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.

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Is the debate over guns pointless?

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The matter of guns, gun violence and the endless gun regulation debate flares up after each mass murder. The body count this time is nine in...

Monday, June 15, 2015

Hard wired for false reality and bad choices

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A central Dissident Politics criticism of two-party politics is its constant reliance on spin[1] to paint false realities, distract the publ...

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Constraints on the limits of knowledge can be changed

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Most partisans on the left and right are usually certain that they are right and that the evidence, presumably facts and logic, strongly sup...

Friday, May 29, 2015

Institutional disrespect for law

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On March 10, 2015, the Wyoming state legislature passed a " data trespass bill ". The law is designed to limit collection of data ...

Monday, May 18, 2015

Politics and economics: Rational or not?

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Dissident Politics relies on current understanding of human cognition to argue that the two-party system (TPS) subtly but effectively m...

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Our ideologically politicized Supreme Court

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Americans expressing a great deal or fair amount of trust in the Supreme Court peaked at about 71% in 1999 and dropped to 61% by 20...

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