Category Archives: Propaganda

Why did the madness take over people’s minds?

Posted on November 28, 2022 by Naomi

For all these years, since 2016, there is that agonizing question: why did people we thought were intelligent and rational vote for Trump? My current answer — which I admit emerges from a sort of intellectual stupor coming from the … Continue reading →

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Where have you been, J. Edgar Hoover?

Posted on November 3, 2022 by Naomi

The Trump administration tried to resurrect Hoover, in the worst possible way. From Harper’s Weekly Review: Newly declassified documents revealed that, in the summer of 2020, Department of Homeland Security officials had created detailed dossiers, previously reserved for individuals “with … Continue reading →

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You know who doesn’t vote?

Posted on November 1, 2022 by Naomi

It’s getting frantic, isn’t it? Polls are announced! amount of money raised is announced! interviews with “swing” voters are published! And we thrill or suffer accordingly. As a Times reader I learned what a bunch of “swing” voters in Georgia … Continue reading →

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