Dissident Politics

Pragmatic politics focused on the public interest for those uncomfortable with America's two-party system and its way of doing politics. Considering the interface of politics with psychology, cognitive science, social behavior, morality and history.

Friday, April 24, 2015

Deception as a campaign strategy

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A key criticism that Dissident Politics (DP) has with standard two-party politics is the dominance of spin in rhetoric and debate.[1] DP ha...

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Politics, religion, values and intuition

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Other than invective, e.g., idiot, traitor, Fascist or socialist, partisans on opposite sides of the endless left vs. right ideological dis...

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Governance failures

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On the books federal or public debt is about $18.2 trillion and increasing about $2.27 billion/day. Many or most conservative people and po...

Saturday, March 28, 2015

Moral courage in politics

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Moral courage is a concept rarely used in politics. It is safe to assume that most (95% ?) partisans on the left and right, if they think a...

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Politicians lie

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Feb. 13, 2015: David Harsanyi, an intelligent and articulate senior editor at The Federalist , commented in a National Review Online (NRO) ...

Sunday, February 22, 2015

The high cost of spin in politics

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American freedoms include the freedom of speech. The U.S. constitution protects it with a broad, strong shield. With only some exceptions , ...

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