Letters to a Trump Voter – IV Proud Ignorance
Trump’s lack of interest in actually understanding problems the nation faces means I don’t trust him to carry out good policy even in areas where I partly agree with his goals.
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COVID Deaths State to State
Though many dashboards show voluminous COVID statistics, I have not seen a good overview of the states. Here we look a how death rates changed from week to week across the country. Will the United States learn from our failure to stop a summer peak or will we repeat our mistakes as a fall wave of deaths crashes over us?
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You’re No Abe Lincoln
If there’s one thing you can give Trump credit for, it’s chutzpah. OK, it’s easy to laugh at his claim to be the best president for blacks since Abe Lincoln. But some of his more detailed claims are being taken more seriously.
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Fact Check – 2nd Presidential Debate
Chart gives quick summary of falsehood comparison during 2nd Trump-Biden Debate
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Letters to a Trump Voter – III Do You Think Tribal Hatred is a Bug or a Feature?
So, other than portraying Mexicans as rapists and Muslim as terrorists, other than portraying US politicians of color as un-American, other than his ethnic slurs, racist business practices, and negative stereotypes, other than having trouble distancing himself from white supremacists, Donald Trump is not bigoted at all.
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Letters to a Trump Voter – II His Contempt For Truth
Trump is training these people to approve of the efficacy of lying, to favor falsehood over truth, and to disbelieve honest sources which contradict their leader’s lies. Since democracy depends on the ability of citizens to make rational decisions informed by a free press, an army of people trained to believe only their leaders undermines democracy.
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Trump’s Greatest Hits (Against the Truth)
What is unique about Trump is his willingness to tell truly egregious falsehoods: statements that are clearly untrue or have no basis for believing them, and which would be shocking or amazing if they were true.
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Letters to a Trump Voter – I
Surely I don’t have to teach you this, because you are the one who taught it to me.
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What’s Unique about US COVID Deaths?
As the virus slowly rolled through the sprawling territory of the United States, we had a unique opportunity to stop the virus, an opportunity we squandered.
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Autumnal Equinox Song
We need a humanist liturgy in which the supernatural is replaced by the super natural
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