(I’m enjoying “strongman’ing” each position as a way to show what each side actually believes instead of painting a cartoonish caricature of the opposing viewpoint — as 99.999% of the corporate media does these days.) Here’s my attempt to show a viable political argument on the state of education in America: CONSERVATIVE: The problem with […]
Fascist Governments need a public threat (real or imagined) in order to pull of their totalitarian policies. Otherwise no one would tolerate it! Fear is the tool used to make otherwise good people capitulate to mass hysteria and groupthink. For the nazis it was the “Jew problem” – an imagined threat. No one saw a […]
They say the more audacious the lie, the more people are likely to believe it. Combine this truism with the fact that human beings prefer to move in herds (i.e. “go with the flow”), and you have some pretty interesting societal norms that develop over time. Now add one more interesting factoid to the equation: […]
