“It did not start with Donald Trump, he is the symptom not the cause.” Barack Obama September 7, 2018 As a naval aviator, one of the first things that they teach you is that catastrophic mishaps do not occur in a vacuum. There is almost always a long chain of human failures leading up to…
Month: May 2019
Runaway Wealth Inequality Is the Death of Democracy
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald During the 2016 Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders ran on a platform of calling out economic inequality and student loan debt forgiveness. His target audience was primarily millennials, and it resonated well. A primary that was supposed…
Our Future Looks More Like Modern Russia Than Nazi Germany
When surfing the social media feeds of progressives, finding comparisons of Trump to Hitler, or of our government to Germany in the 1930’s seems inevitable. On the surface, these comparisons might seem apt. There is a highly authoritarian streak to this administration, and the movement behind it is undoubtedly fascist in its outlook. They’re doing…