Political Theatre category archive
The Rule of Lawless 0
Will Bunch ruminates on the first days of the impeachment inquiry and what they have revealed.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Thomas Hills looks at the impeachment inquiry and partisanship and the factors that are contributing to the latter.
Here’s a snippet (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest. It is worth your while.
The implication may be that no one has objective access to the truth and all sides are equally wrong. However, that is the wrong take-home message.
The “there is no truth” argument is of course exactly what the guilty side of any argument would like you to believe. . . .
Elsewhere in the article, he argues that the roots of this political conflict go back to the Vietnamese War.
I think he’s right about the roots being in a war, but he missed the war by about 100 years.
Grepping for Gullibility 0
Writing at Psychology Today Blogs, Christopher Dwyer explores seven reasons why persons fall for fake news and steps to counter them.
In It for the Money 0
Shaun Mullen throws the book at John Bolton.
The Beseiged 0
Steven M. takes issue with Bloomberg’s Eli Lake, who argues that the impeachment of Donald Trump makes Trump look weak. Rather, Steven suggests that Donald Trump’s supporters view it otherwise. A snippet:
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Right-wing voters have been this way for decades. Nixon, Reagan, Gingrich, George W. Bush — no matter how much power they had, there was always a sinister cabal of establishmentarians threatening to bring them down.
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
Lessons Learned 0
In the Greensboro, North Carolina, News and Record, a writer tells the tale of the lessons he has learned from his grandfather.
