Currently, half the US population oppose Trump, as do nearly half of legislators. To establish any kind of dictatorship, he'd need a monopoly of violence, and he lacks that. Blue States have Nat… (View Post)

They will put their thumbs on the scale for him, but there are parameters within which they operate, still. (View Post)

Nationalist history is invariably bad history, filled with a mix of triumphalism, self-pity, and vindictiveness. Every fault on the part of the present governing class is blamed upon the former overl… (View Post)

He’s certainly letting the side down. Alexander VI and other Renaissance Popes really put Pope Francis to shame, in that respect. (View Post)

It's a very real problem that politicians create inalienable rights through legislation, or adherence to international treaties, when in reality those rights ought to be treated as privileges, a… (View Post)