Those who know him

At the beginning of election year 2024, my hope is that Americans will wake up to the serious threat Captain Chaos poses to our country. The following quotations are warnings from Republicans who really know him. Send a link to this page to every Republican you know. I don’t think I’ve heard a single member … Read more

Dictator on “Day One”

A number of news articles have come out documenting Donald Trump’s authoritarian fascist plans if he should get re-elected. Trump addressed this issue in a recent interview with Sean Hannity. Hannity, trying to give Trump a chance to deny any dictatorial designs, tossed him a softball question. Hannity: “You are promising America tonight. You would … Read more

Minority Rule in the US

The norm of accepting defeat and peacefully relinquishing power is the foundation of modern democracy. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt Something is very wrong with America. Donald Dodo’s* BIG LIE about the 2020 election continues to have a dangerous, corrupting, and corrosive influence on our people and on our democratic institutions. It is absolutely astonishing … Read more

Election 2022: Disaster avoided? or simply delayed?

It appears that democracy in the United States may have survived the 2022 election. Perhaps even more important than the Democrats keeping control of the Senate is the fact that all 13 election-denying Republican candidates, in 6 battleground states, for governor, secretaries of state, and attorneys general, lost their races. (The Arizona Attorney General race, … Read more

Farewell to the party of Lincoln

Before your LDS family and friends in Utah, Idaho, and Arizona blindly vote straight “Republican” once again, I strongly encourage you to call them and point out that the Republican Party they think they are supporting no longer exists. Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark, recently published a piece in which she documented the removal … Read more

Eight false beliefs voters cling to

Many Americans will be basing their voting decisions this year on strongly held beliefs that are complete nonsense. Don’t misunderstand me. I am not saying that voters are stupid. I am saying that they often don’t do their homework thoroughly and are therefore easily deceived by simplistic slogans, false conspiracies, and fake outrage. Even worse, … Read more

Republican Liars and Crazies

The Republican Party has encouraged and exploited bigotry, extremism, and paranoia for decades. They have done this deliberately and unashamedly in order to acquire and keep power (and gain). Rather than present practical, useful, well-considered, policy proposals to better the lives of the American people, they have found it much easier to attract votes by … Read more

How the 2024 election will be stolen

The Republicans are now quite far along in their plan to take the US Presidency in 2024 regardless of the outcome of the popular vote. This statement is not alarmist or pessimistic. The evidence is in plain view for all who have the eyes to see it. First of all, we need to remember that, … Read more