Americans unable to separate politics from reality
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 03/28/2017 - 1:19pmAmerican workers may be earning less, but they've almost never been more confident.
politics
Some thoughts on my 81st birthday: Memes and wishful thinking
Submitted by don mikulecky on Wed, 03/22/2017 - 10:36pmI hope I don’t offend too many of you who use the 1% vs 99% meme but it really is not doing much. Trumps election might even suggest a negative impact but that is giving it too much influence.
The role of empathy in human thought. How did we evolve separate value systems?
Submitted by don mikulecky on Wed, 03/22/2017 - 5:42pmThe human mind is not as flexible as we might like to think. The most obvious place to see this is in the political sphere. Knee jerk responses to frames are the norm, not the exception. The most common place to see this is in the mass media. Political propagandists have known this for centuries.
At the Movies
Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Wed, 03/22/2017 - 5:00am
An open thread review of current political movies!
Dazed and Numb
Submitted by Strife Delivery on Sat, 03/18/2017 - 12:27pmHow much more can we endure?
That should perhaps be the ultimate question that is cemented into America's conscious, and yet it is nothing but a fleeting thought.
As Trump continues with his evisceration of the government, attacking Meals on Wheels to dump 50 extra billion into our corpulent defense budget, we would hope that there would be more concern, more outrage. And yet, the current reality also fixates on the numbing agent of outrage itself.
OMG, The Horror, The Horror
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Tue, 02/28/2017 - 1:08pmI was initially surprised to see that some voting for the DNC chair feared that Ellison would "push the party too far to the left". "You're kidding, he's mainstream", thought I. Then, the part of my mind that has been a close observer of and sometime participant in history for about 60 years remembered. "Were'nt the self-styled liberals, nearly all of them mainstream Democrats, the folks constantly sushing everybody on the left throughout the late fifties and the sixties?
Political Messaging Made Simple (Graphics)
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sun, 02/26/2017 - 6:13pmEvel Knievel Brand
Lesser Evil Brand
Opposition from on high
Submitted by Robyn on Fri, 02/24/2017 - 2:30pmYahoo, Apple, Microsoft. More.
Criticism of Trump's anti-transgender maneuver has been swift and vocal.
It's destined to fall on deaf ears, however.
It's ultimately going to come down to the business community to stop it because it's so bad for business.
--Christopher Gergen, Forward Impact
People Don't Like Hard Questions (or How Feminism is Killing the Left))
Submitted by dennis1958 on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 3:34pmI expect a lot from the authors and posters here. I expect that you're informed on the issues of the day. I expect your stories to be true when portrayed as true, to the very best of your abilities. It is expecting a lot perhaps, but I've seen a sliver of your souls. And I'm comforted. For I am certain that you expect a lot of yourselves also. You hold yourselves to high standards here. Standards of intellectual honesty and compassion, among other nobler qualities. Evidence and reality.
Open Thread Open Thread
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Wed, 12/21/2016 - 12:04pmWhy do I have so much trouble writing these when Mort Sahl could pick up any newspaper and have a field day? That question led me to this historical bit in which MOrt explains both the late sixties and, though he didn't know it, the nineties through maybe 2035 or so
