Political Activist | Social Justice Advocate
Political Activist | Social Justice Advocate
Is MAGA a political movement, or something closer to a cult? Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton spent his career studying thought control. In his 1961 book Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, he identified eight hallmarks of totalist, cult-like groups.…
Context: The CNN in this experiment is the CNN of 2020. The network has changed considerably since, so these results describe that moment in time. In an era of deep political polarization, many of us wonder if “breaking the bubble”…
Criticize the Republican Party, and someone will almost always ask whether Democrats are any better. It’s a fair question. The honest answer is that it depends on what we’re measuring. Some establishment politicians cozy up to corporations, protect their donors,…
Voting isn’t going to fix everything. It won’t rewrite the economy or erase inequality overnight. But skipping it doesn’t weaken “the system” — it just hands your voice to someone else. And most decisions that shape your daily life aren’t…
Every time a politician wins an election on policies outside the mainstream, the same argument breaks out. Critics reach for history’s worst regimes and say “this ideology killed millions of people.” Supporters fire back with their own list of atrocities…
You’ve probably heard this complaint before: “Smart people have to stay quiet now so that dumb people don’t get offended.” The idea behind it is that there used to be a time when you could say the truth and face…
Questioning authority isn’t radical. Blind obedience to authority is. Nearly every brutal, backwards regime in history shares the same origin story: crowds of people convinced that this government, this leader, was the one worth trusting without question. The moderate position…
If you’ve been curious about AI chat tools but felt intimidated by the idea of signing up for yet another account, creating a password, handing over your email, and wondering what’s being done with your data — Duck.ai might be…
There’s a pattern that shows up in every conflict: things get bad enough, and people stop seeing individuals and start seeing groups. When that happens, the people actually responsible try to maintain their self-imposed innocence. When you assign the actions…
“He spoke to me. He spoke for me. He said the things I wish I could tell everybody. He was my mouthpiece for a larger audience.” Stop arguing with them. No amount of logic, reason, or data will change their…