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.

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Fact and logic is absent in politics

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IVN (Independent Voter Network) has published a Dissident Politics article that describes the unacceptably low impact of unspun fact and u...

Saturday, August 1, 2015

State's rights proposal

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IVN (Independent Voter Network) has published a Dissident Politics article that proposes experiments in states' rights as a means to tr...

Friday, July 3, 2015

Governing for the public interest

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The usually conservative-biased, reality-challenged Wall Street Journal editorial page occasionally publishes an opinion piece that makes mo...

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...

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