Category: American politics
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Sharing a post by a friend
I’m not ready to offer another post of my own today, but I do want to share a blog post by a friend in Texas who has some thoughts about how we should be thinking about and responding to the current crisis, as well as some excellent suggestions for information sources. I myself am inclined…
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How Can We Go Forward? (Part 1 of 3)
The outcome of America’s most recent election and Donald Trump’s return to the Presidency leaves me thinking that the political system that we have been working under is actually pretty terrible as a system for choosing qualified national leaders. Trump’s initial nomination and election in 2016 was shocking, but could perhaps be seen as a…
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Some Conceivable (But Perhaps Not Feasible) Alternatives to Our Current Arrangements (Part 2 of 3)
**************************** The most straightforward of the changes that I have been musing about would be to change the candidate nominating process of the major political parties. I think that we would probably benefit by moving away from a system where these nominations are determined exclusively by party primaries and returning to the pre-1970’s model where…
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A “Break-Glass” Alternative (Part 3 of 3)
The final possibility that I want to put forward is perhaps the least satisfactory, and in some way the most extreme; however, it is also perhaps the most likely, and certainly the most talked about among the ideas that I’ve suggested. That would be a partition of the United States into a “Red America” and…