BRATTLEBORO-I read with interest Elayne Clift's column. It is obvious the madness has begun and is in full swing.
Make no mistake, I will not be voting for Donald Trump. I think he is a rapist, a failed businessman, an intellectual dunce, and perhaps the stupidest president who has ever governed the USA. But none of these matters has anything to do with why the establishment is so against him.
Ms. Clift mentioned her fear of oligarchs and her fear of oligarchy without bothering to notice that we are already there. Oligarchs firmly control the USA right now. The reason today's modern oligarchs hate Trump so much is the fear that he has too much independence to respond to all of their concerns.
Even though I expect Trump to be an awful president in most ways, it is possible that because he fears thermonuclear war with Russia he may just independently decide to give up on aiding Ukraine, for example. This is a problem for today's modern oligarchs, who demand nothing less than the ability to rule the world.
I just finished reading Tim Wessel's absurd Viewpoint, and I am aghast. He bemoans the lack of condemnation of Hamas at protests here in Brattleboro. Now, what can that be likened to? Back when slavery was still a thing here in the United States, occasionally there would be slave...
BRATTLEBORO-As soon as I saw Elayne Clift's column, I knew I had to respond. It is certainly going to be true that from now until the 2024 election that we will be inundated with such messages. After all, the only thing Democrats have to sell is fear. To an...
As soon as I saw Elayne Clift's column, I knew I had to respond. It is certainly going to be true that from now until the 2024 election that we will be inundated with such messages. After all, the only thing Democrats have to sell is fear. To an extent, the same is true of Republicans as well. It is funny to see Ms. Clift raise the alarm about saving democracy when right in front of our eyes we see...
Robert Fritz delivered the basic democratic line that the 2020 elections was the freest and fairest election to date, and without a doubt Joe Biden was fairly elected. As someone with an interest in the discipline of philosophy, and who has respect for the principles of epistemology (the study of how we know), I find this claim quite amusing. It has always been my position and remains so to this day that neither the Trump cult, who insist that the...
Dan DeWalt's Viewpoint exposes everything that is wrong with politics up to the current day in 21st-century America. The logic of this politics is well-engrained by now: Blame everything that is wrong with America on white men. Think about that for a minute. Do you really find the Mickey Mouse and simplistic nature of this politics actually appealing? If our politics is to be dominated by a war on white men, is it any surprise that white men are exploring...
I noticed that Bill Dunkel hit all the major points that gun grabbers would have us believe so as to carry out their nefarious gun-grabbing schemes. Selective outrage at greedy gun manufacturers and heartless NRA executives provides a pretense of populism and care for the working class. I hope that here in Vermont the working class is not buying it. I moved to Vermont from Florida, and the only thing I liked about Florida was the broad support for gun...
Whenever anyone asks me if I think the 2020 election was fair and whether Joe Biden legitimately won, my response has always been, “I don't know, but I think there is about a 60% chance that Biden legitimately won.” The reason for my response is obvious. How could anyone know, whether you are an election denialist or not, that the election was fair and Biden's win was legitimate? The fact is that there were many opportunities for cheating in the...