| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| Reaganism failed. But do the Republican voters | 2020-12-29 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1343928209063100416 | 1343928209063100416 |
| Undermining government means it's not there when you | 2020-12-28 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1343409486694739968 | 1343409486694739968 |
| Should the government get in and help or just get out of | 2020-12-28 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1343403103777816579 | 1343403103777816579 |
| Wealth inequality, income inequality, health inequality. | 2020-12-20 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1340740884409720832 | 1340740884409720832 |
| Fix the GOP or replace it? | 2020-12-16 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1339357807322152963 | 1339357807322152963 |
| Political sectarianism | 2020-12-16 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1339342458304401409 | 1339342458304401409 |
| Putting libertarian theory into practice. | 2020-12-15 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1338856673851572225 | 1338856673851572225 |
| "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our | 2020-12-15 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1338680656738414594 | 1338680656738414594 |
| What's missing now - 100 years of building trust. | 2020-12-13 | 37 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1338266066426810368 | 1338266066426810368 |
| Trumpists don't believe in democracy. They believe | 2020-12-13 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1338264606133796865 | 1338264606133796865 |
| The meaning of Hanukkah for America. | 2020-12-11 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1337447517777141762 | 1337447517777141762 |
| The 2024 Trumpist candidate had better be competent at | 2020-12-07 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1335974074074316800 | 1335974074074316800 |
| Every so often the masses realize they are being exploited | 2020-12-07 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1335971852804452354 | 1335971852804452354 |
| What the real conservatives don't get about the modern | 2020-12-07 | 48 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1335771496925470720 | 1335771496925470720 |
| No external interventions to save US! | 2020-12-05 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1335011353346547712 | 1335011353346547712 |
| An allegory of the rise and fall and rebirth of human | 2020-12-04 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1335010393484193792 | 1335010393484193792 |
| I-We-I-We - one of the cycles of mass psychology that | 2020-12-04 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1335008158201200641 | 1335008158201200641 |
| Divide government doesn't encourage moderation. | 2020-12-03 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1334625354669953026 | 1334625354669953026 |
| Groundhog Day - the same movie over and over. | 2020-12-02 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1333978837634359297 | 1333978837634359297 |
| Global scope of white supremacists | 2020-12-02 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1333958742124023810 | 1333958742124023810 |
| Most people trust their own election officials but not | 2020-11-30 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1333408720647163905 | 1333408720647163905 |
| How the Qs of the world gain traction. | 2020-11-30 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1333398090502479872 | 1333398090502479872 |
| "facts matter, the truth matters and the rule of law | 2020-11-29 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1333157677648674817 | 1333157677648674817 |
| Mississippi in 1920 - India in 2020. Some things | 2020-11-29 | 36 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1333155818028429312 | 1333155818028429312 |
| Guns and virus - Americans know their rights but not their | 2020-11-27 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1332196323995488256 | 1332196323995488256 |
| "conspiracy theories have become the most effective | 2020-11-27 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1332194523548585984 | 1332194523548585984 |
| What is the POSITIVE Democratic message that unites ALL | 2020-11-22 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1330597499648688130 | 1330597499648688130 |
| "The key distinction wasn't between moderates and | 2020-11-22 | 39 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1330574435275788290 | 1330574435275788290 |
| "A party wins and governs for half of America; the | 2020-11-22 | 37 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1330573474079752193 | 1330573474079752193 |
| Eugene Debs, Norman Thomas, Bernie Sanders - they didn't | 2020-11-20 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1329882409915977728 | 1329882409915977728 |
| The value of a math theorem is that it allows you to know | 2020-11-20 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1329880457442312197 | 1329880457442312197 |
| Another view of Hillbilly Elegy. | 2020-11-20 | 41 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1329863241573437440 | 1329863241573437440 |
| Polls only reflect the opinions of the tiny minority of | 2020-11-20 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1329857809433784320 | 1329857809433784320 |
| The FUNDAMENTAL LIE of minority rule - | 2020-11-20 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1329660929902927876 | 1329660929902927876 |
| Does 2020 mark the end of ideological political party | 2020-11-19 | 35 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1329214070654783488 | 1329214070654783488 |
| Trump's "all about ME" became Democrats' "all about | 2020-11-18 | 39 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1329124328198139905 | 1329124328198139905 |
| The role of the extreme left is to point toward the future. | 2020-11-17 | 43 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1328848952314060800 | 1328848952314060800 |
| The great polling mystery - what will the undecideds | 2020-11-17 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1328843975608864768 | 1328843975608864768 |
| Failing fanatics redouble fanaticism. Thus end the | 2020-11-16 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1328132002856386562 | 1328132002856386562 |
| Will the Trump base ever vote according to its own economic | 2020-11-15 | 41 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1328095663498743808 | 1328095663498743808 |
| Who is Trump's base? | 2020-11-14 | 113 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1327619858557636609 | 1327619858557636609 |
| What should we remember about Armistice Day? | 2020-11-14 | 44 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1327410421364527104 | 1327410421364527104 |
| Trumpist evangelicals doing the devil's (and Putin's) work. | 2020-11-13 | 43 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1327278966705582080 | 1327278966705582080 |
| Election lessons. | 2020-11-13 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1327114445231775744 | 1327114445231775744 |
| Is the problem with polling that Republicans are less | 2020-11-13 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1327098442015858689 | 1327098442015858689 |
| A discouraging example from abroad. Once democratic | 2020-11-13 | 37 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1327090794893770753 | 1327090794893770753 |
| Why do only RETIRED Republicans have actionable principles | 2020-11-11 | 35 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1326603145422663680 | 1326603145422663680 |
| Anti-big-government didn't begin with Reagan. | 2020-11-11 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1326582500387295233 | 1326582500387295233 |
| How strong leaders rewrite history. | 2020-11-10 | 53 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1325959022609006592 | 1325959022609006592 |
| Can the constitutional culture that protected us from | 2020-11-09 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1325896618025971712 | 1325896618025971712 |
| Another mistaken analysis. The new Trump voters, | 2020-11-09 | 37 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1325809723493425157 | 1325809723493425157 |
| Completely wrong conclusions! | 2020-11-09 | 42 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1325803963321442305 | 1325803963321442305 |
| The left still hasn't absorbed the lesson of 2016, much | 2020-11-09 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1325801520797896704 | 1325801520797896704 |
| Lessons for self-serving opportunists in a cult of | 2020-11-07 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324893771419459584 | 1324893771419459584 |
| How evangelical Protestants became just another | 2020-11-06 | 50 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1324852517444874241 | 1324852517444874241 |
| Mythology is essential to minority rule. | 2020-11-06 | 34 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324849418030346242 | 1324849418030346242 |
| The Republicans are trying to figure out what comes next. | 2020-11-06 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324558418263199745 | 1324558418263199745 |
| Trying to understand how Trump appeals to increasing | 2020-11-06 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324512293317562368 | 1324512293317562368 |
| Oh what a circus, oh what a show! | 2020-11-01 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1322934751213178880 | 1322934751213178880 |
| Normalizing selfishness. | 2020-11-01 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1322918118407041025 | 1322918118407041025 |
| The difference between conservatism and anti-liberalism. | 2020-11-01 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1322908805236101120 | 1322908805236101120 |
| Apocalypse lost! | 2020-11-01 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1322762960603815936 | 1322762960603815936 |
| No civil war. | 2020-11-01 | 68 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1322757833490796545 | 1322757833490796545 |
| "The great Enlightenment principles - liberalism, | 2020-11-01 | 53 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1322756102933553152 | 1322756102933553152 |
| What Kamala Harris knows. | 2020-10-31 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1322408037336842240 | 1322408037336842240 |
| What Biden has done so far. | 2020-10-31 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1322341639226994689 | 1322341639226994689 |
| It's not all Trump's fault. There have always been 40% | 2020-10-29 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1321847213937487872 | 1321847213937487872 |
| Can the country be healed? | 2020-10-29 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1321681945986699265 | 1321681945986699265 |
| "even when justified, permanent indignation is not a | 2020-10-29 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1321612539243868160 | 1321612539243868160 |
| Exes need to understand that they are permanent exes. | 2020-10-29 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1321611438872383489 | 1321611438872383489 |
| Can something good come out of the Trump presidency? | 2020-10-25 | 78 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1320483891770085376 | 1320483891770085376 |
| Center-right parties are vital to liberal democracy - | 2020-10-25 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1320470766450700288 | 1320470766450700288 |
| Single-issue voters - a pillar of minority rule. If you | 2020-10-25 | 38 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1320466631747792896 | 1320466631747792896 |
| The shrinking American mind. | 2020-10-24 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1319869280343605249 | 1319869280343605249 |
| Where did the gender gap come from? | 2020-10-23 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1319706667433422849 | 1319706667433422849 |
| The minority rule quandary - the big donors are | 2020-10-23 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1319702277599313920 | 1319702277599313920 |
| The archetypal Republican dilemma - you can't have Trump's | 2020-10-22 | 44 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1319286626237861896 | 1319286626237861896 |
| Can the Republican Party learn and adapt or must it follow | 2020-10-22 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1319285654547689473 | 1319285654547689473 |
| Back to the past can't work much longer. | 2020-10-22 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1319274364454354949 | 1319274364454354949 |
| Effective intelligence depends on credibility and trust. | 2020-10-22 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1319084097109553152 | 1319084097109553152 |
| What does "pro-life" really mean? | 2020-10-22 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1319083282500255744 | 1319083282500255744 |
| Most people aren't interested in politics. | 2020-10-20 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1318551082914746374 | 1318551082914746374 |
| Treating lies and facts equally favors lies. Voters | 2020-10-18 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1317964189399355392 | 1317964189399355392 |
| Mask up for freedom! | 2020-10-18 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1317960492015517696 | 1317960492015517696 |
| "Fear, which depends on pitting one group against another, | 2020-10-17 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1317452995932561408 | 1317452995932561408 |
| How did America get off the greatness track and how can | 2020-10-16 | 35 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1317110207806201856 | 1317110207806201856 |
| Which Constitution are you going to originalize? | 2020-10-16 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1317100584047046657 | 1317100584047046657 |
| Biden is rebuilding the Democratic majority. | 2020-10-15 | 43 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1316553848329101315 | 1316553848329101315 |
| How minority rule is maintained - with unlimited dark | 2020-10-14 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1316508073410744320 | 1316508073410744320 |
| Maintaining minority rule is harder than it looks. | 2020-10-12 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1315784288546091008 | 1315784288546091008 |
| Of course it's a pack of lies. | 2020-10-12 | 53 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1315708506813546496 | 1315708506813546496 |
| Before Trump there Lysenko, the Scopes Monkey Trial, | 2020-10-11 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1315379651577929728 | 1315379651577929728 |
| Put not your trust in princes | 2020-10-09 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1314549093251727360 | 1314549093251727360 |
| Defending the Constitution is everybody's job! | 2020-10-09 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1314545014916087808 | 1314545014916087808 |
| "the cult of a leader and the myth of national greatness" | 2020-10-05 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1313156652292481029 | 1313156652292481029 |
| Who said - | 2020-10-05 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1313151097712701443 | 1313151097712701443 |
| Government needs to reinvent itself every generation. | 2020-10-05 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1313127804083429376 | 1313127804083429376 |
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========== Reaganism failed. But do the Republican voters understand that, who suffered the most from it? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/opinion/reagan-economy-covid.html #PS1theory ===== impress 43 time 2020-12-29 14:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1343928209063100416 ========== Undermining government means it's not there when you need it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/government-hollowed-out-weaknesses/ #PS1theory ===== impress 39 time 2020-12-28 04:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1343409486694739968 ========== Should the government get in and help or just get out of the way? Republican donors have one point of view, Republican voters another - at least some of the time. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/pandemic-government-role/ #PS1theory ===== impress 46 time 2020-12-28 03:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1343403103777816579 ========== Wealth inequality, income inequality, health inequality. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/coronavirus-vaccine-rich-people/2020/12/18/3a2f188e-40ae-11eb-8bc0-ae155bee4aff_story.html #PS1theory ===== impress 34 time 2020-12-20 19:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1340740884409720832 ========== Fix the GOP or replace it? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/opinion/politics/never-trump-republican-party.html But how large is the centrist constituency? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ #PS1theory ===== impress 40 time 2020-12-16 23:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339357807322152963 ========== Political sectarianism https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/opinion/trump-political-sectarianism.html Regional federalism might be a way out. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html It's same old story of rational inquiry vs faith in authority, fanned by one-sided mass media to protect the ruling classes. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1theory ===== impress 37 time 2020-12-16 22:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339342458304401409 ========== Putting libertarian theory into practice. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-project-new-hampshire-libertarians-matthew-hongoltz-hetling Societies have governments so every individual doesn't have to solve every problem in the world every day on his own - what happens when your liberty conflicts with mine? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#registration #PS1theory ===== impress 32 time 2020-12-15 14:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1338856673851572225 ========== "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality" https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/faith-certainty-and-the-presidency-of-george-w-bush.html W was in some ways Trump's opposite, but he attracted the same kind of self-serving opportunist staff who led him to the same kinds of misjudgments. #PS1theory ===== impress 33 time 2020-12-15 03:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1338680656738414594 ========== What's missing now - 100 years of building trust. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/11/10-most-important-things-ive-learned-about-trust-over-my-100-years/ Even his loudest Congressional admirers don't trust Trump. Why would they? Why should anybody else? #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 37 time 2020-12-13 23:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1338266066426810368 ========== Trumpists don't believe in democracy. They believe in Trump! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/opinion/electoral-college-trump-election.html #PS1theory ===== impress 34 time 2020-12-13 23:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1338264606133796865 ========== The meaning of Hanukkah for America. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/12/11/hanukkah-lesson-rebuilding-america/ #PS1theory ===== impress 37 time 2020-12-11 17:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1337447517777141762 ========== The 2024 Trumpist candidate had better be competent at using the bureaucracy instead of abusing it. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/opinion/trump-populists-technocrats.html The elites that fund elections have an interest in do-nothing legislatures so change happens elsewhere. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-congress.html #PS1theory ===== impress 41 time 2020-12-07 15:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1335974074074316800 ========== Every so often the masses realize they are being exploited by the elites and they strike back in whatever way they can - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/opinion/brexit-britain-covid-labour.html And then the new elites just exploit them using different language. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses #PS1theory ===== impress 43 time 2020-12-07 15:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1335971852804452354 ========== What the real conservatives don't get about the modern Republican Party. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-country-owes-the-never-trump-conservatives-a-debt/2020/12/05/3d9bc9da-369b-11eb-8d38-6aea1adb3839_story.html That party is not conservative; it is reactionary, trying to recreate a mythical past by preserving minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1theory ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% expands 1 impress 48 time 2020-12-07 02:21 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1335771496925470720 ========== No external interventions to save US! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/trump-international-mediation.html #PS1theory ===== impress 39 time 2020-12-05 00:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1335011353346547712 ========== An allegory of the rise and fall and rebirth of human societies. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/children-game-imaginary-society.html #PS1theory ===== impress 47 time 2020-12-04 23:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1335010393484193792 ========== I-We-I-We - one of the cycles of mass psychology that define American culture. Donald Trump epitomizes the "I" phase. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/race-american-history.html #PS1theory ===== impress 51 time 2020-12-04 23:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1335008158201200641 ========== Divide government doesn't encourage moderation. It encourages stasis. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/divided-government-is-a-destructive-myth/2020/12/02/24c58faa-34dd-11eb-8d38-6aea1adb3839_story.html Trumpists have no problem with do-nothing Congress - they will blame it on Democrats. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-congress.html #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 29 time 2020-12-03 22:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1334625354669953026 ========== Groundhog Day - the same movie over and over. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/opinion/dinkins-giuliani-nyc-mayor.html #PS1theory ===== impress 38 time 2020-12-02 03:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1333978837634359297 ========== Global scope of white supremacists https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/inside-the-white-supremacist-global-network/2020/12/01/854e45ea-33fe-11eb-8d38-6aea1adb3839_story.html #PS1theory ===== impress 33 time 2020-12-02 02:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1333958742124023810 ========== Most people trust their own election officials but not yours. Just as they tend to think their own elected officials are OK but not yours. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/upshot/republican-voters-election-doubts.html #PS1theory ===== impress 38 time 2020-11-30 13:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1333408720647163905 ========== How the Qs of the world gain traction. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/opinion/trump-conspiracy-germany-1918.html #PS1theory ===== impress 37 time 2020-11-30 13:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1333398090502479872 ========== "facts matter, the truth matters and the rule of law matters" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/opinion/letters/nuremberg-lessons.html Reactionaries come and go, but the reaction against the Enlightenment has never ended. #PS1theory ===== impress 36 time 2020-11-29 21:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1333157677648674817 ========== Mississippi in 1920 - India in 2020. Some things never change. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/28/hateful-love-jihad-conspiracy-india-is-going-mainstream/ The ruling classes protect their rule by inciting the masses against each other. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 36 time 2020-11-29 21:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1333155818028429312 ========== Guns and virus - Americans know their rights but not their responsibilities. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/opinion/covid-thanksgiving-freedom.html #PS1theory ===== impress 44 time 2020-11-27 05:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1332196323995488256 ========== "conspiracy theories have become the most effective community bonding mechanisms of the 21st century" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/opinion/republican-disinformation.html But if you disprove somebody's religion, they don't thank you, they kill you. #PS1theory ===== impress 45 time 2020-11-27 05:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1332194523548585984 ========== What is the POSITIVE Democratic message that unites ALL Americans? https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/13/elissa-slotkin-braces-for-a-democratic-civil-war-436301 How about "The Democratic Party is the REAL DEAL party that dares to REALLY work for good health and good jobs for ALL Americans" More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1297867627224420 #PS1theory ===== impress 38 time 2020-11-22 19:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1330597499648688130 ========== "The key distinction wasn't between moderates and progressives, but between politicians in competitive districts and those not." https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/13/elissa-slotkin-braces-for-a-democratic-civil-war-436301 Republicans also position on e.g. virus relief based on district competitiveness. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative #PS1theory ===== engage 3 engage-rate 8% expands 2 impress 39 time 2020-11-22 18:10 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1330574435275788290 ========== "A party wins and governs for half of America; the other party wins and governs for the other half of America. Stalemated government can't do anything." https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/13/elissa-slotkin-braces-for-a-democratic-civil-war-436301 The Republican Party donors are fine with Do-nothing Congress. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-congress.html #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 37 time 2020-11-22 18:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1330573474079752193 ========== Eugene Debs, Norman Thomas, Bernie Sanders - they didn't get all they wanted when they wanted but they made it possible for others to get something eventually. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/opinion/biden-fdr-left-new-deal.html #PS1theory ===== impress 53 time 2020-11-20 20:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1329882409915977728 ========== The value of a math theorem is that it allows you to know more while remembering less. The value of a conspiracy theory is that it allows you to know less while imagining you know more. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/opinion/global-cabal-conspiracy-theories.html Everybody would like a unified field theory of history. #PS1theory ===== impress 38 time 2020-11-20 20:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1329880457442312197 ========== Another view of Hillbilly Elegy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/20/searching-real-appalachia-netflixs-hillbilly-elegy/ Do you blame the politicians for betraying voters or the voters for supporting crooks? Lying is fundamental to minority rule. #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 41 time 2020-11-20 19:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1329863241573437440 ========== Polls only reflect the opinions of the tiny minority of people willing to talk to pollsters. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/19/why-were-polls-wrong-ignore-calls/ #PS1theory ===== impress 29 time 2020-11-20 18:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1329857809433784320 ========== The FUNDAMENTAL LIE of minority rule - SAY loudly what the voters want to hear, DO quietly what the donors want done. Shout about elites as much as you like, then do what they tell you. Allow any ideology except loss of their power. More - https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1295803547430828 #PS1theory ===== impress 38 time 2020-11-20 05:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1329660929902927876 ========== Does 2020 mark the end of ideological political party power and the beginning of personality cult politics? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/18/what-will-history-say-about-trump/ #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 35 time 2020-11-19 00:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1329214070654783488 ========== Trump's "all about ME" became Democrats' "all about MY group". But "how about WE" - getting to 51% of the vote in 51% of districts? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/opinion/biden-democrats-moderate-progressive.html 37% of voters want a dictator, so Democrats need to work hard for the other 13%. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-sore-loser/2020/11/14/b6c58500-2375-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 39 time 2020-11-18 18:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1329124328198139905 ========== The role of the extreme left is to point toward the future. The role of the centrists is to get there slowly enough that the reactionaries don't take over. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/opinion/leftists-moderates-democratic-party.html That's a delicate balance. https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 43 time 2020-11-17 23:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1328848952314060800 ========== The great polling mystery - what will the undecideds decide? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/16/polling-isnt-broken-we-too-often-miss-its-hidden-signals/ #PS1theory ===== impress 69 time 2020-11-17 23:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1328843975608864768 ========== Failing fanatics redouble fanaticism. Thus end the coalitions of 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/15/us/politics/2020-election-recap-democrats-republicans.html Many SAY politicians should work together to solve problems, but such candidates fare poorly. Time for another coalition? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative #PS1theory ===== impress 41 time 2020-11-16 00:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1328132002856386562 ========== Will the Trump base ever vote according to its own economic interest? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/15/biden-can-do-something-rural-america/ Probably not! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses https://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency #PS1theory ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% expands 2 impress 41 time 2020-11-15 22:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1328095663498743808 ========== Who is Trump's base? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-sore-loser/2020/11/14/b6c58500-2375-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html "the share of voters who want a strong leader who does not have to bother with Congress and elections grew from 25 percent in 1990 to 37 percent in 2017" ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer! That's national unity for you. #PS1theory ===== engage 13 engage-rate 12% expands 13 impress 113 time 2020-11-14 14:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1327619858557636609 ========== What should we remember about Armistice Day? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/13/canadas-remembrance-day-shouldnt-be-culture-war/ About a pointless war, we should remember the common soldiers who quickly identified the real enemy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce horrifying the ruling classes. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1290566871287829 #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 44 time 2020-11-14 00:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1327410421364527104 ========== Trumpist evangelicals doing the devil's (and Putin's) work. Nobody can serve two masters, and they have made their choice. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-a-massive-failure-of-character-among-republicans--with-evangelicals-out-in-front/2020/11/12/c7a05396-251e-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 43 time 2020-11-13 15:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1327278966705582080 ========== Election lessons. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/opinion/2020-election-voters.html After 2016, it was possible to be discouraged but hopeful that voters would wise up to Trump. After 2020, it is easier to be discouraged and harder to be hopeful. Trump got more votes. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1289862101358306 #PS1theory ===== impress 39 time 2020-11-13 05:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1327114445231775744 ========== Is the problem with polling that Republicans are less willing to talk to pollsters? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/us/politics/election-polls-trump-biden.html #PS1theory ===== impress 42 time 2020-11-13 03:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1327098442015858689 ========== A discouraging example from abroad. Once democratic traditions are trashed, it's very hard to restore them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/09/trump-ferdinand-marcos-philippines-lessons-democracy/ #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 37 time 2020-11-13 03:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1327090794893770753 ========== Why do only RETIRED Republicans have actionable principles and ethics? Can we count on the same from Trump? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/why-gop-superlawyer-ben-ginsberg-is-bucking-his-party-and-blasting-trumps-baseless-election-claims/2020/11/10/f2aa7056-236d-11eb-8599-406466ad1b8e_story.html #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 35 time 2020-11-11 19:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1326603145422663680 ========== Anti-big-government didn't begin with Reagan. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/opinion/donald-trump-reagan.html The Southern style of government is feudal - each member of the nobility controlling HIS sphere, with a central government as weak as possible, to better keep it out of the way of the nobility. #PS1theory ===== impress 37 time 2020-11-11 17:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1326582500387295233 ========== How strong leaders rewrite history. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/04/russia-past-is-constantly-moving-target/ In America, the biggest historical rewrite was about the "noble lost cause" of defending slavery. Trump wanted to do his part by defending statues and base names. #PS1theory ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% expands 1 impress 53 time 2020-11-10 00:30 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1325959022609006592 ========== Can the constitutional culture that protected us from demagogues be restored? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/opinion/how-to-protect-america-from-the-next-donald-trump.html A republic if we can keep it. #PS1theory ===== impress 44 time 2020-11-09 20:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1325896618025971712 ========== Another mistaken analysis. The new Trump voters, that his successor hopes to exploit, vote on tribe and personality, not policy. They support Democratic proposals until they learn that they are Democratic proposals. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/08/democratic-leaders-play-ridiculous-blame-game-with-progressives/ #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 37 time 2020-11-09 14:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1325809723493425157 ========== Completely wrong conclusions! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/08/working-people-delivered-biden-win-nina-turner/ Trump achieved record Republican turnout and the new voters were not from the 1%. They were tribal. Policy is not going to change their minds quickly. Especially if Mitch blocks policy. #PS1theory ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% expands 1 impress 42 time 2020-11-09 14:14 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1325803963321442305 ========== The left still hasn't absorbed the lesson of 2016, much less 2020. Trump really mobilized the "I don't care how much the ruling class screws me as long as they screw the liberals worse!" voters. They were voting for tribe, not policy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/08/trailer-democrats-won-white-house-lost-myth-about-turnout/ #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 40 time 2020-11-09 14:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1325801520797896704 ========== Lessons for self-serving opportunists in a cult of personality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall_(2004_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peronism #PS1theory ===== impress 60 time 2020-11-07 01:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324893771419459584 ========== How evangelical Protestants became just another single-issue constituency in the Republican Party and a pillar of minority rule. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/opinion/evangelicals-republicans.html #PS1theory ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% impress 50 time 2020-11-06 23:13 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324852517444874241 ========== Mythology is essential to minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/06/time-confront-rightwing-myth-makers/ Nobody will vote for maintaining a hereditary nobility and a permanent serf class. So the advocates of minority rule have to invent a mythology to disguise their real objectives. #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 34 time 2020-11-06 23:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324849418030346242 ========== The Republicans are trying to figure out what comes next. So are the Democrats. The question is whether ANY ideological orientation is effective against tribalism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-democrats-pelosi-election/2020/11/05/1ddae5ca-1f6e-11eb-90dd-abd0f7086a91_story.html #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 31 time 2020-11-06 03:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324558418263199745 ========== Trying to understand how Trump appeals to increasing numbers of minorities even as he oppresses them. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/opinion/election-2020-exit-polls.html #PS1theory ===== impress 29 time 2020-11-06 00:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324512293317562368 ========== Oh what a circus, oh what a show! Give Trump credit for converting political reality into reality-TV, where nothing is real. Was he trying for realpolitik but got impatient? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/politics/trump-presidency-dishonesty.html Will his successors amplify or renounce his methods? #PS1theory ===== impress 64 time 2020-11-01 16:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322934751213178880 ========== Normalizing selfishness. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/opinion/trump-ethics-america.html It's not what made America great. It's what keeps the third world third. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1theory ===== impress 62 time 2020-11-01 15:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322918118407041025 ========== The difference between conservatism and anti-liberalism. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/opinion/donald-trump-conservatism.html #PS1theory ===== impress 52 time 2020-11-01 14:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322908805236101120 ========== Apocalypse lost! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/opinion/trump-republican-democratic-party.html #PS1theory ===== impress 65 time 2020-11-01 04:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322762960603815936 ========== No civil war. America is too rich and the government is too powerful. Thanks goodness! https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/civil-war-united-states-unlikely-violence/2020/10/29/3a143936-0f0f-11eb-8074-0e943a91bf08_story.html That doesn't mean that lone wolf lunatics won't cause a lot of trouble. #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 68 time 2020-11-01 04:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322757833490796545 ========== "The great Enlightenment principles - liberalism, secularism, rationality, equality, free markets - do not provide the tribal identity that human beings crave" https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/30/polarization-books-trump-election/ About 40% of American voters seem to prefer tribal identity over those ideals. #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 53 time 2020-11-01 04:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322756102933553152 ========== What Kamala Harris knows. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/kamala-harris-woman-vp/2020/10/29/2764734c-188c-11eb-82db-60b15c874105_story.html It's what Hillary knows too. #PS1theory ===== impress 46 time 2020-10-31 05:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322408037336842240 ========== What Biden has done so far. He is indeed the anti-Trump. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/opinion/joe-biden.html #PS1theory ===== impress 48 time 2020-10-31 00:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322341639226994689 ========== It's not all Trump's fault. There have always been 40% of voters who support him no matter what. They are strategically located, so catering to them helps make minority rule work. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/opinion/trump-supporters-america.html #PS1theory ===== impress 41 time 2020-10-29 16:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1321847213937487872 ========== Can the country be healed? https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2020/10/26/gene-weingarten-divided-country-healing/ The punchline is at the end. #PS1theory ===== impress 38 time 2020-10-29 05:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1321681945986699265 ========== "even when justified, permanent indignation is not a healthy emotional state" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/opinion/donald-trump-behavior.html In WWII, nobody ever published a photo of FDR with his crutches. That was too low to go. There's no bottom now. #PS1theory ===== impress 34 time 2020-10-29 00:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1321612539243868160 ========== Exes need to understand that they are permanent exes. No more Grover Clevelands! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/opinion/bolivia-election-arce-morales.html "lingering ex-presidents prevent the nation from moving on" #PS1theory ===== impress 43 time 2020-10-29 00:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1321611438872383489 ========== Can something good come out of the Trump presidency? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/end-of-democracy-election/2020/10/25/3b8c0940-13d0-11eb-ba42-ec6a580836ed_story.html Sometimes a near-death experience is revitalizing if it's accompanied by a flash of insight about what's really important. #PS1theory ===== engage 18 engage-rate 23% expands 18 impress 78 time 2020-10-25 21:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1320483891770085376 ========== Center-right parties are vital to liberal democracy - depriving the lunatic fringe of oxygen. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/opinion/sunday/trump-republican-party.html Where can a center-right party be if the post-2020 Republican party descends further into conspiracy theories, racism, etc. https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ #PS1theory ===== impress 29 time 2020-10-25 21:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1320470766450700288 ========== Single-issue voters - a pillar of minority rule. If you address their one issue, you can do what you want the rest of the time. So for Republicans that includes right-to-life, abortion, and anti-Castro voters. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/sunday-review/cuba-florida-trump-election.html #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 38 time 2020-10-25 20:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1320466631747792896 ========== The shrinking American mind. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/opinion/Trump-biden-debates.html Blindness starts with myopia. #PS1theory ===== impress 36 time 2020-10-24 05:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1319869280343605249 ========== Where did the gender gap come from? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/opinion/gender-gap-2020-election.html Actually, in the early days in several states, only white men who owned land could vote. #PS1theory ===== impress 49 time 2020-10-23 18:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1319706667433422849 ========== The minority rule quandary - the big donors are against entitlements like medicare and social security. But most Republican voters are for them. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/opinion/democrats-republicans-big-government.html So the challenge is - act one way and say the opposite. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1theory ===== impress 41 time 2020-10-23 18:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1319702277599313920 ========== The archetypal Republican dilemma - you can't have Trump's base and persuadable centrists too. You have to pick one or the other though neither are all that they have claimed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/22/trump-is-making-martha-mcsallys-life-very-difficult/ #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 44 time 2020-10-22 14:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1319286626237861896 ========== Can the Republican Party learn and adapt or must it follow the Whigs? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/22/how-big-republican-wipeout-are-we-looking/ #PS1theory ===== impress 42 time 2020-10-22 14:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1319285654547689473 ========== Back to the past can't work much longer. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/22/us/politics/trump-voters-demographics.html #PS1theory ===== impress 37 time 2020-10-22 13:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1319274364454354949 ========== Effective intelligence depends on credibility and trust. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/opinion/john-ratcliffe-trump.html #PS1theory ===== impress 40 time 2020-10-22 01:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1319084097109553152 ========== What does "pro-life" really mean? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/opinion/evangelicals-election-biden.html #PS1theory ===== impress 38 time 2020-10-22 01:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1319083282500255744 ========== Most people aren't interested in politics. That's one of the pillars of minority rule. And also why revolutionary politics eventually falls flat - with a lot of collateral damage. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/opinion/polarization-politics-americans.html #PS1theory ===== impress 62 time 2020-10-20 13:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1318551082914746374 ========== Treating lies and facts equally favors lies. Voters must CHOOSE to favor facts over lies and CHOOSE to believe that objective truth is more important than any candidate. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/opinion/ny-post-biden-twitter.html That's the patriotic education we need! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-offenses.html#trump-america #PS1theory ===== impress 53 time 2020-10-18 23:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1317964189399355392 ========== Mask up for freedom! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/17/opinion/covid-masks-freedom-democrats.html Otherwise, freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. #PS1theory ===== impress 31 time 2020-10-18 22:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1317960492015517696 ========== "Fear, which depends on pitting one group against another, is the currency of the Trump presidency" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/opinion/trump-2020.html That's how minority rule sustains itself! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1theory ===== impress 40 time 2020-10-17 13:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1317452995932561408 ========== How did America get off the greatness track and how can it get back on? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/opinion/how-to-actually-make-america-great.html The pivot point was the 1960's, with the baby boomers capturing the Democratic Party, and the Southern Strategy capturing the Republican Party for feudal minority rule. #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 35 time 2020-10-16 14:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1317110207806201856 ========== Which Constitution are you going to originalize? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/opinion/amy-coney-barrett-originalism.html #PS1theory ===== impress 24 time 2020-10-16 13:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1317100584047046657 ========== Biden is rebuilding the Democratic majority. It looks a lot like the old Democratic majority. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-joe-biden--yes-joe-biden--could-revolutionize-american-politics/2020/10/14/b5d6abf2-0e4d-11eb-8074-0e943a91bf08_story.html The Republicans never could make minority rule look like a majority for long. #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 43 time 2020-10-15 01:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1316553848329101315 ========== How minority rule is maintained - with unlimited dark money through tax-exempt "charities". https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/council-national-policy-video/2020/10/14/367f24c2-f793-11ea-a510-f57d8ce76e11_story.html #PS1theory ===== impress 29 time 2020-10-14 22:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1316508073410744320 ========== Maintaining minority rule is harder than it looks. You have to take care of your donors constantly, while pretending that you're not. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/opinion/mitch-mcconnell-covid-stimulus.html #PS1theory ===== impress 46 time 2020-10-12 22:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1315784288546091008 ========== Of course it's a pack of lies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/12/amy-coney-barretts-hearing-is-disgusting-spectacle-gop-dishonesty/ Minority rule is a lie from top to bottom. In a nominal democracy, it has to be. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1254135018264348 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1theory ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% expands 1 impress 53 time 2020-10-12 17:38 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1315708506813546496 ========== Before Trump there Lysenko, the Scopes Monkey Trial, Galileo's trial by the Inquisition. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-gop-has-a-long-history-of-ignoring-science-trump-turned-it-into-policy/2020/10/09/53574602-0917-11eb-859b-f9c27abe638d_story.html It's un-American, for America was founded on the basis of Enlightenment ideals of rational inquiry and progress. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-offenses.html#trump-america #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 40 time 2020-10-11 19:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1315379651577929728 ========== Put not your trust in princes https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/opinion/america-patriotism.html Cult of personality only goes so far - as far as the grave. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality America is an ideal, not a person. #PS1theory ===== impress 72 time 2020-10-09 12:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1314549093251727360 ========== Defending the Constitution is everybody's job! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/opinion/sunday/trump-barrett-mcconnell.html #PS1theory ===== impress 61 time 2020-10-09 12:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1314545014916087808 ========== "the cult of a leader and the myth of national greatness" https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/coronavirus-fuels-fascist-politics-by-federico-finchelstein-and-jason-stanley-2020-05 #PS1theory ===== impress 41 time 2020-10-05 16:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1313156652292481029 ========== Who said - "Those who travel the high road of humility in Washington are not bothered by heavy traffic." "The essence of our breakdown in politics is the mentality that I'm right and you're totally wrong." What will current senators say? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/04/us/politics/virus-trump.html #PS1theory ===== impress 27 time 2020-10-05 16:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1313151097712701443 ========== Government needs to reinvent itself every generation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-covid-19-could-make-a-case-against-big-government/2020/10/01/375549f8-0418-11eb-b7ed-141dd88560ea_story.html #PS1theory ===== impress 55 time 2020-10-05 14:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1313127804083429376