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 biology, social behavior, morality and history.

Friday, May 24, 2019

An Explanation: Constitutional Crisis vs. Constitutional Rot

Uncle Fester: Dementia, what a beautiful name. Dementia: It means "insanity." Uncle Fester: My name is Fester. It means ...

Thursday, May 23, 2019

The US Constitution: A Source of Urban-Rural Polarization

Analysis by the New York Times indicates that the US Constitution itself is a significant source of urban-rural polarization. The NYT writes...

Truth Decay

Over the last couple of years, the RAND Corporation has been doing a deep dive into the political-social phenomenon they call truth decay. T...

Some Observations On propaganda

These quotes are from Hannah Arendt's 1951 book, The Origins of Totalitarianism . Her observations came from her research into the natur...

The Power of Irrational Emotion to Make People Irrational

An article in the Independent says this about the power of hate and bigotry to lead people into irrational beliefs. Seventy-two per cent ...

Pragmatic Rationalism: An Anti-Biasing, Anti-Ideology Ideology

Cognitive and social science research shows that political and other ideologies often foster distortion of perceptions of reality and truths...

View web version

Powered by Blogger.