To create a dependency dynamic between him and the electorate, Bush describes the nation as being in a perpetual state of crisis and then attempts to convince the electorate that it is powerless and that he is the only one with the strength to deal with it. He attempts to persuade people they must transfer power to him, thus crushing the power of the citizen, the Congress, the Democratic Party, to concentrate all power in the imperial presidency and the Republican Party.
[Read more]Rank Divides America
By breaking the taboo on discussing rank, giving this kind of abuse and discrimination a name and revealing its costs, we can anticipate that the tacit social consensus that supports rankism will unravel. Like the members of other identity groups, victims of rankism can then be expected to join forces and make themselves heard.
[Read more]Argument Against a Bank of Wal-Mart
President of CountryBank USA, in North Dakota, presents the FDIC with concerns about Wal-Mart’s maneuvers to go into the banking business.
[Read more]Book Chains Versus the First Amendment
If the book chains continue displacing community-based booksellers, we all will lose out as prices climb higher (B&N already has eliminated the heavy discounting on which it built market share). More importantly, the diversity of published thought will erode in a market dominated by a few centralized powers.
[Read more]When Silence is Not Golden: Negative Free Speech and Human Rights for Corporations
International Dairy Foods represents rivalrous claims upon the First Amendment: the corporate claim upon the right not to be associated with certain speech versus the human right to be informed. It calls attention to the immoral arrangement of granting human rights –those few recognized in the Constitution — to corporations.
[Read more]The Commission on Presidential Debates and Exclusion of Vital Issues
The nationally televised presidential debates should address a broad range of national issues that most concern citizens. But under the control of the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), many of the greatest concerns of the American public are excluded from discussion entirely.
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