- October 21, 2016
David Burress
Beating back a fascist victory is not a center-left victory. It is merely the absence of a terrible defeat. None of those fascist voters are going away. Instead they will holler about being stabbed in the back and they will organize greater atrocities wherever they have a state or local plurality. After the election is ...
- October 19, 2016
David Burress
Gerrymandering alone might be sufficient to keep Republicans in Control of the House. However they have backup plan: legalized vote suppression, largely aimed at minorities and especially at blacks. These operate in many different ways, e.g. requiring forms of ID at the polls that blacks are less likely to have; challenging proofs of citizenship; causing ...
- October 18, 2016
David Burress
An anomaly among Trump supporters and Tea Partyites, not yet adequately explained: they have
1. typically less than a college degree, yet
2. somewhat higher average income than Democrats.
So “blue collar” is not an adequate description.
Here are some key (overlapping) influences you need to juggle:
1. Radical religious right
2. Explicit and implicit racists
3. Impacted rural areas with a ...
- October 6, 2016
David Burress
Kansas State Senate President Susan Wagle is running scared, now that half of the Republican majority has either retired or been defeated in the primaries.
Wagle has been a staunch apostle of radical right causes, ever since she made a name for herself in 2003 by trying get KU Professor Dennis Dailey fired for teaching an ...
