Politics is the influencing and exercising of power, especially in government policies.
How can telling the truth not benefit decision-making? When a selective truth is told, with many similar truths never mentioned, listeners readily make associations to displayed traits that may not be germane to the truth told. This facility of personal learning is natural and occurs across all thinking. It is the reason that sins of…
[one_half] [/one_half][one_half_last] [/one_half_last] Trump is a master at playing the media and focusing attention on his issues on his terms. National Conversation Here are three items a vibrant press should ensure enhance the national conversation. Ten million more Americans in 2018 voted for Democratic representatives than Republicans. A clear rejection of Trump positions and attitudes,…
Hearing a single wordsmith perspective again and again … the person may stop noting the image of a backwoodman, only see an antisocial vagrant.
For the sake of elections based on facts, dark advertising must be brought into the light.
Mass media channels promote associations between political persons, issues, and value judgements. The volume of repetitions leads to linked associations.
I wasn’t going to write the post without a suitable image. I decided to create it myself. A work in progress.
Will we end up with two or more separate cultures inhabiting the same land?
I spend a lot of time reading words, writing words, and thinking in words. And I’ve noticed a peculiar feature which sometimes happens to me. I start following the words of people who are involved in a dispute – both sides – more than I refer back to the actual actions involved. My thought train…
A gag order doesn’t ban discussion. It requires that it take place under oath. People of interest on both sides are poisoning the search for truth.
No matter how difficulties these proposals may be, they are certainly less than those the founding fathers faced when they wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
