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    Don’t let all the Trump enablers off the hook in the future; they are complicit

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    Don’t let all the Trump enablers off the hook in the future; they are complicit

    I know plenty of Trump supporters. I live in a deep red county and a mostly red neighborhood. I have family members, co-workers, neighbors, old friends, new friends and others who are Trumpers. They may get pretty darn sick of me not being one and not picking one of the two parties — the Democrats or what used to be Republicans — but I don’t hold their views against them. They have a right to their wrong opinions. They believe his diatribes. When he says inflation is down, they believe it. When he says gas is less than $2, they […]

    Break out of your bubble and attempt to regain the ability to reason

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    Break out of your bubble and attempt to regain the ability to reason

    Too many Americans live inside of partisan bubbles. In a country that is pretty much split 50/50 into two camps, that’s not a recipe for progress or getting much of anything done.  Worse, many Americans prefer to get their news from biased sources that present just one side of an issue as legitimate. As a former journalist, I know that there is always another side to the story. It may not be the right side. It may be an evil side. But there always is another side, and if you ignore it, you are sabotaging your own ability to reason. […]

    Why I voted in Georgia’s stupid primary

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    Why I voted in Georgia’s stupid primary

    The process by which we select major parties’ presidential candidates in America is horribly flawed and unfair to most of us who don’t live in Iowa or New Hampshire — places that receive snow in mid-March and therefore should not be eligible.  We’ve known since 2023 that Trump and Biden would be nominees in 2024, and about 37 people in the U.S. are pretty excited about it — and at least one, Melania Trump, is downright disgusted about it.  In this photo from my office, though, are a few reasons why I took a minute during lunch today to vote […]