The Plantation Theory of Politics
Over the past few years, a troubling narrative has emerged about the living conditions of the so-called white working class. Ever since the release of a landmark study detailing higher…
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Conservatives Need to Embrace Universal Healthcare
For the past decade, the Affordable Care Act, nicknamed Obamacare, has been the bogeyman of the Republican Party in the United States. Signed into law in 2010, the bill required…
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Meet the New Conservatives, Same As the Old Conservatives
Someone unfamiliar with American political history might be forgiven for thinking that American social conservatives have historically been in favor of individualism and small government and have only recently embraced…
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The Party Switch ‘Myth’
There are many odd features of the narrative based epistemology that governs party politics. One of them is the need for stories connecting the opposing party’s guilt and corruption, in…
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