The average voter wants to stand with a winner. To be part of a successful movement and tribe. Participation isn’t (as democracy acolytes would often like to pretend) some kind of expression of collective values arrived at through society’s sober reflection of a candidate’s positions and character. Not only is Donald Trump president after defeating…
Recently, both Marianne Williamson and Andrew Yang met the qualifications for the next debates despite mic cuts and mockery. Marianne appears to have possibly benefited from divine intervention or her supporters putting enough love out into the universe, while Yang, well… he IS promising the most free stuff to the most amount of people while…
Remember when the Democratic party and the left in general were the anti-war torchbearers? Pepperidge Farm remembers. What has come to be colloquially known as the ‘anti-war left’ arguably saw its rise during the Vietnam War. Protesters were usually more left-leaning populations such as college students, African-Americans, women, and the arts community. The movement was…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: The finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation saw Captain Picard unstuck in time. Simultaneously existing in his past, his present, and his future, he struggles to understand a shifting anomaly in the depths of space. In the end he is able to use his future knowledge to affect the…