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Analysis & Opinion on the American Experiment

It’s gonna be a fucking landslide. Perhaps one as big as 1984. (Okay, probably not going to happen, but please allow me this one moment of magical thinking.) It really depends on unlikely voters in red states deciding they can actually make a difference this time. The passionate and intelligent […]

Poll Positioning

This entry was tagged 2024 Presidential Election Democratic Party Republican Party We The People and posted on November 4, 2024 by Jason Everett Miller

It’s hard to miss the irony of the complete disaster our implementation of the First Amendment has been since it was penned and ratified some 230 years ago. Freedom of religion? Nope. Freedom of the press? Nope. Freedom of assembly and redress of grievances without officially-sanctioned violence as a response? […]

First Amendment Faux Pas

This entry was tagged Polarization Press Religion and posted on January 1, 2022 by Jason Everett Miller

There are always opportunities in the midst of crisis. Some of the most pivotal moments in human history have come when things were at their most desperate. Today is one of those days. The road ahead is fraught with danger and disappointment, of course, but we seemed to have avoided […]

A More Perfect Union

This entry was tagged 2020 Presidential Election Turnout and posted on November 7, 2020 by Jason Everett Miller

Another midterm cycle has passed. Same shit, different day. People who march at the drop of a hat, sometimes traveling hundreds of miles to do so, can’t be bothered to vote two or three times a year. Despite a dramatic uptick for November’s general election that drove midterm turnout above […]

Deja Vu All Over Again

This entry was tagged 2018 Midterms Gen X Generation Z Millennials Turnout and posted on December 6, 2018 by Jason Everett Miller

The “mainstream media” continues to hyperventilate over every twitch in every political poll. Polls commissioned by a clown car full of special interests with deep pockets using dubious methodology to nefarious ends. The goal? Keep as many citizens from voting as possible, the story constantly shifting to promote the next […]

Unlikely Voters

This entry was tagged 2018 Midterms Generation X Generation Z Millennials Progressive Majority Turnout and posted on October 31, 2018 by Jason Everett Miller

The vast majority of America’s 20 million veterans consider their oath to the Constitution a lifetime commitment, not one that ends with their last enlistment or commission. The regressive forces on the right trying to yank us straight back to the 19th century should keep that fact top of mind. […]

Not On My Watch

This entry was tagged Apathy Constitution Partisan Renaissance Veterans and posted on July 4, 2018 by Jason Everett Miller

Sitting here at two minutes to midnight, We The People need to have a serious discussion about our future as a nation. Or rather the lack thereof. We’ve long passed the point where the twin infections of civic apathy and partisan politics became a fatal pathogen to the American body politic. […]

Are You Not Entertained?

This entry was tagged 2018 Midterms Democratic Party Empire Partisan Republican Party Trump Voters Voting and posted on May 24, 2018 by Jason Everett Miller

A GOP long dominated by neocons and libertarians made a deal with the devil in 2010 to recapture the House of Representatives and hamstring a hugely-popular President Barack Obama. The same strange bedfellows took back the Senate two years later, even as Obama handily won reelection against a central casting […]

Neocons vs Trumpcons

This entry was tagged Democratic Party GOP Neocon Partisan Republican Party Trump and posted on May 14, 2018 by Jason Everett Miller