Musings of a Patriot

Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • The Kamala Coalition

    I’m seeing reports about Kamala Harris reviving the Obama coalition and also engaging various other collections of potential voters and while all of that appears to be true (we can’t know for sure until the polls close in November) I keep thinking that there is something more going on than those reports are capturing. I…

  • Six long months

    It’s been over six months since I decided to get this connected to the Fediverse so that my perspective could be seen by a wider audience. I’ve had to migrate to a new host to make that possible but I think I’m nearly there.

  • Contributing to the fediverse

    This is both new and old for me. I wrote consistently on political policy topics for over 10 years but then life happened and I tapered off nearly 10 years ago. I was writing before social media was a thing – back when decentralized personal publishing was the norm rather than everybody using one or…

  • Pre-Super Tuesday Revisions

    Who knew that after posting on Friday I would need to update all three of my recent posts before we arrived at Super Tuesday. On my candidate ranking my top two candidates have dropped out. Additionally, while I had Michael Bloomberg ahead of Joe Biden I am considering that I might prefer Biden over Bloomberg…

  • An Age Problem

    I’ve mentioned that I have a problem with the ages of most of the presidential candidates. Today a thought struck me that I think would put that problem in perspective. I realized that Elizabeth Warren – the third youngest legitimate candidate still in the race is only three years younger than Bill Clinton – who…

  • Who can win?

    For the second time today I need to get something published before an approaching deadline. This time it is my take on the chances that the various Democratic candidates have of getting the nomination. I want to make sure that I publish this before we get more data from voters voting. If I had written…

  • 2020 Candidates Ranked

    I’ve been meaning to share my take on the 2020 candidates for some time now. It would be a water not to do so before Super Tuesday so I’ve put it off as long as possible already. At this point in the cycle there are only 6 Democrats and one Republican with even a remote…

  • After #MeToo

    Zero-tolerance is fine if the goal is revenge or punishment. If the goal is real change then something more effective is called for. The focus must be on healing and support for victims alongside change for both perpetrators and potential perpetrators.

  • Nobody wants more health insurance

    People are interested in some assurance that health care won’t bankrupt them. Insurance is the most common vehicle for that today, but that’s not because people inherently want insurance – just see those young and healthy people who would rather not get insurance because their brain assures them they don’t need it.

  • The pundits who cry wolf

    We should all know what it means to “cry wolf” and while pundits across the political spectrum are prone to dong so, those on the liberal end of the spectrum should be kicking themselves right about now that because of the way they demonized a very decent Mitt Romney in 2012 (as well many other…

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