I’ve largely written about Jordan Peterson in the Banter Members section and not on the main site to avoid the onslaught of pestering I would no doubt receive from his devoted fans. I do not fear intellectual criticism from his army of hardcore acolytes, but I do value my time and do not wish to spend it arguing with true believers who hang on his every word. For all...
If you’ve watched your paycheck diminish, education costs go up, and your health care costs spiral out of control, most rational people would probably think about not voting for Republicans. Why? Because Americans have been subjected to right wing economics for almost four decades now, and with very, very little to show for it. Unfortunately, most self identified Republicans do not seem to be able to grasp this, believing instead that...
In what seemed like an effort to present some Trump supporters as normal, concerned Americans interested in the welfare of their country, CNN hosted a Q and A with six women who voted for the president in the last election. CNN’s Alisyn Camerota spoke to them in order to find out how they will be voting in the midterms and asked them how they rated his performance thus far. The...
The longer I lived in America and the more I interacted with immigrant communities, the more I began to see the country as it really was, not as I believed it should be. ...
The people surrounding Trump have clearly had enough of his limitless toxicity and cannot stomach any more of it. They are forcing a confrontation in a deeply cowardly way, but they are forcing it nevertheless....
Why, you might ask, would I have any sympathy for a pedophile condoning, Trump supporting bigot who rose to fame on a wave of hate, misogyny, and xenophobia? Let me explain. ...
The "Intellectual Dark Web" is distinctly libertarian, distinctly atheistic (Shapiro asides), and firmly embedded in the notion that Judeo Christian civilization is the pinnacle of human achievement. It has Alt-Right overtones (despite the site creator's insistence that it doesn't) and has been embraced by the same Trump supporting zealots who supported the president over Hillary Clinton in 2016....
It's amazing what a little history can do to an ideology based on pure bullshit....
Taibbi has now twice retweeted the work of crack pot conspiracy theorist Caitlin Johnstone -- a "journalist" who believes 9/11 was an "inside job", and that the CIA is funding The Washington Post and directing it to print false stories about the Seth Rich murder. I challenged him on this, and his response was depressing, to say the least. ...
When Trump's general practitioner, Dr. Harold Bornstein, issued a letter about Trump's personal health back in 2015, I knew exactly what the truth was....