John Atcheson
John Atcheson is author of the novel, A Being Darkly Wise, and he has just completed a book on the 2016 elections titled, WTF, America? How the US Went Off the Rails and How to Get It Back On Track, available from Amazon. Follow him on Twitter @john_atcheson
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Views Sunday, February 04, 2018 Taxation by Another Name: Our Devotion to Privatization Will Cost Us Trump used the State of the Union address last week to ballyhoo his infrastructure initiative, and folks jumped all over it, and rightly so. What the critics are missing is that all the problems they identify with the infrastructure plan, are just specific examples of what’s wrong with the small-... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 26, 2018 Tribal America Increasingly, pundits, politicians, and columnists are attributing America’s ills to tribalism. Google “tribal politics” and you’ll get pages of articles detailing how tribalism is turning us against one another or showing just how divided we are, most of them written within the last year. It’s... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 30, 2017 No, Mr. Trump, the World Does Not Need 'a Little Bit of That Good Old Global Warming' Thursday afternoon as yet another frigid cold snap worked its way across the continent, smashing records on its way, Trump displayed the depths of his ignorance when he tweeted: In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global... Read more |
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Views Friday, December 29, 2017 A Year That Will Live In Ignominy The New Year is always a time for reflection on the year past and hope for the year yet to come, but it’s hard to look back at 2017 without a sense of despair. We have a deranged president who is in all probability guilty of multiple impeachable acts and who is dismantling any program or policy... Read more |
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Views Thursday, December 21, 2017 Republicans Are Trying To Buy Off Americans For Peanuts When it comes to messaging, Democrats are like a heard of illiterate lemmings, and Republicans are like pack of disciplined wolves. In their campaign to stop the Republicans tax scam, they never settled on a single argument, and the one thing they did say in unison over and over again is likely to... Read more |
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Views Sunday, December 17, 2017 Confederacy of Dunces: Neoliberals Jump the Shark in The New York Times Last Monday , the New York Times carried what has to be one of the most ludicrous, Orwellian pieces of propaganda in recent memory. The title sums it up: “Is the Democratic Party Becoming too Democratic?” First, a Little Background This op-ed didn’t appear in a vacuum. The Party’s Unity Reform... Read more |
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Views Friday, December 08, 2017 Tax Reform as a Trojan Horse and the Muffled Mumblings of the Democrats No matter how horrible you think the Republican’s tax bill is, it’s worse than you think. This is not simply a reform of the tax system to favor the rich – although it is certainly that – it is the culmination of an organized assault on progressive governance that began nearly four decades ago. A... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 27, 2017 There’s a Strategic and Deadly Attack Aimed at the US Republic, But It’s Not the Russians An all-out assault on our freedom began in earnest 46 years ago, when Lewis Powell issued a 34-page memo on August 23, 1971 in response to a request from the Chamber of Commerce. Their campaign was strategic, patient, inexorable, and fueled by billions of dollars. As Powell put it : Strength lies... Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 18, 2017 When Will Democrats Stop Being Losers? Much was made of the “blue wave” some saw on November 7 th . Blue ripple is more like it. Don’t expect those results to translate into a 2018 landslide for Democrats, unless the Party figures out what it’s for , not simply what it’s against. Most of the Party leaders are only too eager to tell you... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 13, 2017 Let's Just Admit It: Capitalism Doesn't Work In almost every way you examine it, capitalism – at least the relatively unconstrained, free- market variety practiced here in the US and supported by both parties -- has been an abysmal failure. Let’s take a close look some of its worst failings. But first, it must be admitted that when it comes... Read more |