Category: Politics
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A Dumpster Fire: A Party Split
A recent poll showed that 64% of GOPers would leave the GOP in favor of a MAGA Party, so I thought I would once again comment on why this would be a disaster for the American Right. (The poll can be found here: https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/537442-poll-64-percent-of-gop-voters-likely-to-join-a-trump-led-3rd). Assuming the party affiliation with normally…
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Why Inaugurations Are Outside
The image above is from the restored Old Senate Chamber (From the Architect of the Capitol’s Office), but what does the Old Senate Chamber have to do with the inauguration of the U.S. President? Our story for today is about the first inauguration of James Monroe (5th President of the…
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Federal Decriminalization of Marijuana
I was not going to post on here again anytime soon due to being busy with the end of semester crunch (I’ve also been lazy about the length/detail in recent posts, so I want to start doing less frequent but more engaging posts), but today’s vote in the House of…
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Libertarians Miss the Point
Most of the people that read this post will either love or hate what I am going to argue, so oh well in advance. What I want to argue is relatively specific today: when it comes to right-wing libertarians in a liberal democracy, they often simply miss the point with…
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Come On, End It
Let me be clear: Trump’s lawsuits are a fundraising effort. It is shameful of the GOP to humor it at all, but it is not a new tactic.The Trump donation emails are explicit: any donations under $8,000 do *not* go to the Trump legal team–they go to the Trump and…
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The Rule of Reason
It is the basic responsibility of those vested with political power of any kind to care about reasons. This is not just to say one must strive to “win” the argument: one must understand the honest form of the disagreement at hand. I want to discuss today how individuals often…
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Democratic Slippage
I want to shift away from the plain and ordinary politics of the election to a more general (and more philosophical) argument. How does democracy end? To be clear, I am talking about contemporary, representative, liberal democracies, not anything we can call a ‘democracy’. While democracies can obviously end due…
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The Tales of 5 Elections
Can President Trump still win? Of course it remains possible, but it is highly unlikely. Trump would have to 1) win multiple legal suits, 2) win legal suits that would actually change the results of individual states, and 3) flip enough states to reach at least 269 votes or prevent…
Joshua Paschal 