[in Politics,] When There Is No Reason

You've Worked Hard All Your Life. You've Paid Medicare Taxes For Almost 30 Years. But Under The Republican Plan, Medicare Won't Be There For You. Instead Of Medicare As It Exists Now, Under The Republican Plan You'll Get A Voucher That Will Pay As Little As Half Your Medicare Costs When You Turn 65—and As Little As A Quarter In Your 80s. And All So That Millionaires And Billionaires Can Have A Huge Tax Cut.

Crown Prince Rupprecht, The Heir To The Throne Of Bavaria Who Commanded The Army Group Facing The British At The Somme, Was The Senior Direct Lineal Heir Of James Stuart, The Old Pretender Of 1715. Had There Been Any Jacobites Left In Britain In 1916, They Would Have Had To Regard This South German Prince As Their Rightful King.

We Live In An Age Of De-democratization. The Number Of Democracies In The World Has Been Going Backwards Since 2005, And Even Many Existing Democracies Including In Europe Have Been Becoming Less Democratic.

Republicans Have Been Fleeced And Exploited And Lied To By A Conservative Entertainment Complex.

Normally What Happens In A New Presidency Is The President Has A Big Agenda, And Congress Is Full Of People With Human Weaknesses. And So The President Indulges The Human Weaknesses Of Members Of Congress In Order To Pass His Agenda. This Time It's The Other Way Around. Donald Trump Does Not Have Much Of An Agenda. Congress Burns With This Intense Republican Agenda And So Does Congress That Has To Put Up With The Human Weaknesses Of The President In Order To Get A Signature On The Things It Desperately Wants To Pass.