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, July 23, 2022

To defend the indefensible and itself, the Pentagon lied to the congress and the American people

This is based on a comment PD made earlier this morning . It makes an important point about what the Pentagon did not do during T****’s 1/6 ...

Matters related to the 1/6 coup attempt are not reassuring: We were too close to a coup

This is based on a comment PD made earlier this morning . It makes an important point. He wrote (edited for added context): Pat Cipollone, i...

Friday, July 22, 2022

From the vexing matters files: The subjective nature of the rule of law

“This is an attempt to describe generally the process of legal reasoning in the field of case law, and in the interpretation of statutes and...

Key points the 1/6 Committee hearing brought out yesterday

Various sources are summarizing the hearings from yesterday. Much of this has been made public before, but the 1/6 committee did a splendid ...

Thursday, July 21, 2022

A comment on incompetent, life-threatening Republican anti-abortion laws

The GOP is mindlessly hell-bent on inflicting major social engineering on American government, society and commerce. It is in a raging frenz...

More evidence of Republican radical right anti-democratic authoritarianism and mendacity

Although we all knew it in our guts based on the evidence available at the time, more empirical evidence has come to light to buttress what ...

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