The president is proving, oddly enough, how little national politics matter to my daily life. My township, county, and state governments touch my life directly.…
Posts tagged as “partisanship”
Republicans deserved to lose control of the House of Representatives in 2018. When running for office, Republicans promise fiscal responsibility, limited government, and competitive trade…
Each work day, I listen to one or two podcasts as I drive to and from the university. My go-to podcasts each morning were the…
We vote against people and groups, rarely for a political leader in whom we believe. Research and polling suggest negative partisanship now guides most voting…
How can anyone, conservative, libertarian, liberal, progressive, or whatever, reflect on the confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court associate justice and be pleased…
Long ago, Congress surrendered its legislative authority to regulators, because that was easier than developing and passing clearly written laws. There was a somewhat reasonable…
The Senate offers a Supreme Court nominations table, which reveals that throughout most of the history of the United States justices were nominated and confirmed…
American voters don’t understand each other; they really do live in (at least) two separate worlds — and that’s just the Democrats and Republicans. The United…
When you group people and make everything about race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and a checklist of other “differences” you are also creating and reinforcing the…