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Our Cultural Assumptions stop us from achieving National Health Care Coverage

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Stop Playing Politics – Provide Americans Universal Health Care – Part 1

If you like this piece, email it to others. And if you really liked it, become a Patreon patron to help me reach other readers.  Although Republicans in Congress push to cut President Biden's proposed budget significantly, they will not touch the military, but they threatened to cut the health budget. The nation’s health...

A Bloated Military Budget enables waste, corruption, and world-wide intervention

Please become a Patreon patron so that Citizenship Politics can reach more people While the Republicans and Democrats do a slow tangle to lift the debt ceiling to avoid crippling our economy, they agree on taking one step together. They are lockstep in supporting the military budget. A few politicians from both parties raise...

A Debt Ceiling Holds Our Economy Hostage

If Congress doesn’t raise the ceiling, one of the political parties threatens to bring our economy to a halt. That is not a sensible way to run a government. That’s why only the US and Denmark have a debt ceiling set at an absolute amount rather than as a percentage...

Creating Chaos is not an accident but a strategy

Dear Readers, If, you find reading Citizenship Politics informative and would like others to read it, please become a Patreon patron. By doing so I can hire staff to double my readership this year. Please consider this request. Thank you, Nick Credit: Ciaran McCrickard Copyright: World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard The Republicans' chaotic process...

President Biden can and must Resolve America’s Immigration Crisis

President Biden is the only person in government who can break Congress's record of failure.  No pundit can predict what heated issue will dominate the presidential and congressional elections in 2024. However, aside from the Supreme Court making a historic decision to eradicate another established freedom, like marrying who you...

SCOTUS could let state legislatures decide presidential election counts

Republicans are arguing about resurrecting an Independent State Legislature Theory (ISLT) derived from language within the dysfunctional Articles of Confederation Constitution. This is the Constitution that stopped the colonies from forming a functional central government until our current Constitution replaced it.  Harvard University law professor Noah Feldman labels this theory as...

The 2022 Senate elections exposed the MAGA movement’s weakness

Their performance foreshadows the 2024 elections. Dr. Mehmet Oz at Service Nation Summit (photo: Jim Gillooly/PEI/Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons) Two core beliefs define the MAGA movement. The first and most prominent is loyalty to the founder of the MAGA movement, Former President Donald Trump. They are the bedrock loyalists promoting the...

The Far-Right Freedom Caucus will steer Congress’s agenda for the next two years

The Red Wave was a ripple; nevertheless, reactionary Republicans will be crashing down on Congress's House.  Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy is bargaining his way into becoming the next Speaker of the House. He is promising prominent leaders of the Freedom Caucus that they can have seats in the next Congress's most...

Ranked Choice Voting – The sleeper issue on the 8th

Flying under the radar this Election Day are cities, counties, and one state voting to accept rankedchoice voting (RCV). This isn’t the first time there has been a wave of support for RCV. From 1912 and 1930, some forms of RCV were used, but most were repealed by the...

The unspoken label for a growing political movement is “Reactionary”

Lots of labels are thrown around to define or tag political opponents. Proponents embrace other labels as a badge of honor. And a few labels are so controversial, like Christian Nationalist or Communist, that even those in sympathy with those beliefs shy away from them.  However, the label reactionary is missing in...

How Much a Threat to the Republic are Christian Nationalists?

If Cancer cells grow unchecked, they take over the vital organs of a body, and the host dies. Some people can live with cancers that may never kill them, like slow-growing prostate cancer. However, other types of cancer can explode and kill someone within months.              Christian Nationalism is a cancer...

How could citizens reject a perfectly progressive constitution?

In September 2022, through a public vote, Chileans overwhelmingly rejected a new left-leaning constitution. Reuters described it as being one of the world's most progressive charters. The vote to approve it wasn't organized by some elite group managing a phony election under an authoritarian government. It was a fair...

Democracies have prosecuted corrupt leaders – America can too

According to Axis Research, since 2000, at least 76 countries have jailed or prosecuted their former leaders. Many were democracies, including established functioning ones such as Brazil, Israel, France, and South Korea have done so. America is the exception; no former president has been indicted for a crime. Has our image of exceptionalism,...

Could Liz Cheney Initiate a new Conservative Party?

The future of the Republican Party is often framed as either continuing as a traditionally conservative party based on policy issues or becoming a personality cult around Donald Trump.  At the beginning of the year, Liz Cheney told Robert Costa of CBS that she believes there is a "cult of personality"...