Authentic Faith & Vibrant Democracy for Today
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The Lesser-of-Evils Won (and Lost); Now What?
Lesser-of-evils treachery has been refined over the years to bring America to its sputtering state. It was blatant this election, with right-leaning people holding their nose and voting for Trump, with lefties holding and voting for Harris. If you are a lefty, your lesser-of-evils lost, and vice-versa for Trump. With Trump and Musk, we have…
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Jim Sutton’s Southern Illinois University Experience
Reproduced from the SIU Alumni’s Oral History Project. “My experience with SIU was life changing, such was my academic hunger. My first exposure to college was while I was in the Illinois Department of Corrections, in a maximum-security setting. The SIU professors and advisors who came in (‘behind the walls’) were brave and committed. They…
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Where Are the Antifascists When You Really Need Them?
Updated 11/6/24 with this statement: antifascists of every ilk lost out in yesterday’s election. People like me did not fully anticipate the extent to which improvement plans rested on the lesser of evils, Harris. Now we feel in our gut the meaning of existential. Hatred and fear and ignorance won out over the scant chance…
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Unholy Alliance Looks Down on the Unshakeable Kingdom
Behold the unholy alliance that aspires to take the world, to usurp the kingdom of God. They are committed and care not that men or legions of men would come against them and despise them. In fact, they are openly gambling on apocolypse for the sake of more personal power and money. They know not…
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Anticipatory Obedience Has a Hold on the Media
Anticipatory obedience is not good. It is a basic indicator of tyranny, something that you should not do or expect in healthy politics. Not in a functioning democracy. Anticipatory obedience means, for example, sucking up to someone, or at least not offending them, because you think they are going to have power over you. So,…
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USA Poised to Take Middle East War to the World
Maybe you say Israel is America’s proxy in the Middle East war. Israel is a monster, created by America, out of control like some Frankenstein. Israel is proud of their bottomless depravity, and America’s leaders drink it up like life-giving water. Republicans and Democrats compete tirelessly to win the favor of the State of Israel.…
