Politics and Science

The first Federalist Paper warns, “A torrent of angry and malignment passions will be let loose. To judge from the conduct of the opposite parties, we shall be led to conclude that they will mutually hope to evince the justness of their opinions, and to increase the number of their converts by the loudness of their declamations and the bitterness of their invectives. An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized as the offspring of a temper fond of power and hustle to the principes of liberty. An overscrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than the heart, will be more pretence and artifice, the stale bait for popularity at the expense of public good. (Some text omitted.) The noble enthusiasm of liberty is too apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and illiberal distrust.” (Image from Wikimedia.)             Hamilton warns that...

Here are some songs which I listened to tonight. The songs might or might not applicable to recent political events in the United States. Here It Goes Again by OK Go Down We Go by KALEO Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne How Far We’ve Come by Matchbox 20 Fast Car by Tracy Chapman Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater I Am Defiant by The Seige (Spelled “Seige” not “Siege”) I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables Confident by Demi Lovato Correction: I fixed the name of the song by OK Go.

            The frequency of my posts tends to decrease when I’m stressed, when I work, or when I don’t feel that my posts will matter much. I am confused by the election results, not because I trusted the polls and thought that Vice President Harris was certain to win, but after Trump has been President for four years, and his policies clearly target other people, while the Democratic Party, both President Biden and Vice President Harris, worked to expand opportunity. If a person says something that is racist, sexist, or antisemitic, but they did not intend to cause harm, then letting them know about the harm, and comments like that might be less likely in the future. If a person makes a comment that targets another group, but their intent is to cause harm, then letting them know about the harm could increase the likelihood of those comments in the future. I am of two thoughts about Trump. I do not know whether to let Trump know ...

I was not yet born for the presidency of Ronald Reagan, but from what I can read, I see that President Reagan, with the help of the Heritage Foundation, started many of the policies that President Trump intends to implement.             The parts of American history of which I am proud, such as the abolition of slavery except as punishment for a crime, the New Deal, and the Great Society, suffrage for women, and suffrage for people of other races, I consider progressive or liberal parts of American history.             The parts of American history of which I am ashamed, such as the displacement of Native Americans starting with the arrival of the colonists, the preservation of slavery at the founding of the United States, and the internment of the Japanese during World War II, the Tuskegee experiments, I consider authoritarian parts of American history.    ...