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  • Don’t be fooled, conservatives love cancel culture

    The term “cancel culture” now features prominently in conservative talking points. They’d like for you to think that it’s a bad thing, that it is a new thing and that it is only practiced by the left. All of these assertions are false. If you are somehow unfamiliar, “cancel culture” is used by politicians when…

  • Instead of running himself, Mike Bloomberg should have started a party

    It seems unlikely at this point that despite, or maybe because of, his lavish spending Michael Bloomberg is going to become president or even the Democratic nominee. For the same price, he could have, and should have, started a 3rd political party. I know that third parties do poorly in the United States. The last…

  • How Media Bias Works in 2019 : The problem isn’t the MSM, it’s you

    In 2019, and really for a long time now, people all over the political spectrum complain about the Main Stream Media (or MSM) and their bias. According to various individuals, the MSM is controlled by big business, the wealthy, the deep state, the Illuminati or some other bogey man. The truth is that most of…

  • Yes, there are lessons in the UK election for the US and Canada.

    Yes, several. The central lesson is the lesson of most elections since 2016 – Most voters are not on Twitter or Facebook. Some may have accounts but, don’t use them as often or use social media to talk politics. Most of political Twitter (and Facebook) are hardcore activists and ideologues of one stripe or another…

  • In 2018, conservatives love deficits

    Once upon a time, liberals (small l) supported social progress and conservatives (small c) supported fiscal responsibility. In 2018, it is the left that supports both of these things, while the right represents short term economic benefits for the few, at the expense of long term deficits for everyone. This is most pronounced in the…

  • Will data vs magic replace right vs left in politics?

    For most of the 20th century politics was defined by a left vs right paradigm. The left generally representing more socialist and collective policies, the right generally representing more individualist and capitalist policies. However, that fight is sort of played out. Most people now recognize that some combination of the above is needed, that neither…

  • Idea In Progress: A new kind of electoral reform

    What if you could not only vote, but change your vote at any point, vote for individuals rather than parties and have your vote reflected in government without having elections at all? This is an idea in progress. There are some flaws that would need to be addressed and a lot of “what about” questions…

  • Never belittle the court of public opinion, it’s the most important court of all

    Fair or not, the court of public opinion is the most important court in the world, people should stop acting as if it’s insignificant. One of the cliches of the #MeToo era is people bemoaning the “court of public opinion”. “Innocent until proven guilty” they’ll say and “but he was acquitted by a court of…

  • If Democrats take the House, impeachment might not be the best strategy

    As the saying goes, if someone is busy digging their own grave, don’t take away their shovel. If the Democrats win back the House of Representatives in 2020, they do better in the long run if they don’t impeach the President. Impeaching Donald Trump might feel good, but even if it’s successful, which is far…

  • Bernier is going to be more of a problem for conservatives than they want to admit.

    Last week, just before the Conservative Party of Canada’s 2018 convention in Halifax, Maxime Bernier announced that he was leaving the party to form his own. The immediate response from Tories and most of the press was dismissive. From the convention state to Twitter, Conservative leaders and most of the media waved off Bernier as…