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Demagoguery is the deliberate use of people’s prejudices and fears to manipulate them. Combined with presidential idolatry, this is the winning strategy of the Republican National Committee since 2016. I have been a registered and enthusiastic Republican since I first registered to vote in 1988. Now, 32 years later, I am angry and disgusted. President Trump has mocked, maligned and discredited our tremendous national health and disease institutions, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National I...
EDGEWOOD — This week’s internal dialogue with myself has been all about agitprop. Quick refresher: “agitprop” is political propaganda, particularly that used by the Soviet Union to mobilize, that is, manipulate, the masses. You know, big graphic posters plastered everywhere exhorting citizens to work harder for the Motherland to get more food. That sort of thing. Well, to me, I feel like Americans have been self-selecting their own agitprop for the last decade or so through broadcast, digital and social media. Propaga...
EDGEWOOD — Everyone hates a bully, right? And bullies who lie are even worse. Unless they are a political candidate with the correct party affiliation. Then it’s totally cool to conduct oneself like a 12-year old suffering from poor parenting and self-esteem issues. I for one am sick of it. Political dialogue has been devolving since the 1990s. We absolutely hit a new low in the 2016 election. And both sides are in on it. Remember Michelle Obama’s rousing statement, “When they go low, we go high?” Yeah, the Democrats...
