Category Archives: Conservative Resistance

Abortion Votes and Republicans on Parenting

Posted on Wednesday 3 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

When I opened Facebook this morning the first 10 items were all about the election results in Kansas (from news sources or friends citing them), in which an attempt to remove protections for abortion *failed* rather dramatically — by 60% … Continue reading →

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Facebook Memes and Post

Posted on Wednesday 27 July 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

A collection of saves from the past two or three weeks. This first one has been around for a while, and of course speaks to the evidence of psychological studies…

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What People Know, Think They Know, or Believe, vs. How They Act

Posted on Tuesday 26 July 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

In particular, about a GOP congressman’s hypocrisy concerning his son’s gay marriage, how the Republican witnesses at the Jan. 6th hearing abandoned their jobs only at the last possible minute, and how people in red states have a distorted view … Continue reading →

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David Brin, POLEMICAL JUDO

Posted on Monday 25 July 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

This is a 2019 book, self-published, subtitled “A Brazen Guide for Sane Americans to Bypass Trench Warfare and Win Our Life or Death Struggle for Civilization.” This is a book full of sound and fury, an expression of Brin’s rage … Continue reading →

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Played by Evolution

Posted on Wednesday 20 July 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

The motivations of those who think most harshly of abortion, homosexuality, transsexuals, and so on, are enacting the harshest strategies for species survival and growth of a process they don’t believe in: evolution. Happiness and well-being of actual living individual … Continue reading →

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Polarization and the Pace of Change

Posted on Sunday 17 July 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert, January 3 & 10, 2022 issue: How Politics Got So Polarized Subtitled: “In a new era of hyperpartisan identities, can anything bring ‘us’ and ‘them’ together?”

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Links, Quotes, and Comments, Today 14 July 2022

Posted on Thursday 14 July 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Red States and Abortion Bans; Religious Nuttery; How Fox News fakes it; Conservatives attempts to turn back the cultural clock; What Proud Boys and their wives want

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Orwellian “Freedoms”

Posted on Tuesday 12 July 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

The Atlantic, Ronald Brownstein, 8 July 2022: The Glaring Contradiction of Republicans’ Rhetoric of Freedom, subtitled, “Democratic governors are showing the national party how to challenge the red states’ rollback of rights.” Republicans say freedoms for me, prohibitions for thee.

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Failed Policies? Or Disingenuous Ones?

Posted on Thursday 7 July 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Republican policies have failed the nation — Thom Hartmann explains how. Republican positions have been wrong, wrong, wrong — David Brin explains why. Or have they? The rich are getting richer, and the fundamentalists are getting their way. Perhaps it’s … Continue reading →

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The Gun Nuts, Like the Terrorists, Are Winning

Posted on Wednesday 6 July 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

The terrorists of 9/11 won by not destroying the country, but by instilling a paranoia in American society that entails those excruciating TSA lines to board airplanes that involve taking off shoes and belts. By millions of us, every day. … Continue reading →

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