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Believe in Something. Even if it Means Making a Lot of Money.
Next time you see a successful company or politician doing something controversial, just consider: who is being targeted? If you’re getting angry, it’s probably not you. If you’re getting excited, you’re the one being manipulated by the advertising.
A US Cultural Power Transition?
A reader and good friend reminded me recently that I wrote my thesis on the idea of Power Transitions in geopolitics. If you are a super-nerd of geopolitics or international relations it is just the thing for you right after you finish the latest Harry Potter spin-off.
They reminded me of it because he believes it’s precisely what we’re seeing in the United States that is leading to such strife. Let’s expand on that idea.
Mike Pence as a Litmus Test for Your Feelings on Trump
I live in Boston, so I get to hear a lot of concerns about Trump as president.
Every president gets flak, often unfair or hyperbolic, from people in the political opposition.
But there’s something unique about opposition to Trump that I haven’t heard said about Bush, McCain, Romney, or Rubio/Kasich/Cruz: there is a strong strain of opinion that Trump is fundamentally unfit to be president.
When Mike Pence gets brought up as an alternative, a very important litmus test occurs.
Roy Moore’s Loss Doesn’t Tell Us Much About Alabama
While Jones’ victory does have major implications for US politics, much of the media makes a mistake by taking the result of a slim margin and extrapolating it as a bellwether for the entire state or nation.
US Political Parties are Gnarly Coalitions–This Means They Can Be Rebuilt
A pretty amazing new study from Pew Research shows that the parties are fragile coalitions, full of very deep disagreement. This fragility means many very interesting things could happen in the future… and that your stereotypes of each party may not make sense.
Mis-Applying the Overton Window
I’ve heard a few discussions that used the Overton Window as a theoretical tool to support certain ways of behaving politically. But do people really understand the Overton Window well enough to wield it wisely?
Did Your Angry Tirade Work?
Anger in politics is common. What is strange is that people defend getting angry as if it is a strategy, rather than an unfortunate product of our emotions getting involved.
Hurricane Harvey is a Time to Put Politics Aside… Just for a Moment
Political animosity in the US is probably at an all-time high. This isn’t news.
Sadly, what is newsworthy is the fact that people are not only politicizing the hurricane, but discouraging helping the victims of it for political reasons. Harvey is something for which we should put our political differences aside, if only for a moment.
How Big and Powerful are the Alt-Right, White Supremacists, and Neo-Nazis?
New polls and lots of new data after the Charlottesville attack can give us a real idea of the size and power of the Alt-Right, White Supremacists, and Neo-Nazis.
What is Domestic Terrorism?
In light of the terrible attack in Charlottesville, there’s been some debate about what terrorism is. Much of this is a flurry to press or deny the label on the attack. Can we settle the question?