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  01/16/2021       Pat Barrett      4 Comments

Maybe we felt bad about Trump supporters and Trump voters being ridiculed by the leading-lights of the major culture, esp for thinking they are the (Continue Reading)

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Symbols are important

  12/02/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Our language sometimes scrunches word meaning down into what is commonly heard. Symbolism is one of those words, as in “It’s only symbolic.” That takes (Continue Reading)

Pat's World View, Politics 2016/2020 running blog Corona edition

oases of reinstatement but our long

  11/23/2020       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

Honor was lacking. Biden will tsk tsk us for saying a lack of honor was the principle in the Trump administration and in the Trump (Continue Reading)

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As the dust settles……..

  11/23/2020       Pat Barrett      3 Comments

As Trump gives up his law suits to overturn the election results, it remains to be seen what he will do next. Some say he (Continue Reading)

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What is a conservative?

  10/25/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Someone who wants to conserve things the way they are. Why does he want to do that? Because he is comfortable with that way and (Continue Reading)

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Upworthiest is great, but……

  09/26/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Heart-warming stories are the stock-in-trade of the site Upworthiest. Puppies, little kids, kittens, grateful oldsters, tough guy softies, and so on. Lots of fun. Makes (Continue Reading)

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Two Kinds of Conservatism

  09/24/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Ignoring for now the variety of ideologies, policies and crank ideas that make up the so-called conservative movement (Paleoconservatives. Reactionaries, Libertarians, Movement Conservatives, Old Guard, (Continue Reading)

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Peer Review

  09/17/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Only one instance of this term appears in this blog:” I found that people whose knowledge and wisdom I had reason to respect presented this (Continue Reading)

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Is this what they were looking for?

  09/05/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

At this point there must be a halt to pointing out how upside down the world must look now to Trump supporters: his Christian supporters (Continue Reading)

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Obama – Trump twisted

  09/05/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Several features of Trump’s attacks and his surrogates’ attacks on Obama are curious or downright hilarious. Obama not understanding America? Have you ever heard of (Continue Reading)

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The Untouchables

  09/01/2020       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

Here’s a scenario, all fantasy on my part but based a bit on conversations with police officers. Why do officers form a blue wall against (Continue Reading)

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The Holy Trinity redux

  08/26/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The Reverend Jerry Falwell has given a special twist to the ever difficult to define Trinity.

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Compromises

  08/15/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

“It’s easy to write about other people’s compromises; it is much harder to write about your own.” My lack of compromise turned out not to (Continue Reading)

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As long as we are divided…….

  08/15/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

As long as we are divided along line of sex, income, citizenship, ethnicity, religion, status, and so many others, and as long as there are (Continue Reading)

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Truth and Reconciliation

  08/12/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Hearing Stuart Stevens confess his mistake in believing the Republican Party was about governance and prosperity rather than about its true north, racism, reminded me (Continue Reading)

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Our certain future

  07/11/2020       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

We won’t have to worry about becoming socialists under the Democrats because we’ll all be dead under the Republicans.

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We the Who?

  07/10/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

“It was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the (Continue Reading)

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Reactions to Protest

  07/07/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

At this time of apparently endless protest against not only police brutality, the spark, but against an entire unjust, uneven, unequal system of racial oppression, (Continue Reading)

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Why Are They So Sincere?

  07/07/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

When certain responsible parties appear before Congress or any other body inquiring rightfully, justifiably, legally, and with a statutory duty to do so and they (Continue Reading)

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Culture gets passed on, like it or not

  07/05/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

In these pages I often stress the persistence of African cultural traits in the New World. Those traits came from Africans brought here during the (Continue Reading)

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Is This It? What’s It?

  07/02/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

So here we are again. Another crisis that is supposed to have an opportunity hidden somewhere in it. But, again, what is ‘it’?It is just (Continue Reading)

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An open letter to Clarence Thomas or If You Don’t Get Help…

  06/16/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

You said of the S.C. decision today stating that federal law protests gay and transgendered people from discrimination in employment that when Congress wrote the (Continue Reading)

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Denegrofy

  06/07/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Sounds weird, doesn’t it? It did to me when my wife suggested it. To be truthful, the term was mine but the idea was hers. (Continue Reading)

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