Category Archives: Demo-Republican

No More Needless Violence

There are many symptoms of a weak leader, from economic downturn and international conflict, to violent civil disruptions. Throughout the tenure of Barrack Obama we have seen each of these in spades and with the continued support of weak, absurd, and xenophobic candidates, it seems that there is no end in sight. Obama’s presidency has […]

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Nobody is Listening

For a democratic system to function properly, the people in charge of the ruling parties need to listen to popular public opinion. It has been nearly a hundred years since this was the case and the American political system has degenerated to a point where Democrats and Republicans are more concerned with impeding each other […]

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Seven Americas

This has been the most diverse presidential election in history. An African-American ran, a woman is still running, a business man won super Tuesday, and a socialist, a Cuban and a Canadian still have fighting chances. Each of the incumbent candidates has a significantly different platform and the next four years can go many different […]

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Business as Usual

In order for a democracy to function properly, the individuals embedded within the bureaucracy must be able to make informed, credible decisions and, more importantly, they must be able to compromise. When FDR brought his ‘New Deal’ to American politics, a new hard left was established. The coalition against it, comprised mostly of southern Republicans, […]

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Fairy Tale Politics

This election began as, potentially, the most intriguing competition in history. Two independents who can hold their own against the big dogs of politics, a world-renowned neurosurgeon, a former First Lady, a Canadian, and the promise of combative, in-your-face rhetoric that would serve as a primary source of entertainment for the rest of us for […]

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Underqualified and Underwhelming

The Commander-in-Chief is the leader of the free world, militarily, economically, and socially. The office of the American head of state is, arguably, the most important position in the entire world. Qualifications should matter. If a person applies for a job in engineering without an engineering degree, that person doesn’t become an engineer, the same […]

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Pseudemocracy

In a democratic system, the most important factor of any election is, of course, the voters. If the voters are misrepresented, or not represented at all, then the election is unfair and, thus, undemocratic. There have been numerous failings throughout the years and the questionable Iowa caucus results are merely the latest in a long […]

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Cyber Insecurity

Since the Snowden information leak in 2013, national cyber security has been in the forefront of American minds. If a single anti-establishment agent like Snowden can access millions of compromising files then it is easy to extrapolate that elite Chinese networking and intelligence teams are capable of retrieving virtually anything they want from our vast […]

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Good for Wall Street, Bad for You

Bank and investor control of candidates is not unheard of, it isn’t even unexpected anymore. Corruption and finances are a natural, if not ethical, partnership, and unchecked business lobbyists are allowed to run rampant in congress with zero consequence. When organizations like Goldman-Sachs are allowed to pay candidates millions of dollars to speak, or make […]

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A Chorus of Lies

Vetting your news media outlets is a vital part of becoming properly informed about your presidential options. With a constant stream of irrelevant, partisan information, most outlets cannot be relied on to truly present viewers with objective fact. Each of the “Big Three” news stations are guilty of regularly espousing misinformation. Some more than others. […]

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Immoral Politics

This presidential race has been unique in many ways, mostly, though, it has been defined by vitriol, aggression, fear, and xenophobia. Throughout the various campaigns we have seen several instances of race-baiting, unfathomable religious bigotry, and even, arguably, serious criminal conduct. Candidates like Ted Cruz, Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump, along with their strong campaigns, […]

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The Devils You Know

The political world is a jungle and politicians have historically been the lions that rule it. The last two decades, however, have seen the American government riddled with scandals, questionable ethics, and a mismanagement of both resources and trust. The lions have become pests and parasites. Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are the […]

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Uninsured America

The above image comes from a New York Times article analyzing the number of people in each county in the United States who lack health insurance. Before the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was rolled out in 2013, nearly the entire map was dark blue because nearly 20% of all Americans lacked any kind of health […]

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American Fascism

In recent weeks, another Republican challenger, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, has been surging in Republican primary polls. In the most recent Iowa polls, he has even taken the lead from business mogul, Donald Trump. Despite his lack of political experience or any real credentials as a serious candidate, Carson has not had difficulty in finding […]

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Too Little, Too Late

It seems like the Republican and Democratic candidates have caught the smell of change in the air. Suddenly, everyone from Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders to Jeb Bush and Donald Trump are talking about tax reform. They have clued in, maybe too late, that Americans are more than fed up with the state of our […]

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Wall Street Loves Illegals

Thanks to Donald Trump, immigration has become a hot button issue in this election. Immigration is always a contentious problem in the United States, with legalities, economics, compassion, and, yes, some racism all coming together to make for very heated arguments. However, the debate has been ratcheted up to a new level of tension this […]

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Health Care Compromises

It is no secret that most people throughout our country are dissatisfied with the state of health care in America. Our health care system has been a mess for decades. We pay more for our health care system than any other country in the world, but Americans have worse health outcomes than nearly any other […]

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Reinvest in America

Many of the current crop of presidential hopefuls have been talking about the economy. The Democrats like to talk about how their party saved the economy, the Republicans like to talk about how the Democrats have ruined the economy for the past six years, and all of them love to talk about how they are […]

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Turn Things Around

Earlier this month, the Obama government and the Labor Department were bragging about how they have lowered the unemployment rate from its record high levels at the beginning of Obama’s administration. The official unemployment rate at the peak of the Great Recession in October 2009 was 10%, and according to the government, it has now […]

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Bush is out of touch

On Wednesday of this week, Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush made some interesting comments about the economy to a New Hampshire audience. During an interview with The Union Leader, a conservative New Hampshire newspaper, Bush discussed tax reform and other economic policies that the American people can look forward to if he is elected president. […]

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Where is the backbone?

The 2016 presidential election season is in full swing now, with Hillary Clinton riding high as if she’s already won the Democratic nomination despite her sinking numbers and the rising support for other Democrats like Bernie Sanders. Meanwhile, more than a dozen contenders have piled into the Republican clown car, many of them blatantly and […]

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Clinton Won’t Commit

Things have not been going well for Hillary Clinton’s campaign. New polls are showing that Americans do not have favorable opinions about Clinton, and her numbers seem to be dropping more and more with every passing week. In a development that must be particularly distressing for her campaign staffers, voters are overwhelmingly declaring that they […]

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We Don’t Want a Dynasty

The national conventions for the Democratic and Republican parties may still be more than a year away, but the news media would have us believe that the nominees have already been selected. Pundit after pundit and columnist after columnist have declared that the 2016 Presidential election will be a titanic battle between two of America’s […]

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Don’t Vote Elite

Independent Vermont senator Bernie Sanders is seeking the Democratic nomination for the upcoming 2016 Presidential election. As a self-described socialist, Senator Sanders is fooling himself if he honestly believes he has a chance of winning the nomination in competition with the juggernaut of Hillary Clinton’s campaign machine, but he is extremely perceptive about the flaws […]

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Media Corruption

According to the American Press Institute, the purpose of journalism is to “provide citizens with the information they need to make the best possible decisions about their lives, their communities, their societies, and their governments.” If a news organization were to take this goal seriously, it would obviously have a major impact on how they […]

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What is outsourcing?

It has been decades now that Americans have been worried about outsourcing. Starting in the 1960s, American corporations began closing factories and plants in the United States and moving them elsewhere, costing untold millions of Americans their jobs. As a result of this practice, the American middle class has been collapsing in on itself – […]

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Bush Criticizes Obama

Last Saturday, former President George W. Bush attended a fundraising event for the presidential campaign of his brother, Jeb Bush, at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. At this meeting, former President Bush delivered a series of harsh criticisms of his successor Barack Obama’s record in the Middle East. Wealthy donors from the Republican Jewish […]

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Populist or Crony?

This past Sunday, Hillary Clinton officially launched her presidential campaign with a video claiming that she wants to be America’s “champion.” She has spent the week since then in Iowa, where she has been talking to liberal and Democratic groups. She has been making headlines with her so-called “populist” positions and policy statements – this […]

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Clinton’s Email

There is currently only one name being spoken about as a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for President in 2016. Hillary Clinton, former First Lady and wife of former President Bill Clinton has been the only serious contender for the Democratic nomination since campaigning started last year. The press has mentioned a few other Democrats […]

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Political Dynasties

There is a very good chance that the 2016 Presidential Election ballot will look identical to the 1992 Presidential ballot. While right now, more than a year from the election, it is too early to say for certain who the nominees of the two mainstream parties will be, it seems likely that voters on November […]

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Iran Talks

On Tuesday of this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel addressed Congress on the subject of Iran. American diplomats, including Secretary of State John Kerry, have been engaged in negotiations with Iran over Iran’s desire to develop nuclear energy and, many believe, nuclear weapons. President Obama’s government is trying to find a way to […]

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They Hate America

Last week, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani declared his belief that President Obama does not love America. At a private fundraising dinner for Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker, Giuliani said, “I do not believe – and I know this is a horrible thing to say – but I do not believe that the president […]

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Funding the DHS

We are living in extremely dangerous times. It seems like hardly a day goes by without a new threat or a new terrorist action somewhere in the world. There was the Charlie Hebdo attack in France, in which Islamic terrorists stormed a Parisian newspaper office, murdering journalists and political cartoonists, while a separate gunman attacked […]

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Obama’s ISIS Plan

While it has fallen out of the news cycle to some degree in recent months, the terrorist organization calling itself the Islamic State or ISIS has suddenly regained the media’s attention. With the incredibly barbaric and brutal murder of captured Jordanian fighter pilot, Lt. Moath al-Kasasbeh, and the reported death of American hostage Kayla Mueller, […]

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Obama’s Budget

This week, President Obama introduced his budget plan for the next ten years. In this budget, the president created a wish list of government policies that sound too good to be true. The unfortunate fact is that these policies are too good to be true. They are simply another deception in the false Demo-Republican rivalry, […]

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Failing Security

Two weeks ago, I wrote about how our current government in the United States has bent over backwards to appease the world’s bullies, like Russia, rather than standing up for what is right. In that post, I mentioned the provocative and dangerous Russian act of aggression against a United States Navy warship, the guided missile […]

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Dysfunctional Government

On November 20, 2014, President Obama issued an historic executive order intended to provide relief to thousands of families who are struggling with our broken immigration system. Many Republican critics are declaring that the president’s executive order is unconstitutional and that they are going to do everything they can to counter this action when the […]

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Good Cop/Bad Cop

As a two party system, our government naturally falls into an adversarial dynamic. With alternative, outside viewpoints being so rare, the Democrats and Republicans define themselves by their opposition to each other. The parties work together so rarely that the ability to pass legislation seems to depend almost entirely on one party having a majority […]

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Voter Turnout

This week’s midterm elections were significant for several reasons. Voters throughout the country passed a large number of important ballot initiatives and the Republican party has firmly taken charge of Congress. However, by far the most significant (and the most distressing) news story to come out of this election is that the voter turnout across […]

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