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Analysis & Opinion on the American Experiment

This was the message I received when I clicked a link on a blog post written nearly ten years ago to a White House page talking about Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency. Same thing for the link to Teddy Roosevelt’s time in office. Abe, too. Not to mention FDR, LBJ, Carter […]

Erasing History

This entry was tagged Democratic Party Republican Party We The People and posted on May 11, 2025 by Jason Everett Miller

I’ve watched Steve Kornacki highlight the least important aspects of vitally important elections to drive worn-out tropes and the status quo for way too long. Dude dismisses turnout in every “authoritative pronouncement” of what the numbers “really” mean to the end results. Fifty-fifty elections are far more dramatic than a […]

Elections for Dummies

This entry was tagged Corporate Media Democracy Democratic Party Republican Party Turnout We The People and posted on April 4, 2025 by Jason Everett Miller

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