituency

This third constituency is disgusted.

What about the second constituency?       They're with
Trump forever, because nobody else will offer them such
unconditional love -

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency

Of course, Trump doesn't really offer anybody
unconditional anything, but he certainly accepts the second
constituency's unconditional love at his campaign rallies,
which Trump craves like a junkie his junk.

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Each of us, as part of our national defense,

should register and vote this November

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-midterms-will-be-the-most-secure-elections-weve-ever-held/2018/10/31/e60ff8d6-d930-11e8-9559-712cbf726d1c_story.html

The threat of foreign interference is no excuse not
to vote.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/business/midterm-election-russia-cyber.html

Nor is a claim that there's no difference between the
candidates or the parties.  But if you need a lame excuse
for leaving your fate to others, you could try one of
these -

 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/12-young-people-on-why-they-probably-wont-vote.html

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Washington's Letter to Newport

 https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-06-02-0135

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Mueller still interested in Stone -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/us/politics/roger-stone-trump-campaign-mueller-wikileaks.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mueller-probes-roger-stones-interactions-with-trump-campaign-and-timing-of-wikileaks-release-of-podesta-emails/2018/10/30/33052472-db89-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/717331408611381

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Evolution of the Republican Party -

from liberation to identity politics

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

The Republican Party defeated the Confederacy, freed
the slaves, and then got stuck in the House trying
to decide the Hayes-Tilden election of 1876.  So the
Corrupt Bargain was struck - the Republican Hayes became
President, and withdrew Federal troops from the South,
ending Reconstruction and giving the unrepentant southern
Democrats a free hand for 80 years -

 https://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/317

until the Supreme Court finally struck down "separate
but equal" and the Republican President Eisenhower
enforced it with Federal troops -

 http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/eisenhower/aa_eisenhower_littlerock_1.html

leading to founding of the John Birch Society with their
"Impeach Earl Warren" campaign and claims that
Eisenhower was a Communist traitor -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society

Goldwater and William Buckley and many other Republican
leaders kept their distance from the Birchers, and in 1964
Goldwater lost by a landslide to LBJ.  Goldwater was too
far right, but of course the lunatic fringe thought he was
not far right ENOUGH.   But Goldwater opposed the Civil
Rights Act of 1964

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965

and that encouraged many Dixiecrats to abandon the
Democratic Party, led by Strom Thurmond

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Senators_who_switched_parties

and Albert Watson

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Representatives_who_switched_parties

Their racism made many traditional Republicans nervous, but
Richard Nixon had been rebuilding a political organization
for another run for President.  Nixon realized that,
properly handled, the former Dixiecrats were an asset
rather than a liability.  According to Haldeman,
"Nixon emphasized that you have to face the fact
that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to
devise a system that recognized this while not appearing
to."

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

Although the RNC chair apologized for the Southern Strategy
in 2005, he was speaking too soon.

In 2009, Obama was elected President, and the Tea Party
was born

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement

Since Obama's politics were not much different from Bill
Clinton's, it's hard to escape the conclusion that racism
was an important factor in the rise of the Tea Party.
It was not explicitly racist, but it was part of the
oppose-Obama-on-everything movement within the Republican
party

 https://www.politico.com/story/2010/10/the-gops-no-compromise-pledge-044311

which certainly appealed to all the racists.

Trump's great insight was that by signaling (subtly at
first, blatantly later) to the racists and fascists,
they'd stick with him forever, and by other means he
could also attract the Obama voters who were hoping for
a change for the better.  Of course, the reason there
hadn't been as much change for the better as hoped, is
that the Republicans were blocking Obama on everything.
Even so, Obamacare passed and the economy as a whole has
been recovering since 2009.

But the Republicans cleverly convinced enough voters that
they were against Obamacare, even though polls asking about
any specific aspect of Obamacare, but without mentioning
"Obamacare", such as affordable coverage for
pre-existing conditions, found quite widespread support.
Trump could easily promise to repeal Obamacare and come
up with better coverage for more people at lower cost.

And while the economy as a whole has been recovering,
the recovery has been uneven, especially in industries
undone by technological advance or their environmental
costs.     Trump could easily promise to turn back the
tide of technology and and the tide of rising oceans and
environmental degradation.

And that's how Trump barely won.      Since then
he has done a great job of keeping the racists and
anti-intellectuals in his camp, but those who had voted
for Obama and then Trump have noticed that he hasn't really
done anything for them after all.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#First%20Trump%20Constituency

So now he has to create distractions of foreign menace
of impoverished peasant invasions, and somehow avoid the
distractions of domestic menace by his hard-core followers
who took him too literally and too seriously.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/gop-presses-ahead-in-casting-soros-as-threat-amid-criticism-that-attacks-are-anti-semitic/2018/10/29/183d50fe-dba4-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/31/republican-mailer-depicts-jewish-candidate-gripping-cash-grinning-gop-is-defending-it/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-self-described-nationalist-turns-midterms-into-a-forum-on-american-identity/2018/10/30/dd3a418a-dc4b-11e8-b732-3c72cbf131f2_story.html

But sticking too close to his white-identity-politics
hard-core base may be his undoing.    Cults of personality
have not lasted long in American politics.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality

The Trumpist Party has no fixed ideology beyond the whims
and prejudices of the leader, who owes nothing to the past
or to the future, but mutually supports and abets other
personality cults all over the world.

A president who wants to build a legacy needs a tent
large enough to weather various kinds of crises among
sub-constituencies.  Trump seems uninterested and unable
to do so.  He's indeed a great disrupter, as claimed,
but not a great builder, which also was claimed.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-grip-on-power-depends-on-splitting-the-nation-in-two/2018/10/28/c7ba9bca-d958-11e8-aeb7-ddcad4a0a54e_story.html

 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691174199

The nation will recover eventually, as it has from other
fundamental crises.  The outlook for the Republican Party
is not so certain, and recalls the fate of the Whigs -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)#Decline

The Republicans might split into a hard-core identitarian
Trumpist party and one espousing more traditional
Republican values.    Hard to guess which one will retain
the Republican name!  Trump certainly likes to see his
name in gold on everything he touches.    It would be
good for the Republicans to finally excise their cancer
of racism, anti-semitism, and fascism.  After years of
berating the Democrats for identity politics, it's time
for the Republicans to take the same medicine.

The Democrats could go the same factional route if success
went to their heads and they got too far ahead of the
middle of the electorate.  That might eventually lead to
a new majority coalition in the middle for a while.

If the Democrats are smart, they will become the new
majority coalition somewhat left of the middle, far
enough left to have ideals and goals, yet close enough
to the middle and the left to keep both in the tent.
No small task.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative

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the most insignificant office that ever the invention of
man contrived

We forgive John Adams his mistake - he didn't live long
enough to be Lieutenant Governor of California

 http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-skelton-lieutenant-governor-20181025-story.html

As for John Adams -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/10/03/a-brief-history-of-vice-presidents-bemoaning-the-vice-presidency/

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What better choice to study state security -

than a state security expert?

 https://www.apnews.com/439d0caa674e44259e7a14f73e257557

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Chinese tourism might decline

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/china-has-a-big-weapon-that-it-hasnt-used-in-the-trade-war--yet-tourists/2018/10/29/a5645ae4-ccaf-11e8-a360-85875bac0b1f_story.html

For some, that might be a good thing -

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/25/big-surs-beloved-bixby-bridge-goes-viral-bringing-trouble/

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Petrification of wealth inequality

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/30/owning-your-own-home-doesnt-make-you-rich-owning-somebody-elses-does/

Since social economic stratification tends to be feed
on itself, one of government's ongoing tasks is to
restore more equal opportunity by undoing extreme wealth
inequality.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#liberty%20and%20equality

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Sure enough, it's a new version of the (mythical)  Dan
White Twinkie Defense

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10/30/pointing-trumps-rhetoric-attorneys-kansas-militiaman-convicted-mosque-bomb-plot-ask-more-lenient-sentence/

Just another example of a presidential role model -

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/737912276553294

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By the way, here's the real story on the Twinkie Defense -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie_defense

 https://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Myth-of-the-Twinkie-defense-The-verdict-in-2511152.php

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There's a bunch of Republican Congressional Representatives
looking forward to an early retirement

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/30/california-house-races-outside-spending-michael-bloomberg/

The Republican national PAC's aren't even bothering to
defend some of the hopeless cases - they're doing triage
nationally -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/gop-scrambles-to-save-suddenly-vulnerable-house-candidates-in-trump-districts/2018/10/29/ddfb0c02-dbc5-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html

There's still time for you to be part of the problem,
or part of the solution, depending on how you look at it -

 https://www.fightbackca.com/

Longer term, we need a way to undo Citizens United.
The Supreme Court caused that problem, and Mitch McConnell
continues to do his best to insure that it continues
to cause that problem.      So another remedy will be
required.

 http://www.americanpromise.net/

 https://democracy21.org/

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations

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What if everybody voted?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/upshot/what-if-everyone-voted.html

And what if everybody in the Federal territories could
vote?

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#Federal%20territories

Overcoming voter suppression has been difficult and will
become more so if the Supreme Court starts acting as
protector of the Republican power structure that put it
there.      Constitutional amendments might be required and
they will encounter  the same problems from gerrymandered
and rural legislatures.

It seems a better goal, if it's going to require that
much effort, is to give the states tangible incentives
for promoting voter registration and voter turnout -

* allocate Congressional seats among states on the basis
of voter turnout rather than population

* allocate Federal aid to states on the basis of voter
turnout rather than population

* restrict political donations to registered voters

Each of these changes would have other beneficial aspects.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html

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Is House of Cards reality?

It is for foreigners, with encouragement from their
governments.  It is for us if we make it so.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/house-of-cards-is-credible-just-ask-the-russians-chinese-and-iranians/2018/10/25/81b02346-d644-11e8-aeb7-ddcad4a0a54e_story.html

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The cultural revolution lives on in Xinjiang -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chinas-glittering-glamour-disguises-a-fist-of-tyranny/2018/10/26/857ff93a-d949-11e8-a10f-b51546b10756_story.html

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution#Ethnic_minorities

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History of the social safety net

Social security - Republicans mostly voted in favor -

 https://www.ssa.gov/history/tally.html

Medicare -  Republicans opposed in the Senate, split in
the House -

 https://www.ssa.gov/history/tally65.html

Obamacare - No Republican votes

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act#Legislative_history

even though it was based on Mitt Romney's popular
Masscare -

 http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44854320/ns/politics-decision_2012/t/white-house-used-mitt-romney-health-care-law-blueprint-federal-law/#.W9fGV5xRf0M

If you want to see how it adds up -

 https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_budget_detail_2017bs22017n_0010

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Bakersfield deserves better - and so does the rest of
the country

Billionaire Jews buying the election for Democrats?

 https://www.jta.org/2018/10/24/top-headlines/house-majority-leader-kevin-mccarthy-deletes-tweet-saying-george-soros-tom-steyer-michael-bloomberg-buying-years-elections

Was McCarthy afraid the Democrats have stolen the
Republicans strategy book, as if it were a big secret?
Or did somebody explain to him how his campaigns are
financed?

The big secret is the dark money, but what we do know  is
big enough -

 https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/topindivs.php

Adelson is at the top of this list.   Note that the Kochs
aren't even on this list - their money, and that of many
others, is mostly dark.

 https://www.marketplace.org/2018/10/23/elections/billionaire-donations-are-driving-midterm-spending

As for McCarthy, let's all help him to an early retirement,
if not this time, then next time.

 https://www.fightbackca.com/

Where does he get his tweetable thoughts then?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ask-the-questions-about-right-wing-terrorists-that-we-ask-about-islamist-militants/2018/10/28/64403b32-daec-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html

For the bigger picture, it's essential to get the dark
money out of politics and the big money too -

 http://www.americanpromise.net/

 https://democracy21.org/

But it will be a long hard road.    Mitch McConnell and his
supporters have worked long and hard to build a Supreme
Court and Federal judiciary that will protect the idea
that unlimited dark money is protected free speech.

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A conservative argument for a split Congress

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/opinion/sunday/midterms-elections-2018-senate.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

A Republican Senate and a Democratic House seem quite
plausible in January - perhaps the most plausible
outcome.        It sounds like a prescription for two
more years of do-nothing Congress, except for installing
more reactionary judges who will do their best to
institutionalize Republican power.

But even if Democrats get a majority in the Senate next
month, it still won't be enough to enact anything positive
against a Republican filibuster.    But it will end the
installation of reactionary judges.

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Stock market drops are a bad thing -

if you are president or running for president or a
short-term trader.

But stock market drops are a good thing - "STOCKS ON
SALE!" - if you are investing for a specific target
date in the future.       Then you can hardly do better
than dollar-cost averaging buy and hold of target-date
no-load mutual funds.      Hold through thick and thin
until your target date.      You'll outperform almost all
professional active-portfolio money managers.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/how-i-learned-to-love-a-good-downturn-in-the-stock-market/2018/10/26/266d5b56-d70d-11e8-83a2-d1c3da28d6b6_story.html

There is a problem with stock market drops that last
years rather than weeks.       Bear markets are usually
associated with a general economic recession that might
result in your unemployment and inability to continue your
dollar-cost averaging buying - even though stocks are very
cheap compared to what they will be after the next bull
market starts.

But after any given day, you do not know AT THAT TIME -
and neither does anybody else - whether stocks might be
halfway down to the next bear market, or halfway up to the
next bull market.      So quit worrying about market timing
and stick to your plan.      Follow Warren Buffett's advice
and don't even open your monthly statements.   You don't
need to read a newsletter or a book, but if you want
one, read anything by John Bogle, founder of Vanguard.
You don't need a broker either.

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Conversion of a party of ideas to a cult of personality -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality

America was founded on ideas rather than personalities-

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

A new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.

Traditional Republicans who think of themselves as part
of the party of Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt should
think about what it means when a party of ideas becomes a
personality cult - which is the tendency of populist and
fascist movements.       They might ask how it worked out
for others -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%B6hm

They all were fired, not for their ideology, but because
they were potential popularity threats to Dear Fearless
Leader.     Their ideology didn't save them.

The Republican Party has become the Trumpist Party with
no fixed ideology but the whims and prejudices of the
leader, who owes nothing to the past nor to the future,
but mutually supports and abets other personality cults all
over the world.      The only reality is the inner reality
of Dear Fearless Leader; any reference to other realities
or failure to keep up with the twists and turns of the
approved reality is hazardous to your career, or worse.

Don't like it?     The 2018 election is a national
referendum on ideas vs personality cults.       For this
one specific moment in history, voters interested in ideas
need to vote for ideas and against personality cults.  That
means in almost every instance, a vote for Republicans,
Libertarians, Greens, independents, or staying home because
it doesn't matter - is a vote for personality cults.
An astonishing number of House and even Senate seats -
and state governorships and legislature seats - are too
close too call this year - meaning individual votes count
as never before.      No matter who wins control of the
Senate or House, it will result in a majority of just a
few votes, each decided by just a few votes.  Turnout is
everything.    In almost every instance, at this specific
moment, the only effective vote against personality cults
is to vote Democratic.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#registration

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses

As for the future, there are a lot of structural reforms
needed - getting dark money out of politics, encouraging
voter  registration and turnout instead of suppressing,
ending gerrymandering, adopting ranked-choice voting
and multi-member districts, changing the way Congress
runs itself - that will increase voter choices by making
independent and ideological candidates more feasible.

 https://www.fairvote.org/

 https://www.nolabels.org/

 https://www.uniteamerica.org/

 http://www.americanpromise.net/

But those efforts will take years to come to fruition.
Now is the time for short-term action.

==

More at

 https://www.facebook.com/pg/politicalscrapbooknet/posts

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/facebook.html

 http://www.political-theses.net/

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net

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Conversion of a party of ideas to a cult of personality -

America was founded on ideas rather than personalities.

Traditional Republicans who think of themselves as part
of the party of Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt should
think about what it means when a party of ideas becomes a
personality cult - which is the tendency of populist and
fascist movements.       They might ask how it worked out
for others -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%B6hm

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon

They all were fired, not for their ideology, but because
they were potential popularity threats to Dear Fearless
Leader.     Their ideology didn't save them.

The Republican Party has become the Trumpist Party with
no fixed ideology but the whims and prejudices of the
leader, who owes nothing to the past or to the future,
but mutually supports and abets other personality cults
all over the world.

Don't like it?     The 2018 election is a national
referendum on ideas vs personality cults.       For this
one specific moment in history, voters interested in
ideas need to vote for ideas and against personality
cults.      That means in almost every instance, a vote for
Republicans, Libertarians, Greens, independents, or staying
home because it doesn't matter - is a vote for personality
cults.     An astonishing number of House and even Senate
seats and Governorships are too close too call this year -
meaning individual votes count as never before.  In almost
every instance, at this specific moment, the only effective
vote against personality cults is to vote Democratic.

As for the future, there are a lot of structural reforms
needed - getting dark money out of politics, encouraging
voter  registration and turnout instead of suppressing,
ending gerrymandering, adopting ranked-choice voting
and multi-member districts, changing the way Congress
runs itself - that will increase voter choices by making
independent and ideological candidates more feasible.

 https://www.fairvote.org/

 https://www.nolabels.org/

 https://www.uniteamerica.org/

 http://www.americanpromise.net/

But those efforts will take years to come to fruition.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#registration

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses

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Does gender affect economic outlook?

Is the recovery evenly beneficial to men and women?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/business/economy/women-usa-economy.html

Or does gender effect political outlook which effects
economic outlook?

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Nothing new about indicted or convicted criminals running
for office - it's been worse -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/opinion/disaster-candidates-beyond-trump.html

What's new is that being a corrupt self-serving opportunist
is now considered a positive on your resume rather than
a negative.       The tone is set from the top.

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Difference between entertainment and journalism

The only mistake for an entertainer is to get low ratings -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/27/ann-coulter-didnt-ditch-conspiracy-theories-after-bombers-arrest-most-false-flaggers-didnt/

Journalists do make mistakes and correct them and learn
from them -

 https://twitter.com/GeraldoRivera/status/1055871163790958592

Geraldo must have been a journalist in a past life.  If he
learns from this mistake, maybe he still is a journalist.

Every wonder why fake news is so popular?     Because it
makes great entertainment -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/10/27/false-flag-theories-about-the-mail-bombs-are-already-widespread-here-are-5-things-to-know-about-conspiracy-theorists/

The truth is usually much more boring, or complicated,
or both.

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What happens when you keep building office space

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/18/tech-boom-silicon-valley-best-office-market-years-google-roku-apple-facebook-amazon-adobe/

faster than you keep building housing space?

 https://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-housing-market-expensive-897-square-foot-palo-alto-259-million-2018-7

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Trying to decide on California ballot initiatives?

You can find out where the major players are lined up -
parties, unions, non-profits, newspapers - here

 https://www.californiachoices.org/ballot-endorsements-2018-11

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Is Trump right about INF?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/on-the-inf-treaty-trump-finally-gets-something-right/2018/10/24/5ce56314-d7b6-11e8-83a2-d1c3da28d6b6_story.html

Gorbachev has a different perspective -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/opinion/mikhail-gorbachev-inf-treaty-trump-nuclear-arms.html

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Social media business models changing

Here and there they win a skirmish, but they're losing
the war -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/why-false-narratives-about-the-migrant-caravan-and-mail-bombs-wont-go-away-on-social-media/2018/10/25/f506cc5e-d889-11e8-a10f-b51546b10756_story.html

"Conspiracy theories play especially well on social
media, which amplifies provocative and engaging content by
design and often rewards misinformation with increased
distribution. One study published this year, led by
M.I.T. researchers, found that on Twitter, falsehoods
were 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than accurate
news."

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/business/false-flag-theory-bombs-conservative-media.html

Even at $3 hour, moderation gets expensive

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/23/meet-the-cleaners-who-approve-or-reject-facebook-posts/

Security breaches aren't cheap either

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/23/yahoo-might-owe-you-money-it-agrees-to-pay-85-million-in-data-breach-settlement/

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Henry Waxman warns Democrats - don't be like Republicans

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/democrats-beware-overzealous-investigations-will-come-back-to-bite-you/2018/10/23/4629820a-d3c8-11e8-b2d2-f397227b43f0_story.html

If Democrats regain control of the House, they need to
set some good precedents and procedures that they can be
proud of and thankful for, no matter what the future holds.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kevin-mccarthys-truthful-gaffe/2015/09/30/f12a9fac-67a8-11e5-8325-a42b5a459b1e_story.html

If your intentions and actions are honorable, you don't
have to worry about accidentally telling the truth.

Remember, as always, the next election in 2020 will be
decided by the swing votes in the middle, and not by the
ideological bases.

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Nothing new under the sun

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/opinion/jamal-khashoggi-murder-mussolini-italy-fascism-mbs-saudi-arabia.html

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Where the new Supreme Court might like to go -

right back to 1787.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/opinion/supreme-court-brett-kavanaugh-trump-.html

Newt has an even more radical idea - judiciary as
subordinate to executive

 https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/26/18026690/newt-gingrich-kavanaugh-trump-tax-returns

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Where the money goes and where it comes from

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/politics/whos-getting-outspent/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/politics/superpac-donors-2018/

One hopes that it's well spent - since there is basically
no remedy or penalty for flagrantly false campaign
material, you can pretty much ignore anything unsolicited
that comes in the mail, email, radio, tv.... and try to
find relatively reliable sources of information from real
journalism and civic and other organizations that you
deem trustworthy.

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So what if you haven't accomplished anything in Congress

You can always run on a local issue that has nothing to
do with what you were elected to do -

 http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-skelton-proposition-6-transportation-funds-20181022-story.html

Foreseeing the need, California Republicans spent a lot
to get the gas tax repeal on the ballot.     Then nothing
to get it passed, since they don't care about that, only
about getting Republicans to get out and vote for their
endangered Congressional representatives.

 https://www.fightbackca.com/

As far the gas tax, if the Republicans ever got control of
the state, they'd have to come up with some kind of plan
to pay for roads.       A one ton car does the same road
damage whether it's a 60's muscle gas guzzler, a hybrid
gas sipper, or an electric car.     So gas tax is really
not a very fair method to pay for roads.     Better to
have a fixed annual fee according to weight, for private
passenger vehicles, and according to weight times mileage
for commercial vehicles and for private vehicles that don't
mind whatever intrusive method is adopted for measuring
private mileage.

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Unprecedented interest in midterm election, unprecedented
lack of interest in poll work

77% of registered voters plan to vote -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/battleground-house-districts-remain-close-in-new-poll/2018/10/22/e6c77a32-d63e-11e8-aeb7-ddcad4a0a54e_story.html

1000 more poll workers needed in Silicon Valley -

 https://www.stanforddaily.com/2018/10/12/bay-area-counties-scrambling-to-find-enough-poll-workers-for-november-elections/

That's what full employment is all about.      When was
the last time you passed a retail store or restaurant that
didn't have a Help Wanted sign?  But illegal immigrants
can't work at polls, even though they'd be willing to
accept the tiny wages.

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How to convert the global leader into just another
third-world economy -

Accentuate income inequality and inopportunity - at every
opportunity.

 https://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-Widening-income-inequality-will-weigh-on-US-credit-profile--PR_389062

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-hidden-costs-of-the-gops-deficit-two-step/2018/10/21/2dfda0f4-d3c2-11e8-8c22-fa2ef74bd6d6_story.html

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Update - nobody is backing off -

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/23/supermicro-amazon-join-apple-in-demanding-retraction-of-chinese-spy-chips-story/

Did it happen or not?

 https://www.cyberscoop.com/dan-coats-bloomberg-supply-chain-the-big-hack/

So far Bloomberg isn't backing down -

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-09/new-evidence-of-hacked-supermicro-hardware-found-in-u-s-telecom

And neither is anybody else -

 https://seekingalpha.com/news/3398964-us-intel-chief-doubts-bloombergs-chip-spy-story

So Supermicro is taking another look -

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/22/supermicro-to-review-practically-impossible-chinese-chip-hack-alleged-in-report/

This is the original story -

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

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It's not bribery if it's about an initiative

 https://calmatters.org/articles/commentary/pay-to-play-ballot-measures-are-flourishing/

It's an example of modern electoral technology perverting
the original intent of the direct democracy movement 100
years ago.       The idea then was to allow the people to
bypass a corrupt legislature.      Now the idea is for
organization with enough money to bypass a legislature
that isn't corrupt enough.

Initiative works when the measures are simple enough that
ordinary voters can understand what they say and what
they mean.       Too many of those on recent California
ballots are way too long, complicated, and technical -
too hard for voters to understand, and pretty tough for
legislators too.  And when a bad idea slips by, often by
means of deceptive advertising, it's pretty hard to undo.

So voters have to rely on outside expertise - which is
what the legislature is supposed to provide in drafting
complicating legislation.

So if you're trying to decide what to do, you could do
worse than start with the League of Women Voters -

 https://lwvc.org/vote/elections/ballot-recommendations

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It was never a secret!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/10/18/mitch-mcconnell-can-explain-what-he-meant-about-cutting-social-security/

It's been known that there is a problem with entitlements
- the entitled class is growing faster than the funding
class.

 https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v70n3/v70n3p111.html

 https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/policy-basics-understanding-the-social-security-trust-funds

At some point, either benefits get reduced or taxes get
increased.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Commission_on_Fiscal_Responsibility_and_Reform

While almost all politicians want to kick that can down the
road and out of sight, McConnell had the brilliant insight
to cut taxes to make it worse, just before the Democrats
regain control of Congress.      Then in a reprise of his
role as minority leader, he can blame the Democrats for
the problem while making sure that no reasonable solution
gets through the Senate.      That way the Republicans can
keep the issue alive until they get control of Congress
again, and then conveniently forget about it again until
the Democrats regain control.

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Ever been glad you had a street address?

It can be used for conscription and taxation and - voting
rights.      And lack of one can be used to deny voting
rights - another tool in the Republican voter suppression
kit, now blessed by the Supreme Court.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/opinion/sunday/north-dakota-addresses-voting-id.html

If November 6 goes unexpectedly well for Trump, we can
expect a lot more of that -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/opinion/sunday/midterm-elections-republican-party-trump-senate-house.html

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Negroes for Goldwater

Prior to the 1964 election, Newsweek published an
interview with the head of an organization with "the
exclusive-sounding name of Negroes for Goldwater."
Maybe they should have been called "Negro Millionaires
for Goldwater." You only need two to make a plural.

But they've been matched for exclusive-sounding-ness -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/19/pro-trump-group-tells-black-voters-support-republicans-because-white-democrats-will-be-lynching-black-folk-again/

"Black Americans for the President's Agenda"  ??
Even the Republican candidate in that district denounced
their ad.

Came as a big surprise to the SF Giants too -

 https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-Giants-owner-gave-1K-to-PAC-behind-racist-ad-13321897.php

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Seeing is believing - or is that believing is seeing?

You might have realized long ago that anything you see on
TV might be fake - but it's going to get worse

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-real-scary-news-about-deepfakes/2018/10/19/6238c3ce-d176-11e8-83d6-291fcead2ab1_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/10/18/i-fell-facebook-fake-news-heres-why-millions-you-did-too/

As usual, you don't really understand a new technology
until you see how it can be used by criminals, terrorists,
spies, and secret police - and dirty tricksters.

But you don't even need new technology -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/saudi-electronic-army-floods-twitter-with-insults-and-mistruths-after-khashoggis-disappearance/2018/10/19/98044874-d311-11e8-a4db-184311d27129_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/conservatives-mount-a-whisper-campaign-smearing-khashoggi-in-defense-of-trump/2018/10/18/feb92bd0-d306-11e8-b2d2-f397227b43f0_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/technology/whatsapp-brazil-presidential-election.html

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If you are going to be inconsistent - you might as well
be consistently inconsistent

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-do-republicans-need-to-win-selective-memory-loss/2018/10/19/257aefe0-d3a9-11e8-8c22-fa2ef74bd6d6_story.html

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The group attempted to sow conflict along racial lines and
sometimes advocated positions that directly opposed each
other, apparently agnostic to whom they supported as long
as it turned Americans against one another

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/director-of-national-intelligence-warns-of-ongoing-campaigns-to-interfere-with-elections/2018/10/19/64973a7a-d3b4-11e8-b2d2-f397227b43f0_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/10/19/mccains-geezer-ryans-an-absolute-nobody-russias-playbook-sounding-american-facebook-propaganda/

Come to think of it, a lot of campaign material could have
come directly from Russia unchanged -

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/18/republicans-immigration-attack-ads-trump

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/19/how-closely-did-russian-troll-rhetoric-mirror-trumps-see-if-you-can-tell-difference/

Makes you wonder about a few of the people who comment on
this page, some of whom seem not to have looked at any of
the cited articles and sometimes don't even seem to have
read the text of the post.

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We learn by making mistakes

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/16/navarrette-why-i-feel-bad-that-i-said-this-journalist-and-filmmaker-should-be-deported/

It's no sin to make a mistake.     The sin is to refuse
to admit it, refuse to fix it, refuse to learn from it.

Unless, of course, your model of moral virtue is Roy Cohn -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn

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Voter suppression - one of the pillars of Republican power

 https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article220117195.html

When voter suppression fails, the next tool in their kit is
gerrymandering to minimize the strength of the opposition.

And unlimited dark money is the first pillar that makes
everything else possible.

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Finally phone companies doing something about robocalls -

starting with fixing fake caller id

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/15/robocalls-finally-big-phone-carriers-to-take-promising-step-to-reduce-consumer-scourge/

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None of the politicians want to talk about the elephant
in the room -

and for once, the elephant is not Republicans -

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/17/walters-why-property-tax-gains-arent-solving-cities-budget-woes/

Unfunded defined-benefit pensions, particularly for public
employees, are a national, indeed a global,  problem,
but one that's becoming acute right now in California.

Unlike the Feds, state and local government can't
print money, so they have to tax or borrow now.
Fair compensation for public employees is a good idea,
but making future generations pay for current benefits
is not.      Nor is obscuring the reason for the necessary
tax increases.

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Democratic optimism for California Congressional seats

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/16/democratic-fundraising-california-congressional-races/

Want to help?

 https://www.fightbackca.com/

Democrats are  thinking about what they will do with
a majority

 https://apnews.com/401fe3a08fe4413092e13b69a25ea97d

Since impeachment would lead to President Pence, who would
be much more effective than Trump in working with a divided
Congress, Pelosi doesn't want to talk about that until it
can't be avoided.

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McConnell's come to the sad conclusion -

we'll have to reduce the social safety net to pay for
billionaire tax cuts.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/mcconnell-calls-deficit-very-disturbing-blames-federal-spending-dismisses-criticism-of-tax-cut/2018/10/16/a5b93da0-d15c-11e8-8c22-fa2ef74bd6d6_story.html

But he wants the Democrats to take the lead on fiscal
responsibility because the Trumpists reject the notion
out of hand.

At times he can be remarkably candid -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/10/18/what-mitch-mcconnell-is-up-to-is-even-worse-than-democrats-say/

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Connected loneliness and connected communities

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-have-an-epidemic-of-loneliness-how-can-we-fix-it/2018/10/12/e8378a38-cd92-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html

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Not a good time to be a journalist -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/this-is-why-so-many-journalists-are-at-risk-today/2018/10/14/2c8ffd30-ce3f-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html

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The first Trump constituency is still hoping for something
better -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-trump-country-republican-candidates-this-year-fall-flat/2018/10/14/c48e99fe-cd7f-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html

Remember Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio?

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#First%20Trump%20Constituency

The second Trump constituency is with him forever, though.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency

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Wealth inequality - if the tax code don't get you -

 https://itep.org/race-wealth-and-taxes-how-the-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-supercharges-the-racial-wealth-divide/

 https://itep.org/financial-exposure-showcases-tax-misconduct-by-powerful-individuals-and-corporations/

then the climate will -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/as-the-climate-worsens-wealth-inequality-will-too/2018/10/12/107493d8-cd9d-11e8-a360-85875bac0b1f_story.html

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Legal tax deferral and conversion

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/13/business/jared-kushner-taxes.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/13/business/kushner-paying-taxes.html

Can real estate depreciate?     Not very often.  But the
tax code allows you to depreciate - take paper losses -
on real estate anyway.

The effect is to defer taxes on (other not necessarily
real estate) ordinary income until years later when you
sell the real estate, and furthermore convert ordinary
income long term capital gains at a much lower tax rate.
That's the definition of a tax shelter - convert income
and defer taxing it.

So the Trumps and other billionaires couldn't care less
if the top regular tax rate were 70% again - they'd never
have to pay it.

 https://itep.org/how-true-tax-reform-would-eliminate-breaks-for-real-estate-investors-like-donald-trump/

Trump himself laments the loss of the even greater real
estate tax advantages eliminated by the Reagan tax reform
of 1986.

 https://myemail.constantcontact.com/New-York-Times-expose-on-Trump-family-tax-avoidance-disturbing--unfortunately-not-unique.html?soid=1130706314757&aid=AIULZgrVxzQ

That's just the legal methods the Trumps used.

Why not start over with a few simple principles that
ordinary people can understand -

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

Kushner's manipulations might well be entirely legal -
unlike the Trump scams of the 1990's - the NY and NYC tax
authorities are taking a closer look -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/us/politics/donald-trump-fred-trump-tax-schemes.html

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Do you prefer a dangerous freedom to peaceful slavery?

 https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/oct/11/could-populism-actually-be-good-for-democracy

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How safe are your elections?

 https://apnews.com/337d855367504fa9a96596b6150af37a

It's all about the money and the secrecy - unwittingly
abetted by some unusual suspects - ACLU, League of Women
Voters, National Federation of the Blind.

Most technologists understand that open-source systems
are inherently more secure than closed-source systems.
But election officials are rarely technologists.  They
make do with what the vendors offer, because of lack of
funding to do better, and because of Federal directives.
Members of Congress are likewise rarely technologists.
There are lots of parties that don't like paper trails.
The Russians are just the tip of the iceberg.

Understanding the extent of the vulnerabilities, nobody can
say that foreign or domestic interference hasn't affected
the outcome of elections.     There are only a few  vendors
of American voting machines, and one is a Canadian company!

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/magazine/election-security-crisis-midterms.html

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Penance for working for Putin

 https://www.apnews.com/7280596d21404ca78e858d59d23cda0a

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Putin's men are getting sloppy

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/a-public-warning-to-putin-knock-it-off/2018/10/09/2d0a718a-cc07-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html

Overconfident perhaps?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/russian-hackers-were-caught-in-the-act--and-the-results-are-devastating/2018/10/05/5e72495a-c8b5-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html

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Where the voters' true interests lie

It won't work for racists, but those who voted for Trump
for economic reasons want to know what he's actually doing
for them

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/heres-where-democrats-are-really-picking-up-trump-voters/2018/10/10/f4970228-ccbf-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html

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grievance academics, grievance politics

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-do-the-kavanaugh-confirmation-and-the-sokal-squared-hoax-have-in-common/2018/10/10/f7efabf8-ccc6-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html

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Who needs good teachers if we are going to cede world
leadership to other countries?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/10/10/why-are-teachers-europe-paid-so-much-better-than-united-states/

But no problem - the billionaires can afford to send their
kids to good schools.

It's all relative anyway!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-presidency-is-one-giant-act-of-trolling/2018/10/10/d6aa4632-cbe6-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html

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The corrosion of conservatism

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/10/destroy-the-republican-party-max-boot-calls-for-a-clean-start/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/10/08/the-dark-side-of-american-conservatism-has-taken-over/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/10/10/an-update-on-the-nevertrump-movement/

It's actually older than Nixon's Southern Strategy.
The Democrats traded the racists to the Republicans in
1964 in return, one supposes, for a future draft pick.
LBJ got the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965

( but see
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_County_v._Holder )

The Republicans got Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, Albert
Watson, and their supporters and,  in the fullness of time,
they've gotten David Duke, Richard Spencer, Alex Jones,
and DonaldTrump.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Senators_who_switched_parties

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Representatives_who_switched_parties

==

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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There's no final technological solution to exponential
growth in population and resource consumption

 https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-04/wind-power-isn-t-as-clean-as-we-thought-it-was

Sooner or later, population has to stabilize at a level
consistent with the desired average standard of living.
Technology provides means to defer but not cancel the day
of reckoning,

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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Centrist Democrats endorse rules changes to break gridlock

 https://thehill.com/homenews/house/409611-moderate-blue-dogs-endorse-house-rules-overhaul-to-break-gridlock

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Extremes rush in where centrists fear to tread

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/brexit-isnt-the-only-shock-hanging-over-britain/2018/10/09/5943b230-cbfc-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html

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Remember Impeach Earl Warren!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-left-shouldnt-assail-the-supreme-courts-legitimacy/2018/10/09/be3ca22e-cc0a-11e8-a360-85875bac0b1f_story.html

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political hazards of preaching to the choir

With  a month until the election, there's time for at
least three or four more scandals and crises that might
affect Republican or Democratic turnout.  Since the
middle decides elections, Democratic reaction to these
scandals and crises should be targeted at turning out
the persuadable independent voters in the middle rather
than the ideological base - don't make the same mistake as
Trump, putting all his energy into revving up his shrinking
base and no energy into expanding it.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/10/10/republicans-are-shrinking-their-electoral-map/

The excited Republican base might cool down from its
Kavanaugh high if it had time to think about who Trump
really is

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-wealth-fred-trump.html

and what the Republicans really want to do about medical
care, taxes, and entitlements.  So expect the Republicans
to continue to talk about mob rule and whatabout Hillary
to keep their base revved up and distracted.

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How to easily find a 53,000 vote advantage

 https://www.thestate.com/news/nation-world/national/article219719740.html

Voter suppression is one of the pillars of Republican rule.

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Irony is dead

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/10/10/lawless-raging-president-fears-the-angry-mob-good-he-should/

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Something remarkable happened that got overlooked

Susan Collins' staff admitted she made a mistake

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/09/susan-collinss-wrong-claim-planned-parenthood-supreme-court-justices/

This sounds like a small deal, but it is really remarkable,
because Republican politicians now mostly take their lead
from Trump, who was trained by Roy Cohn, who taught -
if you make a mistake, deny it and shout it again twice
as loud.      Never give an inch - punch back instead.
Trump belittles Al Franken for folding up like a wet rag -

 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-franken-s-folly-owning-up-and-stepping-down-20181008-story.html

Instead of being a fighter like Kavanaugh.

So the penultimate Trumpian heresy - admitting a mistake.
True Trumpists would never do that because everything they
say is a true reflection of how they feel.

And the ultimate Trumpian heresy - admitting that there is
an objective external reality against which the validity
of one's feelings can be measure.       Trump and all
his populist fascist "strong leader" friends
fiercely reject that principle - it's all relative anyway,
so how can one truth be truer than another?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-presidency-is-one-giant-act-of-trolling/2018/10/10/d6aa4632-cbe6-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/10/10/who-drew-it-trump-asks-of-dire-climate-report-appearing-to-mistrust-91-scientific-experts/

Another point of view is that there is no sin in making an
error.    That's how we learn.   The sin is denying it or
failing to correct it.      But leadership and lies seem to
be inextricably linked - call it "salesmanship" -

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#leadership

==

So perhaps the Democrats virulently attacking Collins
should save their ammunition for worthier targets -
especially those running this year.  Most Republicans
in Congress have converted completely to unrepentant
unreconstructed Trumpists.

 https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/09/collins-kavanaugh-2020-maine-885938

In any case, the voters in Maine will have the final say.

==

Speaking of Roy Cohn - fun fact - or considering the
source, fun claim - According to Roger Stone, Cohn's
"absolute goal was to die completely broke and owing
millions to the IRS. He succeeded in that."      At
the rate Trump is going, he will outdo his master -

 https://nypost.com/2018/10/02/new-york-state-launches-probe-into-trumps-taxes-after-bombshell-report/

NYC is also looking into the matter.    President Pence's
pardon power for Trump does not extend to civil matters
nor to state criminal matters.       The Federal criminal
statute of limitations has expired for the years the NYT
investigated, but Federal civil recovery of back taxes
and penalties is still possible, and now there will be
renewed interest in more recent tax years for which the
statute of limitations has not expired.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/after-selling-off-his-fathers-properties-trump-embraced-unorthodox-strategies-to-expand-his-empire/2018/10/08/2179a12e-c806-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html

And renewed curiosity about Trump's relationship to
Deutsche Bank and other foreign interests.

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How can we increase voter turnout in midterm elections?

Midterm elections are all about turnout.

 https://www.fairvote.org/voter_turnout#voter_turnout_101

 https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2018/09/25/how-voter-turnout-could-affect-the-2018-midterm-elections/

 https://www.brookings.edu/topic/2018-midterms/

Presidential elections get more turnout because more
people are interested in and have opinions about the
president.  So why not have the president on the ballot
of every Federal election - along with either or both
senators in years when they are not up for re-election.
If the president fails to gain at least 1/3 approval,
demand Congress impeach him.   If Senators fail to
gain at least 1/3 approval, demand Congress expel them.
Congress might not act - but it's a powerful incentive
to behave - and even more important, it increases voter
turnout in non-presidential election years.

 http://www.approve-or-expel.net/

And while we're at it, why not make Election Day a holiday?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/want-americans-to-vote-give-them-the-day-off/2018/10/10/5bde4b1a-ccae-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html

==

By the way, it will be interesting to add up the Republican
vs Democrat votes in all the House races on Nov 6, and
see if Trump would have gotten a majority of the popular
vote.     He says the election is all about him, after all.
And likewise, based on the sum of all House votes in each
state, allocate that state's electoral votes accordingly,
and see if Trump would have won the Electoral College
vote again.

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What makes a perfect Supreme Court Justice?

 https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/07/politics/mcconnell-scotus-2020-nominee-trump-senate/index.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/mcconnell-signals-he-would-push-to-fill-a-supreme-court-vacancy-in-2020-despite-2016-example/2018/10/08/75ee6fce-cb2a-11e8-a360-85875bac0b1f_story.html

The twin pillars of Republican political power are
unlimited secret political contributions and voter
suppression, including gerrymandering.  So the ideal
Supreme Court justice will be -

STRONG on the First Amendment, "Congress shall make
no law ... abridging the freedom of speech." Here
"freedom of speech" necessarily encompasses
"unlimited secret political contributions" and
if you have trouble seeing how that follows, just ask any
member of the Federalist Society to explain it to you.

WEAK on the Fourteenth Amendment, "nor shall any
State  deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws." This was the basis for the
one-man-one-vote Supreme Court decisions of the 1960's, but
any member of the Federalist Society can explain how this
was an unconstitutional infringement of states' rights.

Or, to put it more succinctly, an ideal Supreme Court
justice will be aligned with Republican political goals.

Thus the Federalist Society, the Republican Party,
the NRA, and a wide swath of fundamentalist Christians,
who formerly professed lofty abstract ideals, have taken
scripture to heart about serving two masters, and have
dedicated themselves to serving just one master, Trump.

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Nuclear war, climate change, technological disruption

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/10/09/yuval-harari-we-need-to-learn-who-we-are-before-algorithms-decide-for-us/

Which will prove to be the root cause of the Fermi paradox?

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#It_is_the_nature_of_intelligent_life_to_destroy_itselfor-us/

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The Saudis were nice to Trump -

now they feel empowered to do anything.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/10/08/khashoggis-disappearance-and-the-crumbling-of-the-global-order/

The lesson has not been lost on other repressive regimes.
Or on those who think there are too many journalists right
here at home.

 http://www2.philly.com/philly/columnists/trudy_rubin/jamal-khashoggi-saudi-journalist-mbs-mohammed-bin-salman-enemy-of-the-people-trump-20181009.html

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The twin pillars of Republican political power -

are campaign finance by dark money and voter suppression,
especially by gerrymandering.      These could be
undermined judicially by unfriendly courts.    Trump might
not get any more chances to appoint friendly justices,
so McConnell was not going to let this chance slip away
no matter what.   Republican politicians and major donors
are in agreement about that.

Everything else depends on that.      From their point of
view, reproductive rights are not a critical issue for
maintaining power, but a valuable issue for revving up
the base and keeping it distracted from other things like
billionaire tax reform and undoing ACA and entitlements.

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/10/06/brett-kavanaugh-mcconnell-confirmation-gop-surge/1549762002/

Knowing that sooner or later he's going to be minority
leader again, McConnell keeps his eye on the prize
of packing the Supreme Court to protect dark money and
gerrymandering, to keep Congress and the state legislatures
full of uncompromising ideologues, so even Constitutional
amendments can't be passed to undo his handiwork.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitch-mcconnell-is-winning-the-long-game/2018/05/30/99b81818-6371-11e8-a768-ed043e33f1dc_story.html

 https://www.amazon.com/Long-Game-Memoir-Mitch-McConnell/dp/0399564101

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Full employment

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/10/05/benefits-full-employment/

Trump will take credit.     Will he also take credit for
the erosion of what's left of organized labor's power now
that he has a reactionary Supreme Court?     That erosion
is one reason why economic recovery has taken so long to
trickle down to the bottom.

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Reclaiming the center and leading by example

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/opinion/colombia-president-duque-populism.html

We should have such leaders.

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For every action, a  reaction?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-hidden-silver-lining-if-kavanaugh-is-confirmed/2018/10/05/fc2d7fb6-c8ce-11e8-b2b5-79270f9cce17_story.html

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A new meaning for getting in Dutch

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/russian-hackers-were-caught-in-the-act--and-the-results-are-devastating/2018/10/05/5e72495a-c8b5-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html

But not to worry, Trump has a good relationship with Putin,
because he treated him very nicely.

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Tax breaks for wealthy real-estate investors

 https://itep.org/how-true-tax-reform-would-eliminate-breaks-for-real-estate-investors-like-donald-trump/

 https://myemail.constantcontact.com/New-York-Times-expose-on-Trump-family-tax-avoidance-disturbing--unfortunately-not-unique.html?soid=1130706314757&aid=AIULZgrVxzQ

That's just the legal methods the Trumps used.

But just in case it wasn't all legal, the NY and NYC tax
authorities are taking a closer look -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/us/politics/donald-trump-fred-trump-tax-schemes.html

Trump didn't even like the 1986 Reagan tax reform that
impinged on real-estate tax shelters.       Why not start
over with a few simple principles that ordinary people
can understand -

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

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geopolitics vs geoeconomics

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-what-sleepwalking-into-war-looks-like/2018/10/05/df272590-c89a-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html

If push comes to shove, we'll need all the friends we
can get.     So we'll need a doctrine that appeals to all
of them together.     America First isn't it.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-trump-administration-just-reset-the-us-china-relationship/2018/10/04/c727266e-c810-11e8-b2b5-79270f9cce17_story.html

And it's not a game that America can sit out.     That
didn't work in 1917, and it didn't work in 1941.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/war-games-and-business-deals-russia-china-send-a-signal-to-washington/2018/09/11/35371ff2-b5b9-11e8a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/world/asia/china-navy-aircraft-carrier-pacific.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/opinion/america-china-trump-trade.html

We have some work to do to get ready -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/05/white-house-report-points-severe-shortcomings-us-military-supply-chain/

Keen competition doesn't have to involve military force;
China has been studying Russian methods and practicing
its techniques in Taiwan and elsewhere.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/opinion/china-cyberattack-hacking-us-midterm-election.html

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It's not just a matter of having the right parents -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/02/downward-mobility-where-middle-class-kids-are-worse-off-than-their-parents/

It's a matter of having the right parents in the right
neighborhood too!

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It's already happening in China

 https://www.wired.com/story/digital-ids-are-more-dangerous-than-you-think/

You don't understand any new technology until you
understand how it will be used by criminals, terrorists,
and large bureaucracies like corporations and governments.

 https://www.upstream.auto/blog/q1-2018-automotive-cyber-hacks/

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Not News

It's not fake, but it's not news.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kavanaugh-vote-hours-before-a-key-test-grassley-says-he-doesnt-know-how-it-will-go/2018/10/05/a71d92ba-c886-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html

Let's summarize:

* a woman fearfully comes forward with an accusation that,
no matter what, will strongly affect the rest of her life,
mostly negatively, and... ultimately nothing good comes
of her pains

* a man has a few bad moments and then goes on with his
career pretty much as if nothing happened

* probably not a single senator changed his or her mind
from the time the Kavanaugh nomination was first announced
until he gets confirmed

And it doesn't really matter what did or didn't happen long
ago - it seems to lead to the same result.  That's such an
old story, that none of it counts as news.  It's not even
news that this all seems to have helped the Republican
senators running for re-election -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/us/politics/trump-kavanaugh-midterm-elections.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-races-move-right-house-races-move-left-in-political-fallout-from-kavanaugh-confirmation-fight/2018/10/05/74372af2-c811-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html

What would have been news would be news like 1969 -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/10/06/senate-has-lost-its-way/

==

Instead some REAL news gets overlooked in the shuffle -

* the New York Times publishes dates, names, and amounts
of the tax frauds perpetrated by the Trump family (and
many real and imaginary billionaires) and demolish
the publicity fraud of "Donald Trump, successful
self-made billionaire"; Trump representative do not
dispute any specific factual allegation and the Times can
safely call their bluff about going to court; the Trumps
do not want their confederates testifying under penalty of
perjury, especially with the NY tax authorities circling
ominously, since Trump has seen that his confederates all
flip eventually.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/us/politics/donald-trump-fred-trump-tax-schemes.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/opinion/donald-trump-fred-taxes-fraud.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-ducked-the-tax-code-the-irs-made-it-easy/2018/10/04/102409aa-c80b-11e8-b2b5-79270f9cce17_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/opinion/trump-wealth-tax-evasion.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-wealth-fred-trump.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/trump-family-wealth.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/insider/donald-trump-fred-tax-schemes-wealth.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/us/politics/donald-trump-fred-trump-tax-schemes.html

* Kavanaugh's positions about dark money and rights of
corporations fit right in with the billionaires agenda.
Dark money is the #1 problem of American politics - it
funds #2, #3, .... #infinity.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/09/13/how-brett-kavanaugh-could-help-create-an-era-of-rampant-corruption/

* Pence announces some serious intentions about China,
which will be very consequential unless China mollifies
Trump with some token concessions and a big red carpet
for him to accept them.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-trump-administration-just-reset-the-us-china-relationship/2018/10/04/c727266e-c810-11e8-b2b5-79270f9cce17_story.html

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

==

So is the suffering of Christine Blasey Ford and the other
women that have come forward - since time immemorial -
and gotten nothing but grief, all for nought?     It didn't
change any senators' minds.

But can it change the minds of people who voted for Trump
and now think better of it?     Can it change the minds
of people who don't vote because they don't think it makes
a difference?

The committed and involved and activist people have made
up their minds.  There's one month to get the uncommitted,
uninvolved, and passive to act.  Midterm elections are
all about turnout.

==

Knowing that sooner or later he's going to be minority
leader again, McConnell keeps his eye on the prize
of packing the Supreme Court to protect dark money and
gerrymandering, to keep Congress and the state legislatures
full of uncompromising ideologues, so even Constitutional
amendments can't be passed to undo his handiwork.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitch-mcconnell-is-winning-the-long-game/2018/05/30/99b81818-6371-11e8-a768-ed043e33f1dc_story.html

 https://www.amazon.com/Long-Game-Memoir-Mitch-McConnell/dp/0399564101

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The Trump administration says it's taking on China

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-trump-administration-just-reset-the-us-china-relationship/2018/10/04/c727266e-c810-11e8-b2b5-79270f9cce17_story.html

It needs to get to the same place with Russia.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/russian-hackers-were-caught-in-the-act--and-the-results-are-devastating/2018/10/05/5e72495a-c8b5-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html

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Supply and demand

It looks like demand will keep Silicon Valley housing
expensive for the foreseeable future.     But it's going
to be hard to hire people to do the dirty work if they
aren't paid enough to make it worthwhile to commute from
wherever they can afford to live.

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/04/bay-area-migration-means-high-incomes-in-low-incomes-out/

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Maybe it's time to undermine the business model of social
media

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/opinion/ro-khanna-internet-bill-of-rights.html

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The unvarnished tribalization of national life

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/opinion/kavanaugh-hearing-partisan-national-disgrace.html

Bipartisan alienation might be a cause or a symptom -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/upshot/estranged-america-trump-polarization.html

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Above and beyond the law - it's not just the Trumps

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/opinion/donald-trump-fred-taxes-fraud.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-ducked-the-tax-code-the-irs-made-it-easy/2018/10/04/102409aa-c80b-11e8-b2b5-79270f9cce17_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/opinion/trump-wealth-tax-evasion.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-wealth-fred-trump.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/trump-family-wealth.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/insider/donald-trump-fred-tax-schemes-wealth.html

And why not?    In most times and places, taxes were
something that the rich ruling class imposed on the poor
who could not fight back.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/us/politics/donald-trump-fred-trump-tax-schemes.html

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Finding your way around politicalscrapbooknet

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/encyclopedia-std.jpg

There are currently 760 posts on politicalscrapbooknet.
There are some indices to help you find what you might
want to read -

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/fb-priority.html
Highest priority recent items of long-term significance,
at most one per day.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/fb-recent-popular.html
The most currently popular items.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/fb-recent-original.html
Recent items with the most original content.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/fb-hidden.html
Items most often hidden by readers.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/facebook.html
More indices and history.

Many of these posts link to external news and opinion and
don't make much sense out of context.  There's a reason
Trump reads the Washington Post and the New York Times
when he needs to know what's really going on.  Support a
free press by subscribing to their online editions if you
can afford to.    Some of the same material is nationally
syndicated and you might be able to find some of it in
your local print or online newspaper.

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Somebody who knows all the right people

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/erik-prince-in-kabul-pushes-privatization-of-the-afghan-war/2018/10/04/72a76d36-c7e5-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html

Privatize schools, privatize prisons, privatize armies...
what's good for the billionaires is good for the rest
of us!

In fact, why not contract all of federal, state, and
local government out to a private general contractor!
They could certainly get lower-cost labor.  Since the
contractor would also operate Congress and the state
legislatures, it could quickly enact any needed laws.
It could give itself a budget and collect the taxes to
pay for it.      It would only take a few major Republican
donors to seed this new contractor corporation and realize
all their dreams of reduced government!      Having your
life run by anonymous Wall Street bureaucrats is bound to
be better than having your life run by anonymous Washington
bureaucrats - but better for whom?

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How Congress helped the Trumps (and other billionaires)
keep their billions

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-ducked-the-tax-code-the-irs-made-it-easy/2018/10/04/102409aa-c80b-11e8-b2b5-79270f9cce17_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/opinion/trump-wealth-tax-evasion.html

The whole episode illustrates why Republicans are so eager
to emasculate IRS enforcement - of wealthy Republican
donors.  They want the IRS to focus on hassling small
business owners - preferably poor Democratic ones.
The Trumps knew they were very likely to get away with
their games.       Trump considers the IRS, like other
Federal agencies, to be instruments of his personal power.

However, the tax authorities in NY state and NYC have
different ideas -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/us/politics/donald-trump-fred-trump-tax-schemes.html

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Win some, lose some

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/10/04/daily-202-how-senate-republicans-could-win-the-battle-and-the-war-on-kavanaugh/5bb50b311b326b7c8a8d17f3/

Looks like winsome Mitch McConnell was right after all -
a bitter partisan fight over Kavanaugh was good for his
job security - Trump is polling better in the races that
decide control of the Senate next year.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/i-am-listening-to-you-manchin-under-pressure-as-the-lone-democratic-holdout-on-kavanaugh/2018/10/04/990e8288-c7f0-11e8-b2b5-79270f9cce17_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-races-move-right-house-races-move-left-in-political-fallout-from-kavanaugh-confirmation-fight/2018/10/05/74372af2-c811-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html

The only way it could have been better would be if it were
even closer to the election - the excited Republican base
might cool down if it had time to think about who Trump
really is

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-wealth-fred-trump.html

and what the Republicans really want to do about medical
care, taxes, and entitlements.      Indeed, some Republican
strategists think it would be advantageous in the Senate
races, at least, if Democrats succeeded in derailing the
nomination -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/us/politics/trump-kavanaugh-midterm-elections.html

With  a month until the election, there's time for at least
three or four more scandals and crises that might affect
Republican or Democratic turnout.  Democratic reaction
to these scandals and crises should be targeted at the
persuadable independent voters in the middle rather than
the ideological base - don't make the same mistake as
Trump, putting all his energy into revving up his shrinking
base and no energy into expanding it.

It's hard to tell who will benefit from talk about
impeaching Kavanaugh later -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/04/if-kavanaugh-is-confirmed-impeachment-could-follow-heres-how/

 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/03/democratic-house-impeach-kavanaugh-220921

Over on the House side - not McConnell's problem so much.
Just about everybody concedes that the Democrats will
get control.      They're already drafting their subpoenas.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/us/politics/kavanaugh-republicans-midterms.html

 https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/14/gop-midterms-retirements-house-823327

Mitch can't do much about that, but he can hope that
the Democrats will jump into ideological fratricide on
the Republican model.    Even if the House passes any
legislation, McConnell can keep the Senate from passing
it, even if the Democrats get control by a vote or two -
standing in the doorway and blocking up the hall are what
he does best.     He knows that one day soon Trump will
thank him for preserving the filibuster.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#filibuster

Knowing that sooner or later he's going to be minority
leader again, McConnell keeps his eye on the prize
of packing the Supreme Court to protect dark money and
gerrymandering, to keep Congress and the state legislatures
full of uncompromising ideologues, so even Constitutional
amendments can't be passed to undo his handiwork.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitch-mcconnell-is-winning-the-long-game/2018/05/30/99b81818-6371-11e8-a768-ed043e33f1dc_story.html

 https://www.amazon.com/Long-Game-Memoir-Mitch-McConnell/dp/0399564101

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Next time, Mr President, please streamline the process

by imposing tariffs only on goods imported into blue
states.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/us/politics/lindsey-graham-china-tariffs.html

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November 7, 2018 - a day of reckoning

After the election, both Democrats and Republicans will
have to figure out who they are.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/opinion/trump-kavanaugh-midterms-democrats-republicans.html

For Republicans, it's easy to make a case that win or
lose, the Republican Party is replaced by the Trump Party.
There's no conceivable path to any other 2020 Republican
nominee than Trump.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/10/02/no-the-republican-party-is-not-the-party-of-trump-this-new-survey-finds/

55% of Republicans can be described as Trump Republicans;
they'll be thrilled by the replacement.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/opinion/the-trump-circus.html

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency

45% are non-Trump Republicans.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#First%20Trump%20Constituency

They'll have to figure out how to live the rest of their
political lives.

==

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2018/10/02/feature/will-the-democrats-wake-up-before-2020/

Democrats have less of an issue - an ongoing debate about
slow progressive change vs fast progressive change -
and correspondingly, how big a tent to have.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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Don't like the idea of American hereditary nobility?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/opinion/trump-wealth-tax-evasion.html

Obama tried to do something about it... and Congress
did nothing.    Sound familiar?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-ducked-the-tax-code-the-irs-made-it-easy/2018/10/04/102409aa-c80b-11e8-b2b5-79270f9cce17_story.html

Here's where you end up -

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/726717967672725

As most of the history of the world shows, you can't have
equal opportunity if most of the wealth is inherited rather
than created.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#liberty%20and%20equality

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/us/politics/donald-trump-fred-trump-tax-schemes.html

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Real news or fake?

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/10/04/china-inserted-surveillance-microchip-servers-used-by-amazon-apple-according-report/

"One can easily imagine that the governments of
China, Russia, and India have incentive to develop their
own PC and smartphone CPU's and Amazon Echo's, in order
to be sure that the only backdoors are the ones they put
in themselves."

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#1984

Meanwhile Pence is complaining that the Chinese are trying
to influence our elections... by running paid advertising
that identifies the advertiser.       We should be so
lucky to have that be the worst of our concerns -

"Trump last week singled out a four-page advertising
supplement that a Chinese-government media company
placed in Iowa’s largest newspaper, the Des Moines
Register, as evidence of the Asian country’s propaganda
campaign."

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/10/04/vice-president-mike-pence-china-wants-different-american-president/1519577002/

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Fraud from top to bottom

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/10/03/donald-trumps-grotesque-fraud/

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-wealth-fred-trump.html

Trump and his spokespersons denied the overall reporting,
but declined to dispute any specific fact in it.  It's a
model of laborious investigative reporting -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/insider/donald-trump-fred-tax-schemes-wealth.html

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/726717967672725

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/556413984703125

Here's the real Trump -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/opinion/trump-family-real-estate.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/us/politics/donald-trump-fred-trump-tax-schemes.html

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A war against reality on all fronts

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/russian-hackers-were-caught-in-the-act--and-the-results-are-devastating/2018/10/05/5e72495a-c8b5-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/britain-directly-blames-russian-military-intelligence-for-broad-range-of-cyberattacks/2018/10/04/13a3a1f8-c7b6-11e8-9158-09630a6d8725_story.html

Don't expect any help from the Senate -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/10/04/mitch-mcconnell-conspiracy-theorist/

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More than 80 percent of Americans with college degrees
vote compared with about 40 percent of Americans without
high school degrees

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/us/non-voters-midterm-elections.html

This has got to change.       Don't be part of the
problem!  No matter what you believe, your vote will
make a difference.  When have so many Senate, House, and
governor's races been so close and undecidable in polls
this close to the election?

Perhaps Federal aid should be distributed on the basis of
voter turnout rather than population.       That should get
states interested again in increasing voter registration
and participation instead of stifling it.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting

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What we get for foreign aid and the UN

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/a-miracle-in-the-middle-east/2018/10/03/a4cae540-c74a-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html

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Foreign influence on a budget

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russias-low-cost-influence-strategy-finds-success-in-serbia--with-the-help-of-fighter-jets-media-conspiracies-and-a-biker-gang/2018/10/03/49dbf48e-8f47-11e8-ae59-01880eac5f1d_story.html

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Steel is surging

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/steel-is-surging-under-trump-will-workers-benefit/2018/10/03/60a7cd60-c655-11e8-b2b5-79270f9cce17_story.html

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How should the Democratic Party approach 2020?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2018/10/02/feature/will-the-democrats-wake-up-before-2020/

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Trump administration finds Federal overreach less
objectionable -

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-02/fda-seizes-documents-at-headquarters-of-e-cigarette-maker-juul

At least when the target is in SF.

But the EPA is still charging ahead on deregulation -

 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-says-little-radiation-may-be-healthy/

Likewise the Pentagon -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/02/pentagon-walks-back-plan-withhold-cash-defense-contractors-after-pressure-lawmakers/

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National texts -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/opinion/trump-women-fema-alert.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/opinion/greathead-wayne-texts-trump.html

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Another attack on the business model of social media

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/opinion/midterms-facebook-foreign-meddling.html

The cash flow is a function of the divisiveness and
controversy generated - interference by the Putin regime
and others is just the symptom.

The Trump campaign had three separate voter suppression
campaigns running just before the 2016 election - could
they have made a difference of 78,000 votes in Wisconsin,
Michigan, and Pennsylvania, among the targeted women,
blacks, and progressives?  Were you among them?

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the-trump-bunker-with-12-days-to-go

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Kavanaugh traded support from legal scholars for support
from the President and the President's base

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/03/brett-kavanaughs-anger-may-have-backfired/

That's not the usual tradeoff for judicial nominees.

The President added fuel to the fire -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/flake-says-trumps-mocking-of-ford-at-political-rally-was-kind-of-appalling/2018/10/03/286c3dba-c6f4-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html

A philosopher views last week epistemologically -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/opinion/kavanaugh-misogyny-epistemic-worlds.html

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Devin Nunes is not a farmer.  And American agriculture
depends on illegal immigrants.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/02/just-how-politically-explosive-is-devin-nunes-secret-esquire-uncovered/

None of this is news.     If all employers had to hire
only legal workers, they'd have to pay more for less
productivity that can't be as easily abused.       So when
will the Trump organization apply e-verify to all the
workers in their hotels and resorts?

 https://www.fightbackca.com/bonus-ca-22

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Do we need stronger parties?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-political-parties-arent-too-powerful-theyre-not-powerful-enough/2018/10/02/fac1f36c-c673-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html

Does this traditional historical analysis still hold in
the age of social media?

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#bipartisanship

==

Can a parallel be drawn with television?    At first,
there were just a few television channels possible, and
a Fairness Doctrine governed them -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine

It was enacted in the Truman administration and abolished
in the Reagan administration, as the proliferation of
hundreds and thousands of cable channels seemed to insure
that every point of view would be heard.

And indeed it did - every viewpoint would be heard, but
only by those who already espoused it - the bubble effect.
There was no longer anything forcing broadcasters or
audiences to confront more than one point of view on
anything.  More recently, social media reinforced the
same trends.

==

So the argument against third parties and independents
goes - having two major parties forces each to encompass
a wider range of ideologies than is typically the case in
the rest of the world.     Thus, although it's not in the
Constitution, the two-party system is as important to the
way American democracy as anything in the Constitution,
and the entire structure of American politics is built
to reinforce it, above all the winner-take-all electoral
votes rules in 48 of the 50 states.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#electoral%20college

The counter-argument is that the major parties have become
captive to their most partisan wings, who dominate primary
elections and caucuses, and so have become smaller and
smaller tents - in effect, two minor parties that have
captured the institutional mechanisms intended for major
parties.

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We aren’t what we own. We’re what we disown.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/opinion/trumps-economy-job-approval.html

You mean it's NOT the economy?     In 2018, it's easy
to imagine there are 78,000 angry conservative women
and minorities in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin,
who have changed their minds since they voted for Trump
in 2016.  Especially after this "riff that has been
dreaded by White House and Senate aides" -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-mocks-kavanaugh-accuser-christine-blasey-ford/2018/10/02/25f6f8aa-c662-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html

And now for an opposing point of view -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/opinion/the-american-civil-war-part-ii.html

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Deterrence worked for nuclear weapons.

It's yet to be seen to work for asymmetric cyberthreats.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/opinion/trumps-reckless-cybersecurity-strategy.html

We still have to invest massively in cyberdefense.

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How's your GRAT?

It's an important part of everybody's estate planning,
right?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-wealth-fred-trump.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/trump-family-wealth.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

Trump and his spokespersons denied the overall reporting,
but declined to dispute any specific fact in it.  It's a
model of laborious investigative reporting -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/insider/donald-trump-fred-tax-schemes-wealth.html

Another week, another controversy.      And this one could
have been so easily avoided by timely publishing some tax
returns and audited financials.        Why not, if it's all
legal and there's nothing to hide?      Is the whole empire
constructed out of lies?       Or is it barely legal,
but so byzantine that nobody can understand it - so why
would Trump supporters think they have anything in common
with him?    But the hardest core of his base don't care
if he lies - they suppose all politicians do that.  But you
can demand that Trump release his tax returns here -

 https://taxmarch.org/

So much for the Trump myth -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/02/two-pillars-trumps-origin-myth-dislodged-by-times-new-investigation/

By the way - GRAT, short for grantor-retained annuity
trust - is one of the tax code’s great gifts to the
ultrawealthy. They let dynastic families like the Trumps
pass wealth from one generation to the next — be it
stocks, real estate, even art collections — without
paying a dime of estate taxes.

The whole episode illustrates why Republicans are so eager
to emasculate IRS enforcement - of wealthy Republican
donors.        They want the IRS to focus on hassling
small business owners - preferably poor Democratic ones.
The Trumps knew they were very likely to get away with
their games.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-ducked-the-tax-code-the-irs-made-it-easy/2018/10/04/102409aa-c80b-11e8-b2b5-79270f9cce17_story.html

But New York has its own tax enforcement -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-york-tax-agency-weighs-investigation-after-report-that-trump-family-built-wealth-through-tax-avoidance-schemes-and-fraud/2018/10/02/5119f24e-c680-11e8-b2b5-79270f9cce17_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/us/politics/donald-trump-fred-trump-tax-schemes.html

What will they find?

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The bottom 90 percent are still poorer than they were
in 2007

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/01/bottom-percent-are-still-poorer-than-they-were/

You can always spin the statistics differently -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-be-fooled-working-americans-are-worse-off-under-trump/2018/09/30/f789f198-be82-11e8-be70-52bd11fe18af_story.html

Understand the difference between mean and median?
What's good for the billionaires is good for you, if the
statistics are rigged that way.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/opinion/columnists/great-recession-economy-gdp.html

The right-wing revival from Trump to Orban got much of
its energy from the correct observation that the people
at the top (like Trump!) were experiencing an economic
recovery quite different from the people at the bottom (his
supporters!).      Lots of folks who were just starting
to get their feet back on the ground were knocked down
against just before the election -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/upshot/mini-recession-2016-little-known-big-impact.html

So they voted for a change, for Trump.       Will they
again?  He's sure they're too dumb to care -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/opinion/trump-base-polls.html

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Prostitution always diminishes both parties

Especially when the parties are church and state.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/as-jesus-said-nice-guys-finish-last/2018/10/01/22b954ea-c599-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html

Jesus called his followers to act to against worldly
need and injustice, but not to become so worldly as to be
serving two masters.      A difficult balance to strike.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/christians-politics-belief.html

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Can crowdlaw save democracy in Europe and America?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/10/02/participatory-democracy/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/10/01/eu/

 https://crowd.law/

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Of course Brazil is completely different from US

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/opinion/brazil-elections-jair-bolsonaro.html

Isn't it?     Maybe not -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/just-like-trump-bolsonaro-leads-brazils-presidential-race-with-right-wing-populist-pitch/2018/10/04/c4ba3728-c65c-11e8-9c0f-2ffaf6d422aa_story.html

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Civil litigation to right wrongs inflicted by fake news

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/10/01/will-seth-richs-family-ever-get-a-break-from-conspiracy-theorists/

Civil litigation is expensive, but the burden of proof is
less onerous than criminal cases, and if the government
isn't involved there are fewer constitutional issues.

But it's ultimately asymmetric - it's very cheap to make up
and spread lies, and if you don't have any money, there are
no effective consequences.      Of course, a business with
assets should be a little circumspect about what garbage
it republishes, and that was the intended outcome here.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has also been effective
using civil litigation to obtain redress from hate groups
that the criminal justice system didn't seem to be willing
or able to touch.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center

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Looking for bipartisan foreign policy

 http://www2.philly.com/philly/columnists/trudy_rubin/a-upenn-conference-shows-where-democratic-and-gop-visions-of-global-order-could-meet-20180928.html

There won't be agreement over everything.    But not
everything has to be a contentious issue.

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Bits and buds and bubbles

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-27/crypto-and-cannabis-are-the-perfect-post-crisis-bubbles

Most people will better enjoy the quiet ride of passive,
no-load, index funds.

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Ukraine - where Putin might have miscalculated

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/putins-war-is-transforming-ukraine/2018/09/23/d56d5a10-bdd7-11e8-8792-78719177250f_story.html

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What happens when America abandons the leadership role -

and what individuals can do to help.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/can-latin-america-handle-venezuelas-collapse-without-the-us/2018/09/30/58302bb4-c25e-11e8-a1f0-a4051b6ad114_story.html

China and Russia are happy to step in.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-rising-to-the-china-challenge-in-the-worst-way-possible/2018/09/30/b645a00e-c41f-11e8-b338-a3289f6cb742_story.html

What can individuals do to help?     Here are some ideas
from a web search -

 https://www.bustle.com/p/how-to-help-venezuelan-children-who-are-starving-in-the-midst-of-a-national-hunger-crisis-7627580

 https://www.local10.com/espanol/noticias/venezuela/here-is-how-to-help-venezuelan-children-refugees-in-colombia

 https://www.sos-usa.org/blog/june-2018/colombia-building-on-experience-to-help-venezuela

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Do you know the difference between mean and median?

And does inflation count?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-be-fooled-working-americans-are-worse-off-under-trump/2018/09/30/f789f198-be82-11e8-be70-52bd11fe18af_story.html

In case you're uncertain about the first question, if Jeff
Bezos (used to be Bill Gates) walks into a crowded bar,
the mean net worth of patrons goes way up, but the median
net worth won't move by much.

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The Medium-sized Lie - the platform for subverting
democracy - from Dreyfus to Smolensk to Birtherism

 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/poland-polarization/568324/

But on a more positive note -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/trump-democracy-history.html

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Should the Speaker of the House represent the majority
party or the whole House?

The Problem Solvers Caucus and NoLabels are trying to
change the rules.

 https://www.nolabels.org/

Separately some Democrats would like to replace Nancy
Pelosi.        That might or might not be the best thing,
and certainly is not the best thing to talk about right
now, but nobody should have any illusions that it will
change Republican behavior.

Republicans are still running against Hillary Clinton,
Obama, and even Bill Clinton - primarily to deflect
attention from the Republicans'  own real accomplishments
and real intentions and real campaign funders.  So they'll
continue to run against Nancy Pelosi and her "San
Francisco values" for years after she retires.
It works for the Trump base.

 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/nancy-pelosi-house-democrats/570781/

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Self restraint - the most important leadership quality -
and the most noticeable in its absence

Declaring that auto imports from Germany are a national
security threat - that is, however, negotiable?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/it-breeds-resistance-even-among-conservatives-trumps-use-of-presidential-power-causes-alarm/2018/09/29/1769991a-bdbf-11e8-b7d2-0773aa1e33da_story.html

Congress delegates excessive power to the executive because
it can't act.     The ultimate solution is to fix Congress.

 https://www.nolabels.org/

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Who decides who gets to pay lower rent and who gets to
pay more?

Perhaps it's no different than different property taxes
on identical houses.

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/27/california-and-rent-control-what-we-can-learn-from-berkeley-and-santa-monica/

In one form or another, subsidized rents mean that somebody
is paying the subsidy.

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Shibboleth - the essential difference between northern
and southern California

Just compare the traffic reports on KCBS and KNX!

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/30/no-no-no-its-not-the-17-freeway-roadshow/

That's what happens when the free press implodes -
southern California copy editors rewrite northern
California columnists.

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Do you excel at your hobbies?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/in-praise-of-mediocrity.html

Words of comfort for political hobbyists!     Another point
of view -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/opinion/tips-for-aspiring-op-ed-writers.html

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/

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Trump's ratings look good for four more years

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/sunday-review/trump-2020-reality-tv.html

By his own criterion, he's the most successful leader in
history, consistently having the highest viewer ratings.

Reality TV shows seem to be good for about six years,
so his time is up in 2022.

But if re-elected he will still be president in 2024!
Unless he's impeached by a Democratic Congress.

And how will he look in 100 years?       How many
Americans could tell you anything correct about Taft,
Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, or Hoover?

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No package deals

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/christians-politics-belief.html

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The root cause of the housing crisis - it's not zoning or
materials or labor costs

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/business/economy/home-prices-housing-market-slowdown.html

The root cause is income inequality - the gap between the
people who can afford expensive houses - and thus push
demand up - and the people who can't - who are however
necessary for a functioning community.

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Trump thinks lower oil prices are a good thing

The 2016 oil price collapse might well have elected Trump.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/upshot/mini-recession-2016-little-known-big-impact.html

STABLE prices are a good thing, when you can get them.
But the global economy is always in motion, with all kinds
of consequences.    Who knows where the fickle finger of
fate points next?

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Who is Adam Waldman?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-gop-spin-on-the-russia-probe-reads-like-a-noir-thriller--but-doesnt-add-up/2018/09/25/1b940c92-c0ca-11e8-be77-516336a26305_story.html

It's all too confusing.

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Malleable ideology

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/world/asia/china-maoists-xi-protests.html

In China as in America, it seems that political ideology
can be modified and even reversed 180 degrees to suit the
needs of the ruling class.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses

In Russia, the reversal is more obvious.      International
socialism defeated national socialism in 1943, but national
socialism had the last laugh in 2000.     KGB agents hardly
noticed any change.

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New points to add to political-theses.net

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths-about-capitalism/2018/09/27/3f0b72f6-c06f-11e8-90c9-23f963eea204_story.html

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Time to catch up with the rest of the civilized world

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/abolish-the-death-penalty/2018/09/28/830ad282-c27a-11e8-97a5-ab1e46bb3bc7_story.html

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The Trump administration doesn't have a problem with
Federal overreach as long as it's into urban, poor, or
Democratic areas

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/30/california-governor-signs-model-net-neutrality-bill/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/09/24/future-g-mobile-data-could-hinge-battle-over-utility-pole-fees/

Rural, wealthy, or Republican areas are completely
different of course.

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Undermining the business model of social media

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/09/25/inside-big-meeting-federal-state-law-enforcement-that-signaled-new-willingness-investigate-tech-giants/

The cost side of the business model of social media
is based on automatic artificial intelligence-derived
algorithmic methods to keep things running with as little
expensive human labor as possible, and on leaving the
responsibility for end-user contributions to end-user
contributors.

Having to hire hordes of human moderators to suppress
inappropriate contributions increases labor costs and
reduces ad sales, and leads to legal entanglements around
censorship and bias.

So one way for the government (or society in general)
to hinder the social media companies is to demand that
they control contributions and then sue them for bias when
they do.

This is not necessarily a bad thing!

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Thinking of trying multi-level marketing?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/09/27/why-that-multilevel-marketing-business-is-probably-not-going-pay-off/

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What's funny about principled realism?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trumps-un-speech-was-funny-his-worldview-is-even-funnier/2018/09/27/40e18d86-c286-11e8-a1f0-a4051b6ad114_story.html

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Building an overseas empire the old-fashioned way

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/china-is-challenging-the-us-in-the-horn-of-africa--and-washington-is-silent/2018/09/27/6b5b5d10-c288-11e8-a1f0-a4051b6ad114_story.html

Who decides about artificial islands?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/chinese-warship-nearly-hits-us-destroyer-in-south-china-sea/2018/10/02/877cc788-c5fb-11e8-9158-09630a6d8725_story.html

How are they different from guano islands?

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_Islands_Act

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Portfolio theory applied to political campaign
contributions

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/want-your-campaign-funding-to-be-effective-diversify/2018/09/27/02c395a8-b787-11e8-a7b5-adaaa5b2a57f_story.html

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Defending national sovereignty

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/09/28/time-to-start-preparing-the-next-round-of-sanctions-against-russia/

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One could almost feel sorry for Republican senators up
for re-election this year

Vote for Kavanaugh, and lose the votes of anybody who
believed his accuser - especially educated women

Vote against Kavanaugh, and lose the votes of the Trump
base.

They got a feeling called the BLUES.      They might have
avoided this jam if they had at least heard Merrick Garland
when his turn came.     Then they might be debating Neil
Gorsuch right before the 2018 election, which might have
been a lot easier.

Looks at Flake's blues - and he's not even running again -

 https://www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/mormon-women-s-group-calling-for-investigation-into-allegations-against/article_e6120a6f-408e-59c4-b232-eb3c26339be4.html

 http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-congress-kavanaugh-vote-20180928-story.html

 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/28/flakes-yes-on-kavanaugh-sparks-angry-backlash-from-democrats-activists.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/28/jeff-flake-stumbles-into-taking-stand/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jeff-flake-takes-center-stage-in-kavanaugh-drama--with-no-clear-final-act-in-sight/2018/09/28/dba15c96-c355-11e8-a1f0-a4051b6ad114_story.html

It's too bad that all this inconclusive back and forth
removes the focus from other real issues, such as - dark
money is the #1 problem of American politics - it funds #2,
#3, .... #infinity.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/09/13/how-brett-kavanaugh-could-help-create-an-era-of-rampant-corruption/

Actually, unlimited personal contributions to political
campaigns would be OK - as long as they were published
by donor and amount within 7 days.    The public needs to
know immediately who has been bought and by whom.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donation

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If you are not at the table, you are on the menu

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trump-seems-eager-for-a-post-american-world/2018/09/27/bbbccbc4-c295-11e8-b338-a3289f6cb742_story.html

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Making expensive preconditions affordable

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/opinion/republicans-affordable-care-act-hypocrisy.html

If medical insurance is going to be affordable for all and
it's going to cover pre-existing conditions, then there
has to be a way to make up the difference.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/voters-push-back-republican-candidates-pay-the-price-for-attempts-to-kill-obamacare-and-its-guarantee-of-coverage-for-preexisting-conditions/2018/10/03/e9483776-c1d8-11e8-97a5-ab1e46bb3bc7_story.html

Most voters are in favor of covering preconditions, but
not so unanimously in favor of any particular method for
making that coverage affordable.

Lots of Republican candidates are starting to talk about
covering preconditions.  But they never say how.

Making everybody buy medical insurance is one way, and
unlike tax subsidies, it means almost everybody has medical
insurance - which is good if healthy young people who
might go uncovered on their own are involved in accidents
or develop other medical conditions.      The alternative
is treating them, often for free, in the ER.

Then there's the third-world alternative - uninsured poor
people get thrown out of the ER to die in the street.
No American politician would explicitly endorse that,
but it's implicit in some of the ACA undermining by the
Trump administration.      The irony, of course, is that
ACA was never the Democrat preferred alternative, but was
adapted from Romney's popular Masscare in a futile attempt
to get Republican support.

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When you are the leader, you owe something to your
followers

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/business/elon-musk-tesla-sec-deal.html

When you are the leader, it matters what you say

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/09/27/sec-sues-teslas-elon-musk-alleging-he-lied-investors/

It's not all about the leader.     Except in a
dictatorship.

 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sec-settlement-forces-tesla-to-find-elon-musk-some-adult-supervision-2018-09-29

Musk doesn't seem old enough to have been raised by Roy
Cohn, the way Trump was.       But he hits back the same
way -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/10/04/elon-musk-taunts-sec-days-after-fraud-settlement/

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Election insecurity - it's all about the money and the
secrecy

And unwittingly abetted by some unusual suspects - ACLU,
League of Women Voters, National Federation of the Blind.

Most technologists understand that open-source systems
are inherently more secure than closed-source systems.
But election officials are rarely technologists.      They
make do with what the vendors offer, because of lack of
funding to do better, and because of Federal directives.
Members of Congress are likewise rarely technologists.
There are lots of parties that don't like paper trails.
The Russians are just the tip of the iceberg.

Understanding the extent of the vulnerabilities, nobody can
say that foreign or domestic interference hasn't affected
the outcome of elections.     There are only a few  vendors
of American voting machines, and one is a Canadian company!

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/magazine/election-security-crisis-midterms.html

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Bad bets for real estate investment

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-27/chicago-stands-alone-as-undervalued-housing-market-ubs-says

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Still trying to cut taxes on the rich

But middle-class taxpayers who couldn't detect any
noticeable change in their paychecks so far, can't get
excited whether the undetectable change is temporary
or permanent.       But the big Republican donors can
get excited.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/gop-campaigns-ditch-tax-law-and-go-negative-as-midterm-election-approaches/2018/09/26/aa51e8ca-c041-11e8-be77-516336a26305_story.html

But it's not expected to go anywhere in the Senate.

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/715678712109984

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“I love WikiLeaks!”

No wonder - a friend of the devil is a friend of mine.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/09/27/the-image-of-julian-assange-grows-darker-by-the-day/

 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/isolation-intensifies-wikileaks-julian-assange-faces-threat-eviction/story?id=57475632

 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/roger-stone-sought-contact-wikileaks-julian-assange-email/story?id=58032438

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/717331408611381

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Real leadership

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/opinion/macron-france-unpopular-president.html

Telling people what they need to hear, instead of what they
want to hear,  is as unpopular in France as it is here.

So while some leaders care about the judgment of
history, others couldn't care less - "Après moi,
le déluge."

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Feeling anxious?   Do something about it - register
and vote!

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/young-people-feel-anxious-about-election-poll-finds

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A new approach to foreign aid - cash

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/foreign-aid-as-a-cash-only-transaction-its-worth-a-try/2018/09/26/63622d74-c1bf-11e8-a1f0-a4051b6ad114_story.html

Improve the way we distribute our (tiny) amount of
foreign aid?    or domestic welfare?   That might be a
worthwhile accomplishment of the Trump administration.
But more likely the goal is just to eliminate foreign
aid and domestic welfare entirely, except of course for
foreign aid that goes to buying American military hardware.

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Bannon finds sympathetic audiences abroad

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-nationalist-abroad-stephen-bannon-evangelizes-trump-style-politics-across-europe/2018/09/25/4f47d046-c0de-11e8-be77-516336a26305_story.html

He won't admit that his brand of populist-fascism
inevitably leads... to leaders that throw away followers
like Bannon when they become inconvenient.      That's what
a strong leader does.     Just ask Ernst Röhm.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives

or Leon Trotsky

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky

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Who pays for your candidates?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/wasnt-trumps-gop-supposed-to-represent-the-little-guy-oops/2018/09/26/8a432f70-c1cd-11e8-a1f0-a4051b6ad114_story.html

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posted "09/26/2018 07:21:19 PM"
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Sorry PR's, your complexion is too dark for statehood

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-an-absolute-no-on-puerto-rico-statehood-because-of-san-juans-horror-show-of-a-mayor/2018/09/24/897ec214-c021-11e8-9005-5104e9616c21_story.html

If incompetent politicians are the criterion,  New York
should be ceded back to England.      Maybe a better
criterion would be how many and how well Puerto Ricans
served in the armed forces of the US.

It's time to end the racist imperialist tradition - and
make the Federal territories fully part of the United
States or set them free.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/09/14/trumps-false-claims-about-puerto-rico-are-insulting-they-reveal-deeper-truth/

 http://www.equalrightsnow.org/

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/660784194266103

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#Federal%20territories

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putting rape culture on the ballot across the country

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/24/stanford-law-professor-launches-new-pac-to-target-metoo-abusers/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/defending-kavanaugh-trump-laments-metoo-as-very-dangerous-for-powerful-men/2018/09/26/e9116536-c1a4-11e8-97a5-ab1e46bb3bc7_story.html

 http://enoughisenoughvoter.org/

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/618745698469953

A man watches women watching Senate testimony and wonders
what will happen in November and beyond -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/09/27/americans-are-not-going-to-forget-this-day-especially-women/

But no matter how this nomination goes, it is going to
get more difficult to find nominees willing to endure
anything like it  in public.       Some better way
of presoaking to get all the dirt out in private in
advance seems necessary, and some better way of dealing
with late-breaking news that upholds the dignity of the
individuals and the institutions.        Maybe more women
will be inspired to come forward earlier in the process.
Maybe future presidents will be inspired to nominate more
qualified women instead of more good old boys from the
Federalist Society.    Or maybe the public, men and women
alike,  will become cynical and apathetic - "they're
all like that, and we'll never know the truth, so what's
the use of caring or voting?"    That would be the
worst possible outcome, except for the populist-fascist
Trumpians, for whom it's the best possible.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/opinion/blasey-ford-kavanaugh-senate-hearings-.html

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There needs to be a way to get rid of an incompetent
President

Trump has proved the necessity of having a way of getting
rid of a President who is simply incompetent and unequal
to the job.  Even most Republicans facing difficult
re-elections in November would probably prefer that
somebody steady like Pence was leading their charge,
instead of somebody who might truthfully be toasted (as
was John Quincy Adams and many others no doubt) "May
he cast confusion on his enemies, as he has already done
on his friends."

The incompetence clause could go like this:    at any time
the House of Representatives may nominate a new President
by a 2/3 vote conducted with ranked-choice voting.
The Senate then has 72 hours to confirm the nomination
by a simple 2/3 yea/nay vote.     If confirmed, the new
President is immediately sworn in.

This mechanism avoids the necessity of a criminal charge
and trial, or a finding of mental or medical incapacity,
or the necessity of elevating the current Vice President
if there were better choices.  One can be incompetent to
be President while mentally and medically competent for
normal life and free of provable criminal conduct.

This, or any, constitutional amendment is very hard
to pass.    But maybe the motivation will be sufficient
soon.  This mechanism would not be invoked successfully
very often.     It is very hard to imagine getting
2/3 agreement on ANY issue with the current Congress.
It might be successfully invoked about as often as
impeachment, which is never so far (Andrew Johnson was
impeached but not convicted by the Senate - read about
it in Kennedy's Profiles in Courage).       The purpose
of the incompetence clause is to get future Presidents
to consider their actions more carefully and to seek and
to act upon better advice.  Or, as with the impeachment
process, encourage a President who's in the wrong job to
resign and seek employment better matched to his skills.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/at-un-trumps-foreign-policy-agenda-takes-back-seat-to-controversy-at-home/2018/09/26/8690399a-c1a5-11e8-a1f0-a4051b6ad114_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/09/27/trump-becomes-punchline-un/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/people-actually-laughed-at-a-president-at-un-speech-trump-suffers-the-fate-he-always-feared/2018/09/25/990b1d52-c0eb-11e8-90c9-23f963eea204_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/09/26/yes-world-leaders-laughed-trump-theres-another-less-obvious-sign-diminishing-us-influence/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/give-it-to-me-trump-lets-loose-with-81-minutes-of-bluster-falsehoods-and-insults/2018/09/26/29dee98a-c1d7-11e8-97a5-ab1e46bb3bc7_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/opinion/yemen-united-states-united-nations.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/world/united-nations-united-states-trump-isolationism.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/opinion/trump-susan-rice-united-nations-reckless-alone-ridiculed.html

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#electoral%20college

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/712755542402301

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It's not easy to distinguish the real agents of the Putin
regime from those that act just like real agents of the
Putin regime

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/maria-butina-russian-oligarch.html

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Fascism is more a method of gaining and keeping power than
a specific ideology

 https://www.vox.com/2018/9/19/17847110/how-fascism-works-donald-trump-jason-stanley

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Who is really "the resistance" ?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/opinion/sunday/resistance-kavanaugh-trump-protest.html

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What's the common downside of interconnected technology?

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#It_is_the_nature_of_intelligent_life_to_destroy_itself

Consider all these recent postings -

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/fb-technology.html

What they have in common is not leveling the playing field
between rich and poor, or between powerful and powerless,
as once technology promised, but UNleveling the playing
field by making it easy and cheap to attack and difficult
and expensive to defend.    So attack is becoming feasible
for anybody with a cell phone, while defense is limited
to the powerful, though not very reliable even for them.
It's the same for individual nut cases doxing somebody
they don't like, as for small terrorist bands attacking
powerful nations.

With more primitive technology, disputes were mostly
settled by numbers - whoever had the bigger mob or army
won.    So the rights of the majority were preserved -
the rights of the minority not so much.

Now it's the rights of the majority to live in peace that
are under attack, as the rights of the minority, even a
minority of one, enjoy a force multiplier effect due to
asymmetric technology.

Is this the inevitable way it ends?    Perhaps the
technological optimists think that artificial intelligence
and big data and the cloud will make it possible to
contain the threats - that's been the approach of social
media until recently - but now the social media business
model will come undone if they're forced to hire thousands
of human censors.    And if history tells us anything,
it is that artificial intelligence and big data and the
cloud will redound to the benefit of the malefactors as
well as the benefactors.

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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doxing - easy to do, hard to prevent

Another asymmetric benefit of global interconnection.

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/20/christine-blasey-ford-got-doxed-can-anyone-ever-really-disappear-online/

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/718370235174165

Your free speech inhibits my free speech, especially when
the president sets the tone for all his followers -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-questions-credibility-of-kavanaugh-accuser-lashes-out-at-democrats/2018/09/21/dd557fc6-bd84-11e8-b7d2-0773aa1e33da_story.html

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Fail better!

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/opinion/western-democracy-trump-challenges.html

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Actually doing something positive for former coal country

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/opinion/sunday/silicon-valley-tech.html

It's amazing how many people are against the idea.

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We learn more from our mistakes than from our successes

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/21/strange-tale-about-why-bill-clinton-said-nafta-would-create-million-jobs/

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/716805341997321

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Delusion or salesmanship?

Just because the polls were slightly wrong in 2016 doesn't
mean they will be wrong or wrong in the same way in 2018.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/politics/trump-republicans-midterms.html

The hard-core Trump base that comes to his campaign rallies
is an electoral minority.    He has put a lot of effort
into cultivating it, and very little effort into broadening
it -

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/716864595324729

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China got a navy and now it's making bases for it - to
what end?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/world/asia/south-china-sea-navy.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/world/asia/china-navy-aircraft-carrier-pacific.html

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It's not a good year to get over-confident

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/paloma/the-trailer/2018/09/20/the-trailer-how-texas-republicans-beat-the-blue-wave/5ba4029a1b326b7c8a8d1596/

It's all about turnout, everywhere.

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Bono describes the idea of the United States of Europe

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-wanted-to-understand-europes-populism-so-i-talked-to-bono/2018/09/20/55ee0d82-bcfd-11e8-b7d2-0773aa1e33da_story.html

Like the United States of America, the essence of the
European Union is an idea rather than a Blut-und-Boden
nationality.   Before the Civil War, people would say
"The United States are..."     After, it became
"The United States is...".

World Wars I and II and the Cold War were the traumatic
event that would cement the European Union, it was thought,
just as the Civil War cemented the American Union.
America has had backsliding at times but so far has
overcome it.      Perhaps the current Putin-encouraged
populist nationalist movements will eventually be overcome
as well.    Or perhaps not -

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/708916326119556

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North Korean sanctions - reality TV

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-massive-spike-in-oil-smuggling-has-eased-the-economic-pressure-on-north-korea/2018/09/20/1f6b684a-bc35-11e8-8792-78719177250f_story.html

You'd think a reality TV star would be better at managing
these complexities.

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The Vast Wasteland

May 9, 1961 - Newton Minnow described television as a vast
wasteland.      His opinion probably hasn't changed much.

 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-minow-2020-bipartisan-presidential-ticket-0902-story.html

September 2, 2018 - Newton Minnow didn't use the same words
to describe our current partisan political gridlock, but
he might as well have.       He dreamed up a solution -
Biden and Kasich running in 2020 as a bipartisan team of
problem solvers.

Is this a crazy idea?    Yes.     Do you have a better
idea?  Maybe not.     nolabels is thinking about the
implications.  For starters, they compiled a quick
historical summary of previous attempts -

 https://www.nolabels.org/blog/five-facts-on-a-potential-bipartisan-presidential-ticket/

And you'd have to say that history is not particularly
supportive of the idea, but it hasn't been tried in our
current gridlocked context.     The same thought at the
time of the Hamilton Electors didn't gain any traction -

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/archive/electors.html

Maybe some of that was due to the RNC threatening
electors -

 http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/rnc-trump-electoral-college-232537

===

More on nolabels -

 https://www.nolabels.org/

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Millenials might not remember Newton Minnow as clearly as
Boomers do.     Here's his speech -

 https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/newtonminow.htm

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Will the old workers get the new jobs?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/09/18/machines-will-create-million-more-jobs-than-they-displace-by-world-economic-forum-says/

133 million new jobs created, 78 million old jobs lost -
sounds like a win unless you are among the 78 million.
The experience of Silicon Valley is that many established
organizations would rather hire new (cheaper) employees
than retain and retrain old (expensive) employees.

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Did somebody forget that higher oil prices are good for
those Trump supporters fracking up the Great Plains and
Rockies?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/09/20/trump-urges-opec-drive-down-oil-prices/

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Honorable military service SHOULD be a fast track to
citizenship - especially for  critically-needed skills.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/us/army-mavni-immigrant.html

Especially at a time when recruiting American citizens is
difficult due to low unemployment.

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-13/trump-s-army-buildup-confronts-headwinds-of-tight-labor-market

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Rising income inequality eventually defeats equal
opportunity

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/technology/bezos-amazon-rich-concentration

Concentration of power is inherently counter to
equal opportunity.     One of government's jobs is to
counteract that, lest we create a hereditary nobility.
But concentration of power in government is not without
its own problems.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#liberty%20and%20equality.html

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Differences between religious and secular conservatives

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/opinion/liberalism-religious-right.html

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Schools for gifted, income inequality, and the Democratic
coalition

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/opinion/democrats-inequality-policy-midterms.html

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The history of Putin's election interference

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/20/us/politics/russia-interference-election-trump-clinton.html

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What's a recession without a clear dominant cause?
A smorgasbord.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/opinion/a-smorgasbord-recession-wonkish.html

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Remarkable - 58% of Floridians have opinions about
something they know nothing about

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/09/18/how-conspiracy-theories-spread-internets-darkest-corners/

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"Really helping the people and places that have
been hurt by trade would mean making sure they can get
good jobs, increasing the minimum wage and overtime
pay, strengthening unions, directly helping our small
manufacturers access global supply chains, investing
in future technologies, supporting apprenticeships
for displaced workers, and pushing back on currency
manipulators."

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/09/18/heres-why-economic-impacts-trumps-tariffs-are-often-exaggerated-b-they-still-stink/

The institutional damage is the worst part -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/opinion/tariffs-trump-corrupt.html

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Technology provides another asymmetric terrorist threat
- pandemics

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-lack-of-pandemic-preparedness-could-prove-deadly/2018/09/19/0d7b235c-b13e-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html

Maybe that explains the Fermi paradox.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#It_is_the_nature_of_intelligent_life_to_destroy_itself

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A doctrine of retreat?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2018/09/18/generals-urge-trump-not-to-retreat-on-foreign-aid/

Or leadership?

 https://www.usglc.org/

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Solutions for the working homeless

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/19/bay-area-cities-take-first-steps-to-deal-with-rv-dwellers-and-parking/

These are people with jobs who can't afford rent.  In this
case the RV's are required to be registered and insured
and operable.

The next level down is people who have RV's but can't
afford repairs, insurance, or registration.      And below
that - people with nothing but a stolen shopping cart.
Diffferent solutions required at each level.

It seems just that people who work here should be able to
live here somehow.        But what about people who don't
work - whether due to injury, illness, old age, or lack of
motivation - who decides, and on what basis, which of these
people have a right to live in an area they can't afford?

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Kicking the can down the road doesn't make it go away

 https://calmatters.org/articles/commentary/political-expediency-worsens-long-term-consequences/

It's a recurring problem of democratic government.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-we-dont-prepare-for-the-future/2018/09/09/cb91cc34-b2c3-11e8-aed9-001309990777_story.html

Politicians who refuse to acknowledge future threats and
prescribe present defenses are usually more popular than
those more far-sighted.    But what if the far-sighted
see things that turn out to not be really there?

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Borrowed from a non-bank recently?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/opinion/economy-debt-markets-crash.html

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An opportunity for Trump to be as great as Jimmy Carter

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/opinion/the-broken-pieces-of-middle-east-peace.html

Don't hold your breath.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/how-peace-keeps-receding-in-the-middle-east/2018/09/18/9cb30460-bb82-11e8-a8aa-860695e7f3fc_story.html

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#israel

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Once again, the Poles have broken the code.

They're tired of German armies and Russian armies.
They've figured out how to get Trump enthused about putting
American armies in Poland.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/polands-new-tactic-for-getting-a-us-military-base-pitch-it-as-fort-trump/2018/09/18/5a58c17a-bb7a-11e8-b1c5-7a2126bc722c_story.html

They better act fast, lest the next Congress in January
isn't as supportive of Europeans at odds with the EU.

Oddly enough, the photo-op did not play well with the
Polish opposition -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/09/19/poland-used-be-ok-with-trump-then-he-posted-photo/

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At last, some good news about dark money

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/political-nonprofits-must-now-name-many-of-their-donors-under-federal-court-ruling-after-supreme-court-declines-to-intervene/2018/09/18/851ea210-bb72-11e8-9812-a389be6690af_story.html

It's a step on a long road -

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations

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Problem Solvers committing to House rules changes to Break
the Gridlock

 http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/15-members-pledge-to-withhold-speaker-vote-without-rule-changes

Can you get your House member on board?

 https://www.nolabels.org/

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Another guilty plea, another cooperator

This seemed to get lost in the other news of the day -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/washington-consultant-for-ukraine-party-set-to-plead-guilty-to-violating-lobbyist-disclosure-law/2018/08/31/172cf2c8-ad23-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html

Or maybe collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia
just isn't news any more.      One question is why Trump
campaigners were so eager to collaborate -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/09/18/what-everyones-forgetting-about-paul-manafort/

The other question is what did Trump know and when did he
know it.

What did he do about it - that's not collusion, that's
obstruction of justice.

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Side note: as of 20 Sep 2018, this posting was the most
popular unboosted (no paid advertising) post on this
Facebook page, generating more Reach, Likes, Shares,
and Clicks than the previous most popular -

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/697406243937231

But Jimmy Carter got way more Loves.

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American Identity Crisis

It wasn't just economics?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-fresh-look-back-at-2016-finds-america-with-an-identity-crisis/2018/09/15/0ac62364-b8f0-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html

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Fake news is nothing new

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/obituaries/alan-abel-dies.html

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Massachusetts needs ranked-choice voting

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/us/politics/massachusetts-voting-lori-trahan.html

as advocated by Fairvote -

 https://www.fairvote.org/

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential

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Public libraries - Carnegie was right.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/want-to-defend-democracy-start-with-your-public-library/2018/09/18/7addf05a-bab2-11e8-9812-a389be6690af_story.html

The Trump administration - not so much.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library

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Foreign policy - the left needs to figure it out

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/opinion/democratic-party-cortez-foreign-policy.html

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Signs of a market top

 http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/article/NE/20180913/NEWS/180919862

Good while it lasted, but nothing is forever.

Labor getting scarce and expensive threatens marginal
employers -

 https://apnews.com/a384d392dc5c4461a906476d2b16b7bc

Yet somehow the housing market is cooling off, locally
at least.      Nobody wants to buy a house at the top of
the market and then lose his job -

 https://www.heraldonline.com/news/business/article218527350.html

High prices yet an uncertain future means.... declining
birth rate.

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/13/more-than-half-of-tech-workers-say-they-delay-kids-because-of-soaring-cost-of-living/

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Unmanageable debt is the match that lights the fire -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/deficit-hawks-are-dead-and-few-in-washington-can-muster-any-outrage/2018/09/14/1d6e95b0-b840-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html

The national debt clock keeps ticking -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/09/17/i-support-higher-taxes-billionaire-behind-national-debt-clock-has-had-it-with-trump/

In introductory economics they point out that if the
national debt were equally held by all American households,
and they all suddenly lost all the t-bills...  nobody would
be better or worse off.     That's true.      But the
national debt is not just held by American households,
and it's not equally distributed among them.   But many
American households have other kinds of debt whose interest
rate is tied to T-bills.   That interest rate matters
to them.

Nowadays the tourists who find the national debt clock
are Chinese - and China is the largest foreign holder
of our debt.  At some time, in some way, the Chinese are
going to want the debt repaid in real American assets.

We know what to do about the national debt - but elected
politicians consider it toxic.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#bipartisanship

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

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Saving Wall Street looks and feels bad

but the alternative would look and feel much worse.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-warning-from-the-almost-depression/2018/09/16/b67a93e2-b85b-11e8-a7b5-adaaa5b2a57f_story.html

It's not easy to stop a panicked mob.

Lehman had plenty of warning.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/opinion/lehman-brothers-financial-crisis.html

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"We are, as a nation, better educated, more tolerant,
and more connected because of — not in spite of — the
convergence of the internet and public life. Partisanship,
religion, geography, race, gender, and other traditional
political divisions are giving way to a new standard —
wiredness — as an organizing principle for political
and social attitudes."

That was written about the time the internet financial
bubble burst.    It hasn't quite turned out as predicted.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/sunday-review/politics-disruption-media-technology.html

But that lesson was learned before... and then forgotten
by the time  the Fairness Doctrine was repealed.

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Politics is local as well as national -

what works in one time and place for one candidate
doesn't work in a different time and place for a different
candidate.

George Will explains what seems to be working in Texas -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-this-texas-district-the-democrats-seem-serious-about-winning/2018/09/14/cfde3214-b778-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html

Winning parties succeed by maintaining a big enough tent
to cover a winning variety of points of view.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/15/opinion/sunday/democrats-candidates-victory.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/16/opinion/columnists/democrats-midterms-progressive-left-trump.html

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Moving from concerned to active

2018 Active:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/15/opinion/sunday/seth-klarman-donations-trump-democrats.html

2017 Concerned:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/business/dealbook/sorkin-seth-klarman-trump-investors.html

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Millenials and the economic collapse

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/15/opinion/sunday/financial-crisis-student-loans-recession.html

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Building the new world order

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/09/14/trumps-trade-wars-chinas-unexpected-win-more-friends

And the people are with Xi for now -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/trump-started-a-nasty-fight-with-chinas-middle-class-that-could-extend-the-trade-war/2018/09/17/887bb05e-ba43-11e8-b1c5-7a2126bc722c_story.html

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Not a model for a Trump autobiography

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/inside-john-kerrys-pursuit-of-virtue/2018/09/13/abe18f88-b786-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html

We learn more from our mistakes than our successes.     The
first step is recognizing and acknowledging our mistakes.

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It's time to end the racist imperialist tradition and make
the Federal territories fully part of the United States
or set them free.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/09/14/trumps-false-claims-about-puerto-rico-are-insulting-they-reveal-deeper-truth/

 http://www.equalrightsnow.org/

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/660784194266103

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#Federal%20territories

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A recovering American economy means higher interest rates
on dollar debt.    That's bad news for the much of the
third world.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/turkeys-woes-could-be-just-the-start-as-record-global-debt-bills-come-due/2018/08/28/f9f144c6-a231-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721_story.html

Unmanageable debt is the match that lights the fire of
every crisis.

 https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/financial-crisis-10-year-anniversary

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Want to get hands on talking to a red district from a
blue district?

The Democrats are looking for volunteers to work their
phone banks in SF.

 https://www.redtobluesf.org/

And if you have more money than time, they'll accept
donations too.

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Roger Stone receives a well-deserved compliment

Even before the 2016 election, it seemed that the Trump
associates to watch were Manafort, Page, and Stone.
Manafort was right on the money, so to speak.     Page was
a disappointment - the Russians concluded he was too dumb
to even be a useful idiot.

That leaves Stone, so far unindicted and unsubpoenad.
That's a compliment to the effectiveness of his long
career, because the way organized crime investigations
work, the prosecutors start at the bottom on the most
vulnerable and easiest to convict, and work their way up.
Saving Stone for near the end suggests that the prosecutors
consider him to be the last rung before the top, and so
they are securing every bit of evidence and cooperation
before they knock on his door, because they expect to
have a lot to talk to him about, when that time comes,
and they'd like him to be motivated to cooperate rather
than resist.

In the meantime, while he's still a free man, the
investigators might be taking an active interest in where
he goes and who he sees and what he does, but he would
expect that and take precautions.    But eventually he'll
receive a well-deserved, all-expense-paid rest from his
dark career of dirty tricks, in a clean, well-lighted
place.

 https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2018/politics/mueller-roger-stone/index.html

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Stone

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The reactionaries win every time they get progressives to
fight on the reactionaries' terms

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-new-threat-to-democracy--from-the-left/2018/09/13/7e3fbb72-b790-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html

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Need a reason to look the other way?     We'll help you!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/once-again-putin-gives-us-a-lesson-on-the-usefulness-of-the-blatant-lie/2018/09/14/abf6cce2-b798-11e8-a7b5-adaaa5b2a57f_story.html

But we'll also make sure that other people that might think
they might have gotten away with something will understand
that our reach is long and sure.

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-pussy-riot-activist-hospital-poison-pyotr-verzilov-1.4821615

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What are the boundaries of a disaster?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/opinion/trump-hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-disaster.html

Firefighters who are now sick after responding to the World
Trade Center after the Sept. 11 attacks are not victims?

Soldiers suffering PTSD should not to be counted among
the casualties of war?

Is the biggest victim of a disaster the president who
wasn't prepared and wasn't interested in anything more
than a photo-op?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/09/14/angry-about-trumps-cruelty-and-megalomania-towards-puerto-rico-you-have-recourse/

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What's good for the billionaires is good for you.

The statistics are rigged that way.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/opinion/columnists/great-recession-economy-gdp.html

The right-wing revival from Trump to Orban got much of
its energy from the correct observation that the people
at the top (like Trump!) were experiencing an economic
recovery quite different from the people at the bottom
(his supporters!).     He's sure they're too dumb to care -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/opinion/trump-base-polls.html

That's why Trump administration policies don't concern
themselves with preventing another crash - it won't be
HIS problem!

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/opinion/lehman-economic-crisis.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/wall-street-never-learned-its-lesson/2018/09/13/87154c6c-b75e-11e8-b79f-f6e31e555258_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/heaven-help-us-in-the-next-financial-crisis/2018/09/13/35eae7ee-b78f-11e8-a7b5-adaaa5b2a57f_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/financial-crisis-10-year-anniversary

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Ever wonder how your email gets across the ocean?

 http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/392577-spotlight-falls-on-russian-threat-to-undersea-cables

But future adversaries probably won't need such clumsy
attacks -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/sunday-review/why-hackers-arent-afraid-of-us.html

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The dark side of crypto technology

 https://www.wired.com/story/the-dark-side-of-the-crypto-revolution/

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What made America great?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/opinion/immigration-trump-children-american-empire.html

It wasn't tariffs.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/opinion/sunday/trump-china-america-first.html

O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain!
America! America!  God shed His grace on thee And crown
thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose stern, impassioned
stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the
wilderness!  America! America!  God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved And mercy more
than life!  America! America!  May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness, And every gain divine!

O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!  God shed His grace on thee And crown
thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#anthem

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"Confirm thy soul in self-control"

Self-control is an essential prerequisite even of Christian
liberty -

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not
expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things
edify not.

"Thy liberty in law"

But political liberty has to be exercised within the bounds
of political law.

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The permanent fix to gerrymandering

There will be no end to litigation about gerrymandered
districts.     A better long-term solution is to render
them useless, while increasing the political value of
centrism over extremism.    We could finally say goodbye
to the two-faced politician who has to say one thing to win
the party primary or caucus, and the opposite thing to win
the general election.      No wonder nobody trusts them.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/opinion/gerrymandering-districts-multimember.html

Fairvote advocates for these reforms -

 https://www.fairvote.org/

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting

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If you don't have any retirement funds, why not sell your
house and invest the proceeds in the lottery?     You might
win big.

Some people are dumb enough to consider that idea -

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/19/borenstein-mtc-considers-risky-investment-scheme-to-reduce-pension-debt/

How far did that idea get?

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The political purposes of language of classification

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-dark-history-behind-trumps-inflammatory-language/2018/06/22/54288982-7649-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html

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Trump owes nothing to his predecessors, and hence nothing
to his successors, or so he thinks.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/09/08/the-thin-skinned-president-who-made-it-illegal-to-criticize-his-office/

But Trump owes a fraternal debt to John Adams, a great
lawyer and patriot, though a lesser president, between
Washington and Jefferson.       Adams and Jefferson are
both seen in a better, earlier light in the musical 1776

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_(musical)

Adams, having no established precedents to guide  him,
misconstrued the personal deference to Washington as
deference to the office of president, and wondered why he
didn't get the same.    Now we know that the opposition
will dig up or make up dirt on any president - that's what
they pay opposition researchers to do.

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Don't you love the convenience and immediacy of online
charity?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-stranger-meant-to-donate-15-to-a-gofundme-page-he-accidentally-gave-more-than-15000/2018/09/08/6a3de272-b2bb-11e8-aed9-001309990777_story.html

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After ten years, no lessons learned

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/wall-street-never-learned-its-lesson/2018/09/13/87154c6c-b75e-11e8-b79f-f6e31e555258_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/heaven-help-us-in-the-next-financial-crisis/2018/09/13/35eae7ee-b78f-11e8-a7b5-adaaa5b2a57f_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/financial-crisis-10-year-anniversary

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A/B marketing applied to politics -

or why political-scrapbook is a waste of time, even though
it's from Silicon Valley rather than Manhattan.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/09/13/what-jamie-dimon-and-other-new-yorkers-dont-grasp-about-washington-politics/

Later, Dimon had second thoughts -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/after-attacking-trump-jpmorgan-chief-now-says-the-president-has-done-pretty-good-with-economy/2018/09/16/20ffee50-b9b6-11e8-a8aa-860695e7f3fc_story.html

By the way, Facebook loves advertisers that experiment
with A/B marketing - and facilitates it.     More revenue
to Facebook.

A/B is the basis of an old Wall Street scam.     A broker
sends out a letter to 1000 prospects.  Half say to sell X
because it's going down.    Half say to buy X because it's
going up.  If X actually goes down, the broker throws away
the second half of his client list and sends a new letter
to 250 of the 500 left: sell Y because it's going down.
To the other 250: buy Y because it's going up.    After a
few more iterations he writes to the remaining clients
and points to his 100% accuracy and offers a chance
to buy in on the deal of a lifetime.    After they all
enthusiastically buy in and push the stock up, he shorts
the stock and finds a new list of 1000 prospects.

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The real Kavanaugh threat

This outweighs all the others, because dark money is
the #1 problem of American politics - it funds #2, #3,
.... #infinity.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/09/13/how-brett-kavanaugh-could-help-create-an-era-of-rampant-corruption/

Actually, unlimited personal contributions to political
campaigns would be OK - as long as they were published by
donor and amount within 7 days.  The public needs to know
immediately who has been bought and by whom.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations

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TRUMP IS THE GREATEST PRESIDENT OF ALL TIME!!!

By his own definition - he has dominated the news cycles
and TV ratings worldwide unlike any of his predecessors.
Isn't that what a "reality TV" star is supposed
to do?

 https://www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/national/national-politics/election-all-about-trump-not-obama

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/09/13/republicans-good-luck-getting-trump-out-of-the-news/

But Trump will be Trump, and he won't shut up even to save
the careers of the Republicans in Congress.     After all,
he knows perfectly well that they don't really love him
any more than he really loves them - occasional shows of
affection are just reality TV.    He shows what he really
thinks when he starts thinking up pejorative nicknames
for other Republicans.

He's sure his base will protect him in the elections - even
though he's not actually running this year.    Just look
how they roar at his campaign rallies!    But he has no
interest in and has put no effort into expanding his base
beyond the hard core that support him because nobody else
supports them and their base instincts.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency

Republicans running this fall - fall into two camps.
Those running in districts where Trump is a liability -
with educated suburban women in particular - probably
secretly wish that the Democrats had succeeded in
impeaching and removing him so that they could be running
with President Pence instead - while bitterly condemning,
with crocodile tears, the Democrats for impeaching Trump.
The other camp - whose ONLY claim to electability is
"Trumpier than Trump" - know that their careers
are finished whenever Trump leaves the scene.    Sure,
there'll be a Trumpist third party for a while - like
the American Independent Party - that will give them a
platform for future revenge runs against Republicans -
much to the joy of Democrats everywhere.    They might
even get some Democratic donations to encourage them.

If all that happens, then Trump will be remembered not
only for revitalizing the Democratic Party and moving it
to the left, but for revitalizing the Republican Party
and moving it to the left, or at least toward the center,
by finally excising the racist cancer of Nixon's Southern
Strategy from mainstream American political life.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/opinion/trump-maga.html

Those old enough to remember how Republican Congressional
support for Nixon evaporated literally overnight - when
they finally all agreed to agree publicly that the emperor
had no clothes - wonder if the same instant evaporation
will occur again between November and January.

Nixon evidently never realized that he had done anything
wrong, or perhaps he thought that his only sin was
getting caught doing what he thought everybody else did.
He supposed that somehow his power base in Congress had
mysteriously evaporated.

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If the student makes a mistake, it is up to the student
to correct it; if the professor makes a mistake, it is up
to the student to correct it.

NOT AT TRUMP U!     If the professor were to make a
mistake, and you, a student were to point it out.... YOU'RE
FIRED!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/09/13/trump-really-hates-apologizing-for-misogyny-and-racism-new-reporting-explains-why/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/never-give-an-inch-trump-keeps-touting-perceived-failures-as-successes/2018/09/12/12801b80-b6a9-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html

There are no mistakes at Trump U - only BIG BEAUTIFUL
SUCCESS STORIES.

Like Puerto Rico -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/09/13/heckuva-job-trumpie-now-hes-denying-that-thousands-of-people-died-in-hurricane-maria/

etc...

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/715638752113980

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/715193368825185

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/716755022002353

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"true" and "false" do not deserve
equal coverage

 https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article218175610.html

It's not always easy to determine ultimate factual truth.
But that's no excuse not to try.

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/715638752113980

Entertainment - supermarket tabloids and their newer
technological successors - is not to be confused or
compared to journalism.

One way to tell the difference:

* journalism sells ads in order to pay for gathering and
publishing the editorial content.

* entertainment digs up or makes up "content"
in order to sell ads or merchandise

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immigration - it's not just rapists sneaking in with
contraband steel and aluminum

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/us/census-foreign-population.html

Are folks in Trump country worried about the lack of
trained medical personnel willing to settle in their little
towns?      It's not going to be native-born Americans who
help out on that.      Or who help out on picking crops,
for that matter.

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The free press evolves to meet new challenges

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-newspaper-diminished-by-cutbacks-prepares-to-cover-another-monster-storm/2018/09/12/9fae3870-b5ff-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html

But it won't be there in the future unless you support it.

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All about the 2008 collapse -

lessons learned and forgotten, and what's similar and
different today.

 https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/financial-crisis-10-year-anniversary

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Stick by Jeff Sessions because we're stuck with Jeff
Sessions

 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/democrats-sessions-trump-attorney-general/568510/

Progressives and even centrist Democrats and Republicans
find a lot to not like in Jeff Sessions.      The Southern
Poverty Law Conference pointed out a speech he made to the
Alliance Defending Freedom, which the SPLC has classified
as a hate group, using the same criteria the Justice
Department uses.

 https://www.advocate.com/religion/2018/8/11/southern-poverty-law-center-has-message-bigot-jeff-sessions

But Sessions stood up for the integrity of the Justice
Department when it mattered.

 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-sessions-justice-department-20180823-story.html

And Trump will be president for two more years unless
impeached, and the most probable road to impeachment is
through the Mueller investigation.    Whenever Trump fires
Sessions for protecting the Mueller investigation, he'll
try to appoint somebody worse who will obey Trump's orders.
He'll probably try to do that between the election and the
new Congress, while he will still have a thin majority in
the Senate to confirm his new choice.    Otherwise Trump
will have to appoint an "acting" attorney general
who will serve for the rest of Trump's term.

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It couldn't happen again, could it?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/business/middle-class-financial-crisis.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/12/business/las-vegas-housing-crisis.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/12/business/media/hgtv-housing-mortgage-crisis.html

One or two more housing crises and the transformation
of America into a third-world income distribution will
be complete.

 https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/financial-crisis-10-year-anniversary

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China and Russia find common ground

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/war-games-and-business-deals-russia-china-send-a-signal-to-washington/2018/09/11/35371ff2-b5b9-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html

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Financial crises tend to radicalize electorates -

You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide
goes out

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/business/dealbook/financial-crisis-trump.html

"Too big to fail" used to refer to banks; now
to cities, states, nations.

Unmanageable debt is the match that lights the fire of
every crisis.

Maybe we are all simply incapable of learning

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-collapse-of-lehman-brothers-changed-everything-and-nothing/2018/09/11/ed6c4dae-b604-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/financial-crisis-10-year-anniversary

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The decline of organized labor and the plight of the
working poor

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/magazine/americans-jobs-poverty-homeless.html

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How will Anonymous explain this to his children?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/opinion/anonymous-op-ed-republican-party-trump.html

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/713279962349859

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giveaways to the powerful, loss and risk for the powerless

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/theres-lots-of-deregulation-afoot-but-will-it-really-help-anyone/2018/09/11/ef1f2bfc-b538-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html

Maybe we are all simply incapable of learning

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-collapse-of-lehman-brothers-changed-everything-and-nothing/2018/09/11/ed6c4dae-b604-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/financial-crisis-10-year-anniversary

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Two small steps toward a better political future

 http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-skelton-bob-shrum-mike-murphy-usc-politics-20180910-story.html

One step at a time is the way things get better.

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Pennsylvania, Florida, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/09/11/daily-202-playing-catch-up-progressive-groups-to-spend-10-million-on-digital-ads-for-state-legislative-races/5b970b121b326b47ec959539/

A worthy cause - if you live in those states, don't forget
to vote Democratic straight down the ticket.      If you
don't live in those states, it is worth your while to
support the effort in time or money -

 https://democraticredistricting.com/

Long term, Federal redistricting should be done at
a Federal level.       And ranked-choice voting and
multimember Congressional districts would also help reduce
the benefit of gerrymandering.

 https://www.fairvote.org/

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting

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If at first you don't succeed -

repeat the same dumb idea.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/09/11/house-gop-is-pushing-new-round-tax-cuts-that-could-cost-trillion-over-years/

The essence of this proposal is in what they don't talk
about in their press release - pass-through taxation,
alternative minimum tax, estate tax.       None of
which applies to the average W-2 wage slave.    But the
billionaires hear it loud and clear.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/09/13/new-estimate-gops-second-tax-cuts-would-add-trillion-deficit/

Ever wonder where the last tax cut went?

 https://justcapital.com/reports/the-just-capital-rankings-on-corporate-tax-reform/

We've never been in this situation before -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/government-borrowing-soars-despite-robust-economy/2018/09/11/09a85554-b5eb-11e8-a7b5-adaaa5b2a57f_story.html

Even Romney can't take it any more -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-have-become-silent-on-deficit-reduction-romney-says/2018/09/10/aad7589e-b528-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html

But his principles are a little uncertain, since he decided
to oppose Obamacare even though it was modeled on Romney's
own popular Masscare.

Perhaps it's all just a publicity stunt - "Privately
they admit they’re doing this to score political points
against Democrats in an election year. They know that there
won’t be support in the Senate to make last year’s
reductions of individual rates permanent because there
won’t be 60 votes."

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/09/12/daily-202-west-wing-intrigue-distracts-from-what-the-trump-administration-is-and-isn-t-doing/5b98042d1b326b47ec959559/

Or maybe not.  William Jennings Bryan again:

"There are two ideas of government.  There are those
who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the
well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through
on those below.  The Democratic idea, however, has been
that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their
prosperity will find its way up through every class which
rests upon them.  ...  You shall not press down upon the
brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify
mankind upon a cross of gold."

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

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Florence Foster Jenkins, Donald Trump, and Don Juan in Hell

After seeing a production of "Souvenir," a play
about Florence Foster Jenkins, the question arises -

What does an academic discussion about postmodernism and
deconstructionism have to do with the hell of current
American politics and a hell of a bad singer and the hell
of Don Juan?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/postmodernism-didnt-cause-trump-it-explains-him/2018/08/30/0939f7c4-9b12-11e8-843b-36e177f3081c_story.html

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Foster_Jenkins

 https://www.bartleby.com/157/3.html    lines 148-545

It's all about what is ultimately real.    Right-wing
supporters of Trump's fantasies argue that the moral
relativism began in left-wing academic philosophy circles
so that they have no basis for complaining about Trump.

But as Hanlon says, "the real enemy of truth is not
postmodernism but propaganda, the active distortion of
truth for political purposes," and there's nothing
new about that.

It is true that, for any individual person, his reality
only exists inside his own head, and it is shaped by
everything that happened to him and his ancestors - all the
way back to protozoa.   So no two persons perceive exactly
the same reality.    So, the argument goes, one person's
reality is as good as another's.     So why shouldn't
Trump talk about the reality that's in his head?

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/715193368825185

Why shouldn't Florence Foster Jenkins believe the reality
in her own head?

Shaw was a dramatist, rather than a theologian or
philosopher, but in the Don Juan in Hell dream sequence -
part of the enormous play Man and Superman - he imagines
heaven and hell in a much more convincing way than most
theologians.  Heaven is the place for those who wish to
master reality, while hell is the place for those who
wish to master illusion.  Where would Donald Trump and
Florence Foster Jenkins choose to go?  Shaw attributed
a line to an imaginary poet - "Hell is a city,
much like Seville" since the characters in his
play derived from Mozart's Don Giovanni, which is set in
Seville - but if he had been writing a century later, he
might have suggested "Hell is a city, much like Las
Vegas" or "Hell is a city of reality TV."
The observations of Don Juan in Hell - before he leaves for
heaven - cover a vast scope of human experience, in Shaw's
usual entertaining style, because Don Juan is of course
a personification of Shaw himself.  Well worth reading!

By the way, if you read the rest of Act III, before and
after the Don Juan in Hell dream sequence, you'll see how
little effect a century has had on left-wing factionalism.

Although academic philosophy is above the pay grade and
competence level of most of us, people who have studied
physical science understand that there is some absolute
objective reality operating in the universe, whether or not
there are any pundits to blog about it or philosophers to
deconstruct it.    That objective reality operated before
any living things existed and will continue to operate
after all living things have disappeared.

It's not as easy to be sure about human reality as it
is to be sure about physical reality, but the basis of
much Western tradition back to the Greeks is that we
can understand better and get closer to something like
objective truth if we try - and that it is worthwhile,
and essential, to try.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/journalism.html#primary%20sources

The Eastern understanding, that external reality is an
illusion and the only true reality is internal, might be
helpful to individuals coping with impossible objective
circumstances, but it's not so helpful for improving those
objective circumstances.

Something to remember on 9-11.      Something real
happened.    It was an objective fact, not an illusion.

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The heart of a salesman

If only Arthur Miller were here to write a play about it.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trumps-top-economist-says-he-cant-explain-trumps-false-tweet-on-the-economy/2018/09/10/ef0a5f1a-b529-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/09/10/why-trumps-demand-for-credit-on-the-economy-is-getting-more-desperate/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/10/trumps-promoters-have-no-good-answer-his-economic-falsehoods/

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Why Bruce Ohr?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/opinion/trump-money-laundering-russia-mueller.html

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Proposition 13 - still popular in spite of itself

 https://calmatters.org/articles/california-proposition-13-approval-rating/

It's a success at its original goal - reducing property
taxes for businesses and rental residences.    It wasn't
sold that way - and it's still popular with people who have
been able to live in the same place ever since, including
lots of elderly - even though most voters, asked about
specific provisions of Prop 13, are not in favor.

In a way it's the mirror image of Obamacare - most voters
used to be against it but in favor of any particular
benefit it contained.     Now red-state Democrats run on
Obamacare without using its name.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/us/politics/manchin-west-virginia-healthcare.html

So Californians might think they are smarter than West
Virginians, and vice versa, but they are both just dumb
about different things.

But back to Prop 13 - a better way to achieve the
something-for-nothing benefit homeowners crave would be
to allow them to defer property taxes and capital gains
on their primary residence until they are no longer home
owners (or death).       The details might be complicated
but it would be fair to all homeowners, no matter when
they bought their homes.

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/544385532572637

The sad big picture is that people will stubbornly cling
to a supposed benefit even when the benefit is to somebody
else.          Meanwhile most of the technologists who come
to California to create the future - will have received
their primary and secondary educations elsewhere.

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The Kochs don't like Trump

but they want to defend his billionaire tax cuts,
billionaire deregulation, and billionaire-supporting
reactionary Federal judiciary, so -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/koch-network-announces-new-super-pac-ahead-of-midterms/2018/09/10/61f56042-b4fd-11e8-a7b5-adaaa5b2a57f_story.html

Of course, the Kochs don't want to disclose their donor
list, even confidentially -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/koch-backed-charity-must-reveal-donor-list-to-california-state-officials-appeals-court-rules/2018/09/11/0acf5e06-b5fe-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html

Of course, if Trump were really the billionaire he pretends
to be, he could pay for his own re-election and those of
all his pals in the Senate and House out of his own pocket,
through a PAC.      But he'd rather ask his impoverished
supporters to pay for their further impoverishment.

What can people of lesser means make a difference?
Five dollar donations make a big difference when there
are enough of them.

 https://dccc.org/
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

 http://www.dscc.org/
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

 https://democraticredistricting.com/
National Democratic Redistricting Committee - working
right now on state governors and legislatures that control
redistricting

 https://www.fightbackca.com/
Fight Back California - California 7 Project - working
to retire seven vulnerable Trumpists - lately expanded to
include Devin Nunes among others

And support reforms to get the dark money out of politics,
so we know who is paying for whom -

 http://www.americanpromise.net/
 https://democracy21.org/issues/money-in-politics
Voters who think that elections should be decided by
people rather than dollars, should support the necessary
structural changes to campaign finance laws to make sure
that AT LEAST we know who's paying, and better yet to
restrict political contributions to registered voters.

More at
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html

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Why democracies have so much trouble with future crises

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-we-dont-prepare-for-the-future/2018/09/09/cb91cc34-b2c3-11e8-aed9-001309990777_story.html

Politicians who refuse to acknowledge future threats and
prescribe present defenses are usually more popular than
those more far-sighted.

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Trumponomics - let no past mistake remain unrepeated

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-dangerous-myth-we-still-believe-about-the-lehman-brothers-bust/2018/09/09/5a2f8a9c-b2bc-11e8-9a6a-565d92a3585d_story.html

Remove what little burdensome Federal regulation  is left!

Maybe some lessons are just incapable of being learned

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-collapse-of-lehman-brothers-changed-everything-and-nothing/2018/09/11/ed6c4dae-b604-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/financial-crisis-10-year-anniversary

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When did you last change your mind on a significant
political, economic or social issue?  When did you vote
with the other side?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/opinion/campaign-finance-political-donors.html

It's all about vast sums of dark money and institutional
and personal ideological barriers to centrist and
independent candidates and bipartisan initiatives.

The long-term solutions have to involve getting the dark
money out of politics - we need to know who is buying whom
- and removing institutional barriers by reforms liked
ranked-choice voting instead of primaries and caucuses.

 http://www.americanpromise.net/
 https://democracy21.org/issues/money-in-politics
Voters who think that elections should be decided by
people rather than dollars, should support the necessary
structural changes to campaign finance laws to make sure
that AT LEAST we know who's paying, and better yet to
restrict political contributions to registered voters.

 https://www.nolabels.org/
Voters who would like Congress to make choices other than
the extreme left or extreme right, should support the
necessary structural changes to Congressional rules that
inhibit centrist and bipartisan solutions.

 https://www.uniteamerica.org/
Voters who would like to choose candidates other than
the extreme left or extreme right that party primaries
tend to produce, should support the necessary structural
changes to voting laws that inhibit centrist, independent
and third-party candidates.

More at
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html

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If you can't dig up something - then make up something

That's the low road in politics.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/so-this-is-how-paul-ryan-says-goodbye/2018/09/07/6ad7dccc-b2b3-11e8-9a6a-565d92a3585d_story.html

And it works, because you can say anything you want during
a political campaign with impunity.

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register - inform - think - donate - vote - reform

So what are YOU going to do about American politics?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-president-obama-to-warn-of-voter-apathy-ahead-of-the-november-elections/2018/09/07/fad28508-b28f-11e8-9a6a-565d92a3585d_story.html

Staying home is a vote for Trump

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-the-most-important-thing-you-will-do-all-year/2018/09/14/82646534-b77e-11e8-a7b5-adaaa5b2a57f_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/opinion/trump-midterms-shoot-fifth-avenue.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/08/28/trump-rage-googles-himself-and-reveals-a-frightening-truth-about-the-midterms/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/08/28/giulianis-telling-defense-himself-all-that-matters-is-that-mueller-is-undermined/

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/opinion/trump-democrats-midterms-house-oversight.html

Why don't YOU

REGISTER to vote INFORM yourself about the issues and
candidates THINK about short-term tactics and long-term
strategy DONATE money or time or both to worthy issues
and candidates VOTE by November 6! to fix the short-term
problems SUPPORT REFORMS to fix the long-term problems

===== 2018 tactics to fix the short-term problems

For 2018, almost everybody who is concerned about the
direction the Trumpists want to go should just vote a
straight Democratic ticket.  Anti-Trump Republicans have
been pretty much eliminated in the primaries.  Very few
independents and third-party candidates have the slightest
chance of winning, so in almost all cases a vote for them
is a vote for Trumpism, as is a vote for staying home
or going fishing.  This is no time to indulge in wishful
ideological thinking.

Likewise for 2018, it's very appropriate to support
Democratic politicians even if you've never donated
money or time to political causes before.    Money is the
mother's milk of politics; nobody gets very far without it.
You can donate to specific campaigns or, if you're not
sure, consider -

 https://dccc.org/
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

 http://www.dscc.org/
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

 https://democraticredistricting.com/
National Democratic Redistricting Committee - working
right now on state governors and legislatures that control
redistricting

 https://www.fightbackca.com/
Fight Back California - California 7 Project - working
to retire seven vulnerable Trumpists - lately expanded to
include Devin Nunes among others

They would all prefer 100 $5 donations to one $500
donation, and they'll put them to work where they will
make the greatest difference.

Of course, if you are a racist sexist greedy billionaire,
you might think you'll get a better return on your
investment at https://www.donaldjtrump.com/ and you might
be right in the short term; fortunately you're rich enough
to be able to afford to lose all your investment when it
suddenly goes south sooner or later.

In the present climate, the average Democratic candidate
is likely to be a better choice than the average Trumpist
candidate.   But the Democratic candidate has not always
been the best choice in all times and places; sometimes
it's been hard to tell the difference between Republican
and Democratic candidates.    Not this year.

You did register to vote for the primaries, didn't you?
If not, here's a primer -

 https://www.usa.gov/register-to-vote

===== Reform Strategy to fix the long-term problems

Longer-term there are some important ideas that deserve
your support - the right structural changes are far
more powerful than electing any one candidate in any one
election -

 http://www.fairvote.org/
Ideologically-oriented voters who would like to vote for an
independent or third-party candidate, but not throw their
vote away or have it become in effect a vote for Trumpists,
should support the necessary structural changes to voting
laws: ranked-choice voting and multimember districts.

 http://www.americanpromise.net/
 https://democracy21.org/issues/money-in-politics
Voters who think that elections should be decided by
people rather than dollars, should support the necessary
structural changes to campaign finance laws to make sure
that AT LEAST we know who's paying, and better yet to
restrict political contributions to registered voters.

 https://www.nolabels.org/
Voters who would like Congress to make choices other than
the extreme left or extreme right, should support the
necessary structural changes to Congressional rules that
inhibit centrist and bipartisan solutions.

 https://www.uniteamerica.org/
Voters who would like to choose candidates other than
the extreme left or extreme right that party primaries
tend to produce, should support the necessary structural
changes to voting laws that inhibit centrist, independent
and third-party candidates.

More at
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html

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op-ed: a deep state conspiracy

Everybody else has a theory about who wrote the anonymous
NY Times op-ed, so here's another one: the op-ed was
written by a group of traditional Republican mid-level
people - think Guccifer 2.0 or N. Bourbaki -  carefully
crafted ("lodestar") to make it look like it
might have been written by somebody else - and transmitted
by a senior-level person who could later truthfully say
he/she didn't write it.    The purpose is three-fold:

1) Get the Democrats fired up to talk about impeachment
or 25th Amendment constantly, and thus

2) Get the Republican base fired up to protect Trump by
turning out to vote  on November 6 instead of staying home
despondent over losing control of Congress, and thereby
improve Republican chances in November

3) Distract everybody from Kavanaugh's nomination
hearings - that accounts for the particular timing -
and thus improve chances of confirmation that looks good
for Trump and will protect him if he ends up before the
Supreme Court.

The purpose, as made plain in the op-ed, is to protect
traditional Republican gains despite Trump.      As for
specific allegations, they will be forgotten soon enough
whenever the next worse scandal erupts.     As usual,
Trump knows nothing about the plan, but responded exactly
as scripted.

This theory is based on no special inside information
whatever, but if the President can make up any story he
pleases, it's because he wants everybody else to do the
same, so nobody believes anything.    But you can always
ask yourself, "How would Roger Stone create or exploit
a situation like this?"

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/opinion/columnists/kavanaugh-trump-kamala-harris-anonymous.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-never-ending-cycle-some-aides-work-to-slow-walk-or-ignore-trumps-directives/2018/09/06/0ac81f88-b1ee-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/us/politics/trump-republicans.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-justice-department-should-investigate-anonymous-op-ed-author/2018/09/07/b1eecd80-b2ba-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/theres-a-new-sheriff-in-town-trump-uses-official-events-to-wage-campaign-against-press/2018/09/06/8cf4180c-b204-11e8-9a6a-565d92a3585d_story.html

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How can President Trump become as great as President
Hamilton?

Trick question!    Not everybody on our paper currency
has been President.

But Hamilton did get a clause in the Constitution named
after him anyway, inserted specifically to prevent (future)
immigrants from becoming President.     Trump would
have liked the Hamilton clause, because it discriminated
against immigrants.

Trump should be similarly honored with a clause, inserted
specifically to deal with anybody like him who might be
elected President in the future.    Hamilton would have
liked the Trump clause, because it discriminated against
incompetents.

The Trump clause could go like this:    at any time the
House of Representatives may nominate a new President by a
2/3 vote conducted with ranked-choice voting.  The Senate
then has 72 hours to confirm the nomination by a simple
2/3 yea/nay vote.     If confirmed, the new President is
immediately sworn in.

This mechanism avoids the necessity of a criminal charge
and trial, or a finding of mental or medical incapacity.
You can be incompetent to be President while mentally and
medically competent for normal life and free of provable
criminal conduct.

This, or any, constitutional amendment is very hard to
pass.    But maybe the motivation will be sufficient soon.
This mechanism would not be invoked successfully very
often.     It is very hard to imagine getting 2/3 agreement
on ANY issue with the current Congress.      It might
be successfully invoked about as often as impeachment,
which is never so far (Andrew Johnson was impeached but
not convicted by the Senate - read about it in Kennedy's
Profiles in Courage).       The purpose of the Trump clause
is to get future Presidents to consider their actions
more carefully and to seek and to act upon better advice.
Or, as with the impeachment process, encourage a President
who's in the wrong job to resign and seek employment better
matched to his skills.   As the song goes....

If you see Crooked Hill'ry, please tell her thanks a lot,
The recession that's due is going to give me quite a bad
blot, My cabinet is such losers, they can't even pass a
single law, And my best friend, if I had one, wouldn't
even say where it is that I rot.

I started out with lock-her-up but soon switched to harder
stuff, Everybody said that they'd stand behind me when
the game got rough, But the joke was on me, there was no
one there to even bluff, I'm going back to New York City,
I do believe I've had enough.

 -- Just Like Don Trump's Blues

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#electoral%20college

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Slicing up nation states - leading to peace or war?

Can peoples be bored into belligerency?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-west-may-be-sleepwalking-into-another-catastrophe/2018/08/29/9f540ad2-abbc-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html

One might think that it shouldn't matter much whether
the European Union is divided into traditional large
nation-states or the smaller ethnicities than came before
them.   As long as the citizens think of themselves as
Europeans first, why not?

The recent experience of Yugoslavia is not encouraging.
Dividing Europe up into tiny ethno-states might encourage
traditional ethno-identities rather than pan-European
ones.       And that can turn into unhealthy focus on
ancient ethno-grievances.

The experience of Africa is not encouraging either.
The newly independent nations of Africa decided to respect
their colonial boundaries, not because they made sense,
but because the alternative made less sense.     But that
consensus is falling apart.

   https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/09/the-dividing-of-a-continent-africas-separatist-problem/262171/

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At last, blame the boomers instead of the millenials

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/will-we-ever-escape-1968/2018/08/29/d55f53a0-abc3-11e8-b1da-ff7faa680710_story.html

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Independents Day

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/election-day-could-be-independents-day/2018/08/19/45a63406-a194-11e8-83d2-70203b8d7b44_story.html

Many voters would like another choice besides those chosen
by the major parties' ideological extremists - the ones
who show up to vote in primaries - as exemplified yesterday
in Florida.

Unite America is working to improve the chances and
effectiveness of other choices -

 https://www.uniteamerica.org/

That's a gradual process of removing institutional
obstacles that favor the major parties.     The single
most helpful reform would be ranked-choice voting -

 http://www.fairvote.org/

As desirable as these long-term structural changes are,
for the 2018 Federal election, in most states without
ranked-choice voting, the winner is either going to be
a Democrat or a Trumpist.     Votes for independents and
third parties might as well be Trumpist votes.

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What does it take to visit the Oval Office?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/conspiracy-theorist-shares-oval-office-photo-with-trump/2018/08/24/8363548a-a816-11e8-a656-943eefab5daf_story.html

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Muslim Brotherhood a force for democracy?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/08/28/the-u-s-is-wrong-about-the-muslim-brotherhood-and-the-arab-world-is-suffering-for-it/

Accepting democracy means accepting democratic results
you don't like, as long as the essence of democracy is
preserved: recognition of and protection of rights of
minorities.

Why would the Trump administration encourage politicization
of religion in America and not elsewhere?

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What's going to happen in Florida?

Will the left-wing Democrat frighten the independents
into voting Republican, or will the right-wing Trumpist
frighten the independents into voting Democratic?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/08/29/florida-governors-race-is-epitome-politics-trump-era/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/08/29/a-new-way-to-slay-trumpism-shocking-florida-outcome-sets-up-a-big-test/

If Florida had ranked-choice-voting, centrist independent
candidates could run without worrying about whether they
are paving the way for the worst outcome.

 http://www.fairvote.org/

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Why tariffs are usually a terrible idea

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/opinion/tariffs-trump-trade-special-interests.html

and why they get imposed anyway.

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China has become a naval power

But to what end?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/world/asia/china-navy-aircraft-carrier-pacific.html

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In the Central Valley, "farmer" sounds better
than "professional politician"

 https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?e=f65aadfb32&u=31b479dbea5973b27a9d19670&id=691a6ecf99

"professional Trumpist" would have been another
honest description

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register - inform - think - donate - vote - reform

So what are YOU going to do about American politics?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/opinion/trump-midterms-shoot-fifth-avenue.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/08/28/trump-rage-googles-himself-and-reveals-a-frightening-truth-about-the-midterms/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/08/28/giulianis-telling-defense-himself-all-that-matters-is-that-mueller-is-undermined/

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/opinion/trump-democrats-midterms-house-oversight.html

Why don't YOU

REGISTER to vote INFORM yourself about the issues and
candidates THINK about short-term tactics and long-term
strategy DONATE money or time or both to worthy issues
and candidates VOTE by November 6! to fix the short-term
problems SUPPORT REFORMS to fix the long-term problems

===== 2018 tactics to fix the short-term problems

For 2018, almost everybody who is concerned about the
direction the Trumpists want to go should just vote a
straight Democratic ticket.  Anti-Trump Republicans have
been pretty much eliminated in the primaries.  Very few
independents and third-party candidates have the slightest
chance of winning, so in almost all cases a vote for them
is a vote for Trumpism, as is a vote for staying home
or going fishing.  This is no time to indulge in wishful
ideological thinking.

Likewise for 2018, it's very appropriate to support
Democratic politicians even if you've never donated
money or time to political causes before.    Money is the
mother's milk of politics; nobody gets very far without it.
You can donate to specific campaigns or, if you're not
sure, consider -

 https://dccc.org/
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

 http://www.dscc.org/
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

 https://democraticredistricting.com/
National Democratic Redistricting Committee - working
right now on state governors and legislatures that control
redistricting

 https://www.fightbackca.com/
Fight Back California - California 7 Project - working
to retire seven vulnerable Trumpists - lately expanded to
include Devin Nunes among others

They would all prefer 100 $5 donations to one $500
donation, and they'll put them to work where they will
make the greatest difference.

Of course, if you are a racist sexist greedy billionaire,
you might think you'll get a better return on your
investment at https://www.donaldjtrump.com/ and you might
be right in the short term; fortunately you're rich enough
to be able to afford to lose all your investment when it
suddenly goes south sooner or later.

In the present climate, the average Democratic candidate
is likely to be a better choice than the average Trumpist
candidate.   But the Democratic candidate has not always
been the best choice in all times and places; sometimes
it's been hard to tell the difference between Republican
and Democratic candidates.    Not this year.

You did register to vote for the primaries, didn't you?
If not, here's a primer -

 https://www.usa.gov/register-to-vote

===== Reform Strategy to fix the long-term problems

Longer-term there are some important ideas that deserve
your support - the right structural changes are far
more powerful than electing any one candidate in any one
election -

 http://www.fairvote.org/
Ideologically-oriented voters who would like to vote for an
independent or third-party candidate, but not throw their
vote away or have it become in effect a vote for Trumpists,
should support the necessary structural changes to voting
laws: ranked-choice voting and multimember districts.

 http://www.americanpromise.net/
 https://democracy21.org/issues/money-in-politics
Voters who think that elections should be decided by
people rather than dollars, should support the necessary
structural changes to campaign finance laws to make sure
that AT LEAST we know who's paying, and better yet to
restrict political contributions to registered voters.

 https://www.nolabels.org/
Voters who would like Congress to make choices other than
the extreme left or extreme right, should support the
necessary structural changes to Congressional rules that
inhibit centrist and bipartisan solutions.

 https://www.uniteamerica.org/
Voters who would like to choose candidates other than
the extreme left or extreme right that party primaries
tend to produce, should support the necessary structural
changes to voting laws that inhibit centrist, independent
and third-party candidates.

More at
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html

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Protecting the iGens considered harmful

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/books/review/splintering-william-egginton-coddling-greg-lukianoff-jonathan-haidt.html

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Look what the wind has blown back

Southern feudalism wasn't gone with the wind after all

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/08/27/why-some-white-americans-see-racial-equality-as-oppression/

Why DID poor free whites fight for slaveholders?

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses

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Be done with caucuses!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/08/27/the-presidential-caucus-needs-to-die/

A better alternative is ranked-choice-voting and
multimember districts

 http://www.fairvote.org/

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Splitting the Trump Vote

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/republicans-struggle-to-run-with-trump-but-against-his-trade-war/2018/08/26/07208296-998c-11e8-b60b-1c897f17e185_story.html

Looks like tariffs are finally going to divide the two
main parts of the Trump constituency -

== #1) The people that voted for change in their lives
and sure got change, but in the wrong direction -

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#First%20Trump%20Constituency

But Trump's not into nuance - either you are 100% for him
or you are the deep-state coastal-elitist fake-news enemy.
So he loves the faithful that turn out for his campaign
rallies -

== #2) The people that voted for Trump and love him 100%,
no matter what, even if they're worse off -

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency

One wonders how many will be left in either camp after the
current economic recovery ends.    It might last through
the election, but hardly any economists think it will last
until 2020.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/27/can-strong-us-economy-survive-until/

The Trumpists have been doing their best to insure that
it will be hard landing -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/sunday-review/manafort-cohen-mueller-white-collar-crime.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/manafort-cohen-cases-reveal-weaknesses-in-enforcement-of-tax-and-election-laws/2018/08/25/3dace2f8-a79e-11e8-a656-943eefab5daf_story.html

In any case, a surprisingly large part of the electorate
likes trade -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/08/27/populist-revolt-against-trade-liberalization-is-over-trump-killed-it/

Indeed, if Trump were replaced by Pence, the market
response would probably be positive -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/08/27/no-trump-doesnt-determine-fate-stock-market-what-does-why-does-it-matter/

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register - inform - think - donate - vote

So what are YOU going to do about American politics?

REGISTER to vote INFORM yourself about the issues and
candidates THINK about short-term tactics and long-term
strategy DONATE money or time or both to worthy issues
and candidates VOTE by November 6! to fix the short-term
problems SUPPORT REFORMS to fix the long-term problems

===== 2018 tactics to fix the short-term problems

For 2018, almost everybody who is concerned about the
direction the Trumpists want to go should just vote a
straight Democratic ticket.  Anti-Trump Republicans have
been pretty much eliminated in the primaries.  Very few
independents and third-party candidates have the slightest
chance of winning, so in almost all cases a vote for them
is a vote for Trumpism, as is a vote for staying home
or going fishing.  This is no time to indulge in wishful
ideological thinking.

Likewise for 2018, it's very appropriate to support
Democratic politicians even if you've never donated
money or time to political causes before.    Money is the
mother's milk of politics; nobody gets very far without it.
You can donate to specific campaigns or, if you're not
sure, consider -

 https://dccc.org/
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

 http://www.dscc.org/
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

 https://democraticredistricting.com/
National Democratic Redistricting Committee - working
right now on state governors and legislatures that control
redistricting

 https://www.fightbackca.com/
Fight Back California - California 7 Project - working
to retire seven vulnerable Trumpists - lately expanded to
include Devin Nunes among others

They would all prefer 100 $5 donations to one $500
donation, and they'll put them to work where they will
make the greatest difference.

Of course, if you are a racist sexist greedy billionaire,
you might think you'll get a better return on your
investment at https://www.donaldjtrump.com/ and you might
be right in the short term; fortunately you're rich enough
to be able to afford to lose all your investment when it
suddenly goes south sooner or later.

In the present climate, the average Democratic candidate
is likely to be a better choice than the average Trumpist
candidate.   But the Democratic candidate has not always
been the best choice in all times and places; sometimes
it's been hard to tell the difference between Republican
and Democratic candidates.    Not this year.

You did register to vote for the primaries, didn't you?
If not, here's a primer -

 https://www.usa.gov/register-to-vote

===== Future Strategy to fix the long-term problems

Longer-term there are some important ideas that deserve
your support - the right structural changes are far
more powerful than electing any one candidate in any one
election -

 http://www.fairvote.org/
Ideologically-oriented voters who would like to vote for an
independent or third-party candidate, but not throw their
vote away or have it become in effect a vote for Trumpists,
should support the necessary structural changes to voting
laws: ranked-choice voting and multimember districts.

 http://www.americanpromise.net/
 https://democracy21.org/issues/money-in-politics
Voters who think that elections should be decided by
people rather than dollars, should support the necessary
structural changes to campaign finance laws to make sure
that AT LEAST we know who's paying, and better yet to
restrict political contributions to registered voters.

 https://www.nolabels.org/
Voters who would like Congress to make choices other than
the extreme left or extreme right, should support the
necessary structural changes to Congressional rules that
inhibit centrist and bipartisan solutions.

 https://www.uniteamerica.org/
Voters who would like to choose candidates other than
the extreme left or extreme right that party primaries
tend to produce, should support the necessary structural
changes to voting laws that inhibit centrist, independent
and third-party candidates.

More at
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html

=====

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Mueller better not be looking forward to a new career

New York commercial real estate?   Casino magnate?
Reality TV star?

Mueller couldn't be any of those things.    His personality
is all wrong.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/us/politics/robert-mueller-russia-investigation.html

Mueller is aware of what he owes his predecessors and what
he owes his successors.      Modesty and self-restraint
are his hallmarks.

The people on the other side of the court from his
prosecutors tend to have more of an "apres moi
le deluge" attitude: who cares what happens after
we're gone?

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The Republican Party is dead.   Long live the Trump Party!

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/opinion/sunday/corruption-donald-trump.html

They might as well bury the Republican Party with McCain.

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Coming soon to theatres near you - an interview with
the Devil!

A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/opinion/errol-morris-steve-bannon.html

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The real crime wave engulfing America

Nobody important went to jail for the 2008 financial
meltdown, even though it was bigger than Enron and bigger
than the Reagan savings and loan crisis.     There's
reasons for that

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/sunday-review/manafort-cohen-mueller-white-collar-crime.html

Billionaires don't like the IRS snooping, so Republicans
oblige

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/manafort-cohen-cases-reveal-weaknesses-in-enforcement-of-tax-and-election-laws/2018/08/25/3dace2f8-a79e-11e8-a656-943eefab5daf_story.html

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In the greatest traditions of American democracy

Democracy is not defined by majority rule; that defines
a mob.  Democracy is defined by recognition of and
preservation of rights of minorities, even unpopular
minorities, even minorities of just one person.

Thus in America, everybody, even very unpopular defendants,
gets a fair trial, and an adequate lawyer.  (Of course,
to get a great lawyer, you might have to pay more!)

John Adams was not a great president, but who could look
good after Washington?     Adams' best claim to fame is
representing the accused English soldiers in the Boston
Massacre - VERY unpopular defendants.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre

Rudolf Abel was not a terrible effective spy, but he was an
unpopular one when caught.     Even so, he got an effective
defense from James Donovan,

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Donovan

who became rather unpopular himself, as dramatized in
the movie

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_of_Spies_(film)

The tradition continues, and Michael Cohen, who probably
doesn't have many friends left, got potent representation
from an unexpected quarter

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/lanny-davis-the-ultimate-clinton-loyalist-is-now-michael-cohens-lawyer-but-dont-call-it-revenge/2018/08/23/e1550056-a6b9-11e8-97ce-cc9042272f07_story.html

One wonders who will be left to defend Trump if it comes
to that.     The best thing Trump could do would be to
let somebody sensible choose his defense team.

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Extra barriers for female candidates

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/us/politics/women-harassment-elections.html

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Legislative and judicial branches cooperate to compromise
and discourage intelligence sources vital to national
security

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/us/politics/cia-russia-midterm-elections.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/us/politics/white-house-fbi-informant.html

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Trump administration delivers on another campaign promise

California agribusiness $upported his campaign and his
confederates, and he promised he'd reward them - and punish
all those Democrats in LA

 https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/delta/article217160295.html

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A free press can still do productive investigative
journalism

But how much longer?    A free press is not free of charge.

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/23/for-profit-charter-schools-would-be-banned-under-california-bill-heading-to-the-governor/

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Trump might be right about one thing

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/safest-level-of-alcohol-consumption-is-none-worldwide-study-shows/2018/08/23/823a6bec-a62d-11e8-8fac-12e98c13528d_story.html

But if teetotalers become Trumpists, it's time for a beer.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/non-political.html#beer

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When it's all over

Sooner or later the Trump era will be history.    If you
find, as seems likely, that many more bad expectations
were met than good ones,  don't expect to be complimented
on your foresight by the hardcore Trump base.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/08/23/by-a-3-to-1-margin-trump-supporters-embrace-his-personality-over-his-policies/

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency

They will all believe they got what they were promised,
whether coal billionaire, pious housewife, or racist moron.

Thus it's a waste of time to explain to this constituency
that Trump's policies are actually working against their
interests.     They don't care - he's addressing their
dreams, hopes, and fears, not their realities.  They even
understand that his tax and tariff policies are not in
their interest - but they don't mind

 https://apnews.com/f9cc2156eef0458da7347d9608deef95

Save your energy for the much larger group of persuadables
who voted for Obama and then for Trump -

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#First%20Trump%20Constituency

And here's how to apply that energy -

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/696958633981992

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Trump's favorite president is Andrew Jackson -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson

whose supporters celebrated his inauguration by trashing
the White House, breaking previous norms.    Jackson broke
other norms too, ignoring the Supreme Court when it suited
him, inventing partisan politics as we know it today,
persecuting Indians at every opportunity, and understanding
very little about money.  He held grudges all his life.
Still his identification with the common man was based on
his own real experience growing up with the poverty and
danger of frontier life; he knew the light of Freemasonry;
he was a real war hero; he paid off the national debt; he
held the union together through its first secession crisis
- over tariffs! - and maybe that last accomplishment is
why Jackson is on the $20.

So conservatives can argue that norm-breaking is part of
democracy -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/opinion/trump-democracy-norm-breaking.html

However nobody ever suspected or accused Jackson of
collaboration with foreign enemies.

===== Isn't there a pivotal moment in Another Roadside
Attraction

 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9570.Another_Roadside_Attraction

when a principal character remembered a quotation from a
philosopher along the lines of

If you disprove people's religion, they won't thank you,
they'll kill you.

A point to keep in mind.

Likewise if your own heroes turn out to have clay feet
or even a few clay toes, remember that's part of the
human condition too.    We all have the difficult task
of judging both our heroes and villains by their good and
bad works together.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/non-political.html#famous
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#originalsin

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What are politicalscrapbooknet sources?

 https://www.facebook.com/pg/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/
has seven affiliated websites.   Counting all the URL's in
those seven websites and in the 343 posts here, one finds

journalism sources:
   474 www.washingtonpost.com 471 www.nytimes.com 134
   www.mercurynews.com 127 en.wikipedia.org
    12 www.hbs.edu 11 www.vox.com 11 papers.ssrn.com 10
    www.washingtonexaminer.com 10 www.usatoday.com 10
    www.bloomberg.com
     9 www.politico.com 8 www.latimes.com 8 thehill.com
     8 spectrum.ieee.org 8 democracyjournal.org 7
     www.businessinsider.com

unaffiliated advocacy sources:
    30 www.fairvote.org 27 www.nolabels.org 22
    www.ca7project.com 21 www.uniteamerica.org 21
    www.americanpromise.net 18 bipartisanpolicy.org
    14 www.democracy21.org 12 www.equalrightsnow.org 12
    democraticredistricting.com 11 www.standuprepublic.com
    10 lwv.org 10 dccc.org 10 calmatters.org
     9 taxmarch.org 8 www.ctj.org 8 itep.org 8 dscc.org
     7 www.concordcoalition.org

affiliated websites:
   211 www.political-scrapbook.net
    43 www.one-flat-tax.net 36 www.liberty-and-justice.net
    22 www.no-confidence-vote.net 14
    www.political-theses.net 13 www.approve-or-expel.net
    11 www.get-to-sixty.net

All the politicalscrapbooknet Facebook posts are indexed
in various ways at
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/facebook.html

Anybody who followed all the links and all the links
they contain would be very broadly informed indeed.
While everybody is entitled to their own opinions, but
not entitled to have anybody else pay any attention,
nor is anybody entitled to masquerade their opinions
as facts.  Unsupported factual claims are apt to get the
same attention as opinions, which is what they deserve.

Journalism should not be confused with entertainment,
despite the best efforts of those who would blend them.
Journalism should tell you what you need to hear;
entertainment what you want to hear.  Journalism tries to
report facts; responsible opinion tries to interpret facts.
Facts just get in the way of entertainment.      You can
find entertainment in places like "reality"
TV and supermarket tabloids.

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If prosecutors grant immunity, they expect something
worthwhile in return.

This is getting complicated -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-organization-executive-allen-weisselberg-who-allegedly-helped-arrange-hush-money-reimbursement-to-cohen-granted-immunity/2018/08/24/404ebdf2-a7b1-11e8-97ce-cc9042272f07_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/us/politics/david-pecker-immunity-trump.html

Gimme shelter!

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Ode to an institution

Orchard Supply was the one place you could go where
everybody knew the answer to whatever you hardware problem
might be.

It will be replaced by big box stores where nobody knows
anything.

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/22/ode-to-orchard-supply-hardware-closures-mean-loss-of-human-connection/

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/21/all-orchard-supply-hardware-stores-to-close-by-years-end/

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/22/why-lowes-is-shuttering-orchard-supply-hardware/

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/23/orchard-supply-hardware-closing-creates-a-big-problem-for-a-beloved-san-jose-tradition/

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Impacts of technology foreseen 20 years in advance

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-internet-evil-we-will-decide/2018/08/22/57980e38-a63e-11e8-8fac-12e98c13528d_story.html

Can we move fast enough?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/technology/facebook-internet-misinformation.html

Even TripAdvisor is not immune to fake news -

 https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/17/how-tripadvisor-changed-travel

Facebook scores users for trustworthiness -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/08/23/what-facebooks-trustworthiness-scores-really-tell-us/

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Trump's lasting achievement - an activist judiciary

His successor, even if it's Pence, won't be able to undo
one part of the Trump administration legacy.       That's
because Trump himself has had very little to do with it,
following the lead of McGahn and the Federalist Society
with very little thought of the consequences to Trump.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/magazine/trump-remaking-courts-judiciary.html

America has been there before - think Dred Scott, or FDR.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/magazine/when-the-supreme-court-lurches-right.html

The Federalist Society nominees are generally opposed
to reproductive rights, Obamacare, gerrymandering,
restrictions on dark money in politics, and Federal
regulation - positions completely opposite to the public's.

Just as a "states rights" veneer of
constitutional principle was understood to be code
for slavery, segregation, and voter suppression
in previous generations, so it's hard to interpret
the Federalist Society's "textualism" and
"originalism" as anything other than a veneer
of constitutional principle over a plain old reactionary
right-wing political agenda.

Trump probably could not define "textualism"
or "originalism" very accurately, but he
knows exactly what fires up his base - and it's not
constitutional principle.  Trumpists proudly point to
the remaking of the Federal judiciary as Trump's greatest
accomplishment, making up for all his other personal and
official deficits.     And they are certainly right that
it will have the biggest impact long into the future.

Don't like that future?     Register, inform yourself,
donate, vote for a different future.

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/696958633981992

What might be done differently?    One can imagine
constitutional amendments such as

* lifetime nominees (judiciary) require 2/3 approval in
the Senate

or

* (all) presidential nominees are automatically approved
90 days after submission to the Senate unless the Senate
votes disapproval by majority vote within that time

One can imagine a couple of possible outcomes to such
procedural changes

* more nominees are centrist rather than extremist

or

* no nominees are ever approved no matter how overworked
the courts and agencies become

The latter outcome would be expected unless partisanship is
reduced by changes to gerrymandering, voter suppression,
and dark money.      The Federalist Society is opposed to
all of those.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html

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Rising income inequality is dangerous even when all incomes
are rising

Explaining the appeal of Trump and Sanders

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/opinion/happiness-inequality-prosperity-.html

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Of course Wyoming likes Republican ranchers

Even if the other guy is endorsed by Trump and Trump Jr

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/primary-election-alaska-wyoming/2018/08/20/d6a275cc-a492-11e8-a656-943eefab5daf_story.html

Ranchers are suspicious of government and taxes, except
when it comes to grazing on public land.    Wyoming is
the least populous state.

With all the other news yesterday, one wonders how many
Republican candidates will still seek a Trump endorsement.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/us/politics/trump-cohen-impeachment.html

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Another target for the California 7 Project

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/congressman-duncan-hunter-wife-charged-with-spending-campaign-money-on-personal-expenses/2018/08/21/4dba040a-a591-11e8-a656-943eefab5daf_story.html

It started at 7 and just keeps growing

 https://www.fightbackca.com/

What is the mysterious force that attracts early Trump
supporters to corruption?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/26/us/duncan-hunter-corruption-scandal.html

But the Trumpists aren't worried -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-critics-pounce-on-his-indictment-duncan-hunter-remains-the-likely-victor-in-november-in-a-strongly-republican-house-district/2018/08/22/14520bee-a623-11e8-97ce-cc9042272f07_story.html

Their base never minded a little corruption.   Or a lot.
Corruption at the top empowers corruption all the way down
to the base.

Hunter punches right back -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/08/23/daily-202-duncan-hunter-embraces-the-smash-mouth-tactics-trump-learned-from-roy-cohn/

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It’s usually something we don’t anticipate that ends
a bull market

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/winners-and-losers-in-the-longest-us-bull-market-ever-tech-is-driving-this-record-setting-stock-market-is-that-a-problem/2018/08/21/a0217d1e-a563-11e8-a656-943eefab5daf_story.html

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The slippery slope of collaboration

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/opinion/the-slippery-slope-of-complicity.html

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If it's good for the billionaires -

It's good to know that SOMEbody appreciates the tax cut
bill and is willing to pay for it.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/us/politics/tax-cuts-republicans-donors.html

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If nobody ever had to die...  then children would
never have to grow up...  and we wouldn't need to have
children...  women wouldn't need to worry about their
biological clocks....  and we wouldn't even need to
have sex

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/opinion/life-is-short-thats-the-point.html

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Not unlike the president?    That's understating the case!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/17/hes-not-unlike-president-how-elon-musk-shapes-tesla-coverage/

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Our ancient instincts survive beneath a veneer of
civilization

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/17/opinion/the-beast-in-me.html

The difference is that now we have the technology to
multiply the consequences of our animal panic instincts.

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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Does Turkey belong in NATO?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/08/16/its-time-for-turkey-and-nato-to-go-their-separate-ways/

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Trust-busting was popularized by a Republican, Theodore
Roosevelt

 https://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/1912/trusts/roosevel

But when the Republicans abandoned Roosevelt, they
abandoned anti-trust to the Democrats and, later, the
Europeans -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/08/17/america-first-2/

Concentrations of power are sooner or later inimical
to liberty and equality.    But concentration of power
only bothers Trumpists when it's not concentrated in
THEIR hands.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#liberty%20and%20equality

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the broader influence of celebrity culture on politics is
to transform citizens into spectators

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-republic-will-never-be-the-same/2018/08/16/c85266e8-a178-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721_story.html

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There aren't any forgotten Americans in Plains

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/08/17/feature/the-un-celebrity-president-jimmy-carter-shuns-riches-lives-modestly-in-his-georgia-hometown/

No gilt either.

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If it's good for the billionaires, it's good for the
country!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/17/trump-calls-regulators-consider-changing-how-often-companies-report-earnings/

Who says Trump has forgotten who put him in office?

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2018 tactics and future strategy

* 2018 tactics

With the mid-term election less than three months away,
it's time to consider how one ought to vote.  You did
register to vote for the primaries, didn't you?  If not,
here's a primer -

 https://www.usa.gov/register-to-vote

For 2018, almost everybody who is concerned about the
direction the Trumpists want to go should just vote a
straight Democratic ticket.  Anti-Trump Republicans have
been pretty much eliminated in the primaries.  Very few
independents and third-party candidates have the slightest
chance of winning, so in almost all cases a vote for them
is a vote for Trumpism, as is a vote for staying home
or going fishing.  This is no time to indulge in wishful
ideological thinking.

Likewise for 2018, it's very appropriate to support
Democratic politicians even if you've never donated money
to political causes before.    You can donate to specific
campaigns or, if you're not sure, consider -

 https://dccc.org/
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

 http://www.dscc.org/
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

 https://democraticredistricting.com/
National Democratic Redistricting Committee - working
particularly on state governors and legislatures that
control redistricting

 https://www.fightbackca.com/
Fight Back California - California 7 Project - working
to retire seven vulnerable Trumpists - lately expanded to
include Devin Nunes

They would all prefer 100 $5 donations to one $500
donation, and they'll put them to work where they will
make the greatest difference.

Of course, if you are a racist sexist greedy billionaire,
you might think you'll get a better return on your
investment at https://www.donaldjtrump.com/ and you might
be right in the short term; fortunately you're rich enough
to be able to afford to lose all your investment when it
suddenly goes south sooner or later.

In the present climate, the average Democratic candidate
is likely to be a better choice than the average Trumpist
candidate.   But the Democratic candidate has not always
been the best choice in all times and places; sometimes
it's been hard to tell the difference between Republican
and Democratic candidates.    Not this year.

* Future Strategy

Longer-term there are some important ideas that deserve
your support -

 http://www.fairvote.org/
Ideologically-oriented voters who would like to vote for an
independent or third-party candidate, but not throw their
vote away or have it become in effect a vote for Trumpists,
should support the necessary structural changes to voting
laws: ranked-choice voting and multimember districts.

 http://www.americanpromise.net/
 https://democracy21.org/issues/money-in-politics
Voters who think that elections should be decided by
people rather than dollars, should support the necessary
structural changes to campaign finance laws to make sure
that AT LEAST we know who's paying, and better yet to
restrict political contributions to registered voters.

 https://www.nolabels.org/ https://www.uniteamerica.org/
Voters who would like to make choices other than extreme
left or extreme right, should support the necessary
structural changes to voting laws that inhibit centrist,
independent and third-party candidates.

More at
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html

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No good deed goes unpunished, and no good law can't be
taken too far

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/government-transparency-has-gone-too-far/2018/08/13/5c66b902-905c-11e8-8322-b5482bf5e0f5_story.html

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Afghanistan or a carnival?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/opinion/omarosa-trump-afghanistan.html

Endless sideshow distractions are the Trumpist preferred
tool.       We should be careful about playing his game
on his terms.

Indeed, why would one want to pay any attention to the
memoir of anybody who volunteered to serve in the Trump
campaign or the Trump administration?    How much more can
another self-serving opportunist add to the disclosures
of the previous ones?

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In some unknown future, on some strange and novel shore,
human beings just like us will adapt to a whole new world

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/opinion/climate-change-human-survival.html

Or we hope that there is some kind of unknown future
featuring human beings!

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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Income inequality was getting worse BEFORE the tax cut

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/16/embargo-hold-am-tomorrow-morning-ceo-pay-jumps-million-annually-fears-mount-over-wealthy-pocketing-gains/

How much worse will it be in another year?

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Environmental terrorists?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/08/15/ryan-zinke-blames-california-wildfires-environmental-terrorist-groups/

A lot of it is Smokey's (and Tojo's) fault, but Smokey
has changed his tune -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/15/was-smokey-bear-wrong-how-a-beloved-character-may-have-helped-fuel-catastrophic-fires/

At least in California, a lot of homes are lost because
more and more people are accepting the risk of building
in wildfire zones -

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/05/california-wildfires-its-a-people-problem/

but are not creating  "defensible space." That's
a risk you take if you like some cool shade on your home
in the summer.

 https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/20130726-1652-20490-9209/fema_p_737_fs_4.pdf

Also in California, there's been a lot of trouble from
utilities not keeping power lines clear.

 https://www.npr.org/2018/06/08/618444388/pg-e-power-lines-blamed-for-northern-california-wildfires

Of course, the Trump administration's real goal is to
increase logging on public lands, especially wilderness
areas.    By definition, though, people don't live in
wilderness areas.    The effects of hotter dryer weather
vastly outweigh anything else.     More logging would
reduce watershed capability and dry out the forest faster.

Zinke knows better -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/17/climate/zinke-california-fires.html

But he also knows the real Trump agenda is "what's
good for the billionaires?"

So among the real terrorists against the environment
- pride of place goes to the billionaires and their
supporters in the Trump administration.

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A Free Press Needs You

Ignore it and it will go away.

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/15/opinion/editorials/free-press-local-journalism-news-donald-trump.html

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/15/editorial-president-trump-we-are-not-the-nations-enemy/

The president hits back as usual -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/08/16/trump-responds-after-hundreds-of-newspaper-editorials-criticize-his-attacks-on-the-press/

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/us/politics/trump-news-media-collusion.html

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Is the Treasury Dept helping or hindering the Senate
Intelligence Committee investigation?

 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmaloop/senate-intel-wants-to-follow-the-money-in-the-russia-probe

It's hard to tell from the outside.

On the House side, Devin Nunes and some of his pals want
to impeach Rod Rosenstein for being slow to comply with
the House Intelligence Committee investigation.

 http://thehill.com/homenews/house/401022-recording-reveals-nunes-saying-rosenstein-impeachment-would-complicate-supreme

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The Republican Party is now the Trump Party.

Your worth is measured by (unrequited) fidelity to Trump.
Like it or leave it.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/08/15/the-new-gop-litmus-test-defending-trump-at-his-absolute-worst/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2018/08/15/i-read-six-sycophantic-pro-trump-books-and-then-i-read-omarosa/

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/693090527702136

Thus Republicans continue to choose their most obnoxious
candidates in the primaries - insuring that in the
general election, they get 100% of the Trump base and 0%
of everybody else.  This is good news for the Democratic
party.     After the general election, though -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-blames-gov-kasich-for-close-special-election-race-in-ohio/2018/08/13/ffb9a456-9ee0-11e8-83d2-70203b8d7b44_story.html

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency

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Getting to a data privacy law in California

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/magazine/facebook-google-privacy-data.html

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Why inflation so often fells Trumpian leaders

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/world/europe/turkey-strongman-inflation.html

But globally China is much more important than Turkey -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/opinion/turkey-economy-lira-china-currency-erdogan.html

So miscalculating on trade is risky too

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/world/asia/china-trade-war-trump-xi-jinping-.html

Even standing too close to a target

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-sanctions-on-iran-hit-an-unintended-target-ordinary-iraqis/2018/08/13/fd72d22c-9e67-11e8-b562-1db4209bd992_story.html

But the closer a government gets to one-man rule, the less
chance that correct data will get to decision makers,
and the less chance that decision makers will decide on
the basis of data.

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markets can ignore unsound conditions for a long time —
until they don’t

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/americas-debt-has-exploded-why-does-no-one-care/2018/08/13/f1d96aee-9cdb-11e8-843b-36e177f3081c_story.html

People ski across steep slopes for months without concern
and then on one day that seems much like the others,
the avalanche starts.

If the ski patrol were like Congress, the Democrats
wouldn't close the trail because they want the Republicans
to take the blame for ending the party, and vice versa.

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posted "08/14/2018 07:39:23 AM"
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How are violent leftists different from violent rightists?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2018/08/13/antifa-protesters-couldnt-find-any-fascists-at-unite-the-right-and-harassed-the-press-instead/

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After the midterm elections in November, the whole party
is going to ask whether it makes sense, politically,
to stick with Trump. Trump knows that moment is coming.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-blames-gov-kasich-for-close-special-election-race-in-ohio/2018/08/13/ffb9a456-9ee0-11e8-83d2-70203b8d7b44_story.html

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posted "08/13/2018 07:46:22 PM"
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a woman who happens to have been far better at her job
than any man in recent memory

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/opinion/nancy-pelosi-midterms-democrats-republicans.html

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Why the Turkish economy matters

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/business/turkey-lira-emerging-markets.html

When a pebble starts an avalanche, do you blame the pebble
or the months of buildup of instability in the snow?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-trade-war-could-wreak-havoc-overseas/2018/08/15/76d8b702-a085-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721_story.html

The US can survive a trade war more easily than its trading
partners.     That doesn't mean that the US will be better
off afterward, even if they are much worse off.

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posted "08/13/2018 05:51:53 PM"
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Republican women - don't run this year

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/us/politics/republican-women-candidates-midterms.html

unless you're really into guilt by association - pitch
defileth the hand that toucheth it.    Not to worry -
Trump won't lend a hand unless he thinks you're really hot.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/12/us/politics/trump-tweets-lisa-page-nellie-ohr.html

Then you might prefer he keep his hands to himself.

The Republican Party is now the Trump Party.   Your worth
is measured by (unrequited) fidelity to Trump.   Like it
or leave it.

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posted "08/13/2018 10:06:35 AM"
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It's tough being the economic superpower

When dollars are in demand for settling accounts globally,
that tends to strengthen the dollar and make imports less
expensive and exports less competitive.     So there's
a trade deficit.     The rest of the world is willing
to give us more value than they take.     That's what a
trade deficit is.      Sounds like a good thing overall,
but as always in economics, there are winners and losers.
How should the winners compensate the losers?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-no-win-trade-war/2018/08/12/333915ce-9cbf-11e8-b60b-1c897f17e185_story.html

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posted "08/12/2018 06:26:01 PM"
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The epitome of bipartisan achievement

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-can-you-forget/2018/07/20/a3bd86b0-8c37-11e8-8aea-86e88ae760d8_story.html

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ID 692324241112098
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posted "08/12/2018 05:57:33 PM"
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Declining PAC money - a choice no Republican makes

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/12/us/money-politics-dean-phillips.html

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations

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Good result, but a bad precedent?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/online-activists-wield-a-secret-weapon-against-hatemongers-like-alex-jones-hint-its-big/2018/08/10/2ab14fee-9b15-11e8-8d5e-c6c594024954_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/beware-the-digital-censor/2018/08/12/997e28ea-9cd0-11e8-843b-36e177f3081c_story.html

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The future of the earth - it's ultimately about struggle
between the haves and have-nots.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/opinion/sunday/science-people-environment-earth.html

Science can inform political decisions, but the decisions
will be made with or without science.

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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President Swalwell?

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/09/eric-swalwell-iowa-presidential-run/

Certainly a better bet than President Avenatti

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/us/politics/michael-avenatti-michelle-obama-trump.html

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posted "08/12/2018 12:27:20 PM"
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Attention women who support Trump!

The president has no patience for women who aren't up to
his standards

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/12/us/politics/trump-tweets-lisa-page-nellie-ohr.html

Consequently, there's nothing wrong with judging the
President by his appearance or by any other irrelevant
superficial aspect.

He might fare better on appearance than on substance.

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Social democracy or democratic socialism?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/democratic-socialists-are-conquering-the-left-but-do-they-believe-in-democracy/2018/08/10/5bf58392-9b90-11e8-b60b-1c897f17e185_story.html

American history - and that of many other countries -
suggests that evolutionary change is much more politically
and economically feasible than revolutionary.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative

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Populist economics

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/10/trump-is-mad-that-turkeys-economic-crisis-has-made-their-currency-weaker-so-now-hes-making-it-even-weaker/

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posted "08/11/2018 07:21:51 AM"
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Democratization of technology

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/05/world/americas/venezuela-drone-attack-nicolas-maduro

Will drone attacks on individuals become common?  Are they
protected by the Second Amendment?

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/.html

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posted "08/11/2018 06:57:18 AM"
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Wrong answer from the wrong candidate

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/us/politics/michael-avenatti-michelle-obama-trump.html

Universal adoption of Trumpist tactics serves nobody
but Putin.      For real lasting change... be the change
that you want the world to be.

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posted "08/11/2018 06:49:20 AM"
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Political scrapbook updated their website address.

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title Political scrapbook updated their website address.
ID 690768987934290
URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/690768987934290
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posted "08/11/2018 06:40:30 AM"
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Trump makes our allies quake - our enemies, not so much

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/us/politics/nato-summit-trump.html

The new Defense Department mission - defend our collective
defense - against Trump

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Fighting the last war - it's what generals do

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-chinese-threat-that-an-aircraft-carrier-cant-stop/2018/08/07/0d3426d4-9a58-11e8-b60b-1c897f17e185_story.html

And big expensive military systems are what billionaire
defense contractors like - so that's what the Trump
administration likes.

The Chinese army did human wave attacks in Korea.
They don't need to any more, if they can use cheap robot
wave attacks instead.

As might be expected, the Trump administration is more
concerned with Star Trek uniforms than actually dealing
with the central reality of the threats.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/pence-details-plan-for-creation-of-space-force-in-what-would-be-the-sixth-branch-of-the-military/2018/08/09/0b40b8d0-9bdc-11e8-8d5e-c6c594024954_story.html

Star junk might be a greater threat than star wars,
however -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/08/10/trumps-proposed-space-force-could-worsen-earths-orbital-debris-problem/

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Signs of a market top?    Drink craft beer, don't invest
in it

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/08/06/craft-beer-is-booming-is-that-bad-news-for-the-u-s-economy/

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/non-political.html#beer

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"When the economy is doing well and everybody seems
to be making money, some investors assume that the good
times will never end."

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/opinion/corporate-debt-bubble-next-recession.html

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Better to let some people think you're corrupt than prove
it to everybody!

 http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/08/09/how-on-earth-have-we-let-trump-get-away-with-hiding-his-tax-returns/

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Will the next Speaker of the House encourage or accept
institutional change?

 http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/speaker-race-come-supporting-rules-changes

 https://www.nolabels.org/

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Ranked choice voting gaining traction

Ranked choice (preferential) voting and multimember
districts enable legislations to better reflect the voting
population

 https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/07/12/american-democracys-built-in-bias-towards-rural-republicans

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/opinion/voting-reform-partisanship-congress.html

 https://fairvote.app.box.com/s/cy7zovme65kfkuszaqof97jwu7oy9xk1

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential

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posted "08/02/2018 03:40:41 PM"
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There's more to winning than being against

Republicans maintained remarkable unity for years on
the basis of whatever Obama was for, they were against.
Then when they got control of the government, they
discovered that collectively they were not for much except
billionaire welfare tax cuts and deregulation and judicial
appointments.

Democrats should bear that in mind.    Getting the
Trumpists out of power is an essential goal, but then what?
Democrats need to cultivate a collective state of mind that
is a big enough tent to warrant their continuance in power.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opinion/democrats-midterm-identity-crisis.html

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Which is worse - social media platforms responding to or
ignoring fake accounts?

The fakes are getting more sophisticated -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/technology/facebook-trolls-midterm-elections.html

and harder to disentangle from real accounts -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/technology/facebook-fake-accounts.html

Either way, the disrupters win.     Social media have
become the arms dealers of the modern age -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opinion/the-expensive-education-of-mark-zuckerberg-and-silicon-valley.html

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posted "08/02/2018 08:46:35 AM"
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Aluminum imports are only a security threat coming from
our allies

Russia is different -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/us/politics/fara-foreign-agents-mueller.html

Maybe our allies need to hire better lobbyists -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opinion/deripaska-sanctions-russia-manafort.html

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Started by a 400-pound teenager in his bedroom?

Could have been Jersey, could have been St Petersburg -
but no matter who started Q, it's perfect for Putin's
efforts to undermine American democracy by blurring the
distinction between truth and fiction.     Q might be
many contributors now - like Guccifer 2.0 - or Bourbaki.
Q's anti-semitism is right in line with Russian traditions.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-mystery-of-q-how-an-anonymous-conspiracy-monger-launched-a-movement-if-he-even-exists/2018/08/01/6d10f5b4-95a3-11e8-80e1-00e80e1fdf43_story.html

The blind faith among the adherents that somebody is going
to miraculously appear to save them reminds one of cargo
cults -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

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Charter schools in California

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-california-election-that-might-actually-matter/2018/07/31/6a046e70-94e8-11e8-80e1-00e80e1fdf43_story.html

As Will observes, it's family structure rather than school
structure that is most determinative of success.  So it's
almost automatic that any optional system of education
that requires parental involvement and choice is going
to have better results than public schools that have to
do something with all the children burdened by absent or
disinterested parents.      Being a public school teacher
in California is a pretty tough job, and not paid very well
for new teachers.     If they can persist until retirement,
they can do pretty well - but the retirement benefits are
underfunded and something is going to have to change about
that sooner or later.

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posted "08/02/2018 07:28:34 AM"
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Have there been too many postings on this page?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/opinion/contributors/politics-cleanse.html

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Causes and effects of demographic change

 https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/30/17505406/trump-obama-race-politics-immigration

It affects how people think about everything else.

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How dark money works -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/27/business/the-stealth-campaign-to-kill-off-obamacare.html

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posted "08/01/2018 03:45:39 PM"
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If the President won't tether to reality, why should
his followers?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/01/we-are-q-a-deranged-conspiracy-cult-leaps-from-the-internet-to-the-crowd-at-trumps-maga-tour/

More on Qanon -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/as-the-bizarre-qanon-group-emerges-trump-rallies-go-from-nasty-to-dangerous/2018/08/01/063ed6f8-9585-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html

 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/qanon-conspiracy-real-life_us_5b54bbafe4b0b15aba8fe484

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-is-qanon-the-craziest-theory-of-the-trump-era-explained

It's the basest part of Trump's base -

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency

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I dream of things that are not, and say, yes they are!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/you-know-what-they-say-bigfoot-big-tent/2018/07/31/120486f4-94f4-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html

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posted "07/31/2018 06:46:59 PM"
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Who pays for Medicare for All?

Medicare for All is a popular idea right now.     But any
specific plan for paying for it is a lot less popular.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/have-free-marketers-and-the-far-left-finally-found-something-they-can-agree-on/2018/07/31/6d1436ce-9504-11e8-80e1-00e80e1fdf43_story.html

It's coming, but it will be come slowly as the people
adjust to paying for it one way or another.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/08/02/republicans-for-big-government-socialism/

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Young veterans try to re-invigorate Congress -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/veterans-in-congress-know-what-it-means-to-put-country-first/2018/07/31/b9dedb84-9505-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html
 https://www.withhonor.org/

 https://www.serveamericapac.com/

Serve America PAC seems to be different from Serve America
Movement -

 http://joinsam.org/

Other organizations hoping to overcome partisan
divisiveness -

 https://www.nolabels.org/

 https://www.uniteamerica.org/

And hopefully they will all build on what's already
started -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_Solvers_Caucus

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posted "07/31/2018 06:37:34 PM"
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Right-wing economists encourage Trump to abolish tariffs
completely

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/opinion/trump-reagan-trade-tariffs-china.html

But if Trump were to succeed at that, then he'd have one
less issue to SHOUT about and his ratings might decline.
So don't hold your breath.

And there's a further problem - Trump justified his tariffs
on the basis that there was a national security threat
from foreign steel, aluminum, cars, etc.       So if it
were OK to just eliminate tariffs, then it must be that
there never was such a security threat.

Congress should revoke its authorization of the President
to set tariffs.     But that would require Congress to DO
something before the election.     Don't hold your breath
on that, either.

Economists don't agree on much, but for generations most
have agreed that tariffs hurt the country imposing them
even more than the target countries.        Tariffs might
export some unemployment but they invariably import more
unemployment.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act

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The democratization of weapons of mass destruction

It's just a handgun now -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/07/31/in-last-minute-lawsuit-states-say-3-d-printable-guns-pose-national-security-threat/

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#second%20amendment

But can nuclear/chemical/biological weapons be far behind?

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#It_is_the_nature_of_intelligent_life_to_destroy_itself

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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Full speed ahead for Putin interference

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/07/31/facebook-says-it-has-uncovered-coordinated-disinformation-operation-ahead-midterm-elections/

Note how Putin is happy to stir up action against Trump
as well as action for Trump.   The more divisiveness the
better to further his goals.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/07/31/russia-may-have-just-spread-disinformation-on-facebook-wheres-trump/

And many Republicans don't seem to mind -

 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/republicans-want-russia-influence-us-elections-202847050.html

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/673983452946177

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/677229025954953

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/677662412578281

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The rich get richer and the poor get distracted

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/31/trumps-two-track-strategy-the-rich-get-richer-and-the-poor-get-distracted/

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/621380901539766

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency

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Tariffs are a tax on Americans

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/business/dealbook/trade-war-customers-pay.html

You'll pay them in your home loan or your rent check -

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/31/trump-tariffs-add-another-obstacle-to-bay-area-building/

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Constitutional localism

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/opinion/third-party-2020-election-localism.html

And here's the opposite - local elections decided by Fox
News -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/us/politics/florida-governor-election.html

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Why wait for Congress to relieve America's hard-pressed
billionaires!

Mnuchin is ready to do it by fiat -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/us/politics/trump-tax-cuts-rich.html

Maybe they're afraid they don't have the votes in Congress
now, before the election, and they certainly won't after
the election.   And the usual suspects are claiming that
this tax cut for the top 1% will pay for itself, just like
the last one... didn't.    They all deserve some kind of
award for chutzpah.

If the Trumpists don't like inflation, they should quit
legislating deficit spending.

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

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posted "07/30/2018 03:37:27 PM"
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Where your ancestors came from has a lot to do with how
you vote today

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/opinion/urban-rural-united-states-regions-midterms.html

Was their outlook community-oriented or
individual-oriented?

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What are Trump's goals?

 https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/syndicated-columnists/article215460930.html

Trump has no interest in multilateral foreign policy -
agreements laboriously worked out by numerous anonymous
experts in diplomacy, politics, economics, and trade.
Just because this is the basis of American post-war
prosperity and security is no excuse!    If everybody wins
then nobody is THE winner.    So Trump rejects the general
concept and all the specific instances.

Trump likes bilateral negotiations because he thinks he
can be THE star, bringing home the bacon in deal after
brilliant deal.    It's not a deal unless there is a
WINNER and a LOSER!  Just because he hasn't come up
with any brilliant deals with anybody after two years,
and shows no signs of doing so in the next two years,
is no excuse!  You can't be THE star in a constellation
of many bright stars.  Trump doesn't have time or energy
or inclination to negotiate bilateral agreements with most
of the countries of the world.  Better to leave leadership
of Europe to Russia and of Asia to China.

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/677229025954953

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Even the Kochs don't trust Trump to do the right thing

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/koch-group-condemns-divisiveness-and-lack-of-leadership-in-washington/2018/07/29/314398c2-933f-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html

They don't like being taken for granted -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/07/31/daily-202-inside-the-koch-strategy-to-spurn-squishy-republicans-in-key-senate-races/5b5fc7221b326b0207955e64/

Koch network members represent a diversity of conservative
viewpoints -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-total-joke-trump-lashes-out-at-koch-brothers-after-political-network-slams-white-house/2018/07/31/063a28ae-94ab-11e8-80e1-00e80e1fdf43_story.html

Perhaps they'd consider Pence a more reliable investment.

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I don't have to listen to what you say because I have
already made up my mind that you must be wrong

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/opinion/sunday/republicans-climate-change.html

Even if I would agree with what you say if my friends
said it!

One might think that would make it easier for independent
candidates to gain traction, but it doesn't seem to work
that way most of the time.

 https://www.nolabels.org/

 https://www.uniteamerica.org/

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative

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What are Putin's goals?

Putin's plans were  in place well before Trump came along -
but he's proved to be a useful tool -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/russia-and-the-far-rights-cozy-affair/2018/07/29/95390a3e-91b3-11e8-8322-b5482bf5e0f5_story.html

Putin didn't actually need Trump to consciously collude -
Trump was willing and able to do what Putin wanted without
even knowing it - but that didn't stop numerous members
of Trump's campaign from trying as hard as they could
to collaborate - if they avoid jail, it will only be
because they were too incompetent to commit the crimes
they intended.

Putin supported Brexit - and part of his plan seems to
be to starve Englishmen of fresh fruit and vegetables.
Who knew England's farm labor market  was so much like
California's?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/british-farmers-worry-who-will-pick-the-fruit-after-brexit/2018/07/28/a597b9ec-7f03-11e8-a63f-7b5d2aba7ac5_story.html

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Two glimpses of the future - which one will prove true?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/29/opinion/columnists/trump-loss-re-election-2020.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/opinion/trump-re-election-2020.html

Now consider: what happens if the economic recovery ends
before the election vs after the election?

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#cycle

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Socialism in action?

It's always stimulating to read George Will, even if you
don't agree with him -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-could-teach-ocasio-cortez-a-thing-or-two-about-socialism/2018/07/27/f4672a2e-9102-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html

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Millenials - it's up to you!

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/opinion/sunday/democracy-democrats-voters-disenfranchisment.html

Show up and vote, get the dark money out of politics, the
politics out of redistricting, get ranked choice voting
and multimember districts, remove obstacles to independent
and third-party candidates, change laws to support rather
than suppress voter registration and voting... in short,
support democracy rather than partisanship.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html

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Whatever became of the KGB?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-not-your-grandfathers-kgb/2018/07/26/f8775c04-9118-11e8-b769-e3fff17f0689_story.html

Cold war is not like hot war; it's important for your
opponents to know and not be able to conceal that you
are scoring, even as you maintain the bare minimum of
plausible deniability.

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Look at how Norwegians have enhanced the American language

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quisling

No wonder Trump wants more Norwegians here -

 https://www.vox.com/2018/1/11/16880750/trump-immigrants-shithole-countries-norway

But he might want to inquire about what the Norwegians
did about the original Quisling.

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Expect social media companies to destroy their business
model?

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/26/opinion-tech-firms-need-to-safeguard-american-democracy/

Hiring legions of human reviewers is costly and exposes
the social media companies to endless litigation potential
due to claims of censorship and "censorship".

 https://www.thestreet.com/technology/ripple-effects-of-facebook-slump-already-spreading-14662653

It's hard to see how for-profit institutions can beat
non-profit foreign actors when the cost of disruption is
so low and the cost of prevention is so high.      But it's
easy to see how our Disrupter-in-Chief wouldn't care.

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Americans and Russians playing together in Macedonia -
but not colluding!

 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/american-conservatives-fake-news-macedonia-paris-wade-libert

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Trade wars are not only easy to win, they are easy to
laugh about

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/25/will-bulletins-from-trade-wars-multiplying-fronts-make-for-hilarious-reading/

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Ranked choice voting training

Fairvote is offering training to anybody interested in
ranked choice voting, also called preferential voting.

 https://www.fairvoteca.org/calendar

Fairvote advocates ranked choice voting and multimember
districts to increase diversity and responsiveness in
legislative bodies.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential

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Writing new rules to change a do-nothing Congress

 http://thehill.com/homenews/house/398700-problem-solvers-caucus-has-a-vision-a-bipartisan-house

The next Congress will probably very close to evenly
divided.  It's a rare opportunity for a few members to
push it toward action instead of stagnation.

 https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-news-wire/PRNews_20180725DC63125/no-labels-endorses-problem-solvers-caucus-bold-break-the-gridlock-reform-package.html

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Bringing basic political rights to residents of Federal
territories

Equally American is working to bring the equal protection
of the law to Federal territories -

 https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/voting/

More at

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/660784194266103

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#Federal%20territories

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Proudly following a great American tradition

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/opinion/republican-party-trump-know-nothings.html

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing

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The Trump tax law is working even better than expected

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/business/trump-corporate-tax-cut-deficit.html

Next time, maybe try something that doesn't work quite so
well at increasing the deficit.

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

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This is what happens when benefits are defined but how to
pay for them is not

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/22/how-californias-public-schools-are-grappling-with-growing-pension-costs/

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/26/in-san-jose-district-identifying-schools-to-close-a-gut-wrenching-prospect/

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined%20benefit

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NRA, Putin, and keeping the dark money dark

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/opinion/republican-party-national-rifle-association-trump-russia.html

We need less dark money, not more

 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-groups/u-s-treasury-moves-to-protect-identities-of-dark-money-political-donors-idUSKBN1K704F

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations

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Making America Great Again for Billionaires - do-nothing
Congress or do-wrong Executive?

Congressional Republicans are in a tough spot: on the one
hand, the Trump administration is reliably pushing a number
of traditional Republican values -

- Tax cuts to limit Federal power and thus benefit
billionaires

- Deregulation to limit Federal power and thus benefit
billionaires

- Reactionary judicial appointments to limit Federal power
and thus benefit billionaires

- Reducing legal immigration so that more immigrants
are illegal and thus more readily exploited - and thus
benefit billionaires

But as soon as he sees a foreign politician, Trump forgets
about traditional Republican values, and

- Undermines the alliances and allies that have been the
basis of American security since 1945

- Encourages our foes - those foes can readily see that
they will be treated better as foes than allies

- Undermines the free trade system that has been the basis
of American prosperity since 1945

These actions are bad for billionaires, and even worse for
everybody else.  What can the Republicans do?    Part of
the problem is that Congress over many years delegated a
lot of authority on matters like trade and international
relations to the President.     Often that was because the
do-nothing Congresses have been so seldom able to agree on
anything much more controversial than naming post offices.
It seemed better to let the executive branch take the lead,
with almost no effective bipartisan oversight.     And that
worked about as well as could be expected - until Trump
took over and proved that a do-wrong executive was even
worse than a do-nothing Congress.

So the time has come for Congress to revoke executive
powers in foreign affairs and international trade.  So far,
there have been timid non-binding resolutions like this
one -

 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-tariffs-senate-resolution-20180711-story.html

But the Republican Congress needs to start binding Trump
abroad if they want to preserve their gains at home.

And the Democrats?    Keep talking about what the
Republicans are doing at home, and not doing abroad, and
pass declarations of no confidence in the president's
policies at the same tempo that Trump declares no
confidence in American institutions.

 http://www.no-confidence-vote.net/
 http://www.approve-or-expel.net/

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Sowing discord and divisiveness

The Putin regime's election-tampering aim was not so much
to promote Trump as to promote discord and divisiveness
in general, and secondarily to punish Clinton for her
previous adversarial positions toward the regime.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/world/europe/trump-intelligence-russian-election-meddling-.html

But discord and divisiveness was the main goal - the
evidence being Russian social media bots taking both sides
of controversial issues like NFL kneelers and immigration.

One can imagine that had the election been between Mitt
Romney and Bernie Sanders, for instance, the Russians might
have acted the same way, perhaps putting more effort into
promoting Sanders as having higher return on investment
by inciting the radical right.

Note that cooperation or even knowledge by the candidates
is not required.  Trump might actually not have colluded
with Russia prior to the election, despite being immersed
in a cloud of would-be and probable colluders.

Both Trump and Sanders had many incitable supporters in
favor of disrupting the status quo.  Indeed, aside from a
salesman's knack of reading an audience and telling them
what they want to hear, disruption might be Trump's only
actual political talent.

Although Trump is easily manipulated in private, by the
same token he is also easily manipulated to backtrack,
particularly by unfavorable TV ratings.  So perhaps
Putin will decide that although a President Pence might
be harder to manipulate, any agreements reached in private
would be more likely to stick once everybody returned home.
Trump is just the means, not the end.  And a willing means,
too -

As with taxes, Trump has determined, despite the ratings,
that his meeting of Putin was such a big success that he's
already planning another, just before the election.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/us/politics/trump-putin-browder-mcfaul.html

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About George Soros

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/magazine/george-soros-democrat-open-society.html

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We need less dark money, not more

 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-groups/u-s-treasury-moves-to-protect-identities-of-dark-money-political-donors-idUSKBN1K704F

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations

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"Treason against the United States, shall consist
only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their
enemies, giving them aid and comfort.

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers
of the United States, shall be removed from Office on
Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery,
or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/us/politics/trump-critics-treason-putin.html

It's time for Pence to act presidential if he's ever
going to.      There's reason to doubt that he can -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/07/17/the-helsinki-fiasco-showcases-pences-hypocrisy-once-again/

 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/us/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-put
in.html

Pence has been a big disappointment in several ways but
not yet a treasonous or impeachable one.       He should
offer Trump the choice of resignation with a pardon,
25th amendment, or impeachment.

The purpose of offering a pardon for immediate resignation
is not because Trump deserves pardon, but because America
deserves to put Trumpism behind it as fast as possible.

Until today, it seemed unlikely that an impeachment attempt
would get very far in a Republican Congress.  However,
over the past two years, Trump has publicly insulted
or demeaned most prominent Republican politicians, so
if impeachment ever develops any bipartisan momentum,
Trump's fall will be astonishingly fast -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-defense-of-putin-finds-few-supporters-in-congress/2018/07/16/2610b3a2-8914-11e8-8aea-86e88ae760d8_story.html

What will Mattis say and do?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/very-much-counter-to-the-plan-trump-defies-advisers-in-embrace-of-putin/2018/07/16/b2176bfe-8921-11e8-a345-a1bf7847b375_story.html

More  here -

 https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/arnold-schwarzenegger-says-trumps-putin-news-conference-embarrassing-calls-little-fanboy-005652979.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/07/17/treason-in-helsinki-it-doesnt-hold-up/

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/662068057471050

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/621049838239539

 http://www.no-confidence-vote.net/

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Warning lights flashing - is it 9/10 yet?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/intel-official-cyber-threat-warnings-blinking-red/2018/07/13/53828500-86d9-11e8-9e06-4db52ac42e05_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/07/16/daily-202-gop-senators-downplaying-russian-interference-shows-how-trump-has-co-opted-the-party/5b4bf2a71b326b1e646953c2

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When you are leveraged to the hilt, any increase in costs
can bring down the whole house of cards.

For instance, an increase in material costs due to import
tariffs.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-247-trillion-global-debt-bomb/2018/07/15/64c5bbaa-86c2-11e8-8f6c-46cb43e3f306_story.html

That's already starting -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-finance-202/2018/07/16/the-finance-202-trump-s-trade-offensive-is-producing-brutal-local-headlines/5b4b511c1b326b1e646953ba/

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Measuring gerrymandering mathematically

 https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/could-math-solve-the-gerrymandering-problem-1

 https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/detecting-gerrymandering-with-mathematics

There are simpler ways too -

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting

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Truth decay in the post-shame world

Trump is a salesman - tells the truth about the dreams and
fears of his audience of prospects.   They've learned not
to worry whether  objective factual truth exists.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2018/07/13/feature/can-truth-survive-this-president-an-honest-investigation/

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The Putin regime is not America's friend

The American people might well continue to cultivate
friendly relations with the Russian people.    But the
Putin regime is not the Russian people.

That regime is not just a competitor; it is an enemy
actively trying to make Russia greater the only way it
can, by making America and the Western alliance smaller.
Trump applauds the regime's efforts to diminish Western
trade and military alliances that have been the basis for
America's strength and power since 1945.    Trump can't
seem to see that the same efforts are directed directly
at America, too.

Thus Putin's support for Texas and California secession -
and Brexit and Catalan independence -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/10/17/how-the-russians-pretended-to-be-texans-and-texans-believed-them/

 https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-41853131

 https://stanfordpolitics.org/2017/10/06/catalonia-calexit-russia-obsession-global-separatism/

And the Trump administration itself announces that Putin
is still at it -

 https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/politics/-State-Election-Officials-in-US-Meet-Amid-Security-Concerns-488173221.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/maria-butina-russian-gun-rights-advocate-charged-in-us-with-acting-as-russian-federation-agent/2018/07/16/d1d4832a-8929-11e8-85ae-511bc1146b0b_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/opinion/maria-butina-putin-infiltration.html

Perhaps Trump doesn't realize the Putin's goal is not
Trump's rise in power in a climate of extreme disruption
and contention, nor Trump's fall from power in a climate
of extreme disruption and contention; Trump up or down is
not the goal, but extreme disruption and contention in the
West is Putin's goal.     Trump is the means, not the end.

So what did Trump talk about in private with Putin?
McFaul expected it to go like this -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/07/15/ive-been-in-meetings-with-putin-heres-what-trump-can-expect/

That's consistent with Trump feeling like he's being
treated like a friend, especially in private conversations
-

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/maybe-hell-be-a-friend-trump-highlights-common-ground-with-putin-ahead-of-summit/2018/07/15/6810036c-882d-11e8-8aea-86e88ae760d8_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/world/europe/trump-putin-helsinki-summit.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/world/europe/trump-putin-summit-meeting.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/us/politics/guccifer-russia-mueller.html

Mattis doesn't expect anything good from Putin -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-low-profile-mattis-avoids-even-passing-mention-of-trump-as-he-tours-europe/2018/07/15/3ea745fa-884e-11e8-8aea-86e88ae760d8_story.html

Putin has some very definite information he needs to
extract from Trump if he has it -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/07/15/putin-must-wonder-what-else-america-knows-about-russia/

--------------------

Although one can blame the Putin regime for a lot,
Trumpism is just the current American personification of
the tribalism that predated the Enlightenment and has only
been repressed in the later 20th century in response to
the twin fears of nuclear war and international communism -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/opinion/trump-nato-european-union-history.html

--------------------

Remember these phrases when analyzing the results -

"adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and
comfort"

"treason, bribery, or other high crimes and
misdemeanors"

The Mueller investigation never would have happened if
Trump had published his tax returns and audited financials
for the last ten years before he was nominated.    But he
didn't, and won't, and became the only president in recent
history to have extensive financial interests in foreign
adversaries.

(Jefferson, like many southern planters, had extensive
debits to British bankers the entire time he was in
public life, and he died bankrupt.  Were there any other
presidents so indebted since?)

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Russian election business practices

How to pay -

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-13/bitcoin-was-russian-hackers-currency-of-choice-u-s-says

What to buy -

 https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/article214865975.html

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This is why we have over-reaching Federal regulation

Because a limited-liability company can create a bigger
mess than it can pay for, it's cheaper for the government
to prevent the mess in the first place than clean it
up later.

 https://www.thestate.com/news/business/article214828250.html

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Time to Depopularize "Populist" ?

Roger Cohen argues that "populism" has lost all
usefulness for describing political philosophies -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/opinion/populism-language-meaning.html

It seems like the essence of the populist appeal in various
times and places is that the populist leader embodies the
will of the majority, the good people, against a powerful
exploitative minority, the bad people.    To some extent,
that applies to all kinds of political movements, which is
why populists can be left, right, or center.  What they
have in common is a tendency to replace one exploitative
minority with another.  Eventually it always comes down
to a minority of people, that have an ongoing interest in
politics, getting more power over a majority of people,
that would rather not think about politics on an ongoing
basis.   Even "continuous revolution" models that
attempt to avoid institutionalizing any elite eventually
institutionalize the revolutionary elite, because the
majority of the people do not really like continuous
revolutionary disruption.  But revolutionary elites are
good at disruption, not creation of value for the majority.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution

The single governing principle of "majority rule"
is best embodied in a lynch mob.    The essence of
democracy is recognition and preservation of minority
rights - some "endowed by their Creator" and
others enshrined in fundamental law like the Constitution.

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politicalscrapbooknet greatest hits

If you want to look back to the most popular or
controversial or interesting posts here, you can find
them at

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/fb-popular-unboosted.html

for posts that were not advertised, and

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/fb-popular-boosted.html

for those that were advertised ("boosted" in
Facebook parlance).

For a more comprehensive view,

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/facebook.html

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Dismantling American Imperialism in DC and the other
Federal Territories

50 years ago, the House District Committee was where
rural Dixiecrats who could not be entrusted with any real
responsibility were assigned.    There they could, to their
hearts' content, punish District residents for being black.

Things haven't changed that much -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-are-sabotaging-dcs-self-rule-send-them-packing/2018/07/13/1e7e23ce-85f7-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html

Stepping back to the larger picture, how many
disenfranchised Americans are there and where do they live?

Puerto Rico 3,700,000 District of Columbia 694,000 Guam
160,000 US Virgin Islands 107,000 American Samoa and Swains
Island 56,000 Northern Mariana Islands 54,000 Wake and
Palmyra  0 Guano Islands 0

Wake, Palmyra, and the Guano Islands have no permanent
native populations, usually due to lack of drinking water -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_Islands_Act

In comparison, some state populations:

California (most)        40,000,000 Kentucky (median)
4,500,000 Wyoming (least)  580,000

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population

The District of Columbia is allowed to vote in presidential
elections by the 23rd Amendment, and has a non-voting
representative in the House.  Residents of the listed
islands have fought bravely in our wars but are not allowed
to vote in Federal elections, and have only non-voting
representatives in the House.  Yet residents of all these
territories can't claim any citizenship except American,
and some of them aren't even American citizens, only
American Nationals -

 https://www.immihelp.com/immigration/us-national.html

and lots of Americans don't even grant them that -

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/07/12/cop-resigns-viral-video-woman-harassed-puerto-rico-shirt/778982002/

It's time to put this racist imperialist past behind us
and US.  What the Federal territories have in common is an
average skin tone that is darker than the Trump-preferred
Norwegian.

So very few politicians are interested in the issue -
certainly no Republicans want to elevate Puerto Rico or
DC to reliably Democratic statehood.  So they don't bother
to prepare for the inevitable -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/us/fema-puerto-rico-maria.html

On a tiny budget, Equally American is campaigning for
voting rights for these disenfranchised Americans:

 http://www.equalrightsnow.org/

But the ultimate solution is to get all American citizens
and nationals into a state - or else independence or
affiliation with another tiny island nation, if they
prefer that.

* Puerto Rico has a larger population than twenty states.
It should be elevated to statehood.

* District of Columbia has a larger population than
Vermont or Wyoming, but it is too small geographically to
be a state.   It should be receded to Maryland, whence
it came, so its residents have state resident rights.
Nobody worries that receding Arlington and Alexandria
to Virginia in 1846 has undermined national security;
the Department of Defense and the intelligence agencies
function fine outside DC.   Federal reservations within
DC would remain Federal reservations.

The other islands are too small in population to become
states.

* US Virgin Islands could become part of the state of
Puerto Rico; they are very close geographically.

* Guam, Northern Marianas, American Samoa, and Swains
Island could become part of the state of Hawaii.

* The Guano and other uninhabited islands should remain
under the jurisdiction of the Departments of the Interior
or Defense as appropriate.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#Federal%20territories

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What can we do about Russian election interference?

It's an old story in Europe.    In Latvia they fight
oppression the same way they always have, by singing -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/world/europe/trump-nato-summit-latvia-baltics.html

The Carnegie Endowment studied other European responses
to Russian disinformation and meddling, and published a
list of recommendations that America could act on -

 https://carnegieendowment.org/2018/05/23/russian-election-interference-europe-s-counter-to-fake-news-and-cyber-attacks-pub-76435

They mostly have been ignored -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/07/13/rod-rosenstein-said-just-what-we-needed-to-hear/

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Payday for Putin

Looks like he's going to get the return on his investment -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/opinion/trump-putin-summit-susan-rice.html

And Europeans are very worried -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/opinion/trump-germany-transatlantic-alliance-russia.html

Putin's strategy coincides with Trump's -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/world/europe/trump-europe.html

What should Trump do instead?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mueller-stood-up-to-putin-now-its-trumps-turn/2018/07/13/453bd8d8-86d0-11e8-8f6c-46cb43e3f306_story.html

But his plan is different -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/after-being-told-of-russia-indictments-trump-still-aspired-to-be-friends-with-putin/2018/07/13/c24f5420-86b8-11e8-8553-a3ce89036c78_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/opinion/populism-language-meaning.html

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It's amateur hour world-wide from now on

Who needs facts, experience, painstaking analysis, and
careful coordination?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/opinion/brexit-conservatives-boris-trump.html

Next thing you know, it will be backyard steel furnaces -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Backyard_furnaces

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How much justice can you afford?

Just whisper in my ear -

 https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2018-07-12/millions-from-anonymous-donors-to-influence-kavanaugh-fight

Dark money in politics is probably the biggest threat to
American democracy.

American Promise is working one approach -

 http://www.americanpromise.net

Democracy 21 has another -

 http://www.democracy21.org/

But political donations should be restricted to registered
voters (real American persons) and published promptly so
everybody can see who's paying for what -

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations

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Pardon me!

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/us/forrest-lucas-mike-pence-hammond-pardons.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/opinion/trump-and-the-return-of-divine-right.html

So much for the rule of law!

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Foreign agent by accident or intent?

Is Trump an unwitting agent of a foreign government

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/656972897980566

or a volitional one?

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/631834133827776

A more direct assault on the institutions that support
America economically and militarily is hard to imagine.

If Trump really believes free trade is  expensive, he
should be glad that nobody has found out how expensive
another great depression would be - inevitably leading
toward World War III, destabilizing both friend and foe.

If Trump really believes NATO and the European Union are
expensive, he should be glad that nobody has found out
how expensive World War III would have been, and may yet
be if he continues to appease our enemies.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rubbing-salt-in-the-wounds-trump-wont-take-yes-for-an-answer-at-nato/2018/07/11/8984eba8-851b-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html

Disrupting the economic and military basis of Western
prosperity and security IS definitely in somebody's
interest, however.      How come that somebody is calling
the shots?

At first it seemed to be a matter of simple ignorance.
The escalating consistency and precision of the attacks
suggest something more sinister.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/everything-will-not-be-okay/2018/07/12/c5900550-85e9-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/opinion/trump-nato-failure.html

But here's another theory -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/12/in-a-deeply-revealing-news-conference-trump-tips-his-hand-on-his-thinking-about-putin/

But think about this: From the Franco-Prussian war to
WWI took 44 years.  From WWI to WWII took 21 years.
Western Europe has been at peace now for 73 years.
That's a pretty good record for the postwar plan, until
Putin seized Crimea by force.

Isolationism doesn't work.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-was-ripe-for-a-remaking/2018/07/12/f95d8ee8-8611-11e8-8553-a3ce89036c78_story.html

The world's too small for that now.

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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A former Republican writes about the World Cup and
America's place in the world

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/i-hardly-questioned-american-exceptionalism-soccer-changed-that/2018/07/11/95ec50fa-8545-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html

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About the Trump Party, formerly known as the Republican
Party of Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/look-what-crawled-out-from-under-trumps-rock/2018/07/11/06de2588-8544-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html

The Trump Party is truly a RINO, Republican-in-name-only.
The party formerly known as Republican quietly embraced
racists in 1968 as part of the Southern strategy

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/632774907067032

They were quiet about it because they wanted to add
the racists to their coalition without frightening away
other conservatives.    No more: now the embrace is loud
enough for everybody to hear - no excuses.         And who
expected to see the day that most Republican politicians
embrace Putin?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ahead-of-putin-summit-trump-faults-us-stupidity-for-poor-relations-with-russia/2018/07/16/297f671c-88c0-11e8-a345-a1bf7847b375_story.html

Where do the former Republicans go who do not want to
embrace racism or Putin?

Can they get the former Republican Party to unequivocally
and irrevocably disavow racists and fascists?  Not likely,
so  any former Republican who does not want to be a
Trumpist needs to find a new home.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative

Maybe it's time for more independents in American politics.
That requires dismantling some of the institutional
barriers to independent candidates.

 https://www.nolabels.org/ https://www.uniteamerica.org/

There are those on the left that advocate embracing
Trumpist tactics - hassling administration officials even
when they go out to dinner.       That seems to be the most
abject surrender to Trumpism - accepting its terms for
political conflict.      If we go low, they will go even
lower.     We have to go high, where they can not follow.

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Tariffs don't work - yet nobody who could slow down Trump
seems to be willing to do anything.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-symbolic-rebuke-senate-votes-to-seek-congressional-role-in-president-trumps-tariff-decisions/2018/07/11/def7d556-851a-11e8-8553-a3ce89036c78_story.html

Even in 1930, almost all economists agreed that tariffs
didn't work.    Hoover signed Smoot-Hawley anyway.
The subsequent "sick of winning" homeless
encampments were called Hoovervilles.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act

Are there Trumpvilles in the future of our
soybean-exporting states?    Maybe, but maybe the farmers
don't mind.

Maybe some of them are hoping for more reactionary Supreme
Court nominees.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses

Maybe some of them don't mind losing their farms as long
as they can speak their minds about how they feel about
the future.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency

Tariffs are not a tax on foreigners.      They are a
domestic welfare mechanism, that taxes one group and
benefits another.      Republicans used to be against
welfare, saying it discourages initiative and encourages
parasitism.

If the economy needed stimulation - and it might whenever
the current recovery ends - the best thing to do would
be to eliminate tariffs - to make American exports more
competitive and create jobs.

 https://www.thoughtco.com/the-economic-effect-of-tariffs-1146368

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Is Robert Mueller a principal or inferior officer?

The Supreme Court will likely have to decide about that
eventually:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-says-muellers-appointment-was-unconstitutional-is-he-right/2018/07/11/4b8d5a3e-845c-11e8-8553-a3ce89036c78_story.html

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On confirming Trump's Supreme Court nominations...

as with many other major issues... no Democratic senators
should vote for Republican nominations or proposals unless
at least 30 Democratic senators do.

 http://www.get-to-sixty.net/

And for the particular case of Supreme Court nominations,
for which McConnell got rid of the supermajority
requirement - a move which he might come to regret next
year - all the Democratic senators should take the position
of voting against confirming any Supreme Court nominations
until Merrick Garland has been nominated and voted up
or down.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kavanaugh-is-qualified-and-likable-so-was-merrick-garland/2018/07/11/9b528b44-8541-11e8-8553-a3ce89036c78_story.html

But assuming the Republicans will find somebody that they
can muster 51 votes for despite Democratic opposition,
it's instructive to read about Hugo Black.      He was (at
various different times) a KKK member, an FDR New Dealer,
and a strict constructionist.      Goes to show you never
can tell!

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Black

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Goetterdaemmerung in real life....

Flattery can get Siegfried to kill the dragons that you
are not strong enough to kill yourself.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/putin-is-about-to-con-trump-in-helsinki-heres-how/2018/07/09/fb09ec9e-8393-11e8-8553-a3ce89036c78_story.html

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The World Ends in San Francisco

Real smoke and ashes from real wildfires fell outside as
the old order went up in flames inside at the conclusion
of the final cycle of San Francisco Opera's Ring.  Not only
the old order, but the new order that the old order thought
it had established.   A supposed hero, raised in a moral
and historical vacuum, ignorant, impatient, impulsive,
yet indecisive, was easy prey for a crafty flattering
manipulator.    Likewise a supposed heroine made the fatal
mistake of confusing the symbol of love for love itself.
So what happens now?

Thus this Goetterdaemmerung production ends much like
every other, but this time there's a new topical twist:
instead of cringing on the sidelines, Gutrune and the
Gibichung women seize the men's weapons of war and throw
them on the funeral pyre of Siegfried and Brunnhile.
Will they be able to create a better world than the men?

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/25/san-francisco-opera-brings-wagners-ring-to-a-roaring-conclusion/

 https://www.sfgate.com/music/article/With-a-fiery-inferno-SF-Opera-s-13004542.php

 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2018/06/gotterdammerung.php

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/638330403178149

 http://californiasmokeinfo.blogspot.com/

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Cutting taxes: it worked once, so try it again!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/06/29/trump-calls-for-another-round-of-tax-cuts-further-reductions-to-corporate-tax-rate/

So what if the generally available facts don't support
the claims?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/29/not-what-we-expected-trumps-tax-bill-is-losing-popularity/

This administration has access to facts that are not
generally available!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/29/trumps-top-economic-adviser-says-deficit-is-coming-down-rapidly-contradicting-all-available-data/

And even though import tariffs are a tax on Americans,
not foreigners, we won't count those as tax increases:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/14/trade-war-could-wipe-out-gains-of-gop-tax-law-former-top-trump-economist-says/

Of course, Cohn is no longer part of the Trump
administration, so he only has access to ordinary facts.

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

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Time to change the rules of the House?

 https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/us/politics/house-speaker-reform.html

An idea from nolabels:

 https://www.nolabels.org/

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Amazing what you can buy for $5000 in Nevada...

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/after-nevada-gop-push-treasury-quietly-changed-policy-benefiting-one-county/2018/06/22/d142acfc-74c5-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html

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Two conservatives tackle the question: do we need more
immigrants?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-do-we-need-more-people-in-this-country-anyway/2018/06/21/4ee8b620-7565-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/opinion/trump-immigration-reform.html

All wealthy western democracies are in the same boat:
because children are sources of expense rather than income
as in traditional subsistence agrarian economies, western
democracy families are having fewer children or none,
a trend worsened by income inequality.   So population
declines and gets older.     To maintain the previous
standard of living, immigrants are needed, both rocket
scientists and farmworkers.    The danger of immigrants
is not that they won't assimilate, but that they will
assimilate too well, expecting the same standard of living
for their children as natives.

But unlimited population growth is not possible, whether
native or immigrant, and at some point a stable or dynamic
equilibrium will evolve, and that will require a global
change in expectations.

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

In the shorter term, mandatoryE-Verify for all employees
- starting with the Trump hotels and resorts - would
eliminate a lot of illegal immigration.

 https://www.e-verify.gov/

That would also eliminate a lot of labor, risking a major
depression, so they better not demand E-Verify without
figuring out a fair, legal,  and dignified way for guest
workers to participate in the work force.

But dealing with hard problems responsibly - whether
immigration, income inequality, deficit spending, ....
is unprofitable for politicians, who fear the results
either in the next primary or general election of both.
The Republicans NEED illegal immigration, both for economic
and political reasons:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/democrats-may-be-walking-into-an-immigration-trap/2018/06/22/363f32d6-7590-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html

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Trump's greatest legacy:

Dissolving the boundary between subjective feelings and
objective facts.    That's why his hard-core base will
never abandon him.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/opinion/trump-leach-lies-language.html

Another way of looking at it: the triumph of competitive
myth over cooperative parable:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/opinion/marvel-video-games-religion.html

But competition in a world with increasing population with
increasing expectations and democratized weapons of mass
destruction has only one dead end, the Fermi Paradox:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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Wagner's Ring continues in San Francisco

Der Ring des Nibelungen continues at San Francisco Opera.
The second cycle began last night and continues through
Sunday; the third and final cycle begins next Tuesday.

Measured by its influence on subsequent generations of
creative artists, the Ring remains one of the monuments
of Western civilization, both intensely mythologically
archetypal and intensely topical, especially in the
current SF production.  A performance demands a lot
of the performers and a lot of the audience, although
English-language supertitles make it vastly more accessible
to modern audiences.

Richard Wagner wasn't much liked as a person when he was
alive and afterward, but he was recognized as an artistic
genius in his own lifetime and afterward.    Ringheads who
have the means to do so, attend Ring cycles all over
the world; others have to content themselves with DVD's
until there's a production nearby.   The last one in San
Francisco was in 2011.

 https://sfopera.com/ring

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen

Reviews:

 http://www.sfexaminer.com/san-francisco-opera-completes-triumphant-ring/

 https://www.sfgate.com/music/article/With-a-fiery-inferno-SF-Opera-s-13004542.php

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/14/wagners-mighty-ring-rocks-the-house-at-san-franciscos-war-memorial/

 https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephanrabimov/2018/06/17/the-ring-of-the-nibelung-at-san-francisco-opera-the-150-years-of-urgency/

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More privacy settings that shouldn't be left to default

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/06/15/hands-off-my-data-15-more-default-privacy-settings-you-should-change-on-your-tv-cellphone-plan-linkedin-and-more/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/06/01/hands-off-my-data-15-default-privacy-settings-you-should-change-right-now/

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More new jobs created by the Trump administration

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pence-turns-vps-office-into-gateway-for-lobbyists-to-influence-the-trump-administration/2018/06/14/75675bfa-6424-11e8-a69c-b944de66d9e7_story.html

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How things change in 11 years:

"In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken
Mehlman formally apologized to the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a national civil
rights organization, for exploiting racial polarization
to win elections and ignoring the black vote."

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

Since embracing the Southern strategy, Republicans have
been careful not to alienate the racist part of their
base, while not alienating the rest of their supporters
either.    Like the Democrats until 1960, even the
non-racist Republicans knew that without the racists in
their coalition, they didn't have a winning proposition.
No more worries about the rest now:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/06/13/trump-just-endorsed-an-apologist-for-white-supremacy-that-could-hurt-the-gop-this-fall/

And in Virginia:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/virginia-voters-go-to-the-polls-to-nominate-rep-comstock-challenger-gop-senate-hopeful/2018/06/11/b7c89e4e-6da4-11e8-bf86-a2351b5ece99_story.html

Former Republican Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling tweeted Tuesday
night: “I am extremely disappointed that a candidate
like Corey Stewart could win the Republican nomination for
U.S. Senate. This is clearly not the Republican Party I
once knew, loved and proudly served. Every time I think
things can’t get worse they do, and there is no end
in sight.”

That's because it's not the Republican Party any more.
From South Carolina:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-dont-want-the-tweet-that-i-got-mark-sanford-says-trump-sealed-his-loss/2018/06/13/d36a9fe2-6f0e-11e8-afd5-778aca903bbe_story.html

“We are the party of President Donald J. Trump,”
Arrington declared in her victory speech.

Among all the things that Trump is not interested in,
these may rank near the top - a lack of interest in
expanding his support beyond his hard core base, and a
lack of interest in establishing and preserving norms of
behavior that would benefit his successors:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trumps-america-the-rogue-superpower/2018/06/14/c01bb540-6ff7-11e8-afd5-778aca903bbe_story.html

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What income inequality means...

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/13/a-minimum-wage-worker-cant-afford-a-2-bedroom-apartment-anywhere-in-the-u-s/

But housing prices are very sensitive to supply and demand
- and when the economy is booming, there's a lot of demand
for housing where the jobs are, which is where the housing
is expensive.

And speaking of supply and demand...

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/06/13/why-many-homebuyers-suddenly-feel-cursed/

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This is what exponential change looks like...

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/06/13/antarctic-ice-loss-has-tripled-in-a-decade-if-that-continues-we-are-in-serious-trouble/

But it also might not be the beginning of exponential
change, and even if it is, it will end eventually -
exponential change in finite systems can't go on forever,
or even for very long once it's noticeable to casual
observers.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#exponentials

But just because it will end eventually doesn't mean we
will be around to see it.  It might be part of a much
larger picture:

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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The new Nigerian economy
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/06/12/its-time-to-stop-laughing-at-nigerian-scammers-because-theyre-stealing-billions-of-dollars/

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Time out!

It's how one deals with childish behavior in children

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-country-has-lost-its-mind-its-time-for-some-game-theory/2018/06/12/f8863076-6e77-11e8-bd50-b80389a4e569_story.html

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No need to save the earth...

The earth will get along fine without us:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/opinion/earth-will-survive-we-may-not.html

But if we want to go along with the ride for as long as
possible, we need to get serious about it.      So far
there is no evidence that any other civilization in the
universe that has attained advanced technology and survived
long enough to be noticed.

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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If Donald Trump were an agent for a foreign dictator,
what would he do differently?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/opinion/g7-trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un-foreign-policy.html

He must just like dictators better than democrats:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/11/trudy-rubin-why-trump-was-in-full-suck-up-mode-with-autocrats-before-g-7/

But how do you sell one thing and deliver the opposite,
over and over?     By dazzle and distract:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/opinion/trump-jordan-peterson-charlatans.html

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Maine tries preferential voting today

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/06/12/maine-will-try-a-whole-new-way-of-voting-on-tuesday/

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Was the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act really intended to cause
the next recession?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/beware-the-mother-of-all-credit-bubbles/2018/06/08/940f467c-69af-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html

Even if it weren't, how would it have been different it
it were?     Anyway, the Republican Congress continues to
do its part to speed things up:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/divided-house-passes-major-bank-deregulation-bill-sends-to-trump/2018/05/22/6f3bb562-5dd2-11e8-a4a4-c070ef53f315_story.html

What people always forget during the manic phase is that
leverage works both ways, up AND down.   There WILL be
another recession, just as there WILL be another avalanche
on a steep snow slope.     Nobody can predict exactly when
or exactly what will cause the avalanche, but that doesn't
mean it won't happen.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#cycle

Ben Bernanke is betting on 2020, just in time for the
next election:

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-07/bernanke-says-u-s-economy-faces-wile-e-coyote-moment-in-2020

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Labor is losing ground against capital...

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/opinion/trump-labor-capital-class-struggle.html

and the biggest losers are the Trump base, but they don't
seem to care as long as their side is "winning."

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/opinion/trump-winning-america-.html

The American Enterprise Institute cheerfully reports that
income inequality is not getting worse

 https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-06/yes-income-inequality-has-stopped-growing

but doesn't claim that it's getting better.      They
presumably understand that concentration of political
power is a bad thing, but seem to be blind to the same
effects of concentration of economic power.     They seem
to think  that a Wall Street bureaucrat protects the
public's interests better than a Washington bureaucrat.
That's true, for the "public" of billionaires.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#liberty%20and%20equality

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How much medical care can you afford?

How much can you afford to pay for other people?

As the population ages, medical care could become the
biggest part of the government budget:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/theres-a-miraculous-chance-to-cure-cancer-but-well-have-to-pay-for-it/2018/06/05/a2ba8796-68fa-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html

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2026 for Medicare, 2034 for Social Security

The annual checkup is done:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-crucial-medicare-trust-fund-will-run-out-three-years-earlier-than-predicted-new-report-says/2018/06/05/73cd314c-68cb-11e8-bf8c-f9ed2e672adf_story.html

But Trump won't be in office in 2026, so he doesn't
seem interested.       And indeed there's a bipartisan
disinclination to address the issues until the crisis is at
hand.      Previous good-faith efforts have been ignored:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Commission_on_Fiscal_Responsibility_and_Reform

There isn't some magic button that will painlessly fix
this.  Either taxes go up or benefits go down, because
the population (of all the prosperous Western democracies)
is getting older.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#bipartisanship

The ultimate choice is lower standard of living in
old age or more immigration of energetic young people.
If people vote for candidates who say what they want to
hear instead of what they need to hear, they have only
themselves to blame.

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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There's a reason it's called Tax Cuts and JOBS Act...

Jobs for lawyers:
 https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/04/trump-tax-bill-lobbying-jobs-623656

And jobs for accountants!

== topic tax

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Even the president tells the truth sometimes....

it's just a matter of the odds.     If he says one thing
on one occasion and the exact opposite on another, he must
have been telling the truth once.... but how to tell which
one was true?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/us/politics/fact-check-trump-fire-comey-russia.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/us/politics/trump-mueller-falsehoods-tower-meeting.html

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Fire safety: local journalism to the rescue again

Most newspapers can't afford to do much investigative
journalism.     The Mercury News still tries:

 http://extras.mercurynews.com/fireinspection/

and it makes a difference:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/04/california-lawmaker-proposes-bill-to-force-accountability-on-fire-inspections/

What do you do to $upport your local investigative
journalism?

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As always, blame the Jews....

One expects this from Viktor Orban:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/04/trudy-rubin-roseannes-vicious-tweet-about-philanthropist-reflects-a-deeper-derangement/

but not Netanyahu!

 https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-zeroing-in-on-soros-netanyahu-is-side-by-side-with-anti-semitic-scum-1.5792539

Has there been so little progress since the days of
Dreyfus?

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair

Yet there's a strange symmetry there - a Hungarian,
Esterhazy, was one of the French officers who framed
Dreyfus to cover their own tracks.      And the Dreyfus
affair was one of the events that radicalized Theodor Herzl
from assimilation to Zionism, leading to the creation of
the state of Israel that Netanyahu now leads, when he's
not in court.

It's a testament to the enduring power of myth and
superstition over reason and facts.    After all, salesman-
leaders like Trump and Netanyahu speak the truth about
the dreams and fears of their audience, and the audience
feels great, even though the leaders seldom do anything to
improve the lot of the audience, and often make it worse.

Yet, the human animal seems to need the help of
the irrational to get through an irrational world.
Interesting thoughts on that:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/03/opinion/why-we-need-religion.html

And that's why superstition is never dead, just dormant,
like a sleeping volcano.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses

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Remembering Gerald Ford and Bush 1...

it's amazing how much better former presidents have been
looking lately.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gerald-ford-shows-us-what-we-just-might-gain-from-trumps-presidency/2018/06/01/6d2ab9d8-64ff-11e8-99d2-0d678ec08c2f_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/president-george-hw-bush-is-an-extraordinary-example-for-our-times/2018/06/11/dac83b7e-2d4f-11e8-b0b0-f706877db618_story.html

Even Warren Harding, probably the worst president overall,
called the world's first disarmament conference, which
was successful for ten years:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Conference

Of course, others hold that Hoover was the worst Republican
president; he knew tariffs were bad but signed Smoot
Hawley anyway:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/opinion/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-europe.html

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Maybe foreign investors know something about the Silicon
Valley residential real estate market....

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/04/foreign-buyers-no-longer-finding-deals-in-california-real-estate/

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Default social media privacy settings are often not what
you'd want...

the defaults are set for what the advertising engine wants
- and the advertisers pay for your social media.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/06/01/hands-off-my-data-15-default-privacy-settings-you-should-change-right-now/

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Republican Party has become Trump Party

If Boehner says it, believe it!

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/05/31/former-speaker-john-boehner-criticizes-republican-party/661544002/

In the future, will all parties claim to be Trumpistas?

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peronism

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Don't list too many years of experience on your resume...

it might be held against you:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/29/intel-under-investigation-over-age-discrimination-in-massive-job-cuts-reports-say/

Sometimes CEO's accidentally tell the truth:

 http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/08/23/hp-hit-with-age-discrimination-suit-claiming-older-workers-purged/

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Remembering Culbert Olson, a progressive California
governor 80 years ahead of his time:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/26/opinion-a-california-governor-80-years-ahead-of-his-time/

Yet his Republican successor, Earl Warren, actually
accomplished more of a progressive agenda.     His
fellow Republicans showed their gratitude by printing
"Impeach Earl Warren" bumper stickers after he
was elevated to the Supreme Court.

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Ranked choice (preferential) voting is taking hold in
San Francisco.  The following report came from

 http://www.fairvote.org

Voters across the state are already turning in their
ballots for an election that’s just 5 days away! We’re
ready for an historic election not just in San Francisco
for the mayoral race, but a ballot measure in Santa Clara
as well.

Ranked choice voting (RCV) in San Francisco has become a
national story. Stanford political scientist Larry Diamond
wrote an excellent case for RCV in the San Francisco
Chronicle, while an Atlantic analysis featured Pedro
Hernandez and FairVote's president Rob Richie was on NPR's
1A program. We’ve also seen Top Two primary critics like
Lee Drutman in Vox, Andrew Gumbel in the Los Angeles Times,
Davis Faris in Huffington Post, and defenders at IVN.US
author Dan Howle suggesting ranked choice voting should
be a part of any reform solution.

RCV is also impacting SF’s political culture. Most major
candidates have come out with videos explaining RCV that
show they are embracing the incentives the system creates
to make connections with more voters.

If you’re in the Bay Area, join us as we’re educating
voters about ranked choice voting on Sunday, Monday,
or Tuesday on Election Day. Sign up to volunteer here!

If you’re not in the Bay Area, not to worry, you
can still get involved! We just released a new video
sharing testimonials about why ranked choice voting (RCV)
works. Special thank you to our friends Lila Carrillo, Eric
Mar, Tom Ammiano, Rose Aguilar, Shaun Haines, Tom Temprano,
and Charlotte Hill for appearing in the first video!

If you're a voter in SF, tell us about your experience
during this election. If you live outside the Bay Area,
tell us what you think about RCV and what it would mean
for your community.

We’re also proud to announce the release of a new
report! This report illustrates that RCV is working
as intended in San Francisco with positive voter
experiences and an increase in voter turnout and the use
of rankings. This report looks at the facts, and challenges
the narrative from certain media outlets and politicos. We
know that with RCV, voters have a more powerful voice in
our elections.

Jennifer Pao will be speaking about this at the Women's
March Power to the Polls: Finding Common Ground event
on Sunday, June 3 from 1-4pm at the Women’s Building
in SF. You can attend this free event by registering on
Eventbrite. Come by our table!

Also, in case you may have missed it, check out our RCV
voter education videos in English and Spanish. Share with
your friends and family!

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It's happened... Republicans now come in third in
California:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/30/no-party-preference-overtakes-republican-in-democrat-dominated-california/

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Orange County top-two chaos

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/in-southern-california-democrats-play-the-blame-game-as-house-races-loom/2018/05/30/fedae90e-636d-11e8-a768-ed043e33f1dc_story.html

Evidently the California 7 project was too successful.
All this could be avoided if preferential voting were used.
As many Republicans, Democrats, and independents could run,
without diluting their party's strength, and candidates
with the broadest support would win.

 http://www.fairvote.org

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"Some things are true even if Trump believes them

so Democrats still have to connect with some centrist
and conservative voters.  but then take them in a
constructive direction, in contrast with Trump's
destructive direction."

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/opinion/midterms-trump-democrats.html

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Reboot your router now!

FBI suggests you power cycle your router and change the
passwords if they are the default.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/05/30/the-fbi-would-like-you-to-reboot-your-wifi-router/

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Do corporate directors have any other obligation besides
profit?

It depends on the state, but most states expect less than
most other countries:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/30/opinion-corporate-apologies-willl-ring-hollow-until-law-is-changed/

 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/corporate-friction

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States rights works both ways

If the Feds can't regulate state gambling laws, then they
can't regulate state emissions laws.

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/30/walters-supreme-court-bolsters-doctrine-california-is-using-to-battle-trump-on-immigration-climate-change/

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Endorsements for California June 5 Primary

Still having trouble deciding how to vote?    Here are some
sources of recommendations and analysis - the reasoning
behind the recommendation is more important than the
result.

Newspapers:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/25/our-recommendations-for-the-upcoming-california-election/

 https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2018/voter-guide/endorsements-list/

 http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/election-endorsements/

 http://www.latimes.com/opinion/endorsements/la-ed-endorsements-20180518-story.html

 http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/endorsements/

Political organizations:

 https://www.cadem.org/vote/endorsements

 https://www.uniteamerica.org/candidates

Non-partisan:

 https://lwvc.org/news/our-positions-june-5-2018-election-ballot-measures

Special interest:

 https://www.sierraclub.org/loma-prieta/2018-primary-election-endorsements

 https://www.nrapvf.org/grades/California
this one requires special decoding: grade A means you'll
be Able to shoot up any place any time grade F means you'll
be Free to go any place any time without getting shot up

And for another view on the state propositions:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/29/skelton-why-californians-should-vote-for-the-5-propositions-on-the-june-ballot/

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Repo man sees a recession starting

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-surprising-return-of-the-repo-man/2018/05/15/26fcd30e-4d5a-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html

and bond traders expect 2.5% growth at best

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/21/butler-investment-risk-and-some-antidotes/

but leave your long-term money in the stock market, lest
you miss the recovery.

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When your strategy is losing, double down...  as long as
it's other people's money.

 https://calmatters.org/articles/commentary/calpers-new-investment-plan-wise-or-risky/

Sounds like Calpers thinks it can do better than most money
managers... this time for sure!      Investment returns
need to be adjusted for risk to compare various types.
A safer plan for other people's money would be to invest
like target-date mutual funds do, allocating amounts to
target dates according to when the money will be needed.
Then employer and employee contributions and benefits need
to be put in balance with realistic return expectations.
Vanguard's target date fund 10-year returns - which
encompass  no bear markets - vary from 5.85% for 2020
to 6.97% for 2050.  Those are realistic optimistic upper
bounds.

 https://calmatters.org/articles/commentary/calpers-new-investment-plan-wise-or-risky/

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Centrists Are the Most Hostile to Democracy ???

This is an unexpected claim:

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/23/opinion/international-world/centrists-democracy.html

Could it be that in the methodology of opinion survey,
people who are not much interested in politics tend to
identify themselves toward the center rather than extremes?

Maybe the results would be different if the survey were
limited to people active in politics.

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Even though you can't believe any political advertising
in the mail or on tv or radio or....

 https://calmatters.org/articles/commentary/campaigns-try-to-fool-california-voters/

You might still like to know who's paying for it and why.

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Maybe California housing prices won't keep rising
forever...

 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-california-volcano-lassen-20180522-story.html

But the wine country fires caused housing to become more
expensive, not less.

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Bigger banks are better, right?

Medium-size banks just got a free pass to get bigger:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/divided-house-passes-major-bank-deregulation-bill-sends-to-trump/2018/05/22/6f3bb562-5dd2-11e8-a4a4-c070ef53f315_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/business/congress-passes-dodd-frank-rollback-for-smaller-banks.html

The good news is that the final bill was really bipartisan.
Even if it's not a very good bill, it could have been
worse.  And Congress does need to work on bipartisanship
when it's productive to do so.

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Things aren't always what they seem...  skim milk
masquerades as cream.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/05/22/did-rosenstein-and-wray-play-trump/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rosenstein-just-gave-ground-to-trump-will-his-gamble-work/2018/05/22/0b125372-5d3f-11e8-9ee3-49d6d4814c4c_story.html

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There's gold in them thar deserts...

all you have to know is who to talk to

 https://apnews.com/7899619719114ec4b61b80eb71438df7/The-princes,-the-president-and-the-fortune-seekers

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/elliott-broidys-company-got-its-biggest-us-government-contract-ever-while-he-pitched-trump-administration

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/05/22/get-to-know-elliott-broidy-the-next-major-trump-scandal-figure/

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The kind of Republican we need - for a blue November

 https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/21/don-blankenship-third-party-constitution-party-600779

Can he get past WV's sore loser law?

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sore-loser_law

 https://www.hbs.edu/competitiveness/Documents/why-competition-in-the-politics-industry-is-failing-america.pdf

Preferential voting would avoid some problems with the
primary/general election duality:

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/609501779394345

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As suspected, the Republican leadership doesn't  REALLY
want to stop illegal immigration... that might affect the
bottom line, and the recession that followed might affect
the next election, and put the major donors in a bad mood.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-is-very-weak-on-this-one-popular-way-to-curb-illegal-immigration/2018/05/22/adf5f85e-399b-11e8-acd5-35eac230e514_story.html

Trucking companies need more drivers, and they can't
get them.     That's how economic booms come to an end.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/05/21/america-doesnt-have-enough-truckers-and-its-starting-to-cause-prices-of-about-everything-to-rise/

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/559983061012884

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political scrapbook and related websites

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net

READING:

The domain political-scrapbook.net started as a
morale-boosting exercise after the November 2016 election -
writing down opinions about what to do next.

Although subdivided into various topics, the details got
too big for anybody to ever read them all, so eventually
some of the guiding principles were split off into the
shorter list:

 http://www.political-theses.net

abstract principles underlying many of the specific ideas
in the scrapbook

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net

discursive commentary on many topics

* http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html

what should be done about Trump?

* http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html

improving the quality of American democracy

* http://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html

controversial topics

* http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html

political theory topics

* http://www.political-scrapbook.net/journalism.html

journalism

* http://www.political-scrapbook.net/non-political.html

nominally non-political topics

==

Over time various ideas seemed large enough to warrant
their own dedicated websites:

* http://www.get-to-sixty.net/

how should the Senate Democratic Caucus get the Republicans
interested in genuine bipartisan problem solving? Write
to your Federal Senators!

* http://www.approve-or-repeal.net/

there's no recall process for elected Federal officials
- what could be done instead? Write to your state
legislators!

* http://www.no-confidence-vote.net/

what else could be done now about Trump and his
Congressional enablers? Write to your state legislators!

* http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

preserve the center of western democracy - reject domestic
and foreign extremism

* http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

true tax reform is one flat tax on discretionary income

==

These websites are for readers.    There are no funny
movies and just a few illustrations and cartoons.

There is nothing to buy or sign up for on any of these
websites, but if you find them worth reading, then please
pass them on to others who might find them helpful.

Facebook collects billions of statistics, but doesn't,
and fortunately can't, track how many readers get inspired
to donate time or money to worthwhile causes, such as some
of those mentioned below.      Those are the statistics
that really count.

DOING:

If you want to DO something, here are some suggestions
for places that you might consider to donate time or money:

If you prefer centrist, bipartisan, or nonpartisan
approaches, consider these:

* https://www.nolabels.org/

restore centrist bipartisanship

* http://www.uniteamerica.org

practical effective government

* http://www.standuprepublic.com/

restore norms of democratic republican behavior
 http://lwv.org/ League of Women Voters protecting and
educating voters

For specific issues:

* http://www.americanpromise.net/

retire "one-dollar-one-vote" and "human
rights for corporations" by constitutional amendment

* http://www.ctj.org/

Citizens for Tax Justice

* https://taxmarch.org/

Fight for a Fair Economy

* https://notonepenny.org/

Not One Penny in tax cuts for millionaires, billionaires,
and wealthy corporations

If you prefer partisan Democratic Party campaigns:

* http://democraticredistricting.com/

National Democratic Redistricting Committee

* http://dccc.org/

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

* http://dscc.org/

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

* https://www.ca7project.com/

California 7 Project - retire seven worthy California
Congressional Representatives

Most political contributions are not tax deductible.
But several organizations have tax-deductible educational
affiliates that you might consider supporting if a tax
deduction is important to you:

* http://www.fairvote.org/ retire winner-take-all
Congressional representation in favor of multi-district
preferential balloting

* http://www.democracy21.org/

Democracy 21 Education Fund retire
"one-dollar-one-vote" by legislation and
judicial action

* https://bipartisanpolicy.org/

Bipartisan Policy Center actively seeking bipartisan
solutions to problems

* https://www.concordcoalition.org/

Concord Coalition for control of Federal deficit

* https://itep.org/

Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy - ensure that
policy makers, media, and advocates know the impact that
tax changes have on people of different income levels

* http://www.equalrightsnow.org/

We the People Project - voting rights for residents of
Federal territories

==

This Facebook page
 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet
lists the websites derived from political-scrapbook.net
and contains occasional posts on some of the topics
they address.  This page is advertised to people who
Facebook thinks are interested in the Democratic Party.
An article well worth reading,
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/magazine/how-facebooks-oracular-algorithm-determines-the-fates-of-start-ups.html,
led to a two-month trial of Facebook advertising, from 5
Nov 2017 to 7 Jan 2018, and then a trial of boosting posts
starting 6 April 2018.

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Playing with Fire - 1968 and 2016

The more things change...

"When Johnson got word of Nixon's meddling, he
ordered the F.B.I. to track Chennault's movements. She
'contacted Vietnam Ambassador Bui Diem,' one report from
the surveillance noted, 'and advised him that she had
received a message from her boss ... to give personally to
the ambassador. She said the message was ... "Hold
on. We are gonna win. ... Please tell your boss to hold
on." '

In a conversation with the Republican senator Everett
Dirksen, the minority leader, Johnson lashed out at
Nixon. 'I'm reading their hand, Everett,' Johnson told
his old friend. 'This is treason.'

'I know,' Dirksen said mournfully.

Johnson's closest aides urged him to unmask Nixon's
actions. But on a Nov. 4 conference call, they concluded
that they could not go public because, among other factors,
they lacked the 'absolute proof,' as Defense Secretary
Clark Clifford put it, of Nixon's direct involvement.

Nixon was elected president the next day."

 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/31/opinion/sunday/nixons-vietnam-treachery.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/books/review/lawrence-odonnell-playing-with-fire.html

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==========


The Eternal Business Cycle

Our hope and despair is that no matter who's running the
government and no matter what they do, the economy will
wax, peak, wane, bottom, and repeat.  Whoever is in charge
will take the credit or get the blame for whatever was
bound to happen sooner or later anyway.  Government action
or inaction can affect the timing and severity to only a
limited extent.

The current economic recovery is about 8 years old and will
expire sometime in the next 8 years, no matter who is in
the White House; the longest postwar recovery was 10 years.
The current recovery has an expiration date on or before
June, 2019.  As always, the party in power will be blamed,
even though nobody has been able to figure out how to
defeat the business cycle.   That's because it's ultimately
a phenomenon of mass psychology rather than economics.

The next two years might seem to coast along well enough
economically.  There's some truth in the old joke that
economists have successfully predicted nine of the last
five recessions.  But

* The self-referential and self-leveraging peaks of the
internet bubble of 2000 and the subprime mortgage bubble
of 2008 remind us that leverage works going down as well
as going up.

* Overstimulation has always led to recession.

* Stock market p/e ratios are about as high as they ever
sustainably get,
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/business/dow-stock-markets.html
Bilello and Yardeni cite signs that investors are getting
giddy and careless.

* The economy is already at maximum capacity.

* The next recession might be triggered by a financial
bubble that pops after inflating from predictably low
inflation rates over many years.

* Army recruiters are reducing standards and accepting
more recruits with marijuana histories.  Recruiting is
harder when unemployment is so low.
 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/10/10/army-accepting-more-low-quality-recruits-giving-waivers-marijuana-hit-targets/750844001/

* Target and other retailers are paying $15/hour starting
wage.
 https://www.thestreet.com/story/14324883/1/target-will-raise-wages-to-15-hour-here-are-5-other-top-paying-retailers.html

* Tax cuts do not pay for themselves by economic
stimulation, especially when the economy is already maxed
out by any historical standard.

* In Silicon Valley, loan qualification is based on
unvested restricted stock.
 http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/25/about-silicon-valleys-crazy-housing-situation-one-real-estate-exec-deconstructs-the-market/

* Utah is running out of workers - and it's even worse in
Ames, IA and Boulder, CO.
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/21/us/politics/utah-economy-jobs.html

* Unemployment is about as low as it ever sustainably gets.
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/upshot/were-getting-awfully-close-to-full-employment.html

* Car sales are stagnant.
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/business/auto-sales-decline.html

* There are fundamental reasons to doubt that the economy
can grow any faster:
 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2017-04-17/boom-was-blip
depopulation, deleveraging, and deglobalization.  Unlike
the post-war baby boom years, there is no wave of new
labor coming on stream in the US, except immigration.

* Seth Klarman is concerned about deficit spending and
interest rates.
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/business/dealbook/sorkin-seth-klarman-trump-investors.html

* It can take a month to find a restaurant server in
Silicon Valley.
 http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/02/trumps-policies-could-affect-silicon-valley-service-workers-and-those-who-depend-on-them/

* Around Silicon Valley, restaurants are closing due to
high rents and lack of labor.
 http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/01/24/whats-behind-the-spate-of-recent-bay-area-restaurant-closures/

* Significantly higher economic growth rates are
not possible - it's all about population growth and
productivity growth.
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/14/opinion/sunday/why-trump-cant-make-it-1981-again.html

* Even the local Postal Service can't retain employees,
and they pay somewhat higher than minimum wage, with
some benefits.
 http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/12/22/postal-service-struggles-leave-bay-area-residents-searching-for-their-mail/

So another recession is coming, more likely sooner than
later.  The Republicans are doing their best to make it
the worst.
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/opinion/bubble-economy-financial-regulation.html

On 25 January 2017, the DJIA, S&P, and NASDAQ all set
new records, and they were still doing it a year later.
That's not good news for Mr. Trump at the beginning of
his term - it would have been a lot more helpful to him
in 2020.    Nobody rings a bell at the top, or the bottom -
some minor news blip, much like numerous inconsequential
minor news blips in the weeks and months before, will seem
to trigger a stock market crash.    But the news blip is
innocent - a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong
time - because the cause of the crash is that the market
has temporarily run out of buyers at a time when somebody
needs to sell for his own specific reasons.      Which blip
- nobody can say in advance.    What is certain is that
the following problem is what is called overconstrained
and infeasible:

* Massive tax cuts.

* Massive military buildup; worse yet massive military
deployment and engagement.

* Massive infrastructure spending.

* Massive deportation of the people willing to do the work
too hard for Americans, for wages too low for Americans.

* Massive trade war.

* Low interest rates and low inflation.

* A trillion dollars in deficit spending over the next
ten years, thanks to the new tax law.

* Stock market and real estate valuations based on
extrapolating corporate earnings and personal income
despite no more affordable labor available to produce the
goods and services that create the earnings.

And this infeasibility will dawn on a critical mass of
institutional investors on some random blipful day and they
will start to take their profits, and highly leveraged
investors will start to cover their positions, and the
daily trading limit crash barrier will be hit before most
individual investors even know something's up.  Too bad
for them.    Trump will blame it on a media conspiracy.
To the extent the Trump Organization is still invested in
real estate rather than brand licensing, he might not even
be a billionaire any more.  Big investors will move from
stocks to bonds, and that part will moderate the rise in
interest rates.

People over-exposed to stocks too close to retirement will
blame it on Trump, as will younger people who haven't
learned yet that even though stocks, especially in
technology, go up slowly and down quickly, common stock
funds are still the best individual investment FOR THE
LONG TERM.

More links at
 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/559983061012884

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==========


Consistency of Republican Word and Deed

Self-destruction of Ryan and the GOP:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/opinion/paul-ryan-donald-trump-republicans.html

Some commentators complain that the modern Republican party
no longer has a consistent conservative philosophy.    They
might be mistaken, and other commentators have pointed out
the remarkable consistency of modern Republican political
leaders from Trump on down, almost without exception.
It's a simple matter of SAY and DO.

What they SAY:  They talk to encourage their voting base:
social wedge issues like abortion, guns, immigration,
gender identity, racial identity, welfare cheats, unfair
trade, globalization, Clinton, Obama...  Criterion: what
gets the crowd chanting at Trump campaign rallies?

What they DO: They act to encourage their donor base: tax
cuts for high income people, benefit reductions for low
income people, deregulation, scientific gerrymandering,
making sure that there will always be plenty of illegal
immigrants for employers to exploit...  Criterion: is it
good for the (old white male) billionaire donor class?

The party of Lincoln is gone.    The party of Reagan is
no more.

To preserve their Congressional majorities, the Republicans
need both the votes and the dollars.     Although the hard
core of the Trump Republican base doesn't seem to care,
recent Democratic victories in special elections to fill
safe Republican seats suggest that at least part of the
Republican voting base is starting to crack the code.

=====

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==========


California Gubernatorial Primary

Ruben Navarrette Jr. points out a couple of interesting
things:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/20/navarrette-california-voters-seeking-sanctuary-from-stupidity-as-primary-nears/

1) California's top-two open primary is not a particularly
good way to reflect the will of the people.

2) And although many hispanics are naturally conservative
and attuned to some traditional Republic pitches, the
Republican Party in California seems determined to outdo
even the national party in driving hispanics away.

(Note: the top-two is a Jesse Ventura mistake waiting
to happen:
 https://archive.siam.org/news/news.php?id=674
preferential balloting would minimize that chance)

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==========


More on Paul Ryan's missing legacy

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/paul-ryan-cant-wash-his-hands-of-the-immigration-fight-yet/2018/05/18/b352f7b2-5ac4-11e8-8836-a4a123c359ab_story.html

Immigration... farming...

It was easy when the Republicans were out of power.
They were opposed to everything Obama did, because he
was... black.     They didn't say that out loud, to avoid
alienating one part of their party, but they hinted loudly
enough, to avoid alienating another part of their party.

Everything's different now - instead of disagreeing
with everything that Obama proposed, they disagree
with everything the other wing of their party proposes.
And some of them are hinting louder to the deplorable side
of their party.

=====

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==========


Time to talk about something else

The Republicans must have noticed that some people actually
read the new tax law and started figuring things out.
Some of these people were billionaires, and some were their
accountants and attorneys, and their hearts leapt for joy:

 http://thehill.com/policy/finance/384475-jct-much-of-pass-through-benefit-in-tax-law-goes-to-the-wealthy

 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/special-trump-tax-provision-gives-17-billion-break-millionaires-gov-n868511

But it's not easy to make that sound like an advantage
to ordinary W-2 taxpayers, who might be more inclined to
agree with Bryan:

"There are two ideas of government.  There are those
who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the
well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through
on those below.  The Democratic idea, however, has been
that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their
prosperity will find its way up through every class which
rests upon them.  ...  You shall not press down upon the
brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify
mankind upon a cross of gold."

So plan A had to be abandoned:

 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trumps-next-challenge-making-tax-cuts-great-again

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==========


Can Democrats ever address the Trump base?

Have Democrats been wasting their time trying to figure
out how to objectively improve the lives of the Trump base?

Fears of cultural displacement pushed the white working
class to Trump; status threat, not economic hardship,
explains the 2016 presidential vote.  Polarization is
driven by a team sport mentality, not by disagreement
on issues.

So undoing the billionaire tax relief, saving social
security and medicare, funding retraining and relocation
is just wasted effort as far as these voters are
concerned... just deport all the people that look or act
different and tariff imports out of existence and they'll
be happy, even if they are worse off economically?

Perhaps there is a hard core of latent National Socialist
Workers Partiers and Klansmen beyond the bunch that showed
up at Charlottesville.    But they are not a base that
Democrats can build on.    The Republicans leaders know
they need to have them in their coalition, even though
they are (hopefully) a minority in that coalition.

So which Republican voters in 2016 might be persuadable
in 2018?

How about:

all the women who've noticed that the Republicans don't
seem to have a problem with sexual harassment

all the persons of color, and immigrants, and
non-Christians, and persons of unconventional sexual
orientation, who've noticed that the Republicans seem to
be much more interested in catering to that white, male,
native, conservative Christian, straight base than catering
to anybody else

all the youth who've noticed that the Republicans seem
to be much more interested in protecting their right to
shoot up schools than the students' right to survive

all the traditional conservatives who have noticed that the
Republicans are worse than ever in saying one thing and
doing another, and the things that they do are actively
undermining the basis of stable American democracy and
stable world order, substituting tribalism for principle,
and fascism and kleptocracy for the best American political
traditions.

So in addition to their traditional issues, Democrat
candidates need to embrace some additional points of view,
get some new people in the big tent, avoid exclusionary
ideological litmus tests, and not waste this historic
opportunity that Trump has handed them.

Ideological Republicans and Democrats alike are skilled
at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.    In 2018,
let the Republicans have that role.

For links to references, please see

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/613892965621893

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==========


Deferring difficult decisions - who's to blame?

Interest on the US national debt consuming all the GNP
is no longer such a distant vague threat.  Solutions have
been proposed by Simpson and Bowles, but the politicians
who created the problem thought that was enough work for
one career and decided to leave fixing the problem as a
task for the next generation.

In a different way, sales tax has been an important
part of the funding of local government in California
and elsewhere.    But who gets the sales tax collected
by a huge Amazon distribution center - the county where
the center is located or the counties where the products
are shipped?

It's a specific manifestation of a much larger problem
- sales tax (and gasoline tax, for that matter) is
increasingly difficult to adapt to modern technologies and
the whole funding structure of state and local government
probably needs to be re-architected from the ground up, but
it's left as a problem for the next generation to solve,
because every change in taxation creates winners and losers
and the losers kick back harder than the winners.

What do you think of politicians who decline to tell the
voters what they need to hear about difficult choices -
leaders who decline to lead?

What do you think of voters who keep electing the same
kinds of leaders?

For links to references, please see

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/614735045537685

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==========


Could President Pence be removed?

With no sex or money scandals, and lacking foreign
entanglements, Pence seems unlikely to commit Treason,
Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors; any minor
screw-ups that come to light might seem very small after
the Trump administration.  So he won't be removable under
Article II.  Lacking any sign of mental or emotional
instability or other medical issues, he won't be subject
to the 25th amendment.  So whatever leverage that Congress
might have against Trump on those grounds, wouldn't apply
to Pence.  There's no constitutional provision for removing
a president for merely being unsavory or incompetent or
unpopular, which could be viewed as a bug if the president
were never elected but succeeded an elected president.

It appears that Pence is organizing a staff that can
work together effectively to promote his reactionary
legislative agenda - one that could actually govern should
the need arise.     They are bound together by a common
ideology, completely unlike Trump's staff of self-serving
opportunists and kleptocrats .  Whereas Trump doesn't have
to worry about his lieutenants turning against him on
ideological principle, he does have to worry about what
happens if they sense a better opportunity elsewhere.
In contrast, Pence doesn't have to worry so much about
opportunism as about making sure his staff is ideologically
compatible.

Trump can be easily satisfied with flattery, news releases,
photo-ops, a TV ratings boost, and other superficial
rewards, as Pence and other political leaders, and Kim
and other foreign leaders, have discerned.  Pence's team
might insist on real substantive accomplishments.

If Trump is removed, Pence becomes President.  That's
something that Democrats should consider carefully before
talking about removal, which is still unpopular among
the uncommitted middle of the electorate that might vote
either way.  According to an NPR/PBS/Marist poll:

47 percent of registered voters would definitely vote
against a candidate who wanted to remove Trump from office,
while 42 percent would definitely vote for a candidate
who would make such a promise.

And the Republicans are planning to use removal talk
to rally their demoralized base.  But according to
Dionne: "The top three issues on voters' minds in
battleground states and districts are gun policy (23
percent), the economy and jobs (20 percent) and health
care (also 20 percent)...  All elections involve a mix of
mobilization and persuasion. The intense dislike of Trump
means that mobilization will play an especially large role
this year. But few Democrats - in swing areas and among
would-be presidents - are counting on animosity to the
president to do all their work for them."

So to win control of Congress in 2018, it's perhaps best
for Democratic candidates to say as little as possible
about removal, and focus on the issues that matter in
contestable districts.    Leave it to Trump to keep the
Democratic base energized with his imprudent responses to
the Mueller investigation.

And if the Democrats win control of Congress in 2018, a
possible strategy would be to say no more about removal
until the next recession is definitely under way, then
quickly remove Trump and let Pence take the economic blame.
Ideally that would occur early in 2020 to maximize the
impact on the 2020 election, but economic cycles run
on their own unpredictable and opaque mass-psychology
dynamics: as the joke goes, economists have successfully
predicted nine of the last five recessions.

As for replacing an unsavory or incompetent or unpopular
president, a mechanism could be part of electoral college
reform.

For links to references, please see

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/619932365017953

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Social Media Fast Response Team

Don't you sleep better at night, knowing that operators
are standing by, so that if you are ever involved in a
newsworthy event, they can be on it in 20 minutes to use
it for their own twisted ends?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/05/18/fake-facebook-accounts-and-viral-lies-multiply-in-hours-after-santa-fe-school-shooting/

The shooter signed up for the price he will pay, but what
about the victims?  Those who were shot by the shooter,
and those who were attacked by the fake social media
afterwards.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-must-stop-giving-mass-killers-what-they-want/2018/04/24/4fbde4be-47eb-11e8-9072-f6d4bc32f223_story.html

A man who was known by no one, is now known by everyone...

Men (mostly) with no self-esteem, suddenly get their 15
minutes of fame.    Sure there's a price to pay - but it's
better than a lifetime of being ignored.    Like Willie
Loman, attention must be paid.

So it's up to the media - they can make the difference
here.  Maybe no name, no photo, just a recitation of
known facts from the police about the victims, not about
the suspect.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#second%20amendment

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Tracking Technology

You don't can't track a technology until you know how it
can be abused.

Is Google tracking Android users whether they permit it
or not?
 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/15/googles-location-tracking-ftc-probe-urged-australia-inquiry-begins/

What is that app doing on your phone?
 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/19/technology/phone-apps-stalking.html

Who was looking up your location?
 https://apnews.com/42e992d8466642de8d3db46a7c39debf

Who does that gadget talk to?
 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/personaltech/beware-unknown-tech-brands.html

It's great to catch a serial killer.    But what other
uses of public genealogy data will be invented?
 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/health/dna-privacy-golden-state-killer-genealogy.html

But don't worry... social media technology companies would
never allow your data to be used for anything unprofitable.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#1984

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The impeachment bandwagon breaks down

George Will wrote an infamous column calling Mike Pence
the worst person in government.

It all does make W look better in retrospect, as he likes
to remind people.  But it doesn't do anything to improve
the reputation of President Cheney.

politicalscrapbooknet is the end point of an effort that
began with hoping to persuade electors that they should
vote Pence/Trump rather than Trump/Pence.

Now it's not clear that would have been an improvement.
Anyway the RNC made sure that no Elector would ever
again attempt to respect the intent of the Founders by
exercising free will.  So we really don't need a human
Electoral College any more.

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==========


DACA - Will Paul Ryan leave a legacy?

"To live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy"
- the dimensions of life according to Samuel Covey.

What's Paul Ryan's legacy?    He's not going to be
remembered fondly by the average American who lacks the
X-ray vision required to see the benefit of the Ryan
tax bill.

What about DACA?    Ryan feels a moral imperative to do
SOMEthing, but Meadows says no, McCarthy says no, and
Trump isn't interested, not even in a bipartisan deal that
would get Trump his wall.  Trump would rather shut down
the government.

 https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/17/ryan-mccarthy-immigration-dreamers-clash-597381

As for the tax bill, it looks like Ryan was blindsided by
the law of unintended consequences:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/12/business/economy/state-tax.html

If he'd been a technologist, or even a tax accountant,
he would have expected that.

Well at least you can count on the Republicans to pass
a farm bill.    That's why almost every farmer votes
Republican, and that's why if the presidential election
were by counties, the Republicans would win every time.
But the Freedom Caucus decided otherwise:

 https://www.npr.org/2018/05/18/612203191/house-farm-bill-in-jeopardy-as-leaders-court-conservatives

As for McCarthy, it would be wonderful, albeit improbable,
if he and Devin Nunes could join the California 7 in
retirement:

 https://www.ca7project.com/

If you haven't heard the Covey before:

 https://www.brevedy.com/2015/03/12/live-love-learn-and-leave-a-legacy-the-four-human-dimensions/

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==========


Who's going to pay for the past - much less the future?

Some major unmet funding challenges for Medi-Cal and
retired public employee pensions and health care are coming
due for California:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/18/opinion-the-big-three-killing-californias-public-services/

California's tax revenues are strongly correlated with the
economic cycle, a fact that will be remembered whenever
the next recession gets going.  But as with Federal, so
with state: nobody wants to do the hard political work to
solve the problem and sell the solution.

 https://calmatters.org/articles/commentary/jerry-brown-once-again-shuns-tax-reform/

California, like several other states and many local
governments and Federal territories, has painted itself
into an uncomfortable corner over defined benefit pensions
for public employees.

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/22/walters-california-cities-school-districts-pushed-to-the-brink-of-insolvency/

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/14/business/pension-finance-oregon.html

It's not the case that public employees are making out
like gangbusters everywhere:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/22/business/economy/public-employees.html

There's nothing inherently wrong with defined benefit
pensions - many people expect benefits from one called
Social Security.  The problem is making sure that the
money is there when the benefits are due.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined%20benefit

It's going to be a problem for Social Security - when
it was set up, nobody expected pensioners to live for 30
years of benefits - but at least the Federal government
could print money if it came to that.      State and local
governments can't do that.

So a simpler approach is to have the Feds provide the
basic funding for general state and local government and
public education:

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net

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==========


Could President Pence be impeached?

With no sex or money scandals, and lacking foreign
entanglements, Pence seems unlikely to commit Treason,
Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors; any minor
screw-ups that come to light might seem very small after
the Trump administration.  So he won't be impeachable.
Lacking any sign of mental or emotional instability or
other medical issues, he won't be subject to the 25th
amendment.  So whatever leverage that Congress might have
against Trump on those grounds, wouldn't apply to Pence.
There's no constitutional provision for removing a
president for merely being unsavory or incompetent or
unpopular, which could be viewed as a bug if the president
were never elected but succeeded an elected president.

It appears that Pence is organizing a staff that can
work together effectively to promote his reactionary
legislative agenda - one that could actually govern should
the need arise.     They are bound together by a common
ideology, completely unlike Trump's staff of self-serving
opportunists and kleptocrats .  Whereas Trump doesn't have
to worry about his lieutenants turning against him on
ideological principle, he does have to worry about what
happens if they sense a better opportunity elsewhere.
In contrast, Pence doesn't have to worry so much about
opportunism as about making sure his staff is ideologically
compatible.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/us/politics/pence-trump-midterms.html

Trump can be easily satisfied with flattery, news releases,
photo-ops, a TV ratings boost, and other superficial
rewards, as Pence and other political leaders, and Kim
and other foreign leaders, have discerned.

 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/george-will-mike-pence-replaces-trump-as-the-worst-person-in-government

Pence's team might insist on real substantive
accomplishments.

If Trump is impeached and convicted, Pence becomes
President.  That's something that Democrats should
consider carefully before talking about impeachment,
which is still unpopular among the uncommitted middle of
the electorate that might vote either way.  According to
an NPR/PBS/Marist poll:

47 percent of registered voters would definitely vote
against a candidate who wanted to remove Trump from office,
while 42 percent would definitely vote for a candidate
who would make such a promise.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/22/opinion/trump-impeachement-america.html

And the Republicans are planning to use impeachment talk
to rally their demoralized base:

 http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385367-trump-if-dems-win-in-2018-theyll-impeach-me
 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/08/us/politics/trump-impeachment-midterms.html

But according to Dionne: "The top three issues on
voters' minds in battleground states and districts are
gun policy (23 percent), the economy and jobs (20 percent)
and health care (also 20 percent)...  All elections involve
a mix of mobilization and persuasion. The intense dislike
of Trump means that mobilization will play an especially
large role this year. But few Democrats - in swing areas
and among would-be presidents - are counting on animosity
to the president to do all their work for them."

 https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2018/05/17/ej-dionne-politicians-arent-as-dumb-as-we-think/

So to win control of Congress in 2018, it's perhaps best
for Democratic candidates to say as little as possible
about impeachment, and focus on the issues that matter in
contestable districts.    Leave it to Trump to keep the
Democratic base energized with his imprudent responses to
the Mueller investigation.

And if the Democrats win control of Congress in 2018, a
possible strategy would be to say no more about impeachment
until the next recession is definitely under way, then
quickly remove Trump and let Pence take the economic blame.
Ideally that would occur early in 2020 to maximize the
impact on the 2020 election, but economic cycles run
on their own unpredictable and opaque mass-psychology
dynamics: as the joke goes, economists have successfully
predicted nine of the last five recessions.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#cycle

As for replacing an unsavory or incompetent or unpopular
president, a mechanism could be part of electoral college
reform:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#electoral%20college

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Unelectable candidates are a gift to the opposition

Unelectable Republican candidates are a gift to the
Democrats... and vice versa.    When Democrats nominate
unelectable candidates in contestable elections,
Republicans breathe sighs of relief.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/05/16/daily-202-the-far-left-is-winning-the-democratic-civil-war/5afb5fe230fb042588799528/

In contestable elections, successful candidates are not
going to get to far to the right or left of the median
voter in the district.

In uncontestable elections, where one party is certain
to win, the other party can work toward a better future
by nominating whoever can convincingly articulate the
platform.

Another approach is to avoid primaries altogether with
preferential voting.  Every member of every party can
rank all the candidates by preference, so all candidates
have an incentive to seek broad support beyond their own
party's ideological base.

 http://www.fairvote.org/

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Why pay for news?

Traditional newspapers are trying to figure out how to
stay solvent without the advertising that's moving to
"free" platforms like Craigslist, Ebay, etc.
So they are trying to charge for online access to quality
journalism, just as they always charged for home-delivered
or postal-delivered paper access to quality journalism.
The difference is that now the subscription fees, both
print and online, have to add up to enough to keep the
newspaper solvent.

But nowadays people are used to "free" news and
entertainment online, and while many use ad blockers since
the ads are so annoying, others just suffer.

So there's an opportunity: give people free
"news" and entertainment.  Tell them what they
want to hear, and intermix it with what you want them to
hear; make it simple and effortless, so they don't think
too much about it.  If you're a billionaire, you can afford
to do that, and that seems to be exactly what is happening:

 https://www.axios.com/pro-trump-media-conservative-right-wing-radio-tv-sinclair-f55ebef1-2ceb-4369-9f49-624f9ee51adb.html

Prophecy fulfilled: the Ministry of Truth is arriving,
but cleverly disguised as private enterprise.    That's the
real invisible deep-state wannabe.

"The deepest form of rot is the erosion of the
distinction between truth and falsehood:"

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/opinion/trump-europe-moral-rot.html

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Kicking the can down the freeway - state taxation

California's tax revenues are strongly correlated with the
economic cycle, a fact that will be remembered whenever
the next recession gets going.  But as with Federal, so
with state: nobody wants to do the hard political work to
solve the problem and sell the solution.

 https://calmatters.org/articles/commentary/jerry-brown-once-again-shuns-tax-reform/

Another approach, certainly simpler, is to have the Feds
provide the basic funding for general state and local
government and public education:

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net

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What's the Democratic platform for 2018 and 2020?

Many would-be presidents have been trying out ideas about
future campaign principles:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hey-democrats-whats-the-big-idea/2018/05/15/daab0926-5880-11e8-858f-12becb4d6067_story.html

Bernie Sanders says it's all about income and wealth
inequality, bad and becoming worse, and that seems
plausible enough.  Gross economic inequality has pervasive
consequences, eventually rendering equal economic
opportunity unattainable:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/opinion/wealth-inequality-families-children-elderly.html

The Center for American Progress has a new proposed
comprehensive platform for jobs and communities:

 https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2018/05/14/450856/blueprint-21st-century/

which should benefit everybody who's been left behind in
various ways.

"There are 435 House contests, and obviously no
cookie-cutter candidate or campaign will suit all of
them:"

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/democrats-have-it-too-good-to-shoot-themselves-in-the-foot/2018/05/17/a80d1d0c-5a0a-11e8-858f-12becb4d6067_story.html

The fly in the ointment is figuring out who's going to
pay; it's usually supposed to be "people richer
than me:"

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/democrats-are-about-to-have-to-pay-up/2018/05/15/b7638b54-5877-11e8-858f-12becb4d6067_story.html

But even in California, social liberals turn out to be
fiscal conservatives if it's their taxes going up.

The best way to focus everybody's attention on the
tradeoffs here is to insure that every expenditure has
an immediate tax increase to fund it, and every tax cut
requires an immediate program cut to fund it.

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

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What did Jesus really teach about women?

"Jesus violated the mores of his time in every
single encounter with women recorded in the four Gospels.
The equality of men and women was a thing so shocking in
the patriarchal society of Jesus' time that his own male
followers could not understand it."

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/12/opinion/sunday/the-great-metoo-awakening.html

What did Paul really say about women?    There's a whole
book about that, too, by John Bristow:

What Paul Really Said About Women: The Apostle's Liberating
Views on Equality in Marriage, Leadership, and Love

The early church was doing OK until it became official.
As always, when church and state prostitute themselves
together, neither is better for it, and thus it was
with Constantine, who dreamed that Christianity led to
a military victory, and so the Roman church adopted the
outlook and organization of a male military hierarchy:

 https://faithlessfeminist.com/blog-posts/the-chalice-and-the-blade/

and that outlook persists to this day, endemically in
some groups.

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Modern Cold War - winning at home

If you can't beat a superpower, you can use it as a
bogeyman to frighten your own people into submission.

You can exploit character assassination, which is kinder
and cheaper than real chemical assassination:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/05/11/feature/putin-needed-an-american-enemy-he-picked-me/

And you can hack enemy journalism:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/12/sunday-review/when-spies-hack-journalism.html

by making sure that journalists who think they are
reporting the news are actually reporting just your version
of the news.

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==========


What are the modern monopolies and trusts?

Trusts and monopolies can't work the way they did in
1900; Teddy Roosevelt and a Progressive Congress made
that illegal.  What about now?

Mergers and acquisitions might account for some of the...

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/opinion/mergers-companies-supersize-workers-wages.html

controversial wage stagnation in a booming economy:

 https://hbr.org/2017/10/why-wages-arent-growing-in-america

An interesting article raises many other questions:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/opinion/monopoly-power-new-gilded-age.html

In particular, it points out that lots of internet titans
have NO real competition:

 https://www.vox.com/2018/4/10/17220878/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-testimony-monopoly-graham

Institutional investors can end up owning all the major
companies in a market and encourage them to maximize profit
over other possible goals.    At least passive index funds
just hold in proportion to the index and don't attempt to
manage companies.

But what if killing pension-fund investment activism

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/opinion/investor-class-pensions.html

is the main reason that wealthy investors want to eliminate
public employee and other large pension funds in favor of
individual 401k's?

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined%20benefit

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==========


Deflating the tires of the impeachment bandwagon

A powerful argument against impeaching Trump:

 https://thetrumpimpeachment.com/george-wills-column-pence-worst-person-government-message-need-hear/

There's another school of thought, that while professing
ultra-Trumpian loyalty, Pence is craftily building an
independent legislative and governing team in order to hit
the ground running whenever that might be needed, in 2024,
2020, or sooner:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/us/politics/pence-trump-midterms.html

==

It all does make W look better in retrospect, as he likes
to remind people:

 http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376909-bush-says-trump-makes-me-look-pretty-good-by-comparison-report

Though it doesn't do anything to improve the reputation
of President Cheney.

==

politicalscrapbooknet is the end point of an effort that
began with hoping to persuade electors that they should
vote Pence/Trump rather than Trump/Pence:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/archive/electors.html#last

Now it's not clear that would have been an improvement.
Anyway the RNC made sure that no Elector would ever again
attempt to respect the intent of the Founders by exercising
free will:

=====

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==========


Why pay $100 and more for a theater ticket if you sleep
during the performance?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/why-pay-100-and-more-for-a-theater-ticket-if-you-sleep-during-the-performance/2018/05/10/8235ad18-5214-11e8-b00a-17f9fda3859b_story.html

Perhaps the problem is adrenalin crash - it could happen at
home, work, or church, as well as at shows, in morning,
afternoon, and evening, and before and after meals.
And even during very long traffic light cycles - but
falling short of narcolepsy:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcolepsy

What can happen is that if you are under ACTIVE
pressure-pressure-pressure: deadlines, traffic, parking,
etc, trying to do something about them, and then you shift
into a new PASSIVE situation in which it is not possible to
do anything about anything - then your body quits pumping
adrenaline and after a few minutes you do a reset.  A few
minutes of unconsciousness or semi-consciousness often
helps get to a better point.

The worst is early afternoon after lunch.    Many people
can't stay awake at 3pm and can't stay asleep at 3am.

Maybe it's due to climate change!

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/climate/bears-not-hibernating.html

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Would you really want your town to be like Silicon Valley?

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/09/oakland-san-francisco-downtown-office-markets-are-nations-tightest-google-apple-facebook-adobe/

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/10/opinion-why-bay-area-won-by-losing-amazon-headquarters-bid/

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/09/millennial-home-buyers-forced-to-settle-in-order-to-settle-down/

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/08/why-home-renovations-could-get-more-expensive-this-year/

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/09/as-fire-season-nears-gusty-winds-expected-friday-night-in-bay-area/

But relief is on the way:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#cycle

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==========


The Most Ideological Candidate WHO CAN WIN

E. J.Dionne Jr. has written an interesting piece recalling
identical political advice from both Barney Frank and
William F. Buckley Jr. - in the primaries, support the
most radical candidate who can win in the general election.

 https://r.com.pk/e-j-dionne-the-principle-behind-anti-trump-pragmatism/

Both were more interested in making laws rather than making
ideological points, and to make (or repeal) laws you need
to have majorities in legislatures.    Both Republican and
Democratic strategists have been known to quietly fund the
fringe candidates in the other party's primary in order
to have a more beatable opponent in the general election.
And now we know that the Russian propaganda machinery also
has an interest in quietly fanning extreme ideological
partisanship.

When it's your turn to participate in primary season, do
your best to determine which of your party's candidates
has the best chance against the best of the other party's.
That's not necessarily the same as the one you might
prefer in a perfect world.  Particularly in a contestable
district, a successful candidate should not be too far
ahead ideologically of the median voter of the district.

Things might be easier if elections were conducted with
preferential voting:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential

Then as many candidates could run as wanted, and as many
parties compete as wanted, without anybody diluting anybody
else's chances, and with a higher probability that the
final winner represents the broadest possible consensus
in the district.

What about in districts where it's a foregone conclusion
which party is going to win?    What should the other
party do there?     In that case, since no candidate
is electable, then the minority party might as well act
like the Libertarians and Greens and nominate the most
articulate exponent of the minority party's principles.
Here the purpose of running is to plant seeds in the mind
of the majority voters that might bear fruit in the future.

home/oakapple/political/posts

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==========


MeToo - The Political Issue of the Century?

It's difficult to exaggerate the potential significance
of the MeToo movement in politics, business, and society
at large.

It's hard to think of any particular issue that
resonates with every man that ever lived in every place
and every time.    Yet sexual harassment and abuse is
something experienced by every woman that has ever lived.
A nuisance for all and a horror for many, none of them
need it explained.

So how should this powerfully raised consciousness be
applied politically?  Women's issues don't always translate
into good law - suffragettes were powerful advocates of
Prohibition as well as suffrage - the 18th amendment and
19th amendment were ratified a year apart.

Perhaps the biggest mistake for progressives would be to
think and speak of #MeToo as a leftist progressive issue.
Remember that all women have endured minor or major sexual
harassment, but all women do not have the exact same
opinions on most other controversial political matters:
abortion, immigration, guns, taxation... to name a few.

Trump holds one of his campaign rallies and hears the
chants and thinks "The People are with me all the
way!" when what is really true is that his shrunken
hard core of supporters, who have no where else to go,
are still with him.  Fox News and the Republican party
in general are painting themselves into the same corner
where their best friends will be Infowars and David Duke
and their billionaire donors.

Progressives should not make the same mistake as Trump
and Trump supporters; preaching to the choir can deceive
at progressive rallies too.  The progressive cause is
ill served by suggesting that all #MeToo voters should
subscribe to a full progressive agenda, and ill served by
insisting that Democrats should nominate full progressive
candidates in every district whether or not they have
any credible chance of winning in the general election.
Progressives should be painting themselves out of corners
and into the largest possible arena.  Over time they might
be able to make the point to conservative women that,
for instance, the unequal power of money in politics is
not so different from the unequal power of money in gender
relations, and so help conservative women to think more
progressively about some issues.

The recent special elections have been instructive.
In most cases the margin of difference, that enabled
Democratic candidates to succeed in Republican districts,
was provided by educated suburban middle-class women who
had voted for Trump in 2016 but then for a Democrat in 2017
or 2018.     These were not Bernie Sanders supporters who,
in 2016, had stayed home or voted Green out of spite.

Trumpist Republican candidates - and that's most
Republican candidates - who uncritically support Trump are
uncritically endorsing his antediluvian attitudes toward
women, and saying that those attitudes and actions are
acceptable in Republican candidates.  That's the point
that has to be hammered home whenever the issue arises.
Even if the only outcome is to eventually purge the
Republican party of the equivocators and apologists for
sexual abuse, that's still a step forward for all women
and thus for progressives, too.  Then everybody can move
on to the other great issues of our time.

=====

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==========


Would you really want your town to be like Silicon Valley

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/09/oakland-san-francisco-downtown-office-markets-are-nations-tightest-google-apple-facebook-adobe/

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/10/opinion-why-bay-area-won-by-losing-amazon-headquarters-bid/

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/09/oakland-san-francisco-downtown-office-markets-are-nations-tightest-google-apple-facebook-adobe/

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/09/millennial-home-buyers-forced-to-settle-in-order-to-settle-down/

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/08/why-home-renovations-could-get-more-expensive-this-year/

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/09/as-fire-season-nears-gusty-winds-expected-friday-night-in-bay-area/

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Deflating the tires of impeachment

A powerful argument against impeaching Trump:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-no-longer-the-worst-person-in-government/2018/05/09/10e59eba-52f1-11e8-a551-5b648abe29ef_story.html

It all does make W look better in retrospect, as he likes
to remind people:
 http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376909-bush-says-trump-makes-me-look-pretty-good-by-comparison-report
Though it doesn't do anything to improve the reputation of
President Cheney.   One can hope that the day will never
arrive when ordinary people look back fondly on the Trump
administration.
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#registration

politicalscrapbooknet is the end point of an effort that
began with hoping to persuade electors that they should
vote Pence/Trump rather than Trump/Pence:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/archive/electors.html#last

Now it's not clear that would have been an improvement.
Anyway the RNC made sure that nobody would try that again:

 https://www.salon.com/2016/12/13/report-donald-trumps-campaign-is-threatening-political-reprisal-for-defecting-republican-electors/

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Who has left the Trump administration with most of their
honor intact?

Mostly the ones that were fired, it seems:

 http://www.businessinsider.com/who-has-trump-fired-so-far-james-comey-sean-spicer-michael-flynn-2017-7

 https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/08/politics/trump-admin-departures-trnd/

One of them had already signed up to deliver a commencement
address:

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/05/16/rex-tillerson-vmi-commencement-speech/617849002/

Who's most in demand on the Republican fundraising circuit?
Mostly the felons, it seems:

 https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/1/1761168/-A-wave-of-Republicans-are-trying-to-turn-their-own-crimes-into-campaign-assets

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-flynn-comes-out-of-hiding-to-stump-for-far-right-congressional-candidate

 http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-joe-arpaio-1504648710-htmlstory.html

And whatever happened to those Iran-Contra scandal
principals?

 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/07/609133891/oliver-north-will-be-next-president-of-nra-organization-says

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Which is the dog and which is the tail?

Or what is the base, and what is the pinnacle?

Blankenship ran third, but...  Trumpism will outlast Trump
(and Blankenship)
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-west-virginia-primary-shows-trumps-election-was-no-aberration/2018/05/07/7caf4856-523a-11e8-9c91-7dab596e8252_story.html

Trump ran on disrupting the Obama establishment...
Blankenship ran on disrupting the Trump establishment
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/gop-on-edge-as-west-virginia-considers-senate-bid-of-controversial-coal-baron/2018/05/07/ea4d6f1e-5230-11e8-abd8-265bd07a9859_story.html

Blankenship was too extreme for Trump
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-urges-west-virginia-gop-voters-to-reject-blankenship-in-favor-of-more-mainstream-gop-hopefuls/2018/05/07/9a3b4d5a-51dd-11e8-abd8-265bd07a9859_story.html

But what if he is Trumpier than Trump?
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/gop-primaries-gauge-the-anti-establishment-fervor-trump-helped-unleash/2018/05/07/d0b50338-5216-11e8-abd8-265bd07a9859_story.html

What does the Trump base really want?

You can't separate money from culture
 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/06/opinion/trump-supporters-economy-racism.html

 https://www.prri.org/research/white-working-class-attitudes-economy-trade-immigration-election-donald-trump/

 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/04/18/1718155115

 https://academic.oup.com/poq/article/82/suppl_1/280/4951269?guestAccessKey=ccb478a8-84ee-4dda-ae29-b3ffde16f893

 https://theintercept.com/2018/04/03/politics-liberal-democrat-conservative-republican/

Are all Trump voters in 2016 deplorable?
 http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article209844134.html

No... just the ones who wish Trump would shoot somebody
on Fifth Ave:
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#First%20Trump%20Constituency

Just some of them...
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency

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What happened to your Federal tax cut?

There's a good chance it was offset by an automatic state
tax increase that nobody wanted to talk about:
 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/12/business/economy/state-tax.html

Why is tax so boring this time?  What happened to the
snake oil?
 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/opinion/trump-tax-cut-snake-oil.html

Why has Rubio given up?
 https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21741146-florida-senator-thinks-reheating-reaganomics-dead-end-marco-rubio-offers-his

How much government stimulus is needed to ramp up economic
growth?
 https://www.wsj.com/articles/still-waiting-for-the-tax-cut-boost-1524475800

And stimulus takes a long time:
 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/opinion/republican-tax-cut-workers.html

Or is it because Trump got bored?
 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/gop-tax-law-trump-2018-midterms
 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/business/economy/tax-law-talking.html

Whatever happened to that brief glimmer of public interest?
 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/business/economy/tax-overhaul-survey.html

The Kochs aren't bored though:
 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/koch-backed-groups-are-selling-trump-s-tax-cuts-door-to-door-ahead-of-the-midterms

==

Corporate stock buybacks were another gift of the Reagan
administration to the capitalist class (which, to be fair,
includes most people with qualified retirement accounts -
which, to be fair, does not include most people who would
really need a qualified retirement account the most).
Such buybacks had been illegal since the Depression.
They were a major feature of the Bush tax cut, and they
are a major feature of the Trump tax cut.

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/07/stock-buybacks-by-apple-other-tech-giants-who-benefits/

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/opinion/apple-tax-cuts.html

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/07/butler-who-do-stock-buy-backs-leave-behind/

Somebody wants to do something about it.    Hint: it's
not anybody in the Trump administration:

 http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/21/investing/stock-buyback-ban-baldwin/index.html

==

The tax cut details are very complicated:
 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3089423

Radio advertising proves it's indeed a Full Employment
for Accountants and Attorneys Act.

But YOU probably don't need to worry your pretty little
head about all that:
 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/half-of-new-small-business-tax-break-will-go-to-filers-earning-over-1-million-report-finds

==

Maybe there's a simpler way:
 http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

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What's good about economic concentration?

Amazon is using book sales to subsidize other business
lines.  What this does to stores that sell mostly books
is not good:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/06/opinion/save-barnes-noble.html

It's another manifestation of the new monopoly power of
internet giants:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/opinion/monopoly-power-new-gilded-age.html

110 years ago, the original trustbusters realized that
concentration of economic power was bad, in the same
way that concentration of political power was bad, (or
religious power or ... power).    It doesn't matter how
benignly that power is exercised today; in the ordinary
course of human nature it will be exercised less benignly
in the future.  For instance, it might have something to
do with the US economy apparently reaching a market top
without much increase in wages:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/unemployment-is-low-so-why-arent-wages-higher/2018/05/07/f6c2

though there are other factors at work.   In general, it's
a manifestation of the general principle that a government
that would foster equality of opportunity must eventually
take active steps when an organization has taken such
good advantage of its opportunities that it can suffocate
everybody else's and inhibit competition.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#liberty%20and%20equality

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Stock buybacks

Corporate stock buybacks were another gift of the Reagan
administration to the capitalist class (which, to be fair,
includes most people with qualified retirement accounts -
which, to be fair, does not include most people who would
really need a qualified retirement account the most).
Such buybacks had been illegal since the Depression.
They were a major feature of the Bush tax cut, and they
are a major feature of the Trump tax cut.

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/07/stock-buybacks-by-apple-other-tech-giants-who-benefits/

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/07/butler-who-do-stock-buy-backs-leave-behind/

Somebody wants to do something about it.    Hint: it's
not anybody in the Trump administration:

 http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/21/investing/stock-buyback-ban-baldwin/index.html

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Bomb Voronezh!

All their efforts on social media have convinced the
Russian leadership that they don't want American social
media in Russia; they'd rather grow their own that work
just the way they want:

 http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/trudy_rubin/vladimir-putin-fourth-term-russia-president-trump-20180504.html

That is the way it is working out in the PRC.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/the-walls-are-closing-in-chinafinds-new-ways-to-tighten-internet-controls/2017/09/26/2e0d3562-9ee6-11e7-b2a7-bc70b6f98089_story.html

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Foreigners and dirty tricks: it's not just the Russians

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/opinion/black-cube-ben-rhodes-colin-kahl.html
But still the Republicans seem to be colluding.

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Where can the homeless go?

Abandoned lots?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/as-gentrification-escalates-in-calif-people-wonder-where-can-the-homeless-go/2018/05/06/d2b1018a-4a43-11e8-9072-f6d4bc32f223_story.html

Tuff sheds?
 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/08/homeless-greet-new-tuff-sheds-with-hesitation-hope/

The California homeless population is enormous for
a variety of reasons, not least that the weather is
mostly survivable.    There are many subpopulations of
homeless and there isn't any one solution that works for
all of them.     Many have (minimum wage) jobs - they are
usually the ones living in cars - because they can't afford
unsubsidized housing.  But there are others with chemical
or psychological issues for which no humane solution has
been devised.   And a spectrum of everybody in between.

Unfortunately it's hard to exempt housing from the laws
of supply and demand:

An equable climate and thriving economy generate the
demand.  Limited buildable land and a desire to maintain
some kind of California lifestyle limit the supply - people
who'd rather live in Manhattan are probably already there.
Rising costs of labor and materials will continue until
the next recession.

A really big earthquake, tsunami, or fire could change
things, at least for a while.     But the Wine Country
fires in October reduced the supply but not the demand,
so housing prices went up and anti-gouging laws were
enacted for rentals.

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Remembering Stewart Brand

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/opinion/stewart-brand-hippie-silicon.html

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Compound interest and the public debt: whatever happened
to Simpson and Bowles?

Interest on the national debt consuming all the gross
national product is no longer such a vague distant
possibility:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/05/george-will-pour-a-scotch-and-read-on-we-may-be-trapped-in-a-debt-spiral/

Compound interest is a form of exponential growth -
something that often takes democracies by surprise:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#exponentials

More so when much of that debt is held by foreign nations.

Solutions have been proposed:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Commission_on_Fiscal_Responsibility_and_Reform

but the politicians who created the problem thought that
was enough work for one career, and decided to leave fixing
the problem as a task for the next generation.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#bipartisanship

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Sales tax is a bad way to finance state and local
government

Sales (and use) taxes are a traditional way to finance
state and local government, but they are severely
challenged by modern technology.  States still can't force
out-of-state vendors to collect the sales tax although
Amazon finally relented voluntarily since it wanted to
have physical presence in most states anyway.     But then,
who gets the sales tax within the state - the county where
the order was fulfilled or the county where the purchaser
resides?    It's a big bucks issue in local government:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/06/walters-how-online-retail-is-radically-affecting-many-billions-of-sales-tax-dollars-in-california/

What should be done instead?

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

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Mail-in ballots go out to California voters

"The ongoing battles between California and the
Trump administration, as well as an outburst of anti-
and pro-Trump political activism, could actually boost
turnout in the Golden State this year"

So responding to Trump with increased turnout is a good
thing?

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/07/california-mail-in-ballot-june-primary-governor-senate/

"Xavier Becerra was plucked from Congress to lead
California's opposition to all things Donald Trump. He'ss
done that as state attorney general, with a litany
of lawsuits over policies involving immigration, the
environment, birth control and health care.  His opponents
in the June 5 primary say he's so focused on the Republican
president that he's falling down on other key areas of
the job."

So responding to Trump in court is a bad thing?

 https://apnews.com/398b0ea81bc84239a22c91350b721fab

At least Becerra doesn't have a MeToo problem like that
other blue-state attorney general.   Other candidates are
not so clean:

 https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/5/metoo-gas-tax-roil-california-primary-legislative-/

And then there's the gas tax increase.    How could anybody
be for a tax increase?

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/02/nearly-400-miles-of-san-jose-road-are-in-bad-shape/
 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/30/gas-tax-repeal-heading-for-the-november-ballot-campaign-says/
 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/16/california-travis-allen-gas-tax-repeal-ads/

But how could anybody be for traffic jams and potholes?
California Republicans are for them: without them,
no gas tax increase, and thus no issue to drive their
demoralized faithful to the polls.  But what's the point
when the California Republican faithful attending their
state convention couldn't agree on endorsing a single
candidate for either governor or US senator?

And do what you can to help the California 7 enjoy an
early retirement -

 https://www.ca7project.com/

and Nunes and McCarthy too.

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Transparency Is the Mother of Fake News

Stanley Fish argues that an undifferentiated unvetted
flood of "free" information creates an ideal
environment for free misinformation - fake news:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/opinion/transparency-fake-news.html

If all information is equally free, then it is all
equally valuable, and that value goes to the lowest common
denominator - zero.

What makes a Great Book?   That's one whose truth has
been vetted by many different readers with many different
perspectives from different times and places, and so it
is worth reading by any educated person - independent of
how many educated persons actually read it.  It doesn't
have anything to do with how the book was written - often
by an author laboring in lonely obscurity.

What about Wilson's "Open covenants openly arrived
at?" House explained that "the phrase was not
meant to exclude confidential diplomatic negotiations
involving delicate matters. The intention is that
nothing which occurs in the course of such confidential
negotiations shall be binding unless it appears in the
final covenant made public to the world."

 https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/doc31.htm

Gehl and Porter: "More recent congressional reforms
with unintended consequences include the elimination of
earmarks and rules and norms discouraging closed-door,
anonymous votes in committees.  These would seem to be
clearly positive steps. But, in a polarizing system
in which the parties were more and more partisan and
entrenched, these changes removed some of the last
remaining ways to secure compromise...  Closed-door,
secret votes also helped insulate compromises from attack
by partisan extremes."

 https://www.hbs.edu/competitiveness/Documents/why-competition-in-the-politics-industry-is-failing-america.pdf

Sometimes it needs to be all about the end result, not
the process.

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Gnawing Away at Health Care

The Republicans succeeded at passing a tax bill that
pleased their donors a lot more than their voters, a fact
that they are going to hear a lot about this year.

Maybe they are lucky they didn't repeal Obamacare, which
also would have pleased their donors a lot more than
their voters.   But they are doing the best they can to
undo it bit by bit.     They should hear a lot about that
this year too.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/opinion/republicans-obamacare-health-care.html

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Why Are So Many Democracies Breaking Down?

"In many democracies, the roots of breakdown reside
in democratic constitutions themselves.  Over two-thirds
of countries that have transitioned to democracy since
World War II have done so under constitutions written by
the outgoing authoritarian regime.  These constitutions
often contain provisions requiring supermajority thresholds
for change. "

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/democracy-authoritarian-constitutions.html

Supermajorities can provide the rights of minorities - a
good thing right?  But what if the minority is the ancien
regime holding most of the wealth and power?

The US Senate runs most of the time on a supermajority
basis - except when it doesn't.     Perhaps it would be
better if supermajority requirements were prohibited except
when required by the constitution.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#filibuster

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Between a rocky primary and a hard election

One reason (among many) that politicians in closed primary
states with contestable general elections have difficulty
maintaining their intellectual integrity, is that they
have to say one thing to win the primary and the opposite
thing to win the general election.  The voters who show
up for primary elections are more ideological on average
than those for general elections.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/republicans-whose-jobs-once-seemed-safe-are-struggling-for-a-2018-survival-strategy/2018/05/06/031e931e-4f49-11e8-84a0-458a1aa9ac0a_story.html

This applies to Republicans and Democrats.

Big donors want to invest in candidates who will win
at both levels and so often end up rewarding this kind
of behavior.  It means that voters have no idea what the
candidate really believes or really will do.  Maybe the
candidate has no idea either.

A better approach is preferential voting, which has the
potential to decide most races with just one election.
Every member of every party can rank all the candidates
by preference, so all candidates have an incentive to seek
broad support beyond their own party's ideological base.

 http://www.fairvote.org/

The open primaries in California and elsewhere have their
own issues; in a large field, California's does not insure
that either of the top-two represent the majority.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_primaries_in_the_United_States

It would be nice to think that part of the solution is to
get the big money out of politics.     When there are many
small donors, each one has relatively little influence.

 http://www.americanpromise.net

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State-sponsored IRA programs

Knowing that social security benefits by themselves will
not provide a secure retirement, a number of states are
instituting state-sponsored IRA programs (usually small)
employers that don't offer a retirement program.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/your-money/state-retirement-accounts.html

In California, it will be called CalSavers, and is expected
to be generally available in 2019.  The employer will sign
up with the state and the employee with the employer.

 http://www.treasurer.ca.gov/scib/

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Appreciating John McCain

The end is near, and so is his book.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/john-mccain-unspools-a-self-help-manual-for-america/2018/05/06/f0844168-4fb1-11e8-b725-92c89fe3ca4c_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/john-mccain-isnt-the-ideal-messenger-hes-the-ideal-message/2018/05/04/71a7bb84-4f9f-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/opinion/sunday/john-mccain-trump.html

But the heel spur heros are fighting back:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/05/07/mccains-critiques-of-trump-have-presidents-supporters-angry-and-firing-back/

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Wouldn't it be wonderful if the Trump administration would
put a little burdensome Federal regulation on robo-callers?

Well they finally did!

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/05/11/robocaller-fined-120-million-fcc-nearly-100-million-spoofed-calls/

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/06/your-money/robocalls-rise-illegal.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/smarter-living/stop-robocalls.html

But it's business as usual for the rest of the Trump
administration:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/business/education-department-for-profit-colleges.html

Modern technology acts as a force multiplier for all kinds
of good and evil forces.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#left%20right

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Three ways of looking at the modern Republican party

John McCain attempts to conjure up some better angels:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/opinion/sunday/john-mccain-trump.html

"the G.O.P. is often more popular the less it attempts
to legislate at all:"

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/opinion/sunday/how-trump-is-winning.html

And in California, the remaining Republicans are
pathologically delusional:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/06/us/california-republicans.html

thinking their unpopularity is somehow attributable to
"Republican-lites that are pandering to Democrat
policies" - like Arnold Schwazenegger.  The remaining
Republicans seem to be obsessed with touting their
Trumpiness.

Maybe the country needs a new conservative party.
Don't look for it in California.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative

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Register and vote in the primary election!

Everybody with an interest in politics is wondering how
the 2018 general election will turn out - probably the
most momentous mid-term in decades.  And everybody with
an intense interest in politics will probably register
and vote in the primary.

Will the primaries select candidates tending toward
uncompromising ideological extremes?  Their supporters tend
to turn out more faithfully for primaries.  Or will this
be a year when a wider diversity of voters select a wider
diversity of candidates, more tending toward compromise
and gradual progress?

What about everybody withOUT an intense interest in
politics?  Often people who are qualified to vote but not
terribly interested in politics look at the candidates
in the general election - selected by a primary process
that they didn't vote in.  And they don't like any of
the candidates, and stay home.    Certainly 99% of the
political advertising in the mail, newspapers, radio,
television, internet - seems to be calculated to turn off
people who aren't intensely interested - and is rightly
mostly ignored by those folks.  But staying home is a vote
too - and giving up the right to vote implies giving up
the right to complain about the result.

But the primary is a chance for less political voters to
make a difference by voting for candidates who can make a
difference - who are electable and willing to do whatever
is necessary to deliver results.

And even if your local midterm election is a snoozer for
Federal legislators - your state legislators and officers
are important too.     Probably the biggest political
and legal issue of the next two years is redistricting.
Whether you think redistricting should be as fair as
possible or as advantageous as possible, or you have
never thought about it at all... it affects everything
else at Federal and state levels.    And that makes it
important to find out what's going on in your state and
vote accordingly.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redistricting

Here are some primary dates:

15 May: ID, NB, OR, PA 22 May: AR, GA, KY, TX 5 Jun: CA,
MS, AL, IA, MT, NJ, NM, SD 12 Jun: NV, ME, ND, SC, VA 26
Jun: NY, MD, UT, CO, OK

In California and other open primary states, anybody can
vote for any candidate regardless of party affiliation of
lack thereof.  So that's no excuse to stay home.

Register and vote!

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/us/elections/calendar-primary-results.html

Here are some sources of information recommended by AARP:

 https://www.factcheck.org/ http://www.politifact.com/
 https://ballotpedia.org/

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Kicking the can down the road - who's to blame?

Interest on the US national debt consuming all the GNP is
no longer such a distant vague threat:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/05/george-will-pour-a-scotch-and-read-on-we-may-be-trapped-in-a-debt-spiral/

Solutions have been proposed:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Commission_on_Fiscal_Responsibility_and_Reform

but the politicians who created the problem thought that
was enough work for one career and decided to leave fixing
the problem as a task for the next generation.

In a different way, sales tax has been an important
part of the funding of local government in California
and elsewhere.    But who gets the sales tax collected
by a huge Amazon distribution center - the county where
the center is located or the counties where the products
are shipped?

It's a specific manifestation of a much larger problem
- sales tax (and gasoline tax, for that matter) is
increasingly difficult to adapt to modern technologies and
the whole funding structure of state and local government
probably needs to be re-architected from the ground up:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/06/walters-how-online-retail-is-radically-affecting-many-billions-of-sales-tax-dollars-in-california/

but it's left as a problem for the next generation to
solve, because every change in taxation creates winners and
losers and the losers kick back harder than the winners.

Here's one idea:

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

What do you think of politicians who decline to tell the
voters what they need to hear about difficult choices -
leaders who decline to lead?

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#bipartisanship

What do you think of voters who keep electing the same
kinds of leaders?

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Typography: a debate worth having

For those of us who actually took typing class: if we can't
preserve traditional standards... let's at least find out
what they were and whether they were worth preserving.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/05/04/one-space-between-each-sentence-they-said-science-just-proved-them-wrong-2/

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Can Democrats ever address the Trump base?

Have Democrats been wasting their time trying to figure
out how to objectively improve the lives of the Trump base?

Fears of Cultural Displacement Pushed the White Working
Class to Trump:

 https://www.prri.org/research/white-working-class-attitudes-economy-trade-immigration-election-donald-trump/

Status threat, not economic hardship, explains the 2016
presidential vote:

 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/04/18/1718155115

Fears of Cultural Displacement Pushed the White Working
Class to Trump:

 https://www.prri.org/research/white-working-class-attitudes-economy-trade-immigration-election-donald-trump/

Polarization is driven by a team sport mentality, not by
disagreement on issues:

 https://theintercept.com/2018/04/03/politics-liberal-democrat-conservative-republican/

 https://academic.oup.com/poq/article/82/suppl_1/280/4951269?guestAccessKey=ccb478a8-84ee-4dda-ae29-b3ffde16f893

So undoing the billionaire tax relief, saving social
security and medicare, funding retraining and relocation
is just wasted effort as far as these voters are
concerned... just deport all the people that look or act
different and tariff imports out of existence and they'll
be happy, even if they are worse off economically?

Perhaps there is a hard core of latent National Socialist
Workers Partiers and Klansmen beyond the bunch that showed
up at Charlottesville.    But they are not a base that
Democrats can build on.    The Republicans leaders know
they need to have them in their coalition, even though
they are (hopefully) a minority in that coalition.

So which Republican voters in 2016 might be persuadable
in 2018?

How about:

all the women who've noticed that the Republicans don't
seem to have a problem with sexual harassment

all the persons of color, and immigrants, and
non-Christians, and persons of unconventional sexual
orientation, who've noticed that the Republicans seem to
be much more interested in catering to that white, male,
native, conservative Christian, straight base than catering
to anybody else

all the youth who've noticed that the Republicans seem
to be much more interested in protecting their right to
shoot up schools than the students' right to survive

all the traditional conservatives who have noticed that the
Republicans are worse than ever in saying one thing and
doing another, and the things that they do are actively
undermining the basis of stable American democracy and
stable world order, substituting tribalism for principle,
and fascism and kleptocracy for the best American political
traditions.

So in addition to their traditional issues, Democrat
candidates need to embrace some additional points of view,
get some new people in the big tent, avoid exclusionary
ideological litmus tests, and not waste this historic
opportunity that Trump has handed them.

Ideological Republicans and Democrats alike are skilled
at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.    In 2018,
let the Republicans have that role.  historic opportunity

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California Primary June 5 !

Register by May 21 at http://registertovote.ca.gov/

Vote by mail May 7-29

Vote in person June 5  0700-2000 !

It's important for everybody to vote.      Staying home
is also a vote for "I don't care".      Is that
really your first choice?

Finding trustworthy information is difficult.      There
are basically no restrictions on what candidates and PACs
can say in print or electronic media.

Here's some non-partisan information sources recommended
by AARP:

 https://www.factcheck.org/ http://www.politifact.com/
 https://ballotpedia.org/

Here's another non-partisan source:

 https://lwvc.org/vote/elections/ballot-recommendations

Want something partisan?

If you think that California should be run more like
Mississippi or West Virginia or Wyoming, vote for the most
extreme Trumpists you can find.    This holds especially
for the current Republican congressional districts, and
above all for the districts held by Devin Nunes and Kevin
McCarthy and the California 7:

 https://www.ca7project.com/

Everybody else, vote for the most effective Democrat you
can find.    This is no time for self-indulgences like
voting for third-party or other candidates who don't have
a chance or staying home out of spite.

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Be the future you want the world to become:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/opinion/trump-father-coughlin-roosevelt.html

Embracing the dark side of the force does not sound like
the right answer:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/05/03/democrats-are-finally-doing-politics-the-way-republicans-do/

But there are signs that's where it's going:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/opinion/future-american-left.html

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Robots of the world, unite!

A PRC view of the future:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/05/03/end-of-capitalism/

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/opinion/sunday/china-colonial-power-jinping.html

And another point of view:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/then-they-came-for-peppa-pig/2018/05/03/172b7af6-4f0e-11e8-b725-92c89fe3ca4c_story.html

But there's money in it for the right people:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2018/05/04/feature/a-warrior-goes-to-china-did-erik-prince-cross-a-line/

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System rigged by big money

Maybe Trump is just the symptom, not the root cause:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-nation-is-mired-in-bitter-impotence/2018/05/02/74decfdc-4e3b-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html

Why is there so much political despair on the left and
the right when the economy is booming (and probably near
a top)?

Part of it has to do with how Republicans and now Democrats
campaign:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/05/03/democrats-are-finally-doing-politics-the-way-republicans-do/

As this is driven by a couple of factors:

Dark big money:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations

Narrow-casting and single-issue voters and candidates and
political structures that enable them to the detriment of
bipartisan problem solving:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#representative%20democracy
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#bipartisanship
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential

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Replace the Electoral College?

George Will explains, for those who skipped or slept
through civics class, how the Electoral College was
intended to protect political minorities by insuring that
presidents have to gain support across the whole country:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/02/george-will-why-trump-wants-to-replace-the-electoral-college-with-popular-vote-in-presidential-elections/

After all, the essence of democracy is observing that
minorities have rights and protecting them; simple majority
rule is the essence of the mob, which the Founders rightly
feared based on ancient and recent precedents.

Will observes that the winner-take-all outcome prescribed
in 48 of the 50 states is a critical part of the method
even though it's not in the Federal Constitution or any
Federal statute.    This is the basis for our two-party
system which has mostly provided an uncommon degree of
political stability compared to most other countries.
The necessity of gaining broad national majorities tends
to push the parties toward the center, but this tendency
has become undone in recent years by dark big money in
politics and single-issue narrow-casting media.

Many aspects of the Electoral College are obsolete:

* There is no need for the electors to meet in their state
capitals on a certain day in December; cell phones (and
even the telegraph) enabled the collusion across state
lines that the Founders were trying to avoid.

* There is no need to actually elect persons to serve
as electors for the purpose of meeting in their state
capital for one day: the RNC settled that last time by
threatening criminal and civil action against any electors
that might choose to exercise free will; so each secretary
of state should just certify the results of the election
to Congress.

* The over-representation of rural interests is excessive.
Rural interests are already over-represented in the Senate
and the House.  No need to add up over-representations.

That doesn't mean that direct popular election of
presidents is any better an idea than it was in 1787,
particularly without preferential balloting - which would
be tricky to validate on a national scale.  We could still
have primaries and caucuses and conventions and campaigns,
but without electing the President in November.  In January
of odd years, the House could elect a President by
distilling all the signal and noise generated the previous
year, voting by simple majority of individual members.

An an added bonus, to deal with the specific case of
a president whose egregious incompetence later becomes
inescapably blatant, while not rising to the impeachment
standard of high crimes or the 25th amendment standard
of disability: why not allow the House to elect a new
president at any time by 2/3 vote?      This would not
be a weekly occurrence; getting a 2/3 vote out of the
House on anything is difficult, more so if voting is by
state delegations.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#electoral%20college
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#amendments

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President Pence?

It used to be that one could look forward somehow to
President Pence succeeding President Trump, the sooner
the better.    Pence published his tax returns a long
time ago, didn't have any foreign investments or shady
real estate deals, didn't disparage America's allies or
praise foreign dictators.      Sure, Pence would be more
effective at getting reactionary legislation through
Congress, but it might be less of a risk than WW III.

But that was then.    Now:

 https://www.redstate.com/sarahquinlan/2018/05/01/vice-president-pence-calling-joe-arpaio-a-tireless-champion-of-rule-of-law-ignores-arpaios-record/

Joe Arpaio?   Really?

 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/gods-plan-for-mike-pence/546569/

All of a sudden, impeaching Trump seems less attractive.
It's not so clear that there would be a fundamental
improvement.

There's another school of thought, that while professing
ultra-Trumpian loyalty, Pence is craftily building an
independent legislative and governing team in order to hit
the ground running whenever that might be needed, in 2024,
2020, or sooner:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/us/politics/pence-trump-midterms.html

Studying politics can make you sick:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/09/navarrette-mike-pence-goes-to-arizona-and-loses-his-way/

==

It all does make W look better in retrospect, as he likes
to remind people:

 http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376909-bush-says-trump-makes-me-look-pretty-good-by-comparison-report

Though it doesn't do anything to improve the reputation of
President Cheney.   One can hope that the day will never
arrive when ordinary people look back fondly on the Trump
administration.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#registration

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Statutory Employee or Independent Contractor?

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/01/gig-economy-earthquake-california-supreme-court-rules-on-worker-classification/

There are certain statutory protections for employees,
and different potential benefits for being an independent
contractor - especially contractors that can organize
themselves as a business and benefit from the new tax law:

 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3089423

But the central idea of the gig economy is to create a
labor force without statutory protections and without any
of the benefits of real independent contractors.  Now the
California Supreme Court says no.  The IRS has also been
aggressively reclassifying contractors as employees:

 https://www.pashalaw.com/reduce-costs-reclassifying-employees-independent-contractors/

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It's time to welcome China as a great economic power

And it's time to insist that China act like a great
economic power - but the Trump administration has its eyes
firmly on the rearview mirror.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/opinion/america-china-trump-trade.html

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Republican candidates move closer to the president

The Republican Party is now the Trumpist Party - what
should Democrats do?

How many candidates can proudly position themselves as
Trumpier than Trump?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/26/us/don-blankenship-west-virginia-senate.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/22/us/politics/trump-republican-party.html

 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/boycott-the-gop/550907/

It should be an opportunity for Democrats, but even in
California issues have to be chosen carefully:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/23/california-cities-are-rebelling-against-state-sanctuary-law-but-how-far-can-they-go/

And the Republicans might do better in November than
special elections suggest:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/opinion/republicans-midterms-special-elections.html

What should Democrats be talking about instead?  There's
some evidence that proposing and debating ideas that
would actually improve the economic conditions of Trump
supporters is a waste of time:

 https://theintercept.com/2018/04/03/politics-liberal-democrat-conservative-republican/

But still there are plenty of those ideas in circulation:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/opinion/sunday/trump-republican-new-deal.html

such as

 https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/44/youre-hired/

 https://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/economy/reports/2018/04/17/169879/working-class-push-progressive-economic-policies/

 https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2017/05/16/432499/toward-marshall-plan-america/

Not all these ideas will be good policy at first, but they
have to be debated to get better.

Bartels at Vanderbilt reports that a majority of
Republicans support an active government role in social
welfare - contrary to the Libertarian line of many
"establishment" Republicans but in line with
Trump's campaign promise not to touch Social Security
and Medicare:

Could any of this actually happen despite the institutional
duopoly resistance to compromise?  It would have to happen
without Trump's involvement, since he is most dogmatic
about his worst ideas and most inept at getting his other
ideas through Congress.    And since so many Republican
legislators running in 2018 seem to define their ideology
by whatever Trump is for, they are fully occupied trying
to keep up with him instead of solving real problems for
their base.

If there are any Republicans who want to be identifiable
as something more constructive than Trumpists, time is
running out for them to come up with a credible Plan B
for solving real problems.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative

=====

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==========


What are the modern monopolies and trusts?

Trusts and monopolies can't work the way they did in
1900; Teddy Roosevelt and a Progressive Congress made
that illegal.  What about now?

An interesting article raises many questions:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/opinion/monopoly-power-new-gilded-age.html

In particular, it points out that lots of internet titans
have NO real competition:

 https://www.vox.com/2018/4/10/17220878/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-testimony-monopoly-graham

Institutional investors can end up owning all the major
companies in a market and encourage them to maximize profit
over other possible goals.    At least passive index funds
just hold in proportion to the index and don't attempt to
manage companies.

But what if killing pension-fund investment activism

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/opinion/investor-class-pensions.html

is the main reason that wealthy investors want to eliminate
public employee and other large pension funds in favor of
individual 401k's?

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined%20benefit

=====

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==========


Silicon Valley's housing crisis is becoming insoluble

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/27/construction-costs-could-hamper-bay-area-residential-towers/

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/01/as-bay-area-rents-soar-many-cant-keep-up/

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/01/construction-costs-could-limit-where-san-jose-homes-are-built-google-adobe-diridon/

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/03/why-the-bay-area-is-the-epicenter-of-californias-housing-crisis/

The mayor offers to cut permit fees, but all that does
is move the cost of supporting new development elsewhere
than the developer.     The fundamental problems of 1)
rising material costs, 2) rising labor costs, 3) rising
land costs, are all due to supply and demand and everything
points to a market top soon.     All three of the latter
will be remediated whenever the next recession takes hold,
but then nobody will want to buy.    You can't escape the
business cycle, because it's ultimately a phenomenon of
mass psychology:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#cycle

=====

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==========


Still looking for more take-home pay in your paycheck?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/opinion/republican-tax-cut-workers.html

 https://www.wsj.com/articles/still-waiting-for-the-tax-cut-boost-1524475800

The Republicans had so counted on the tax law as the
foundation of their 2018 campaigns:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/business/economy/tax-overhaul-survey.html

The Kochs are still keen on promoting it:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/opinion/apple-tax-cuts.html

But Trump seems to have already lost interest in his
tax bill:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/business/economy/tax-law-talking.html

He has such a short attention span.  Because it's so
boring!  Of course that's why ordinary citizens never
understand much about it, and that enables legislative
shenanigans.

Fortunately, Trump can afford to hire other people to
figure it all out for him.

Perhaps we can return to this topic in another 30 years:

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

=====

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==========


Not all Republicans are liars!

Here's Mick Mulvaney telling the honest truth:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/us/mulvaney-consumer-financial-protection-bureau.html

One might suppose that he's an honest politician, too,
at least according to the Simon Cameron criterion:

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will
stay bought.

Of course a better supposition is that politics will just
get worse until the people get the big dark money out
of politics:

 http://www.americanpromise.net/

 http://www.democracy21.org/money-in-politics/

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations

=====

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==========


Democratic Strategy in 2018

Renounce Nancy Pelosi, Ignore Donald Trump - and Win?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/12/opinion/mccready-north-carolina-lamb.html

How does the national Democratic party and its donors
decide who to encourage and who to discourage?     One
wants to fund plausible winners, but who can say for sure
who they are?  Everybody has an idea:

 https://theintercept.com/2018/01/23/dccc-democratic-primaries-congress-progressives/

Better Biden?
 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/opinion/to-beat-trump-build-a-better-biden.html

Even a Tea Party founder has given up on Trump; what could
Democrats do to help?
 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/opinion/mick-mulvaney-trump-swamp.html

What works in urban California does not work the same way
in rural California.    Democrats who hope to help retire
the California Seven:

 https://www.ca7project.com/

have to recognize that and not get too far ahead of the
median in their district:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/23/california-cities-are-rebelling-against-state-sanctuary-law-but-how-far-can-they-go/

So it's not clear what's going to work best, so it might
be best to try lots of things.    A problem with that,
in California, is that the way primaries work, everybody
can run, but only the two highest vote getters go on to the
general election.    Often this means the general election
is between two Democrats or between two Republicans.
The idea was to let everybody vote on the two choices -
but there's a problem.     What if party A has 60% of the
vote but 10 candidates, while party B has 40% of the vote
but only 2 candidates.     The general election will be
between party B's candidates, and the 60% of party A is
cut out.     Hence the effort by national committees to
weed out as many primary candidates as possible.

But there is another solution - using preferential voting.
As many candidates from as many parties as possible can
run, and no votes or candidates are wasted:

 http://www.fairvote.org/

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential

=====

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==========


Progressives should not take California voters for granted

Most surveys show California voters as a whole favorably
inclined toward most of the progressive economic justice
ideas espoused by the left wing of the Democratic party.
Most California voters are also motorists who want
government to do more about traffic congestion.

However it's important to remember that California is
also the home of Proposition 13 - "lower taxes and
who cares what it does to schools."  And a ballot
initiative seems likely to qualify, and might well pass,
to repeal a recent increase in the gasoline tax:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/30/gas-tax-repeal-heading-for-the-november-ballot-campaign-says/

The arguments in favor of repeal avoid talking about
the root cause of the problem:  gas tax receipts are
no longer proportional to highway usage wear and tear.
Electric vehicles pay no gas tax, and hybrid and efficient
conventional vehicles pay less than older cars, even though
a mile traveled by a 2000 pound car has the same impact
on the highway no matter how it's propelled.  It's a good
thing that modern cars use less gas, but it means that the
gas they use has to be taxed at a higher rate to sustain
the same level of highway maintenance.  No matter what
other process reforms are adopted, ultimately it's either
higher taxes or lesser government services.  Most voters
know how they feel about services and how they feel
about taxes.    They don't think so much about whether
there's an inherent contradiction in trying to satisfy
both feelings at once.    They forget that roads that are
falling apart are a form of taxation as well.

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/02/nearly-400-miles-of-san-jose-road-are-in-bad-shape/

So advocates of increased governmental services should be
as forthright as possible about the cost, so that there
is more buy-in at the time of adoption and less likelihood
of repeal.

In principle, every expenditure increase or decrease should
be accompanied automatically by a corresponding realistic
tax increase or decrease.  Separating the feel-good
vote from the feel-bad vote maximizes the chances of
unsatisfactory results.

For general government, that's part of the one-flat-tax
idea:

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

but that idea is not intended to address user fees such
as highway taxes.

=====

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==========


Russian Trolls' prime target is... Russians

 http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/trudy_rubin/vitaly-bespalov-russian-internet-trolls-fake-news-propaganda-trump-2016-election-savuskina-20180427.html

Mix real news with fake news so cleverly that most readers
aren't aware of the difference... practice sowing division
among Americans while frightening Russians into compliance.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-fake-news-russians-hear-at-home/2018/05/04/cd1b729c-4fc9-11e8-b725-92c89fe3ca4c_story.html

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#1984

=====

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==========


Only the Best People Serve.... Time

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-gives-a-new-political-cachet-to-the-criminal-class/2018/05/04/cf061490-4dfd-11e8-84a0-458a1aa9ac0a_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/crimes-are-no-longer-a-disqualification-for-republican-candidates/2018/04/30/c64a40ac-4807-11e8-827e-190efaf1f1ee_story.html

Beyond parody - nobody could make this stuff up!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/west-virginia-gop-candidate-says-mcconnell-created-jobs-for-china-people/2018/05/03/a3fea38a-4f28-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html

The original National Socialist Workers Party guy wrote a
best-seller when he was in prison and published it when he
got out.  Nowadays the equivalent will have to be to write
a best-seller while serving in government and publish it
when one gets out.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-top-aide-to-epa-chief-scott-pruitt-resigns-amid-scrutiny/2018/05/01/9db56f44-4d44-11e8-84a0-458a1aa9ac0a_story.html

If there's a self-serving opportunist with a history
of shady deals at the top, it's not surprising to find
self-serving opportunists with histories of shady deals
all the way down to the bottom.

=====

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==========


Republican Strategy in 2018

Republican Congressional leadership is worried that Trump
does not appreciate the trouble that the Republicans have
gotten into:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/28/us/politics/trump-midterm-elections.html

He thinks he can bluster his way out of trouble the same
way he always has; It doesn't have to be true if you can
convince people it could have been true.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/28/opinion/sunday/why-trump-supporters-dont-mind-his-lies.html

Would the left-behind Americans in the fly-over states
really want to compete in the economic world of the
coastal elites?    Presumably those that would, have
already retrained and relocated.     Would those who are
left in the middle want the congestion and stratospheric
cost of living to come to where they live now?

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#First%20Trump%20Constituency

=====

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Technology Trends

You don't really know about a technology can be used until
you know how it can be abused.

Is Google tracking Android users whether they permit it
or not?
 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/15/googles-location-tracking-ftc-probe-urged-australia-inquiry-begins/

Why are Russian intelligence agencies so interested in
blockchain?
 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/29/technology/blockchain-iso-russian-spies.html
Who does that gadget talk to?
 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/personaltech/beware-unknown-tech-brands.html

It's great to catch a serial killer.    But what other
uses of public genealogy data will be invented?
 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/health/dna-privacy-golden-state-killer-genealogy.html

How is Moviepass going to make money?    Or is it going
bankrupt?
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/infinity-war-was-a-huge-success-but-movie-theaters-facing-a-cloudy-future-are-weighing-radical-changes/2018/04/30/2499e8f2-4965-11e8-8b5a-3b1697adcc2a_story.html

Is China offering a preview of the future?

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#1984

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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National Summit for Democracy

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/02/28/trump-skeptics-gather-to-ask-if-democracy-can-survive-him/

A National Summit for Democracy was held a couple of months
ago to gather perspectives from the left, center, and
right about what to do about the erosion of conservative
and liberal democratic values:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-political-center-is-fighting-back/2018/04/25/6170f646-489b-11e8-827e-190efaf1f1ee_story.html

The Renew Democracy Initiative has an interesting
collection of directors and hopes to interpret the
Federalist Papers in light of current events:

 https://www.renew-democracy.org/about-renew-democracy-initiative/

Meanwhile, in the Senate, McConnell says he won't allow a
Mueller bill to come to a vote.  The practice of yielding
to the majority leader began in the late 1940s...  but it
makes bipartisan compromise harder to achieve.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/opinion/mitch-mcconnell-mueller-bill.html

But that could be overcome in the Senate; 47 + 2 + 4 = 53.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative

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Karl Marx is 200

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/opinion/karl-marx-at-200-influence.html

What is his lasting contribution?

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses

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Signing bonus for blue-collar workers

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/04/30/the-rise-of-the-blue-collar-signing-bonus-now-up-to-25000/

Can anybody not believe we are near the end of the
recovery?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/rare-trifecta-of-soaring-stocks-cheap-loans-and-low-inflation-coming-to-an-end/2018/04/30/77d57f66-496c-11e8-8b5a-3b1697adcc2a_story.html

The Fed is getting anxious:
 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/us/politics/fed-economy-overheating.html

Because nobody can defeat the business cycle:
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#cycle

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Marco Rubio is not impressed by tax cut bill

Rubio has noticed that the benefits flow mainly upward,
not downward:

 https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21741146-florida-senator-thinks-reheating-reaganomics-dead-end-marco-rubio-offers-his

Why did it take him so long to catch on?  I wonder how many
other Republicans will eventually notice the same thing?

But Rubio just proposes tinkering, instead of fundamental
change:

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

Rubio has been feuding with Leonard Pitts, Jr. of the
Miami Herald, who wrote

"I, personally, will not engage with Trump
supporters. Reasoning with them is   like reasoning with
rocks."

In here:
 http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article209844134.html

That sounds a bit judgmental, conflating two different
categories of Trump voters.       There's one group that
will always support Trump no matter what, because he
supports their prejudices no matter what:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency

But there's another category of Trump voters - those that
were also Obama voters, hoping for change their lives for
the better:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#First%20Trump%20Constituency

Some of these have proven to be persuadable and are worth
talking to.

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What is bipartisan problem solving?

It might be like trying to hold back the tide, but there
are people in Congress trying to make some kind of progress
where they can agree.     It sounds simple - isn't that
what they are paid to do - work out productive compromises?

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_Solvers_Caucus

inspired by

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Labels

Actually, no - the ideological voter base and the big
money donors have different ideas about the function of
Congress - total victory and no compromise.

Their success - measured by bipartisan meeting of minds in
their caucus rather than by getting a lot of legislation
passed against the tide - has been in finding things
everybody could agree to.

A different kind of bipartisan operating involves coupling
two issues, one key to each side, and trying to find a
way that both can get the most important thing they want.

For instance, consider

Obamacare - the Democrats and a few Republicans would
like to fix some of its problems to make it better.
Most Republicans want to repeal it lock, stock, and barrel,
and don't want to make it better for fear that will reduce
the chance of repeal later (though if they couldn't get
it repealed in 2017 they're sure not going to have better
luck in 2019).  And in 2018 they don't want to embolden
their further-right or further-Trump Republican primary
opponents and they don't want to hand the Democrats any
kind of victory to brag about in the general election.

TCJA - the new tax law passed just before Christmas - the
Republicans and a few Democrats would like to fix some
of its problems to make it better.  Most Democrats want
to repeal it lock, stock, and barrel, and don't want to
make it better for fear that will reduce the chance of
repeal later.  And in 2018 they don't want to embolden
their further-left or further-Bernie Democratic primary
opponents and they don't want to hand the Republicans any
kind of victory to brag about in the general election.

Most people don't consider these morally equivalent
issues - but they are politically equivalent in 2018.
Wouldn't it be better to make both laws better now - for
the benefit of the majority of voters who aren't extreme
ideologues and aren't major campaign donors, who just want
to get on with their lives?

That's not to say that more significant change won't happen
in 2019.  But a lot of things might happen between now
and then, not necessarily the ones we expect, so why not
fix what can be fixed now?

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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It's hazardous to mess with Social Security

Nicaragua tried to fix its unfunded Social Security system
by reducing benefits and raising taxes.    Subsequent
rioting convinced the regime otherwise:

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/23/nicaragua-withdraws-social-security-changes-after-people-killed-in-riots

Even reporting on the rioting could be fatal:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/04/25/reporters-without-borders-just-released-its-annual-press-freedom-report-card-and-the-grades-are-dismal/

Perhaps the Venezuelan solution will be adopted: print
money.  You can read how that's working out:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/03/23/venezuela-hopes-to-tackle-the-worlds-worst-inflation-by-deleting-zeros-from-its-currency/

One hopes that America will find a more sensible solution
before it gets that bad.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined%20benefit

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California - Liberalism's Golden Dream?

There is a school of thought that California's present
socio-political structure represents the end game to which
the rest of the country and world will eventually evolve.
But there are a lot of reasons to doubt that:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/opinion/california-democrats-trump-republicans.html

Income inequality is the biggest - which is getting worse
on practically a daily basis:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/25/nightmare-90-minute-super-commutes-more-common-housing-shortage-intensifies/

If the people who do less exalted work than architecting
the future can't afford to come to work here any more -
and there is already a small segment of the homeless
population that has jobs but can barely afford to live
in their car - then the architects of the future are
going to have to also tend their own gardens, cook their
own food, wash their own dishes, make their own beds...
And that might reduce the pace of future architecture.
Already every restaurant has a Help Wanted sign, and even
the post office can't hire enough workers...

And it's all because they don't get paid a living wage.
To be paid more, that means higher prices and higher taxes.

But suppose we solved all that.    Would we still have a
harmonious just society?    Just ask Macron or Merkel -
a strong economy isn't enough to get political stability:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/opinion/trump-macron-merkel-economy.html

Somethings else are going on:

 https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/23/17233952/trump-democracy-decay-decline-coup-war-collapse-impeachment

It's not like the rise of fascism during the economic
distress of the 1930's.  Trump is the symptom, not the
root cause.  It may be that dramatic revolutionary change
(like impeachment) would provoke the worst possible results
(revolutions usually do), and that future generations
will be more likely to be around to thank us if we muddle
through our problems incrementally.

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative

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Angels in America still matters

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/20/the-bay-area-show-that-launched-a-movement-why-angels-in-america-still-matters/

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/30/epic-angels-in-america-revived-at-berkeley-rep-and-its-as-powerful-as-ever/

Berkeley Rep's artistic director comments:

"Kushner is so prescient it's scary. Many of the
issues explored in the play, the threat to the environment,
the threat to our democracy, the corruption of the
political system, all of that is much more terrifying
now."

This very large work covers a lot of ground.
What's particularly relevant to this page is the
interaction between the dying Roy Cohn and the ghosts
of the Rosenbergs.    During his lifetime, Roy Cohn was
considered a distasteful outlier, who finally got the
disbarment he deserved, was remembered as an "ice-cold
sleaze" in the National Review, and little mourned;
Trump didn't even return Cohn's calls after Trump didn't
need him any more.

"Unequal distribution doesn't bother me" -
Roy Cohn

Who knew that a greedy self-serving opportunist like that
could be elected President!  Equal opportunity at last!
And at least, if one has a family, then maybe somebody will
attend your dying hours besides the ghosts of your victims.

But equal opportunity works both ways.    At least in
France, it's still possible for sincerely inspiring
politicians to become President:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/french-president-macron-charms-both-parties-in-an-impassioned-speech-to-congress/2018/04/25/bbd600ba-4894-11e8-827e-190efaf1f1ee_story.html

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More on the new tax law:

 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/half-of-new-small-business-tax-break-will-go-to-filers-earning-over-1-million-report-finds

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/us/politics/spreadsheets-at-dawn-the-new-tax-battle-is-all-about-data.html

 http://thehill.com/policy/finance/384475-jct-much-of-pass-through-benefit-in-tax-law-goes-to-the-wealthy

 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/special-trump-tax-provision-gives-17-billion-break-millionaires-gov-n868511

Missed the previous discussions here?:

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/608580462819810

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/606340306377159

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/600105303667326

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/556413984703125

 Care to consider something simpler?

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

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Where do wars come from?

To defeat the internal opposition, of course:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/opinion/international-world/saudi-iran-prince-mohammed.html

And to keep the masses busy:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses

Religious leaders will help too, when it's in their
interest:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#religious

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Still looking for more take-home pay in your paycheck?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/04/24/hows-that-tax-cut-selling/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/tax-cuts-are-no-longer-the-shiny-object-that-republicans-hoped-theyd-be/2018/04/23/a671b228-4736-11e8-827e-190efaf1f1ee_story.html

 https://www.wsj.com/articles/still-waiting-for-the-tax-cut-boost-1524475800

Some Republicans seem to be slow learners:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/republicans-fear-political-risk-in-senate-races-as-house-moves-to-extend-tax-cuts/2018/04/18/5eb250a4-4313-11e8-ad8f-27a8c409298b_story.html

They had so counted on the tax law as the foundation of
their 2018 campaigns:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/business/economy/tax-overhaul-survey.html

Trump seems to have already lost interest in his tax bill:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/business/economy/tax-law-talking.html

He has such a short attention span.  Because it's so
boring!  Of course that's why ordinary citizens never
understand much about it, and that enables legislative
shenanigans.

Fortunately, Trump can afford to hire other people to
figure it all out for him.

Perhaps we can return to this topic in another 30 years:

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

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Preferential voting allows minority representation

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/23/santa-claras-voting-system-attacked-in-court-as-discriminatory/

Santa Clara is going to court to defend its at-large method
of electing a city council.      It's alleged that this
disenfranchises the 30% of voters there who are Asian.

But at-large multi-member districts disenfranchise any
minorities, whether ethnic, economic, or by allegiance to
sports teams.

Consider a city with 10 council seats and two distinct
populations, the ABC's which are 70% and the XYZ's which
are 30%.   It's thought that ABC voters only vote for ABC
candidates, while XYZ voters only vote for XYZ candidates.
The plaintiffs in the Santa Clara case believe that.

If true, then it follows that simple at-large voting
disenfranchises them.  They'll never be able to elect
any candidate.

And if the XYZ's are spread out evenly in the city rather
than concentrated in ghettos - because segregation is a
thing of the past - then having separate districts won't
work either because the XYZ's will never have a majority
in any district.

Is there no way that the XYZ's can get 30% of council
seats?  Yes, there is a way - preferential voting in
multimember districts.

 http://www.fairvote.org/

With preferential voting - also called ranked-choice voting
- as many candidates can run representing as many factions
as possible, and if there is an ABC/XYZ split as above,
the results will be that the XYZ's get about the 30%
that they deserve, and nobody wastes a vote.

And fringier candidates who want to make an impact can
run and perhaps be elected if they modify their message
toward the median of the district.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential

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Media should shut up about mass killers

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-must-stop-giving-mass-killers-what-they-want/2018/04/24/4fbde4be-47eb-11e8-9072-f6d4bc32f223_story.html

A man who was known by no one, is now known by everyone...

Men (mostly) with no self-esteem, suddenly get their 15
minutes of fame.    Sure there's a price to pay - but it's
better than a lifetime of being ignored.    Like Willie
Loman, attention must be paid.

So it's up to the media - they can make the difference
here.  Maybe no name, no photo, just a recitation of
known facts from the police about the victims, not about
the suspect.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#second%20amendment

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Dunning-Kruger: is this why women tend to be more
self-critical than men?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/smarter-living/how-to-spot-and-overcome-your-hidden-weaknesses.html

Maybe it doesn't have anything to do with hunters and
gatherers after all.

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Municipal Internet - acting locally for net neutrality

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/saving-net-neutrality-one-house-at-a-time/2018/04/22/a4de8a7e-39af-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html

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Don't Define Benefits without defining how they will
be funded

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/22/walters-california-cities-school-districts-pushed-to-the-brink-of-insolvency/

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/14/business/pension-finance-oregon.html

California, like several other states and many local
governments and Federal territories, has painted itself
into an uncomfortable corner over defined benefit pensions
for public employees.

It's not the case that public employees are making out
like gangbusters everywhere:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/22/business/economy/public-employees.html

There's nothing inherently wrong with defined benefit
pensions - many people expect benefits from one called
Social Security.  The problem is making sure that the money
is there when the benefits are due.    It's going to be a
problem for Social Security - when it was set up, nobody
expected pensioners to live for 30 years of benefits -
but at least the Federal government could print money if
it came to that.      State and local governments can't
do that.

The typical underlying problem is that pension funds
project unrealistic investment results, and so the money
they do collect along the way doesn't grow fast enough.
Who knows where the projections come from, but just
imagine...

If you put 1000 monkeys at computer terminals to manage
money at random, in any given year a few of them will do
really well.    Of course, none of them will do really well
year after year in up markets and down.  Threatening the
other monkeys that their bananas will be taken away if
they don't match the best results every year won't help -
the winners were just lucky.

Professional active money managers shouldn't be compared to
monkeys typing at random - that's unfair to the monkeys.
A number of factors conspire to insure that, over
long periods of up and down markets, on average active
investment managers underperform passive index funds.
But the lucky winners in any particular year drive
unrealistic expectations.  But who cares?     That's the
next generation's problem.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined%20benefit

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What happens if the provisions in the new law are made
permanent?

A number of provisions in the new tax law are due to
expire in 2026.  That includes many provisions intended
to benefit the average taxpayer.    But making all those
2026-expiring provisions permanent won't change things
much - except making the deficit will be even worse -
most of the benefits will flow through to the top 20%.
That's because the 2026-expiring provisions include the
estate tax reduction and the deduction for pass-through
business income.  Read all about in the ITEP analysis:

 https://itep.org/tcja20182026/

Big banks aren't complaining about the new tax law:

 https://apnews.com/96589643061e4437bd45fdcc35959fe0

Some of that money will come in handy at Wells Fargo,
that's for sure:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/20/wells-fargo-to-pay-1b-for-mortgage-auto-lending-abuses/

Elsewhere, an interesting illustration of the effect
of fast-track tax legislation came to light... it's a
bit complicated of course, which is why it took a while.
The IRS category "Supplementary Wages" includes
payments from Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Plans,
which in most of the country are only available to senior
management, but in Silicon Valley are sometimes offered
to senior technologists as well.    They are taxable
as ordinary income in the year paid, but the question
is what rate of withholding should be used.  It used to
be 25% on the first million dollars and 35% above that.
The treatment of deferred compensation plans in the new
tax law changed on an hourly basis during December until
the final bell rang and the bill passed.    So while it
was clear that the final decision was that the excess rate
would be 37% instead of 35% (this was a tax cut bill?),
it wasn't obvious whether the first million was supposed
to be taxed at 28% or 22% instead of 25%:

 https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/Tax/us-tax-reform-payroll-implications.pdf

under "Supplemental rates."     After 2018
started, the IRS made a decision for 22%:

 https://twrblog.com/category/tax-reform/

under "IRS Releases Withholding Guidance,"
and issued a notice:

 https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/n1036.pdf

under "Withholding on Supplemental Wages."

This is a relatively minor matter - it's just the
withholding rate, not the tax rate.    One wonders what
other, most consequential, accidental provisions have
become law.

It could be a lot simpler:

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

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The Alt-Right is also beyond parody

Perhaps they'll be back, or perhaps they'll submerge back
into the regular subliminally fascist-racist crowd.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/imploding-lawsuits-fundraising-troubles-trailer-park-brawls-has-the-alt-right-peaked/2018/04/20/0a2fb786-39a6-11e8-9c0a-85d477d9a226_story.html

And Bannon doesn't seem to be getting a lot of press
any more.

Maybe they'd all be happier emigrating to some place like
Hungary where they might be welcome - if they bring money.

Ludicrous as they may be, their bile inspires the gullible:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/04/20/the-threat-of-white-radical-extremism-in-the-age-of-trump/

Justice done twice in one week.

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Is Tribe more important than Ideas?

Have Democrats been wasting their time trying to figure
out how to objectively improve the lives of the Trump base?

 https://theintercept.com/2018/04/03/politics-liberal-democrat-conservative-republican/

Here's the full study by Lilliana Mason:

 https://academic.oup.com/poq/article/82/suppl_1/280/4951269?guestAccessKey=ccb478a8-84ee-4dda-ae29-b3ffde16f893

ABSTRACT

The distinction between a person's ideological identity and
their issue positions has come more clearly into focus in
recent research. Scholars have pointed out a significant
difference between identity-based and issue-based ideology
in the American electorate. However, the affective and
social effects of these separate elements of ideology
have not been sufficiently explored. Drawing on a national
sample collected by SSI and data from the 2016 ANES, this
article finds that the identity-based elements of ideology
are capable of driving heightened levels of affective
polarization against outgroup ideologues, even at low
levels of policy attitude extremity or constraint. These
findings demonstrate how Americans can use ideological
terms to disparage political opponents without necessarily
holding constrained sets of policy attitudes.

Unite America reports:

Groundbreaking new research suggests that one's political
identity matters more than one's issue-based ideology in
explaining the deepening divisions of American politics.

The University of Maryland's Lilliana Mason found that
how strongly one affiliates with a given team - be it
liberal or conservative - is more predictive of how they
feel about the other team than what they actually believe
on any set of issues. (You can read the full study here.)

Mason explains the consequences: If policy outcomes are
less important than team victory, a policy compromise is
a useless concession to the enemy.

These findings underscore the importance of our work in
creating a movement of Uniters who can put their labels
aside and put our country first.

 https://www.uniteamerica.org/

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You are the Product, not the Customer!

The customer is whoever is willing to pay somebody for
the data they collected about you:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/19/what-data-does-your-ios-app-collect-and-why/

Ever wonder how MoviePass is going to survive?

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/19/is-moviepass-sustainable-its-parent-company-is-bleeding-money-auditor-says/

The rules might be different in Europe:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/19/facebook-moving-most-users-from-protection-of-eu-privacy-law/

Three related reports on today's Mercury Business page
(used to be a Business section).

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/non-political.html#rewards

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An Unexpected Appreciation of Lawyers - by de Tocqueville

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-best-parts-of-comeys-book-have-nothing-to-do-with-trump/2018/04/19/307df2ae-440f-11e8-bba2-0976a82b05a2_story.html

And if they don't teach enough American History in schools,
and you don't know who de Tocqueville was:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America

He was the first European writer to really get what America
was and what America was becoming, good and bad.

de Tocqueville didn't live long enough to meet Cohn and
Cohen; that might have changed his opinion.

And as for lawyers - if you ever under criminal
investigation - get yourself a good  lawyer and follow
the expensive advice:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trumps-problem-isnt-that-he-has-bad-lawyers-its-that-hes-a-bad-client/2018/04/19/5bf7d43a-4352-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html

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Repeat: Do not act like Republicans in the primaries!

At this rate they won't have any more feet to shoot
themselves in.  It's hard to run for office on two
wounded feet.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/razor-thin-senate-majority-bloody-primary-fights-hamstring-gop/2018/04/19/072b674a-43e4-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html

E. J.Dionne Jr. wrote an interesting piece recalling
identical political advice from both Barney Frank and
William F. Buckley Jr. - in the primaries, support the
most radical candidate who can win in the general election.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/against-trump-pragmatism-and-principle-might-be-the-same-thing/2018/03/18/9d9c65a2-2955-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html

Both were more interested in making laws rather than making
ideological points, and to make (or repeal) laws you need
to have majorities in legislatures.    Both Republican and
Democratic strategists have been known to quietly fund the
fringe candidates in the other party's primary in order
to have a more beatable opponent in the general election.
And now we know that the Russian propaganda machinery also
has an interest in quietly fanning extreme ideological
partisanship.

So when it's your turn to participate in primary season,
you do your best to determine which of your party's
candidates has the best chance against the best of the
other party's.     That's not necessarily the same as the
one you might prefer in a perfect world.  Particularly in
a contestable district, a successful candidate should
not be too far ahead ideologically of the median voter of
the district.

What about in districts where it's a foregone conclusion
which party is going to win?    What should the other
party do there?     In that case, since no candidate
is electable, then the minority party might as well act
like the Libertarians and Greens and nominate the most
articulate exponent of the minority party's principles.
Here the purpose of running is to plant seeds in the mind
of the majority voters that might bear fruit in the future.

Things might be easier if elections were conducted with
preferential voting as advocated by

 http://www.fairvote.org/

Then as many candidates could run as wanted, and as many
parties compete as wanted, without anybody diluting anybody
else's chances, and with a higher probability that the
final winner represents the broadest possible consensus
in the district.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential

=====

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==========


Trump can't pass laws, but he can sure repeal them

If Obama (or Bush or Clinton) signed it, Trump can
repeal it!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/04/18/new-gop-tactics-wage-war-on-obama-era-protections/

Trump can get rid of those pesky regulations that are
oppressing America's hard-working billionaires!

=====

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==========


"Impeach Trump" might be the wrong battle cry
in 2018

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/22/opinion/trump-impeachement-america.html

According to an NPR/PBS/Marist poll:

47 percent of registered voters would definitely vote
against a candidate who wanted to remove Trump from office,
while 42 percent would definitely vote for a candidate
who would make such a promise.  47 percent of independent
voters - whose opinions could be decisive - also say they
would vote against candidates favoring impeachment:

 https://www.npr.org/2018/04/18/603408469/npr-pbs-newshour-marist-poll-pushing-impeachment-would-backfire-on-democrats-in

According to Jennifer Rubin:

Rather than the "I" word (impeachment), Democrats
would be wise to make this about the "A"
word (accountability).  And accountability begins with
transparency and fact-finding.

A Haas poll shows that even in California, some Trump
policies have significant support:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/18/half-of-californians-support-deportations-muslim-travel-ban-survey-finds/

Both polls note that the electorate seems to be comfortable
holding contradictory views of things.     Remember most
voters think about politics a lot less than you do!

=====

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==========


Fomenting Division - it's not just the Russians

A sixth of the problem is definitely attributable to
Russian interference, which is a big story in itself.
But five sixths of the problem comes from other sources,
probably mostly home-grown and legal, and that's an even
bigger story:

 https://www.wired.com/story/russian-facebook-ads-targeted-us-voters-before-2016-election/

== ABSTRACT: In light of the foreign interference in the
2016 U.S. elections, the present research asks the question
of whether the digital media has become the stealth
media for anonymous political campaigns.  By utilizing
a user-based, real-time, digital ad tracking tool, the
present research reverse engineers and tracks the groups
(Study 1) and the targets (Study 2) of divisive issue
campaigns based on 5 million paid ads on Facebook exposed
to 9,519 individuals between September 28 and November
8, 2016.

The findings reveal groups that did not file reports to the
Federal Election Commission (FEC) - nonprofits, astroturf
/movement groups, and unidentifiable "suspicious"
groups , including foreign entities - ran most of the
divisive issue campaigns.  One out of six suspicious groups
later turned out to be Russian groups. The volume of ads
sponsored by non-FEC groups was four times larger than that
of FEC-groups.  Divisive issue campaigns clearly targeted
battleground states, including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
where traditional Democratic strongholds supported Trump
by a razor thin margin. The present research asserts that
media ecology, the technological features and capacity of
digital media, as well as regulatory loopholes created by
Citizens United v.  FEC and the FEC's disclaimer exemption
for digital platforms contribute to the prevalence of
anonymous groups' divisive issue campaigns on digital
media. The present research offers insight relevant for
regulatory policy discussion and discusses the normative
implications of the findings for the functioning of
democracy.  ==

 https://journalism.wisc.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/41/files/2018/04/Kim.FB_.StealthMedia.Final_.PolCom.0411181.pdf

=====

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==========


Do we need political parties?

America's founders considered partisanship to be poison,
and devised as many institutional barriers as they could
think of, but within a few years the Federal political
system had become strictly partisan - and has remained a
duopoly almost always ever since.    Is this a good thing
or a bad thing?

Jon Ward argues that political parties have an essential
role - but they are losing their power to modulate the
political process for good (or ill):

 https://www.yahoo.com/news/power-party-political-reforms-can-bad-democracy-090049295.html

His argument could be put this way: most voters have very
little knowledge about how the government works or how
it is supposed to work.  But a great deal of specialized
information is required to select good candidates, win
elections, and run the government.    The institutional
role of political parties is to preserve this knowledge
and pass it on.  It is possible to win an election without
really engaging a party structure - new technology and
personal wealth allowed Trump to do so  - but he didn't
expect to win and didn't know what to do next, and he
didn't know whom to ask, as has become abundantly apparent.
Many party reforms intended to improve democratic outcomes
have had the opposite effect.    The main conclusion
is that party structures need to be strengthened.    He
doesn't say anything about third parties and independents.

Gehl and Porter view the two-party system as an industrial
duopoly:

 https://www.hbs.edu/competitiveness/Documents/why-competition-in-the-politics-industry-is-failing-america.pdf

and argue that the two main parties are powerful and act
to prevent effective competition, but are inexorably
driven to differentiate themselves at extremes rather
than find practical solutions in the middle.  Yet this
view leads to one similar conclusion:  reforms intended to
improve democratic outcomes often have the opposite effect.
The main conclusion though is that the power of the duopoly
needs to be reduced to break the deadlock in the system,
to enable bipartisan, nonpartisan independent, and third
party solution sources.

Obviously both points of view can't be completely correct
at the same time, though there's a lot to think about
in each.

=====

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==========


Tax Too Boring for Trump, but not for House

Some Republicans seem to be slow learners.  They had so
counted on the tax law as the foundation of their 2018
campaigns:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/business/economy/tax-overhaul-survey.html

The Senate seems to have figured out that they'll have to
find something else:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/opinion/trump-tax-cut-snake-oil.html

but the House are fanatics and think that if they just
need to sell it better.

Trump seems to has already lost interest in his tax bill:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/business/economy/tax-law-talking.html

He has such a short attention span.  Because it's so
boring!  Of course that's why ordinary citizens never
understand much about it, and that enables legislative
shenanigans.

 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3089423

The more Republicans try to sell all that, the more voters
will catch on.

Fortunately, Trump can afford to hire other people to
figure it all out for him.

And Paul Ryan, who considered those shenanigans his
crowning achievement... is giving up and going home.

Then:

 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trumps-next-challenge-making-tax-cuts-great-again

Now:

 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/gop-tax-law-trump-2018-midterms

The velocity of the scandal storm and tweet storm give
everybody attention deficit and we can't remember what
concerned us yesterday.

Perhaps we can return to this topic in another 30 years:

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

=====

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==========


Did you need to file Form 1040-EL ?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/opinion/taxes-1040-emotional.html

You file 1040-EL in case 2017 politics made you sad:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/opinion/depressed-by-politics-just-let-go.html

or sick:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2017/02/15/americans-are-seriously-stressed-out-about-the-future-of-the-country-survey-finds/

But you are out of luck if the IRS computers are still
down:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/irs-electronic-filing-system-breaks-down-hours-before-tax-deadline/2018/04/17/4c05ecae-4255-11e8-ad8f-27a8c409298b_story.html

=====

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==========


California to mandate net neutrality

Just because the Trump administration is trying make a U
turn to Make America Great like 1880 Again, California
continues to move forward on its own in order to be
prepared to meet the future.

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/16/california-bill-would-restore-strengthen-net-neutrality-protections/

SB822 with wide public support and 14 co-sponsors looks
like a winner for everybody except possibly a few actual
and wannabe billionaires who'd like to turn the internet
into a private toll road.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#neutrality

=====

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==========


Why California Republicans can't be parodied

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/16/california-travis-allen-gas-tax-repeal-ads/

It's amazing how much can be packed into one little
article, including abuse of campaign finance laws.  Get the
big money out of politics!

 http://www.americanpromise.net/

(And incidentally, require documentation of the
percentage of signatures procured by paid procurers to
get initiative/referendum/recall measures on the ballot.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#no%20confidence
)

The reason California Republicans are in such a tizzy to
get the gas tax initiative on the ballot?    They are
afraid their demoralized base won't show up to vote in
June and November and a bunch more of their state and
Federal legislators will get an early retirement present
from the Democrats:

 https://www.ca7project.com/

But the Republican base here can be counted on to show up
to vote against taxes, even as they complain about the
state of the roads they drove on to get to the polling
place.

As for the gas tax, there probably are fairer ways to pay
for much-needed transportation infrastructure maintenance.
Since a 2000 pound electric vehicle does as much road
damage as a 2000 pound gas vehicle driven the same mileage,
they should be sharing the bill equally (there remain a
number of other incentives to electric vehicle ownership).
So in principle, the road tax should be proportional to
weight times mileage, and indeed the DMV has been running
voluntary trials based on measuring mileage:

 http://cbslocal.com/2017/12/12/california-considers-mileage-tax/

That's kind of intrusive for private passenger cars,
so it might be more broadly palatable to just tax all
private passenger cars based on an average mileage number
like 12,000 per year, and just do measured mileage on
commercial vehicles.

Even without considering electric and hybrid vehicles,
which are going to become increasingly necessary to meet
mileage requirements to achieve greenhouse gas goals,
improving gas mileages for conventional engines is also
drying up highway funding, so something has to be done.

=====

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==========


Time to replace your router?

Or at least the administrative password to your router...

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/world/europe/us-uk-russia-cybersecurity-threat.html

Your router is probably one or more little boxes that are
between your computer and your cable or phone connection.
You might connect to it through an ethernet cable or a
local wireless connection.

Your router is a small general purpose computer with full
internet capabilities, so...  bad guys are always trying
to find an HNAP connection:

 https://routersecurity.org/hnap.php

For instance, in the month of March, there were three
attempts like this one on the local network:

[Sat Mar 03 23:34:46 2018] [error] [client 108.33.213.8]
File does not exist: /var/apache2/htnull/HNAP1

from these IP's:

108.33.213.8 DNS
static-108-33-213-8.tampfl.fios.frontiernet.net.
141.105.71.129 RIPE NCONNECT-NET direct announce
216.165.247.159 DNS 216-165-247-159.championbroadband.com.

Who might these be?

Parts of the industry are belatedly deciding not to enable
cyberterrorism:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/us/politics/tech-companies-cybersecurity-accord.html

=====

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==========


Challenging the Duopoly -  tackling do-nothing politics

There are many obstacles facing third-party and independent
candidates that most Republican and Democratic candidates
are unaware of:

 https://www.uniteamerica.org/independents_feel_secure_despite_ballot_access_hurdles_ahead

But that's just part of a much bigger picture:

 https://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2017/09/13/harvard-business-schools-latest-case-study-looks-at-american-politics-and-finds-a-rigged-system/

refers to Gehl and Porter:

 https://www.hbs.edu/competitiveness/Documents/why-competition-in-the-politics-industry-is-failing-america.pdf

In 2011, Harvard Business School launched a
U. S. Competitiveness Project to understand why the
American economy has been so sluggish lately.  They soon
discovered that a lot of the problem was politics.
No surprise!

Looking at the American "political industry" from
the point of view of industrial competition, it quickly
became clear that the political industry was showing all
the signs to be expected of any other industry that had
become a duopoly that effectively blocked any new entrants.

The http://www.americanpromise.net/ discussion group
mentions the work of Gehl and Porter, linked above.
They attempt to get past obsessing over symptoms in order
to discern root causes and potential treatments:

PART I sets the stage by assessing the outcomes that
politics is delivering, revealing a broken system that
has become the major barrier to progress in America.
PART II shows how the political system is not a public
institution but a private industry that sets its own
rules.  In the process, it has fundamentally diminished
our democracy.  PART III describes the essential outcomes
we should expect from a well-functioning political system,
but are not achieving.  PART IV uses the Five Forces
framework to analyze how the evolving structure of the
politics industry has led to the failure of political
competition to serve the average citizen - and to the
antithesis of the outcomes we need to achieve.  PART V
explores the deliberate changes that have undermined our
political system beginning in the early 20th century.
PART VI puts forth a strategy for reinvigorating our
democracy by addressing the root causes of the political
dysfunction we are experiencing. This will require action
by our fellow citizens, because our political system will
not be self-correcting. We must change it.

Just a few examples:

* their description rang a bell from freshman political
science; the regulator and regulated tend to become one:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

* the Hastert rule means a majority of the House can't
even bring a bill to the floor for a vote:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastert_Rule

* sore-loser laws promote extremism and discourage centrist
and independent candidates from running in the primary
and the general election:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sore-loser_law

* abolition of earmarks and open-meeting rules have had
the unintended side effects of making compromise much
more difficult.

The report mentions a number of interesting organizations
working for change on various aspects of the problems:

 https://www.uniteamerica.org/ https://www.nolabels.org/
 http://www.independentvoterproject.org/
 https://www.openprimaries.org/ http://www.rcvmaine.com/
 https://represent.us/ http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/
 http://www.changetherule.org/
 http://www.blueprintsfordemocracy.org/
 https://www.issueone.org/ https://independentvoting.org/
 https://www.governforcalifornia.org/

Some of these may be worthy of your support.

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A Republican New Deal is much like a Democratic New Deal

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/opinion/sunday/trump-republican-new-deal.html

Geoffrey Kabaservice suggests that the Republicans might
save themselves in the short and long term by embracing
a number of projects that might actually help their most
Trumpian base of rural white people who are on the lower
end of the scale of income and education:

rebuilding our decaying national infrastructure

vigorous support for universal entitlements like Social
Security and Medicare

robust wage subsidies

a generous child care tax credit

apprenticeship programs linked to specific high-skilled
jobs

a national version of a California proposal to make housing
more affordable:
 https://www.city-journal.org/html/california-housing-revolution-15731.html

That much sounds pretty Democratic to me!  In fact the
Center for American Progress produced much the same list
for the Democratic party:

 https://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/economy/reports/2018/04/17/169879/working-class-push-progressive-economic-policies/

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/22/opinion/big-economic-ideas.html

 https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2017/05/16/432499/toward-marshall-plan-america/

It seems that these are areas that could engender
bipartisan support if the will were there.

Kabaservice expects that the Republicans would continue
some of their traditional practices in other areas, and
would retain their megadonors by continuing to dismantle
Federal regulation, and would retain their single-issue
voters by nominating conservative Federal judges.  So you
could still tell the difference between the parties.

Kabaservice cites academic studies to support his thesis:

Bartels at Vanderbilt reports that a majority of
Republicans support an active government role in social
welfare - contrary to the Libertarian line of many
"establishment" Republicans but in line with
Trump's campaign promise not to touch Social Security
and Medicare:

Could any of this actually happen despite the institutional
duopoly resistance to compromise?  It would have to
happen without Trump's involvement, since he is most
dogmatic about his worst ideas and most inept at getting
his other ideas through Congress.    And a large number
of Republican legislators running in 2018 seem to define
their ideology by whatever Trump is for, which means they
are fully occupied trying to keep up with him instead of
solving real problems for their base.

If there are any Republicans who want to be identifiable
as something more constructive than Trumpists, time is
running out for them to come up with a credible Plan B
for solving real problems.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative

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Oregon was too optimistic about defined-benefit pensions

If you've ever been through Klamath Falls, you know that
town does not need additional pension debt burden:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/14/business/pension-finance-oregon.html

but it's got it, needed or not.    Promising generous
pensions based on a generous stock market is asking for
trouble, and trouble has responded.

Defined-benefit pensions should only be offered by the
Federal government, since only they can print money to pay
for them.    Social Security is our premier defined-benefit
pension, and it's available to many people, but not
everybody: it would be better if everybody were required
to pay in and everybody were entitled to the benefit.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined%20benefit

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Land Wars in Asia: can't stay out and can't get out?

Even the wars that are fought by our nominal allies can
have repercussions we might not be able to avoid:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/14/opinion/sunday/yemen-antibiotic-resistance-disease.html

We might be paying for the Yemen war for a long time;
after all, we're still paying for installing the Taliban
in Afghanistan during the Reagan administration.

It would seem obvious that diplomacy is a lot less
expensive than warfare, but the Trump administration can't
even be bothered to nominate diplomats:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-collapse-of-the-us-led-world-order-has-done-more-harm-than-we-realize/2018/04/15/c9156c04-3e8d-11e8-8d53-eba0ed2371cc_story.html

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When did the Democrats become the party of Fiscal
Responsibility?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/15/opinion/democrats-fiscal-responsibility.html

One might have thought that the Democrats just recently
saw the light in response to Trumpian populism; populists
are notoriously irresponsible about deficits and printing
money - just go to Venezuela to see what happens next.

But there's a remarkable pattern in the actual data:
over the last 40+ years, the Democrats have actually been
more responsible about raising taxes to pay for increased
spending, and even cutting spending.

And if Trump really wants to do something about foreign
trade deficits, maybe he should start with the domestic
deficit.  It's immoral to make future generations pay for
present consumption.    But who's expecting the Democrats
or Republicans to take the lead on that any time soon?

Our political industry, organized as a duopoly, is
inherently unable to solve problems through compromise:

 https://www.hbs.edu/competitiveness/Documents/why-competition-in-the-politics-industry-is-failing-america.pdf

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==========


State and Local Tax Deduction - what's the progressive
choice?

Dalton Conley points out that the state and local tax
deduction rewards rich states at the expense of poor
states:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/youre-losing-a-major-tax-deduction-this-year-stop-complaining-about-it/2018/04/12/23aca048-3dd9-11e8-8d53-eba0ed2371cc_story.html

And he's right to the extent that high state and local
taxes benefit residents of that state, and if they
reduce the amount of Federal taxes paid from that state,
it penalizes residents of all states.    Of course this
was not the thinking behind attempts to eliminate and then
reduce the state and local tax deduction in the 2017 bill;
the motivations were 1) ideological - reduce the size
of state and local government, and 2) punish Democratic
states which tend to have higher state and local taxes.

A flat tax that federalized all state and local taxes for
general government and public education could go a long
way toward evening up educational equality of opportunity
across the country.

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

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Liberal or Progressive?

Greg Weiner argues that the terms "liberal"
and "progressive" have quite different histories
and connotations:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/opinion/moynihan-liberals-progressives-lost.html

"Liberal" has the same roots at
"liberate" and that's the meaning of the classic
"liberal arts":

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education

They were the disciplines required of a free citizen,
to free from ignorance and superstition.

In contrast, "progressivism" had ties to
eugenics, temperance at the beginning and cultural
revolution and obliteration of history more recently.
Those Islamic State and al-Qaeda leaders, who liked to blow
up cultural landmarks from the pre-Islamic past, could
claim to be expediting the inevitable flow of history,
just as a previous generation of Communist cultural
revolutionaries claimed.    Neither the new Islamic man
nor the new Socialist man needed to know what mistaken
ideologies came before.

There have been various Progressive movements in the United
States, and the institution of initiative, referendum,
and recall in various states was part of the positive
legacy at the time, though these reforms have since been
perverted by big money.

While Woodrow Wilson was counted as a Progressive in many
ways, racial relations wasn't one of them; he thought
segregation was a fine idea.

Soviet era propagandists used  "progressive"
to refer to leftists in non-Communist countries, not
necessarily Communists but not unsympathetic to Communist
goals.  More recently in the US, "progressive"
is often applied to the left and Bernie Sanders wings of
the Democratic Party and perhaps the Greens.

So where does that leave us and US?    American politics
move gradually to the left over time; too quickly for
reactionaries, too slowly for revolutionaries.    Eugene
Debs and Norman Thomas were ahead of their times but a lot
of their ideas are mainstream now.  Bernie Sanders may be
in the same tradition.

Trumpism is neither conservative nor liberal; it's
just populist tending toward fascist and kleptocratic.
So it really doesn't shed any light on this discussion.
However the excesses of Trumpism have inspired a lot of
thinking about a mainstream alternative; here are some
examples of different approaches:

 https://bipartisanpolicy.org/
 https://www.uniteamerica.org/ https://www.nolabels.org/
 http://joinsam.org/

One approach is a coalition of nonpartisan or bipartisan
or independent thinkers to work together to make progress
on the things they can agree on, without expecting that
they can agree on everything.

Another approach is to create a new third party in the
center.     This is a difficult task and the record of
third parties is not encouraging; the Republicans became
the majority party in only four years but usually third
parties just enjoy a brief spark of popularity until one
of the main parties make some concessions to their point
of view and incorporates their supporters.

More discussion here:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#registration
 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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==========


A Bias Toward Action can lead to Bad Foreign Policy

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/opinion/trump-us-foreign-policy.html

A bias toward action is generally considered to be a good
thing in business.  Just do a web search on "bias
toward action" to see.  Information is always
incomplete, and fear of failure can lead to "analysis
paralysis."  In Silicon Valley, startups often fail
because of decisions they made, but startups that fail to
make essential decisions always fail.  At least one CEO
liked to say "no decision is also a decision" -
and often, the worst possible decision.  In Silicon Valley,
if your startup fails, you list it as a learning experience
on your resume and try again.

Foreign policy is different:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/opinion/trump-us-foreign-policy.html

Churchill did say, in 1942:

The maxim 'Nothing avails but perfection' may be spelt
shorter: 'Paralysis.'

But that was before the nuclear era.  A misjudged
nuclear-armed adversary is not a recoverable learning
experience.

In the specific case of Syria, there are about eight
different sides whose allegiances are subject to change
without notice.   Unless the US is willing to enter the
war in a major way to confront Russia and depose Assad,
he will continue, under Russian protection, exterminating
his opponents until he restores peace and law and order
to his liking.

In Syria, the only reliable allies of the US and Israel
are the hapless Kurds, who have been struggling for
independence forever - but are doomed by a hopeless
landlocked geopolitical situation surrounded by larger
enemies who are strategically more important to the US.
Susan Rice lays out the path to the least bad outcome the
US can realistically expect:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/opinion/syria-airstrikes-trump-next.html

You'd think we'd learned in Iraq and Afghanistan that
it's a lot easier to get in than to get out.    All these
locales are wrapped up in ethnic and sectarian conflicts
- there is probably no resolution in Afghanistan, for
instance, until there is a resolution in Kashmir:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/opinion/india-afghanistan-pakistan.html

But Kashmir is unresolvable by the US and probably by
anybody: supposedly a State Dept veteran interviewed new
college grad job applicants by asking  what they'd do
about Kashmir - and the only correct answer was silence.
If they said anything at all, they failed that test.

Israel/Palestine is a similar problem.    North Korea
is another.  To solve refractory problems like these
requires a rare coincidence: leaders on both sides have to
WANT a solution, and they must have the political capital
to negotiate a solution even against their own muscular
internal opposition.     The current leaders of India and
Pakistan do not want a solution.    The current leaders
of Israel and Palestine do not have the political capital
to negotiate a solution.  The net result is that no third
party can negotiate a solution for them.

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It's Tax March Day!

 https://taxmarch.org/events/

Let the world know how you feel about the Republican tax
"reform."

If on the way you tune into your radio for a traffic
report, you might hear an ad for tax planning services
for businesses to help them make the most of the
"reform."

But don't blame the lawyers and accountants who make a
living trying to interpret byzantine tax law - blame the
lawyers and accountants who "serve" in Congress
by voting for it!

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/556413984703125

Many, from Paul Ryan on down, have decided it's time to
leave on a (market) high note at the end of their current
term, before the recession hits the fan, creating more
opportunities for some real change.

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

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==========


Personal Change Leading to Social Change

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/self-help-gurus-like-tony-robbins-have-often-stood-in-the-way-of-social-change/2018/04/13/15340974-3e70-11e8-8d53-eba0ed2371cc_story.html

Petrzela and Whelan report an interesting study of the
interplay between self-help and social movements.  They
trace the "self-help" thread in American culture
- "it's your fault but you can fix yourself"
- had value as far as it went, but failed to recognize
that sometimes it's society as a whole that's broken,
not just the individuals in it.   No amount of self-help
for women will change the power structures that encourage
sexual abuse.  But social change sometimes has to start
with personal change.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#metoo

=====

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==========


Local Journalism - ignore it and it will go away

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-crisis-in-journalism-has-become-a-crisis-of-democracy/2018/04/11/a908d5fc-2d64-11e8-8688-e053ba58f1e4_story.html

One of the most popular posts on this page has to do with
Civil Forfeiture:
 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/601050326906157
an abusive process that first came to light in the SF Bay
area in a series of investigative reports published in the
San Jose Mercury News some 20 years ago leading to an end
of the practice in California.

Back then, the Mercury had 400 union journalists.
Now it has 41.  The story is similar at many other major
newspapers - and worse at local newspapers.  The Mercury
and other papers are being drained for the benefit of
foreign investors:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/as-a-secretive-hedge-fund-guts-its-newspapers-journalists-are-fighting-back/2018/04/12/8926a45c-3c10-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html

Does your local newspaper have much copyright investigative
reporting of its own?   If so, count your blessings.
More likely your paper is getting thinner and less
controversial every year.  More journalism jobs have
disappeared than mining jobs:
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/opinion/why-dont-all-jobs-matter.html

The free press might survive presidential assault but the
outcome of assault by economics is very much in doubt.
America's free press has mostly depended on advertising
revenue for most of its history.       That era is almost
over, and its accidental destruction by Craigslist,
Ebay, Google... seems destined to have consequences far
more profound than any intentional act of censorship.
Newspapers have petitioned Congress for an antitrust
exemption to strengthen their relative economic power
against free social media:
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/09/business/media/google-facebook-news-media-alliance.html

What can you do?   You might start by paying for your
journalism, either in print or online.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/journalism.html#free%20press

Think about who is paying for your "free"
journalism in print or online.

=====

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==========


You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown
of thorns!

William Jennings Bryan carried more weight as an orator
than as an economist.    But what an orator:

"There are two ideas of government.  There are those
who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the
well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through
on those below.  The Democratic idea, however, has been
that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their
prosperity will find its way up through every class which
rests upon them.  ...  You shall not press down upon the
brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify
mankind upon a cross of gold."

Would have had the same effect if issued as a long series
of tweets?

Bimetallism doesn't carry much weight as a political
issue these days.  Perhaps one lesson is "be sure
your cause is worthy of your rhetoric."  Or maybe
it's "find a cause worthy of your rhetoric."

If you're curious you can learn more at

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Gold_speech
 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5354/
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimetallism

=====

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Trump Administration bravely defends your right to make
bad choices about your retirement!

Remember, the important question is: how can the masses
best serve the billionaires.    Clearly, "fiduciary
responsibility" now means faithfulness to
the interests of the Wall Street billionaire class.
In today's San Jose Mercury New, Steve Butler explained
how all that works:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/09/5149350/

Obama was for the old definition of "fiduciary
responsibility" - faithfulness to the worker hoping
to save enough to retire on.  And anything Obama was
for, Trump is against.  So he's all for getting rid of
these burdensome Federal regulations that just level the
playing field.

One of the arguments against relying on 401k's and IRA's is
that individual retirees make poor choices of investments.
That's nonsense - they make great choices as far as Wall
Street and the salesman are concerned.  As the old joke
goes,

The firm made money, the broker made money, and two out
of three ain't bad.

As a lifetime salesman, Trump is on board with that
outlook.

=====

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==========


Don't make it easier for the Republicans to retain control
of Congress!

Democrats should leave this sort of thing to the Tea Party:

 https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-wont-believe-the-names-the-left-is-calling-no-labels-1523209037

a Wall Street Journal op-ed written by principals at
No Labels:

 https://www.nolabels.org/

Situations like these cry out for preferential voting:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential

and related reforms advocated by FairVote:

 http://www.fairvote.org/

that would make it more likely that the candidate with
the broadest support in the district would win.

If you're not a WSJ subscriber, you would not be able to
read the op-ed, so here it is:

=====

You Won't Believe the Names the Left Is Calling 'No Labels'

Our support for a Democratic lawmaker drew obscenities and
accusations of bigotry.  By Margaret Kimbrell White and
Sasha Borowsky April 8, 2018 Ms. White and Ms. Borowsky
are, respectively, senior adviser and chief of staff at
No Labels.

For an object lesson in how venomous American politics
has become, look no further than the insults hurled in
our direction late last month. We're two millennial women
who work at No Labels, a political reform movement founded
in 2010 featuring Democrats, Republicans and independents
working together to solve America's toughest problems. In
March, No Labels organized in support of Rep. Dan Lipinski,
a moderate Democrat from Illinois whose primary challenger
had been endorsed by a host of liberal interest groups.

After Mr. Lipinski narrowly won, the president of Naral
Pro-Choice America, Ilyse Hogue, accused No Labels of
following President Trump into "bigotry."
When our group tweeted that Mr. Lipinski's victory
showed "America's political center is finally
striking back," Howard Dean, a former chairman of
the Democratic National Committee, replied: "This
is foolish nonsense." Former Obama speechwriter Jon
Favreau complained that Mr. Lipinski had also voted against
the Affordable Care Act and opposed same-sex marriage:
"To call people who disagree with those positions
the far left is a f------ embarrassment."

We don't agree with Mr. Lipinski on every issue
either. (Hey, Ms. Hogue, turns out we're pro-choice,
too.) But Mr. Lipinski still votes with his party 88%
of the time. That hardly makes him a turncoat. Moreover,
we think there's a bigger problem in Washington than
whether Mr. Lipinski passes any given group's political
litmus test.

Legislators in both parties have to worry too much about
primary challenges from ideologues on the far left or
far right. That's why Democrats and Republicans are so
unwilling to work across the aisle. And that in turn is
why Congress is failing to address the biggest problems
facing America.

Here's a specific example. When the individual insurance
market almost imploded last year, the far left (which wants
a single-payer system) and the far right (which would
be happy enough to watch ObamaCare's exchanges collapse
entirely) went straight to their respective ideological
corners. They ignored the concerns of the ordinary
Americans who stood to lose their medical coverage.

Dan Lipinski was one of the few in Congress determined to
do something realistic to fix the problem. He worked out
an agreement with a handful of his counterparts in the
bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus to help these Americans
keep their insurance coverage and provide relief for small
businesses. To this day, this is the only bipartisan
health-care plan this Congress has proposed. It is the
framework for a deal struck in the Senate last October.

You may argue that a lawmaker's position on your favorite
social issue is more important than his overall approach
to governing. We don't agree - but we also won't call you
names or dismiss you out of hand. Is asking that our view
also be respected too much to ask? When Mr. Lipinski won,
did liberals really need to vent their anger on Twitter
by calling No Labels foolish, embarrassing bigots?

Belittling our group won't convince anyone. Although the
two of us don't share Dan Lipinski's views on abortion,
his victory improves the chances that Congress may actually
get something done for the American people. Many voters,
like us, see the value in reaching across the aisle - and
we aren't going to be silenced, as the Illinois primary
last month illustrates. Call us names, roll your eyes,
encourage others to write us off. But understand this: We
mean to fight back. We're strong and we're resilient. Like
your hero Elizabeth Warren, we will persist.

=====

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==========


Middle America Reboots Democracy

An interesting take on the low-level effect of Trumpism
is in

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/25/opinion/democrats-voter-turnout.html

which refers to Putnam and Skocpol:

 https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/middle-america-reboots-democracy/

Putnam and Skocpol discuss the mechanisms of grass-roots
women's new-found political activism, particularly among
educated suburban middle-class women.  It's not just
different ends, it's different means, that started shortly
after the 2016 election, even before #NeToo took off,
and the existing Democratic Party structure is not always
tuned in to the different means, nor to the ideological
diversity of the women involved.

=====

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==========


Reproductive Rights, #MeToo, and the 2018 primaries

There are a large number of conservative religious
immigrant women who are appalled by Trumpism's blatant
endorsement of sexual abuse and immigrant abuse.  Yet the
feel obliged - by their own convictions as well as external
reinforcement in their community - that the number one
issue in this or any election is sanctity of life, so in
an election they vote for whoever is loudest in attacking
reproductive rights.

In a contestable district with lots of conservative women,
progressives should think carefully about how they vote
in the Democratic primary.    The Democratic hopeful most
closely aligned with their ideals might have the least
chance of prevailing in the general election against a
Republican who is loudly and proudly against abortion.
A Democratic candidate who is closer to the median of the
district on this issue might have a better chance of moving
the conversation toward other issues.

Single-issue voters and single-issue candidates have been
a bane of democracy forever, though eclipsed somewhat
in recent years by narrowcasting cable tv and social
media, and by dark big money enabled by Citizens United.
One can only hope that the daughters of these conservative
women will come around to a different point of view on
reproductive rights.

Restrictions on abortion might not seem so bad, if
there were a way to do so that reduced the freedom
of rich and poor alike, and the freedom of men and
women alike.  But nobody's ever thought of a credible
way to do that.   50 years ago, if a rich man's daughter
became pregnant, he just sent her to Denmark to take care
of it.     If abortion became illegal again in the USA,
you wouldn't have to be quite as rich to go to Canada,
but that solution would still be out of reach for some,
especially for young poor women.  So once again abortion
would be illegal and unsafe.  Money buys a lot of freedom
- for the rich.  Gross income inequality implies gross
freedom inequality.  Debates about abortion vs reproductive
rights are ultimately about money, not morality.

Most women, if they have the knowledge and the means,
would like to limit their family size.    So in modern
industrial society get them the knowledge and the means
and birth rates go down.

When our fabulously wealthy society is not doing a very
good job educating the wanted poor children we have, who
would be interested in having more unwanted poor children?
The book The Chalice and the Blade clarifies the roots of
the issue.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chalice_and_the_Blade

Unwanted boys, seeking acceptance or belonging, are good
recruits for soldiers as cannon fodder, or suicidal
terrorists.  Unwanted girls, seeking acceptance or
belonging, are likely to produce more unwanted boys and
girls.  So in a patriarchal, hierarchical, or militaristic
society, there's no such thing as an unwanted poor
child, at least as far as the ruling class is concerned.
That's why militaristic dictatorships like bachelor
taxes and incentives for childbearing.    In addition,
every major religious tradition has fanatical sects who
believe (at least the men) that it is their sacred duty
to "win" by outbreeding the opposition.

=====

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==========


Unwritten Rules

Is this about baseball or politics?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/opinion/baseballs-unwritten-rules.html

=====

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==========


Are Economic Recoveries 100% ???

Two IMF economists dispute the common view that economic
recoveries recover 100% of what was lost in the previous
recession:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/stocks-boomerang-on-trump/2018/04/04/c5f61540-3817-11e8-9c0a-85d477d9a226_story.html

Scars of the previous recession are not so easily healed,
which is why governments often are overly optimistic about
recoveries.  That's important because the boom and bust
cycle is endemic to liberal and conservative governments
alike; nobody has figured out how to beat the underlying
mass psychology phenomenon:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#cycle

=====

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Civil Forfeiture - guilty until you are proven innocent

Civil forfeiture is back in the news:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/grand-theft-auto--by-the-us-government/2018/04/04/6a079e94-3762-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html

It's been eliminated in California, as far as I know,
but there are still lots of states where rural sheriffs
might seize any of your property if they think you are
too poor to hire a lawyer to get it back:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#forfeiture

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How much would you sell your personal information for?

Another business whose expertise lies elsewhere than
information security has gotten in trouble:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/04/04/paneras-data-breach-puts-attention-on-risks-of-loyalty-programs/

Doesn't everybody like to sign up for loyalty programs to
get special discounts?     Maybe so, but maybe everybody
shouldn't.     Any information that you provide to a
third party is potentially public.    Think about that if
you care.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/non-political.html#rewards

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Simple Retirement Investment Advice: Buy and Hold

The hazard of market timing - buying low and selling high -
is very well illustrated in an AAII article and web page
on The Cost of Panicking:

 http://www.aaii.com/journal/article/the-cost-of-panicking

The best book on retirement income planning is Bogle on
Mutual Funds:

 https://www.amazon.com/Bogle-Mutual-Funds-Perspectives-Intelligent/dp/111908833X

One of his key principles for retirement is buy-and-hold.
In theory you could outperform buy-and-hold by market
timing: buying low and selling high.    But the problem
is that you don't know whether any given day is a low or a
high until some time in the future, and most investors who
try market timing end up missing out on big-jump days when
the market turns up...  because at the time they look just
like the big-jump days followed by bigger-drop days when
the market continues down... and underperform buy-and-hold
investors, who also benefit from lower transaction costs.

It may be that the value contributed by retail social
investors, who buy when their friends are buying and
sell when their friends are selling, is a big part of the
superior return enjoyed by buy-and-hold investors.

Investment for most people can be very simple: invest
directly - not through brokers - in no-load target-date
mutual funds in equal amounts every month, then throw away
the monthly statements.    No-load to increase return,
equal amounts each month to insure that you are buying
more shares at low prices than high, and most important,
target-date so the first decision you have to make is
when you want the money, because that determines the
acceptable risk, and that determines the maximum return.
Throw away the statements when the target date is far away,
so you don't panic yourself into selling at the bottom.

You have to start being disciplined when you are young: if
you are reaching retirement age without enough retirement
assets, it is very hard to catch up.  There's nothing like
the power over time of compound interest, except truly
exponential growth, but that's another topic:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#exponentials

Investment strategy is nominally remote from politics - but
it's actually relevant to the ongoing political arguments
about defined-contribution retirement plans like 401k's
and IRA's vs defined-benefit plans like Social Security
and most public employee retirement plans:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined%20benefit

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Remembering REVEREND Dr. King

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/opinion/the-politically-progressive-faith-of-martin-luther-king.html

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Middle America Reboots Democracy - Putnam and Skocpol

A previous posting here discusses the high-level
political effect of Trumpism, particularly after #MeToo.
An interesting take on the low-level effect of Trumpism
is mentioned here:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/25/opinion/democrats-voter-turnout.html

referring to Putnam and Skocpol:

 https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/middle-america-reboots-democracy/

The article discusses the mechanisms of grass-roots women's
new-found political activism, particularly among educated
suburban middle-class women.  It's not just different ends,
it's different means, that started shortly after the 2016
election, even before #NeToo took off, and the existing
Democratic Party structure is not always tuned in to the
different means, nor to the ideological diversity of the
women involved.

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What Happens When You Fast-Track a Tax Bill?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/us/politics/tax-law-regulations-omb-treasury.html

The centerpiece of Trump's original tax proposal was a
reduction of tax on business income to 15% instead of
the personal income tax rates.  That's because, he, his
family, and his billionaire cronies all get their income
from businesses organized as pass-through entities -
under previous law, the business income passed through to
be taxed at personal income rates.  Getting W-2 wages as
a statutory employee is for wage-earners who can't afford
good accountants and lawyers.

But 15% was a bridge too far even for Republicans, so
in the an around-the-clock attempt to beat the bell -
Trump wanted to sign in 2017 before Congress went home -
they kept hacking on the pass-through provisions to make
sure they provided tax relief to the deserving and not
to the undeserving while keeping the overall deficit
impact to $1.5 trillion.    What if every wage-earner
started trying to be treated as a business rather than a
statutory employee?

As every technologist knows from bitter experience,
around-the-clock hacking under intense time pressure
leads to mistakes, errors of omission and commission.
But the clock ran down, and they turned in what they had,
and Trump signed it.     They hadn't resolved all the
issues about their changes, but they figured the IRS could
figure it out.

Of course, in public, the president and the Republican
leaders talked about anything and everything except the
heart of the matter, which was the pass-through taxation,
about which they felt the less said the better - after
all, it doesn't have anything to do with the average
W-2 wage-earner.  The best reading on how Congress left
matters is here:

 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3089423

You can't understand the tax bill until you read this.
It's unreadable for most people.    That's what you need
to understand.

So who figures out what it really means?    That's not
even clear:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/us/politics/tax-law-regulations-omb-treasury.html

What's clear is that it's going to take a long time
to figure out.  All of which could have been avoided if
Congress had taken a long time to get it right in the first
place, even in the narrow definition of "right"
as what they meant to do.      But it never works that way,
because every member of Congress has a different intent,
and so tax bills always leave the hard parts for the IRS
to unscramble, and that way Congress can blame the IRS
for the impenetrable tax code.

Besides that kind of confusion, there are also objective
drafting errors to resolve:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/11/us/politics/tax-cut-law-problems.html

Oddly enough, the Democrats who had no say in the original
bill are no more interested in making it work better,
than Republicans were interested in making Obamacare
work better.

And in an interesting footnote, the tax law makes certain
W-2 wage-earners into capital assets:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/us/politics/baseball-tax-law-.html

subject somehow to capital gains taxes.

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Join SAM?

On 2 April 2018, San Jose Mercury News had a full-page
add for the Serve America Movement - SAM -

 http://joinsam.org/

It's another attempt to solve the bipartisan gridlock of
the current Republican and Democratic parties, in this
case by starting a third party.  There was an explanatory
piece by the chairman in Huffpost last year:

 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-historic-time-for-choosing_us_5967700be4b051f16255e62f

They haven't gotten a lot of press yet, but here's some:

 http://www.businessinsider.com/bush-staffers-new-political-party-serve-america-movement-2018-4

Maybe it's time for a new centrist third party:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative

Third parties are tricky and sometimes harmful:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#registration

but occasionally serve the vital purpose of nudging the
major parties when they've gotten off track.    The harm
would be mitigated by preferential voting

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential

as advocated by

 http://www.fairvote.org/

Other groups working toward centrist solutions in various
ways include

 https://www.nolabels.org/ http://www.uniteamerica.org/
formerly centristproject.org https://bipartisanpolicy.org/

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#MeToo - The Political Issue of the Century?

It's difficult to exaggerate the potential significance
of the #MeToo movement in politics, business, and society
at large.

It's hard to think of any particular issue that
resonates with every man that ever lived in every place
and every time.    Yet sexual harassment and abuse is
something experienced by every woman that has ever lived.
A nuisance for all and a horror for many, none of them
need it explained.

So how should this powerfully raised consciousness be
applied politically?  Women's issues don't always translate
into good law - suffragettes were powerful advocates of
Prohibition as well as suffrage - the 18th amendment and
19th amendment were ratified a year apart.

I think the biggest mistake for progressives would be to
think and speak of #MeToo as a leftist progressive issue.
Remember that all women have endured minor or major sexual
harassment, but all women do not have the exact same
opinions on most other controversial political matters:
abortion, immigration, guns, taxation... to name a few.

Trump holds one of his campaign rallies and hears the
chants and thinks "The People are with me all the
way!" when what is really true is that his shrunken
hard core of supporters, who have no where else to go,
are still with him.  Fox News and the Republican party
in general are painting themselves into the same corner
where their best friends will be Infowars and David Duke
and their billionaire donors.

Progressives should not make the same mistake as Trump
and Trump supporters; preaching to the choir can deceive
at progressive rallies too.  The progressive cause is
ill served by suggesting that all #MeToo voters should
subscribe to a full progressive agenda, and ill served by
insisting that Democrats should nominate full progressive
candidates in every district whether or not they have
any credible chance of winning in the general election.
Progressives should be painting themselves out of corners
and into the largest possible arena.  Over time they might
be able to make the point to conservative women that,
for instance, the unequal power of money in politics is
not so different from the unequal power of money in gender
relations, and so help conservative women to think more
progressively about some issues.

The recent special elections have been instructive.
In most cases the margin of difference, that enabled
Democratic candidates to succeed in Republican districts,
was provided by educated suburban middle-class women who
had voted for Trump in 2016 but then for a Democrat in 2017
or 2018.     These were not Bernie Sanders supporters who,
in 2016, had stayed home or voted Green out of spite.

Trumpist Republican candidates - and that's most
Republican candidates - who uncritically support Trump are
uncritically endorsing his antediluvian attitudes toward
women, and saying that those attitudes and actions are
acceptable in Republican candidates.  That's the point
that has to be hammered home whenever the issue arises.
Even if the only outcome is to eventually purge the
Republican party of the equivocators and apologists for
sexual abuse, that's still a step forward for all women
and thus for progressives, too.  Then everybody can move
on to the other great issues of our time.

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Political scrapbook added a button to help you learn more
about them.

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The Most ... Candidate WHO CAN WIN

E. J.Dionne Jr. has written an interesting piece recalling
identical political advice from both Barney Frank and
William F. Buckley Jr. - in the primaries, support the
most radical candidate who can win in the general election.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/against-trump-pragmatism-and-principle-might-be-the-same-thing/2018/03/18/9d9c65a2-2955-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html

Both were more interested in making laws rather than making
ideological points, and to make (or repeal) laws you need
to have majorities in legislatures.    Both Republican and
Democratic strategists have been known to quietly fund the
fringe candidates in the other party's primary in order
to have a more beatable opponent in the general election.
And now we know that the Russian propaganda machinery also
has an interest in quietly fanning extreme ideological
partisanship.

So I'd suggest that when it's your turn to participate
in primary season, you do your best to determine which
of your party's candidates has the best chance against
the best of the other party's.     That's not necessarily
the same as the one you might prefer in a perfect world.
Particularly in a contestable district, a successful
candidate should not be too far ahead ideologically of
the median voter of the district.

Things might be easier if elections were conducted with
preferential voting:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential

Then as many candidates could run as wanted, and as many
parties compete as wanted, without anybody diluting anybody
else's chances, and with a higher probability that the
final winner represents the broadest possible consensus
in the district.

What about in districts where it's a foregone conclusion
which party is going to win?    What should the other
party do there?     In that case, since no candidate
is electable, then the minority party might as well act
like the Libertarians and Greens and nominate the most
articulate exponent of the minority party's principles.
Here the purpose of running is to plant seeds in the mind
of the majority voters that might bear fruit in the future.

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Consistency of Republican Word and Deed

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/opinion/paul-ryan-donald-trump-republicans.html

Some commentators complain that the modern Republican party
no longer has a consistent conservative philosophy.    They
might be mistaken, and other commentators have pointed out
the remarkable consistency of modern Republican political
leaders from Trump on down, almost without exception.
It's a simple matter of SAY and DO.

What they SAY:  They talk to encourage their voting base:
social wedge issues like abortion, guns, immigration,
gender identity, racial identity, welfare cheats, unfair
trade, globalization, Clinton, Obama...  Criterion: what
gets the crowd chanting at Trump campaign rallies?

What they DO: They act to encourage their donor base: tax
cuts for high income people, benefit reductions for low
income people, deregulation, scientific gerrymandering,
making sure that there will always be plenty of illegal
immigrants for employers to exploit...  Criterion: is it
good for the (old white male) billionaire donor class?

To preserve their Congressional majorities, the Republicans
need both the votes and the dollars.     Although the hard
core of the Trump Republican base doesn't seem to care,
recent Democratic victories in special elections to fill
safe Republican seats suggest that at least part of the
Republican voting base is starting to crack the code.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-reagan-revolution-is-officially-over/2018/04/12/872f6986-3e8b-11e8-8d53-eba0ed2371cc_story.html

The party of Lincoln is gone.    The party of Reagan is
no more.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#First%20Trump%20Constituency

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politicalscrapbooknet back on facebook

This page has been blocked for login several times in its
brief existence, and eventually unblocked again without
any notice or explanation from facebook about why login
was blocked or unblocked.

This last time was worse, and the page was disabled
completely and nobody could even read it.     But again
without notice or explanation it was re-enabled.  There's a
backlog of ideas to write and post; hopefully those who
signed up to follow this page will find the postings
interesting when they appear.

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Conspiracy!

Fifty years later, still timely: Richard Hofstadter:
The Paranoid Style in American Politics

 https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/

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Should Oprah Winfrey run for President in 2020?

Media personalities should not run for President -
that seemed evident to many people even when Reagan was
governor.    But now can anybody win without being one or
becoming one?

The Washington Post today has a lot of opinion pieces
about Oprah for President, pro and con.  Jennifer Rubin
was first with a list of positive attributes.  But:

The list of Oprah Winfrey attributes would have all fit
Barack Obama just as well.     Yet he was irrevocably
reviled by a significant segment of the electorate -
for a lot of reasons but most of all because he was black.

Much of the list would fit Hillary Clinton, too, though not
as well.  Yet she was irrevocably reviled by a significant
segment of the electorate too - for a lot of reasons but
at least in part because she was a woman.

One first has to wonder why anybody would subject
themselves, their family, their friends, their business,
to the withering barrage of real or imaginary dirt stories
that professional dirt writers will dig up or make up.
Look at all the shameless vitriol directed at Michelle
Obama.

One next has to wonder, does America deserve a leader as
inspiring as Oprah Winfrey?    If she did run, she'd have
to take positions on a number of hot-button issues, and
no matter which way she went, or if she took no position,
she'd lose some supporters on each issue.  Just as every
other candidate does.

Rather than running herself now, perhaps she should focus
on change advocacy far more profound than any one elected
official can accomplish alone - getting the money out
of politics, the politics out of redistricting, states
out of the business of suppressing voter registration
and turnout, and reforms that foster problem-solving
bipartisanship rather than ideological intransigence,
such as preferential balloting and multi-member districts.
Then who is elected president will matter less, but the
elected president will matter more.    And she's young
enough that 2024 or 2028 would still be realistic targets
if she were still interested.

On the other hand ...

The movie Darkest Hour ends on the memorable line

 He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

(The movie takes liberties; the quote dates not from
Parliament in May 1940 but from Edward R Murrow in 1953.)
Churchill wrote all his speeches by himself, and planned
all the phrasing and pauses in advance.      Lincoln
wrote the Gettysburg Address and delivered it from his
handwritten draft.  How many of our current politicians
could write their own speeches and deliver them effectively
without a teleprompter?

If Oprah can continue to mobilize the English language,
more power to her.  Just remember that Churchill was voted
out a few months after the end of the war.    He had his
time and place but the world moved on.

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The Eternal Business Cycle

Our hope and despair is that no matter who's running the
government and no matter what they do, the economy will
wax, peak, wane, bottom, and repeat.  Whoever is in charge
will take the credit or get the blame for whatever was
bound to happen sooner or later anyway.  Government action
or inaction can affect the timing and severity to only a
limited extent.

The current economic recovery is about 8 years old and
will expire sometime in the next 8 years, no matter who
is in the White House; the longest postwar recovery was
10 years.  The current recovery has an expiration date on
or before June, 2019.  As always, the party in power will
be blamed, even though nobody has been able to figure
out how to defeat the business cycle.   I think that's
because it's ultimately a phenomenon of mass psychology
rather than economics.

The next two years might seem to coast along well enough
economically.  There's some truth in the old joke that
economists have successfully predicted nine of the last
five recessions.  But

*
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/27/the-easiest-way-to-tell-that-bitcoin-is-a-huge-bubble/
Bitcoin bubblemania might be a canary-in-a-coal-mine,
reminiscent of the self-referential and self-leveraging
peaks of the internet bubble of 2000 and the subprime
mortgage bubble of 2008.  But leverage works going down
as well as going up.

*
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/beware-an-economic-boom-really/2017/12/03/3baddc2a-d6d7-11e7-b62d-d9345ced896d_story.html
Overstimulation has always led to recession.

* Stock market p/e ratios are about as high as they ever
sustainably get,
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/business/dow-stock-markets.html
Bilello and Yardeni cite signs that investors are getting
giddy and careless.

*
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/11/29/tax-cut-proponents-promise-3-4-percent-growth-this-economic-milestone-shows-thats-nearly-impossible/
The economy is already at maximum capacity.

* The next recession might be triggered by
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/heres-who-should-run-the-fed-next/2017/10/17/1e01dbd4-b2c1-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html
a financial bubble that pops after inflating from
predictably low inflation rates over many years.

*
 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/10/10/army-accepting-more-low-quality-recruits-giving-waivers-marijuana-hit-targets/750844001/
Army recruiters are reducing standards and accepting more
recruits with marijuana histories.  Recruiting is harder
when unemployment is so low.

*
 https://www.thestreet.com/story/14324883/1/target-will-raise-wages-to-15-hour-here-are-5-other-top-paying-retailers.html
Target and other retailers are paying $15/hour starting
wage.

*
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/09/28/i-helped-create-the-gop-tax-myth-trump-is-wrong-tax-cuts-dont-equal-growth/
Tax cuts do not pay for themselves by economic stimulation,
especially when the economy is already maxed out by any
historical standard.

*
 http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/25/about-silicon-valleys-crazy-housing-situation-one-real-estate-exec-deconstructs-the-market/
In Silicon Valley, loan qualification is based on unvested
restricted stock.

*
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/21/us/politics/utah-economy-jobs.html
Utah is running out of workers - and it's even worse in
Ames, IA and Boulder, CO.

*
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/upshot/were-getting-awfully-close-to-full-employment.html
Unemployment is about as low as it ever sustainably gets.

*
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/business/auto-sales-decline.html
Car sales are stagnant.

* There are fundamental reasons to doubt that the economy
can grow any faster:
 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2017-04-17/boom-was-blip
depopulation, deleveraging, and deglobalization.  Unlike
the post-war baby boom years, there is no wave of new
labor coming on stream in the US, except immigration.

*
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/business/dealbook/sorkin-seth-klarman-trump-investors.html
Seth Klarman is concerned about deficit spending and
interest rates.

*
 http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/02/trumps-policies-could-affect-silicon-valley-service-workers-and-those-who-depend-on-them/
It can take a month to find a restaurant server in Silicon
Valley.

* Around Silicon Valley,
 http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/01/24/whats-behind-the-spate-of-recent-bay-area-restaurant-closures/
restaurants are closing due to high rents and lack
of labor.

*
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/14/opinion/sunday/why-trump-cant-make-it-1981-again.html
Significantly higher economic growth rates are not possible
- it's all about population growth and productivity growth.

* Even the
 http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/12/22/postal-service-struggles-leave-bay-area-residents-searching-for-their-mail/
local Postal Service can't retain employees, and they pay
somewhat higher than minimum wage, with some benefits.

So another recession is coming, more likely sooner than
later.
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/opinion/bubble-economy-financial-regulation.html
The Republicans are doing their best to make it the worst.

On 25 January 2017, the DJIA, S&P, and NASDAQ all set
new records, and they're still doing it a year later.
That's not good news for Mr. Trump at the beginning of
his term - it would have been a lot more helpful to him
in 2020.    Nobody rings a bell at the top, or the bottom -
some minor news blip, much like numerous inconsequential
minor news blips in the weeks and months before, will seem
to trigger a stock market crash.    But the news blip is
innocent - a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong
time - because the cause of the crash is that the market
has temporarily run out of buyers at a time when somebody
needs to sell for his own specific reasons.      Which blip
- nobody can say in advance.    What is certain is that
the following problem is what is called overconstrained
and infeasible in my line of work:

* Massive tax cuts.  * Massive military buildup; worse yet
massive military deployment and engagement.  * Massive
infrastructure spending.  * Massive deportation of the
people willing to do the work too hard for Americans,
for wages too low for Americans.  * Massive trade war.
* Low interest rates and low inflation.  * A trillion
dollars in deficit spending over the next ten years,
thanks to the new tax law.  * Stock market and real estate
valuations based on extrapolating corporate earnings and
personal income despite no more affordable labor available
to produce the goods and services that create the earnings.

And this infeasibility will dawn on a critical mass of
institutional investors on some random blipful day and they
will start to take their profits, and highly leveraged
investors will start to cover their positions, and the
daily trading limit crash barrier will be hit before most
individual investors even know something's up.  Too bad
for them.    Trump will blame it on a media conspiracy.
To the extent the Trump Organization is still invested in
real estate rather than brand licensing, he might not even
be a billionaire any more.  Big investors will move from
stocks to bonds, and that part will moderate the rise in
interest rates.

People over-exposed to stocks too close to retirement will
blame it on Trump, as will younger people who haven't
learned yet that even though stocks, especially in
technology, go up slowly and down quickly, common stock
funds are still the best individual investment FOR THE
LONG TERM.

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