You cannot call yourself a progressive if you support tax cuts to coal companies. Our planet is burning. We have the power to stop it. There are hundreds of policies which can be used to both fight global warming and help marginalized people. Please support expanding access to food stamps. Expand access to college. Boost …
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Progressive Platform in under 250 words
Move at least half of police funding to social services Nationwide exemption free carbon tax which will increase annually Universal Basic Income Medicare for All Easier Access to Food Stamps Audit the Department of Defense Cut government waste Legalize and tax all drugs. Drug addiction should be treated as a health issue. Tax capital gains …
What religious freedom means
The Supreme Court made a terrible decision yesterday, ruling that employers are allowed to deny access to birth control to their employees. This idea is that forcing an employer to pay for the birth control of their employee as part of their health insurance is forcing the business owner to violate their religious beliefs. The …
Analyzing America’s presidents
Grey means no election. Blue means the candidate won a majority of the popular vote twice Red means one of the President’s terms was shorter than 4 years. Green means the President either only served one term or did not win a majority of the popular vote in one of his elections. Purple is Franklin …
Obama almost became a SCOTUS justice
It is my belief that President Obama almost became a Supreme Court justice. This is because that if Hillary Clinton had become President 3 years ago, he would have been the most obvious pick to replace a resignation during Hillary Clinton’s term. It is likely RBG would have retired by now given that she is …
Conservative mindset
Might makes right. If someone isn’t doing well, then it is inherently their fault. Social redistribution is counter to both of these ideas. Military spending backs up the idea of might makes right. If my actions impact someone else, that means I was more mighty, hence in the right. Civil rights are contrary to the …
Absentee Voting and Voting Machines
Blue means everyone uses Absentee voting Green means everyone has the option to use absentee voting Yellow means you need an excuse to use absentee voting and there is a paper trail Red means you need an excuse to use absentee voting and there is no paper trail To put this in more perspective: 61.4% …
75 years of peace
As of last month, Western Europe has been at peace for 75 years. I wrote a piece on my previous blog which looked at a list of wars involving France on my previous blog before I made my switch to WordPress. What this blog fails to analyze is how all of these wars are related, …
How to not create a democracy
Three things connect the Reign of Terror, Third Reich, Great Purge, and Great Leap Forward: 1. The people in power claimed they were helping the working class by targeting the “bourgeois”. 2. Their claim of who they were targeting was absolutely bullshit. Most of the people killed in these 4 events were impoverished. 3. Not …
Tara Reade case
Here are some notes about the Tara Reade case which I have pulled together. I studied game theory in college, so I am extensively using it in this article. I went back and forth on whether I should publish it, but I believe this is important to give a game theory analysis based on the …