| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| Of course the devil prefers to start at the top. | 2022-12-23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606156105624604672 | 1606156105624604672 |
| History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes! | 2022-12-15 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1603486906238390274 | 1603486906238390274 |
| “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - | 2022-11-08 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590097414241005568 | 1590097414241005568 |
| The rich and powerful of all times and places like the | 2022-10-31 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586964313847177216 | 1586964313847177216 |
| The desire for immortality is immortal. Roman emperors | 2022-10-31 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586950449936052224 | 1586950449936052224 |
| "violence is as American as cherry pie" | 2022-10-31 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586936045043560448 | 1586936045043560448 |
| "soldiers be content with your wages" | 2022-10-31 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586929827860258817 | 1586929827860258817 |
| Trump won by 78000 votes in 2016, Biden by 43000 in 2020. | 2022-10-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586135786268655616 | 1586135786268655616 |
| The desire for a hereditary nobility has been in America | 2022-10-27 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585714028608778240 | 1585714028608778240 |
| "The president and Congress don’t have the same job, | 2022-10-25 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584776037862236160 | 1584776037862236160 |
| In hoc signo vinces! | 2022-10-23 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584322310500032512 | 1584322310500032512 |
| "What's wrong with Trump and Trumpism?" it's not just | 2022-10-14 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1580712292936605696 | 1580712292936605696 |
| GOP talks about culture wars in elections, in order to | 2022-10-07 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578518953151762433 | 1578518953151762433 |
| Liberal nationalism - not an oxymoron. | 2022-10-07 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578229854800998400 | 1578229854800998400 |
| "immigrants can be converted from throngs of individuals | 2022-09-26 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574262191787626496 | 1574262191787626496 |
| "All men are created equal" - what does it mean? | 2022-08-29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564111425923977217 | 1564111425923977217 |
| The paradox of democracy. | 2022-08-17 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1559962402673737728 | 1559962402673737728 |
| What is "conservative"? | 2022-08-16 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559371389336895489 | 1559371389336895489 |
| Why politicians seldom get better. They can't admit they | 2022-08-15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558966929284444161 | 1558966929284444161 |
| Praise for assassins as patriots - not just in Trump | 2022-08-13 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558452325508780034 | 1558452325508780034 |
| The devil whispers in politicians' ears "this is important | 2022-08-02 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1554309795515011072 | 1554309795515011072 |
| The power of cult of personality! | 2022-07-29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1552868774138654720 | 1552868774138654720 |
| “People every week fill the tank. They see these big | 2022-07-11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1546324610009837568 | 1546324610009837568 |
| Should Democrats try to harness the outrage over abortion | 2022-07-11 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1546313381195329538 | 1546313381195329538 |
| America's founders were human, with virtues and faults, | 2022-07-05 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1544126358946623488 | 1544126358946623488 |
| "All men are created equal" has had different meanings to | 2022-07-04 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543817732281446400 | 1543817732281446400 |
| Like nouveau riche of previous generations, most Silicon | 2022-05-25 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1529608433942552577 | 1529608433942552577 |
| Good news and bad news | 2022-05-25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529512606553190400 | 1529512606553190400 |
| Conservatives and reactionaries have power out of | 2022-05-20 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1527460428560756737 | 1527460428560756737 |
| It's the same in every time and place - | 2022-05-20 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1527456614843682816 | 1527456614843682816 |
| How can populism be kept away from becoming authoritarian | 2022-05-19 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527122013915033600 | 1527122013915033600 |
| Before QAnon and anti-vaxxers there were UFO zealots. | 2022-05-19 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527103497006510081 | 1527103497006510081 |
| OK boomers - time to move on! | 2022-05-19 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527101185131393024 | 1527101185131393024 |
| What's the polar opposite of the Enlightenment ideals of | 2022-05-17 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526366818700447744 | 1526366818700447744 |
| Can the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders survive? | 2022-05-17 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526364628736876544 | 1526364628736876544 |
| In 2019 Trumpists pretended to be outraged by the idea | 2022-05-13 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1525091764347908096 | 1525091764347908096 |
| Why America's founders embraced the Enlightenment ideal | 2022-05-06 | 56 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522421174042460161 | 1522421174042460161 |
| Reactionary chic - we know where it came from, but where | 2022-05-01 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520583330810400768 | 1520583330810400768 |
| Differences between Democratic and Republican rule-of-law - | 2022-04-30 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1520433085371744256 | 1520433085371744256 |
| "I require frequent reports from many key people. This | 2022-04-19 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1516267394129293313 | 1516267394129293313 |
| American unity gelled briefly in 2001, but quickly | 2022-04-11 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513317722829991936 | 1513317722829991936 |
| All politics is personal? | 2022-04-09 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512638112719015941 | 1512638112719015941 |
| Traditional Democrats and Republicans dream of things that | 2022-04-09 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512637083214487556 | 1512637083214487556 |
| The Falklands war - a perfect example of a war fought not | 2022-04-03 | 34 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510465510642577409 | 1510465510642577409 |
| It's very hard to predict how another country will fight. | 2022-03-25 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1507206490842566658 | 1507206490842566658 |
| Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. | 2022-03-24 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1506970577025716224 | 1506970577025716224 |
| Why dictators fail - they can never be wrong, so they can | 2022-03-18 | 39 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1504677772857208834 | 1504677772857208834 |
| "civilizational imagining provides a useful lever | 2022-03-11 | 87 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1502299985462771716 | 1502299985462771716 |
| It's not just a game of Risk! Theories require | 2022-03-10 | 93 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1501724928797675525 | 1501724928797675525 |
| A political credo for everybody who cherishes the | 2022-03-07 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1500912133562769412 | 1500912133562769412 |
| "we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes | 2022-02-28 | 86 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1498179123549667330 | 1498179123549667330 |
| Self-restraint is a fundamental prerequisite for and basis | 2022-02-09 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1491281775825649665 | 1491281775825649665 |
| A third of the electorate doesn't care about objective | 2022-01-27 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1486731276107190275 | 1486731276107190275 |
| We may be reaching a historical inflection point - | 2022-01-27 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1486541811426344961 | 1486541811426344961 |
| 2022 and 2024 will not be about Republican vs Democrat, | 2022-01-16 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1482629344598003713 | 1482629344598003713 |
| The words of the men who appear on America's money, show | 2022-01-07 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1479530106452279296 | 1479530106452279296 |
| Regional federalism is an alternative to secession. | 2022-01-01 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1477140555163258881 | 1477140555163258881 |
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========== Of course the devil prefers to start at the top. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1722010971476748 It's so much more efficient! https://apnews.com/article/pope-francis-religion-vatican-city-a14a52f3d3300330acfd13b5bffb0144 #PS1theory ===== impress 1 time 2022-12-23 05:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606156105624604672 ========== History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes! https://getpocket.com/explore/item/dorothy-thompson-the-journalist-who-warned-the-world-about-adolf-hitler "those driven by fear, resentment, insecurity, or self-loathing? They would always fall for fascism" So the Germans fell for "Hitler is a Messiah sent by God to save the German people". #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 17 time 2022-12-15 20:27 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1603486906238390274 ========== “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/08/elections-fdr-four-freedoms-democracy-future/ #PS1theory ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-08 21:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590097414241005568 ========== The rich and powerful of all times and places like the religion of Job's friends - God rewards the good and punishes the bad. If I am rich and you are poor, then you are a bad person. It would be against God's will to help you. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1792247641119747 #PS1theory ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-31 06:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586964313847177216 ========== The desire for immortality is immortal. Roman emperors announced that they were immortal gods - and then died. Our secular culture embraces celebrity. So some of the losers pick up guns. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/opinion/mass-shooters-motive.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1792223161122195 #PS1theory ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-31 05:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586950449936052224 ========== "violence is as American as cherry pie" Was H Rap Brown being historic or prophetic at the time? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Rap_Brown Both - looking back to Judge Lynch of the American Revolution - and forward to the Capitol Insurrection. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1792196294458215 #PS1theory ===== impress 9 time 2022-10-31 04:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586936045043560448 ========== "soldiers be content with your wages" John the Baptist likely referred to an implicit motivation for military service - in most times and places - freedom to murder, rape, pillage, and burn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marocchinate More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1792183051126206 #PS1theory ===== impress 9 time 2022-10-31 03:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586929827860258817 ========== Trump won by 78000 votes in 2016, Biden by 43000 in 2020. "Such big change resting on such small shifts is not healthy for democracy.” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/10/politics-stress-swing-states-elections/671729/ That instability is an irresistible temptation to do anything to win. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1790517421292769 #PS1theory ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-28 23:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586135786268655616 ========== The desire for a hereditary nobility has been in America from the beginning. The opposing desire for an elite based on merit, rather than inherited wealth, was just as hot an issue for Sam and John Adams. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/26/john-samuel-adams-thomas-hutchinson-elites/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1789546461389865 #PS1theory ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-27 19:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585714028608778240 ========== "The president and Congress don’t have the same job, and the weakness of one does not make the other stronger" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/24/opinion/biden-trump-weak-presidents.html #PS1theory ===== impress 7 time 2022-10-25 05:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584776037862236160 ========== In hoc signo vinces! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/23/midterms-republican-evangelicals-black-protestants-religion/ When politicians talk about religion, it's not really about religion, it's about political power. Same as it ever was. #PS1theory ===== impress 22 time 2022-10-23 23:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584322310500032512 ========== "What's wrong with Trump and Trumpism?" it's not just high crimes and misdemeanors, or violent insurrection against the Capitol, but also mortal sins betraying the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders. https://political-scrapbook.net/2022-enlightenment.html #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 time 2022-10-14 00:09 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580712292936605696 ========== GOP talks about culture wars in elections, in order to preserve the power of the megadonors. But 30 years ago Obama worked out a plan for racial justice as a byproduct of economic justice. https://nytimes.com/2022/10/07/opinion/obama-lost-book-manuscript.html How can it be done? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1772901026387742 #PS1theory ===== impress 10 time 2022-10-07 22:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578518953151762433 ========== Liberal nationalism - not an oxymoron. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/opinion/ukraine-liberal-nationalism.html "Blut und Boden" nationalism looks backwards, but the nationalism of the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders looks forward. #PS1theory ===== impress 8 time 2022-10-07 03:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578229854800998400 ========== "immigrants can be converted from throngs of individuals with individual lives and stories into an amorphous wave" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/25/opinion/beto-orourke-abbott-texas-governor.html Works for Trumpists! And in Russia, China, Iran, ... So what is the danger of a single story? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg #PS1theory ===== impress 64 time 2022-09-26 04:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574262191787626496 ========== "All men are created equal" - what does it mean? A question at the heart of being American. https://apnews.com/article/religion-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-kevin-jennings-723c49581d8a78ee54a793716e5212b3 #PS1theory ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-29 04:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564111425923977217 ========== The paradox of democracy. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/zac-gershberg/the-paradox-of-democracy/ Free speech means you can say things that are wrong and influence voters to do wrong things. Democracy depends on self-restraint and patience. #PS1theory ===== engage 2 engage-rate 33% impress 6 likes 1 time 2022-08-17 17:56 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559962402673737728 ========== What is "conservative"? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#diff "personality cults aren’t conservative, conspiracy theories aren’t conservative and treating politics like a religion is not conservative" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-campaigns-presidential-alaska-da4b2054db6649e04c864973612d32dc #PS1theory ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-16 02:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559371389336895489 ========== Why politicians seldom get better. They can't admit they are wrong, so can't learn from their mistakes. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/13/opinion/admitting-mistakes-trump.html #PS1theory ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-15 00:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558966929284444161 ========== Praise for assassins as patriots - not just in Trump country. https://apnews.com/article/iran-salman-rushdie-reaction-e9bc5f6841e667cf36506a78496aa3dc #PS1theory ===== impress 11 time 2022-08-13 13:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558452325508780034 ========== The devil whispers in politicians' ears "this is important but there’s a thing I care about more, and if I am not in office, I won’t be able to do what I care about." Liz Cheney has rejected that path. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/opinion/liz-cheney-trump-jan-6.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1722010971476748 #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% impress 5 likes 1 time 2022-08-02 03:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554309795515011072 ========== The power of cult of personality! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evita_(musical) The show was still touring in 2019. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-poverty-obituaries-buenos-aires-ff7553b9191269449f3eaf13f92fd3ca Practically every Argentine politician calls himself a Peronista, no matter what he actually believes or does. #PS1theory ===== impress 2 time 2022-07-29 04:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552868774138654720 ========== “People every week fill the tank. They see these big prices” https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/04/will-gas-prices-get-republicans-control-of-the-u-s-house/ People who don't follow politics - or economics - can read the price on the pump and be unhappy and vote the rascals out. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1705831329761379 #PS1theory ===== impress 5 time 2022-07-11 02:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546324610009837568 ========== Should Democrats try to harness the outrage over abortion by putting tests to candidates? One such test - "Do you need to conduct a poll to decide whether there is a constitutional right to privacy?" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/opinion/democrats-abortion-midterms.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1705809053096940 #PS1theory ===== impress 6 time 2022-07-11 02:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546313381195329538 ========== America's founders were human, with virtues and faults, just like everybody else who tried to improve the common good. So remember the things they got right AND the things they got wrong. We learn more from mistakes than from successes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/04/july-4-declare-independence-founding-fathers/ #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% impress 4 likes 1 time 2022-07-05 01:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544126358946623488 ========== "All men are created equal" has had different meanings to different people from the beginning. https://apnews.com/article/religion-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-kevin-jennings-723c49581d8a78ee54a793716e5212b3 #PS1theory ===== impress 4 time 2022-07-04 04:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543817732281446400 ========== Like nouveau riche of previous generations, most Silicon Valley titans tend toward reactionary politics in middle age and just get worse. https://greeleytribune.net/the-hard-right-turn-by-silicon-valley-tech-titans-is-remarkable/ Compare Russian oligarchs - they do what they want and don't care what others think - except Putin. #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 likes 1 time 2022-05-25 23:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529608433942552577 ========== Good news and bad news https://www.twincities.com/2022/05/24/thomas-friedman-my-lunch-with-president-biden/ Some things that took generations to break will take generations to fix. #PS1theory ===== impress 5 time 2022-05-25 17:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529512606553190400 ========== Conservatives and reactionaries have power out of proportion to their numbers due to rural bias - https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ Create a better future or preserve the best of the past? - the essential political argument. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opinion/democrats-morality-wars.html #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 25 likes 1 time 2022-05-20 01:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527460428560756737 ========== It's the same in every time and place - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#putin Fascism is a Triumph of the Will over Enlightenment reason - the will of one man. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opinion/russia-fascism-ukraine-putin.html #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 18 likes 1 time 2022-05-20 01:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527456614843682816 ========== How can populism be kept away from becoming authoritarian cult of personality? So far there's no clear answer. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/18/opinion/doug-mastriano-republicans-constitution.html #PS1theory ===== impress 19 time 2022-05-19 03:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527122013915033600 ========== Before QAnon and anti-vaxxers there were UFO zealots. They haven't gone away - except to Congress. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/17/congress-ufo-hearing-disinformation-conspiracy-theories/ #PS1theory ===== impress 33 time 2022-05-19 01:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527103497006510081 ========== OK boomers - time to move on! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/17/old-baby-boomers-resign-gergen/ Candidates for president, in particular, shouldn't be over 60 - if they serve for 8 exhausting years, they'll be 76 in normal years by the end of their second term - too old. #PS1theory ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-19 01:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527101185131393024 ========== What's the polar opposite of the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law The reactionary theorist behind a reactionary dictator. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/12/dugin-russia-ukraine-putin/ #PS1theory ===== impress 16 time 2022-05-17 00:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526366818700447744 ========== Can the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders survive? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/13/fukuyama-rachman/ #PS1theory ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-17 00:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526364628736876544 ========== In 2019 Trumpists pretended to be outraged by the idea that American history started in 1619. But this was old news in reactionary Virginia school textbooks in 1957 and civil rights speeches in 1965. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/1619/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1656318428046003 #PS1theory ===== impress 16 time 2022-05-13 12:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1525091764347908096 ========== Why America's founders embraced the Enlightenment ideal of separation of church and state. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/05/kirill-bartholomew-orthodox-church-putin/ Now we have the Russian Orthodox Church supporting Russia and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church supporting Ukraine. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0JGQ1XAt7aKtRyfzxLRMW2A1dLfpHCM5wzNjk1ZZE823FzWpZqmc1rDBjpN27uqYPl #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 56 replies 1 time 2022-05-06 03:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522421174042460161 ========== Reactionary chic - we know where it came from, but where does it go? https://olxpraca.com/goldberg-the-terrible-emergence-of-todays-reactionary-chic/ Nowhere good if you're not an old straight rich white Christian man. Just look at Russia and Belarus. #PS1theory ===== impress 31 time 2022-05-01 01:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520583330810400768 ========== Differences between Democratic and Republican rule-of-law - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#diff #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 20 time 2022-04-30 16:01 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520433085371744256 ========== "I require frequent reports from many key people. This provides a way to communicate problems to me without having them filtered." https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm A weakness of cult of personality - it's hard to find out what's really going on. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/18/opinion/china-russia-putin.html #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 time 2022-04-19 04:08 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516267394129293313 ========== American unity gelled briefly in 2001, but quickly was lost. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html The fundamental question - what is America all about? Blut und Boden or Enlightenment ideals? - always comes back to divide us. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/leonard-pitts-jr-americans-have-lost-the-willingness-ability-to-share-a-common-national-identity/ar-AAW3ftk #PS1theory ===== impress 38 time 2022-04-11 00:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513317722829991936 ========== All politics is personal? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/08/conservatives-liberals-personal-is-political/ Swing voters don't follow politics much and usually vote their pocketbooks. That's going to be bad for any party in power during rising inflation, even if it's global. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1638448956499617 #PS1theory ===== impress 34 time 2022-04-09 03:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512638112719015941 ========== Traditional Democrats and Republicans dream of things that never were and never will be. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/04/08/democrats-conservatives-history/ #PS1theory ===== impress 37 time 2022-04-09 03:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512637083214487556 ========== The Falklands war - a perfect example of a war fought not for NATIONAL security against another nation, but for ADMINISTRATION security against the domestic political opposition. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses https://apnews.com/article/argentina-south-america-europe-b543a53553521ca53318cfd49a07ee5e #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 34 time 2022-04-03 03:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510465510642577409 ========== It's very hard to predict how another country will fight. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/us/politics/intelligence-agencies-ukraine-afghanistan.html America has no particular insight to offer. #PS1theory ===== impress 26 time 2022-03-25 04:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1507206490842566658 ========== Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article259660080.html Self-restraint is an essential pillar of liberty. There's a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. There's no right to use them as you see fit, free from consequences. #PS1theory ===== impress 16 time 2022-03-24 12:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1506970577025716224 ========== Why dictators fail - they can never be wrong, so they can never learn from their mistakes, which become national mistakes. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/17/opinion/why-autocracies-fail.html #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 39 time 2022-03-18 04:35 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1504677772857208834 ========== "civilizational imagining provides a useful lever for ruling elites who want to suppress other forms of solidarity, whether class, regional or ecologically based, and to restrict the attractions of cosmopolitanism for their economic elites." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/opinion/nato-russia-the-west-ukraine.html #PS1theory ===== impress 87 time 2022-03-11 15:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1502299985462771716 ========== It's not just a game of Risk! Theories require adjustment when they encounter extraordinary individuals making history - first Putin, then Zelenskyy. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/09/opinion/ukraine-russia-invasion-west.html #PS1theory ===== impress 93 time 2022-03-10 01:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1501724928797675525 ========== A political credo for everybody who cherishes the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 19 time 2022-03-07 19:11 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1500912133562769412 ========== "we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor" That's what patriots do. They're doing it right now in Ukraine, and shaming Europeans into action. But not Putinist/Trumpists. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1610580615953118 #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 86 likes 1 time 2022-02-28 06:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1498179123549667330 ========== Self-restraint is a fundamental prerequisite for and basis of liberty. If everybody is free to do whatever they want - eventually most people aren't free to do anything they want. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/opinion/spotify-joe-rogan-covid-free-speech.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1597421327269047 #PS1theory ===== impress 42 time 2022-02-09 05:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1491281775825649665 ========== A third of the electorate doesn't care about objective reality, only their feelings, and there is a huge media industry built upon monetizing those feelings and enabling legions of opportunist politicians. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/27/opinions/holocaust-remembrance-day-politicization-wilf/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1589079098103270 #PS1theory ===== impress 48 time 2022-01-27 16:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1486731276107190275 ========== We may be reaching a historical inflection point - https://thefulcrum.us/big-picture/Leveraging-big-ideas/political-change But there's no guarantee that it will be for the better - https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2623819 A third of the electorate doesn't mind Trumpist crimes, they celebrate them. #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 42 time 2022-01-27 03:29 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1486541811426344961 ========== 2022 and 2024 will not be about Republican vs Democrat, or Conservative vs Liberal, but Cult of Personality vs Rule of Law. Are there principles acceptable to Democrats AND to traditional conservatives? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Union_Party_(United_States) More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1581405462203967 #PS1theory ===== impress 28 time 2022-01-16 08:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1482629344598003713 ========== The words of the men who appear on America's money, show that they all believed in God, but none were Christian nationalists. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/opinion/jan-6-christian-nationalism.html But Christian nationalists were important to the Nazi and Fascist movements, the KKK - and even Putin. #PS1theory ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 29 likes 1 time 2022-01-07 19:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1479530106452279296 ========== Regional federalism is an alternative to secession. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html The practical difficulties of secession are enormous - "which is why Quebec and Scotland are not independent countries". https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/31/secession-civil-war-stephen-marche/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1571487853195728 #PS1theory ===== impress 51 time 2022-01-01 04:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1477140555163258881