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Playing Chicken
Alan Zendell, April 20, 2022, Remember the crazy things we did as teenagers and some still do as adults? How many times have you driven on a two-lane road behind a vehicle going well below the speed limit until you … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Kinzinger, Anthony Blinken, appeasement, Crimea, hitler, Joe Biden, NATO, nuclear weapons, RUssian natural gas, Russian oil, Sergei Lavrov, Soviet MIGs, Ukraine, vladimir Putin
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The Ukrainian Line in the Sand
Alan Zendell, March 12, 2022 Watching horrific videos and interviews with ordinary Ukrainians, it’s important to remember the elephant in the room: Nuclear War. That would be the end of civilization as we know it and possibly the destruction of … Continue reading
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Tagged Chechniya, china, Czechoslovakia, Geoergia, hitler, iran, NATO, Neveill Chamberlain, nuclear war, Obama, Poland, President Biden, Putin, Sudetenland, Trump, Venezuela
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The Slow Death of Democracy – Part One
Alan Zendell, June 10, 2020 There are many ways to know a thing. We start with facts to gain a cognitive understanding. We research context and solicit other people’s views to make sense of it. When possible, we observe it … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Congressional Republicans, constitution, COVID-19, deep state, fake news, Fascism, fox news, hitler, Iraq, lies, Mussolini, nativism, police, populism, price of freedom, revolution, scapegoats, The Big Lie, Trump, truth, Weimar Republic
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You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
Alan Zendell, July 16, 2019 Forty-five years ago, when Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s hit single said, “you ain’t seen nothin’ yet, here’s something that you’re never gonna forget,” they were talking about love. Today, with the specter of nearly sixteen months of … Continue reading
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Tagged alt-right, AOC, Ayasha Pressly, hatemongering, hitler, Ilhan Omar, native Americans, non-whites, ocasio-cortez, racist tweets, Rashida Tlaib, Stephen Colbert, suqad, Trump
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Can It Happen Here?
Alan Zendell, February 26, 2018 One of the nearly continuous lessons I learned growing up in post-World War Two New York, was that America was the strongest and most virtuous country on Earth. The idea that America was where the … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-semitism, autocracy, bigotry, Communism, divisiveness, Donald Trump, dystopia, Fascism, fear, Franklin Roosevelt, hitler, Judiciary, Mussolini, Nazism, Philip K. Dick, racism, sexism, Sinclair Lewis, Stalin, the press, totalitarianism, truth, World War 2
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Inciter in Chief
Alan Zendell, October 15, 2018 Since the day he announced his candidacy for president, Donald Trump has relentlessly attacked the media. His initial attacks were completely unprovoked, as all of the major cable news channels devoted far more airtime to … Continue reading
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Tagged Biden, bombs, Clinton, CNN, divisiveness, fox news, hitler, John F Kennedy, media, Montana, Nazis, Obama, Robert deNiro, Soros, Steve Scalise, Ted Cruz, terrorism, Trump, violence, white supremacists
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The Slide to Autocracy
Alan Zendell, July 25, 2018 I was one of many who was struck, early on, by the similarities between Donald Trump’s rise to power and that of Adolf Hitler. The number of websites devoted to the subject is astounding, and … Continue reading
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Tagged congress, constitution, democracy, disruption, divisiveness, Fascism, Hermann Goring, hitler, lock her up, national security, Nazism, Putin, separation of powers, supreme court, Trump
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King Donald
Alan Zendell, June 6, 2018 The frightening but inescapable reality is that in 2016 we elected a president who thinks he’s a king. More likely, he simply doesn’t know the difference. Schooled in the world of business and mentored by … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse of power, autocracy, Bob Corker, british monarchy, congress, dictatorial powers, FBI, history, hitler, King George III, Koch Brothers, pardons, Reichstag, Richard Burr, tariffs, trade, trey gowdy, Weimar
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Racism and Other Distractions
Alan Zendell, January 15, 2018 Donald Trump is not a racist. In fact, the term racist is an oversimplification that simply doesn’t apply to someone like him. The things that drive him have little or no relation to what most … Continue reading
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Tagged alabama, alt-right, anti-semitism, election day, hitler, ignornace, Jeff Flake, josef stalin, mcCarthyism, neo Nazis, november, pandering, politics, racism, roy cohn
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