Preserving American Values

Our nation stands under attack … not from without but from within. American values, our politics, and our culture have been corrupted.

Category: Politics

  • Recently, No Kings Day protests were held in cities and towns all across the country, in all 50 states.  The Trump administration is trying to belittle and miscast these protests.   House Speaker Mike Johnson said that, “It’s all the pro-Hamas wing and, you know, the antifa people.”  Trump said, “I don’t feel like a…

  • I have not seen any article that brings together all the different actions Trump undertook in his effort to change the 2020 election results.  And so I wrote this post. After losing the 2020 election, Donald Trump and his allies filed a record of 62 suits contesting election processes, vote counting, and the vote certification…

  • I have written many posts about how Trump talks great about how he supports workers, but that he has done nothing that really supports them.  He does not walk the walk. All of his executive orders and other actions have benefited corporations. In this sense he is a traditional Republican—his allegiance is to big business…

  • When Justice Alito was in Rome the other week to partake in the Church’s Jubilee, he noted several cases that have come before the Supreme Court.  One allowed parents with religious objections to withdraw their children from classes when storybooks with LGBTQ themes were discussed. There is no question that today the Catholic Church does…

  • 9/29 Trump came out with a new plan for ending the Gaza War and a transition afterwards.  The plan, which would require Hamas to free the hostages immediately and disarm, would end the war immediately and foresees Israel troop remaining on the perimeter of Gaza for the foreseeable future. The plan gives Netanyahu everything he…

  • When Trump assumed the presidency again, one of his stated aims was to make government smaller, whether by getting rid of Federal employees, cutting “unnecessary” allocated funds and grants, or limiting the scope of the government’s work. So on the one hand, Trump and his MAGA allies are very anti-Federal traditional big government. And Trump…

  • A while ago, I suggested that one thing the Democratic Party should do to counter Trump is to have a weekly new conference to highlight what Trump has done during the previous week that harms the people or endangers the country.  Democrats have not adopted my idea, so I’ve decided to put together my own…

  • At the DNC’s annual meeting this week, there were 2 resolutions on the Gaza War.  The Progressive wing’s resolution called for an arms embargo and the suspension of military aid to Israel.  The other called for an immediate ceasefire, the unconditional release of all hostages, unrestricted delivery of humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza, and…

  • While what Kimmel said regarding the far-right’s reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death may have been partially inaccurate and unnecessarily combative, it certainly did not warrant the FDC Chair’s reaction or ABC’s decision to indefinitely suspend him. What did Kimmel say?  “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to…

  • Scapegoating is an old ruse of authoritarian leaders to get their followers to support action against the minority scapegoated, or even commit crimes themselves against the scapegoated. The Nazi’s used the burning of the Reichstag (the German equivalent of the capitol), which it blamed on a Communist, to convince the German President to issue an…