Category: Reality Checks
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We Are The Normal People. Never Forget That.
With millions of Americans believing that intentional cruelty is something to be celebrated, the times can make us doubt ourselves. Is there something wrong with us? No. We are the normal people who live in reality. We are the decent people whose basic human concepts of right and wrong are still intact — those normal
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The Illusion Created By Shock and Awe
(Or, the System is bearing up, once cool heads figure things out) The orderly legislative and executive behavior of old, constrained by familiar, conventional decency and norms, has long been easily addressed by the mountains of jurisprudence and judicial precedent that has been built up over many decades — case histories built up and upon
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War Is Expensive
During World War 2, civilians and institutions understood the importance of contributing to the war effort. They sacrificed, they conserved precious resources, and they contributed monetarily by purchasing what were then called War Bonds. Civilians, corporations, and institutions invested their own efforts and resources to the war effort, as they knew that our way of
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Don’t Let MAGA Use Your Decency Against You
Or, Don’t Fall for MAGA’s Mind Games I’m sure that you’ve been gaslit before by MAGA’s talking-point judo. They will demand that you show inclusiveness and be accommodationg toward them, so that they can more openly exclude others. They will implore you to “reach across the aisle,” and when you do, they will rip the
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MAGA is Literally Erasing the Humanity of Anyone Who Isn’t White, Straight, and Aryan
Where have we seen this movie before? In 1940s black-and-white newsreels, of course. While the outrage of the week may be MAGA’s removal of the famous WWII photo of raising the American Flag on Iwo Jima because it was “DEI,” this is just the latest of MAGA’s long march down the Nazi Germany path. Remember:
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A Quick Clarity and Reality Check on “Women’s Sports”
Let’s cut right to the truth: MAGA’s scaremongering about trans women in women’s sports is another shiny object that does not require a big-government “remedy.” It’s just another MAGA way of persecuting a small, vulnerable minority while hiding behind a marquee of superficial “reasonableness.” It is competitive sports itself, not government, that identifies and addresses
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