Category Archives: Democracy

all this rigging comes from Trump’s Leninist: Smash State!

Posted on October 25, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers All elections are “rigged” considering the problems of decentralized pluralism, but given that reality, can we now move on to democracy. Reality TV is not really TV   Unlike other nations, we don’t schedule our elections as … Continue reading →

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factory for Conspiracy-Theory machines: more Putin-Puppetry

Posted on October 15, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers WaPo’s editorial board now uses the explicit term, “Putin’s Puppet”, to identify Donald Trump, and there is some MSM spin that claims a false equivalence between WikiLeaks and a FOIA, considering some clear technical errors in some of … Continue reading →

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After Trump’s defeat, a new American Warlordism

Posted on October 12, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Trump’s now inevitable loss will signal perhaps a Democratic age for at least two years until the residual misogyny gains yet another mid-term resurgence of reactionary fervor as they did in 1994 (class), 2010 (race), and 2018 (gender). … Continue reading →

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Hail Hyperbole! North Korea endorses Trump and bans Sarcasm…

Posted on September 9, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Launch more missiles, run more nuclear weapons tests, and ban sarcasm… perhaps the North Korean media is being ironic in praising Donald Trump. Brilliant, but only if you know better than your generals as long as they can be your generals. … Continue reading →

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Trump’s immigration policy as ethnic cleansing prescription

Posted on September 1, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   So we now have heard from an orange realtor pitching the US a Southern Wall timeshare that Mexico will pay for. And being Latino is not illegal, nor is being Muslim, yet that is what is now … Continue reading →

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flag/anthem/pledge blasphemy cuts only one way – either everyone or no one is politically correct

Posted on August 30, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers In the case of one of the SF 49er quarterbacks, the negative reaction to his personal act of sitting during the playing of the national anthem has been sadly opportunistic and disproportionate even as the scale of the documenting … Continue reading →

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purge those free radicals – eight years is not enough

Posted on July 30, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   Family resemblance in language is like relative autonomy in philosophy, because academic ideologies’ democracy is the Other to anti-intellectual reactionaries across the political spectrum, but are they the same as those of low-information voters (LIV), and more importantly, … Continue reading →

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EU Disintegration and BREXIT: sanctimony & pseudoscience

Posted on June 25, 2016 by ann li-summers

“The EU’s disintegration is now running at full speed.” By ann summers Like Wile E. Coyote going off the Dover Cliffs, anti-immigrant discourse fervor and the MOE made the destruction of the UK Tory party inevitable but can Labour and … Continue reading →

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Censusless: This book needs to be read not just before 2020 or even November 2016

Posted on June 16, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Is Howard Dean, Tim Kaine, or DWS responsible for the poor leadership on what remains the real negative consequences of what should have been a better outcome for PBO’s 2008 election in the midst of an economic … Continue reading →

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Under tRump, cockroaches will have unenumerated, unimpeachable rights and envy the dead

Posted on June 6, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers If we thought the End of the Republic happened when Monica Lewinsky got a TED talk, surprise -— Donald Trump could become POTUS, just as he states that Latino or Muslim judges could be unfair to him. Sonia Sotomayor will … Continue reading →

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