Democracy

Write Wrongs

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We only need a pen, paper, and a keyboard to write a compelling copy, and we should also put down that dangerous sword.

The pen is mightier than the sword is a metonymic adage created by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839, indicating that the written word is more effective than violence for social or political change.

Electile Dysfunction?

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Were they putting our young and fragile American democracy at risk to increase TV ratings and place the #safety of voters in danger?

Essential Journalism

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As totalitarian regimes attempt to spread their tentacles, officials don't respond positively to local journalists' interview requests. 

Reporters' queries about their alleged illegal activities or questionable actions keep rising, whether they're taking bribes, making unilateral decisions concerning restrictive laws, or about the local zoning and backroom plotting. These so-called public servants appear more interested in achieving total control and lining their pockets with developer money rather than responding to their local constituents' concerns.

Tweedledum GOP?

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Do you know the political history of the tweedle dee duo and their dumb and progressively getting dangerous Republican Party?

These losers who led a failed former GOP administration touted a great relationship with Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin and defended an assertion of trusting the foreign leader over the U.S. intelligence community.

POTUS Warning

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It will be forever known as the Newburg Address. President Washington gave an emotional speech to his officers on March 15, 1783. 

US - Ugly Stupid?

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The Ugly American was a popular 50s political novel that depicted the failures of the U.S. diplomatic corps in Southeast Asia.

This book caused a sensation and had major political implications. Now comes the question that begs to be asked are we seen as not only ugly but also stupid?

GOP Shuttlecocks

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The new McCarthy lies return to bite Americans sixty years later with propaganda, and accusations and there's more coming.

A shuttlecock is usually a high-drag projectile used in badminton. and now utilized by Agent Orange devotees to shoot back what is political revenge, and it really is hypocritical.