Clik here to view.
Why To Vote, Even if You Believe it to be Pointless
(c) Josh Sager – February 2012 The voting booth is the vehicle with which the average American can directly affect their local, state, and federal governments. Voting allows for Americans to select...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Conservatives Love “States’ Rights”
© Josh Sager – September 2012 Modern American conservatism is based around an anarcho-capitalist economic policy (or, in some cases, a crony-capitalist policy) and a fundamentalist Christian social...
View ArticleClik here to view.
No Matter Who Wins the 2012 Presidential Election Monsanto Benefits
© Josh Sager – October 2012 In the 2012 presidential election, the American people will have to choose between incumbent President Barack Obama (D) and Mitt Romney (R). With this choice, the American...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Republicans will do in Response to Obama’s Re-Election
© Josh Sager – September 2012 In the face of a major election, people tend to get tunnel vision and fail to look at what will happen after the election is over. Ultimately, while every election is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lobbying and its Effects
© Josh Sager – May 2012 In a post-Citizen’s United V. FEC political landscape, lobbying has become a multi-billion dollar industry. The floodgates were opened by the Supreme Court – which decided...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Toxic Combination of Corporate Money and a Neutral Media
© Josh Sager – September 2012 In a post-Citizens United political landscape, those with large amounts of money are able to spend near-unlimited amounts in order to spread propaganda favorable to their...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Progressive Strategy: Debunking the Term: Economic Uncertainty
Debunking the Term: “Economic Uncertainty” The term “economic uncertainty” refers to a situation where the economic climate in a country is so unstable as to hinder investment. There are numerous...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Death of Debate in Washington
© Josh Sager – January 2012 The classical view of the legislative process in Washington is one of debate and compromise between officials representing their constituents. Ideally, our legislators...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Campaign Finance Reform: An American Issue
(c) Josh Sager – December 2012 Democracy is an American value, not one that can be attributed to one political party or ideology. The maintenance of a free and fair democratic process is an issue that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Congress’s Public Opinion Problem
© Josh Sager – June 2013 According to a recent Gallup poll, the United States Congress currently has a 10% positive approval rating and an 83% disapproval rating. Approval ratings are essentially the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
American Democracy is Terminally Ill
© Josh Sager – June 2013 In the late 20th century, the American democracy contracted a slow-moving, but potentially fatal, political disease. This disease was engineered by a wealthy partisan minority...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Quarter-Billion Dollar Political Donor that You have Never Heard About
© Josh Sager – September 2013 The modern right wing has a massive political infrastructure of think tanks, astro-turf organizations, interest groups, and super-PACs with which it promotes its agenda....
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Videos: Comments on the Shutdown, Diplomacy with Iran, Climate Change,...
Current polling by the AP indicated that the shutdown crisis in Washington has shifted public opinion in an extremely negative manner for all legislators. According to this poll, Congress has a 5%...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Don’t Let the Gun Extremists Control Our Democracy
© Josh Sager – October 2013 The United States is in the middle of a gun murder epidemic but our elected officials are apparently unable or unwilling to pass gun law reforms. Every recent fight over...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Immigration and the Do Less than Nothing Congress
© Josh Sager – November 2013 In 1948, Harry Truman ran his re-election campaign, in large part, as a referendum against the Republican Congress. The 80th Congress, labeled by Truman as the “know...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bread, Circus, and the Complacency Before the Collapse
© Josh Sager – November 2013 Many Americans are familiar with the term “bread and circus” because of the department store with that name, but few are aware of the term’s etymology. The term bread and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Looming Electoral Disaster in 2014
© Josh Sager – March 2014 The 2014 election presents a perfect storm of political factors that could easily lead to an electoral disaster for the Democrats and a big win for the Republicans. A...
View ArticleClik here to view.
McCutcheon v. FEC Furthers the Descent of the US from a Democracy to a...
© Josh Sager – April 2014 Last week, the Supreme Court handed down a decision in the McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission case which struck a blow against democracy and moved the United States one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Neo-Feudalism Captures the United States
© Josh Sager – May 2014 Americans love to believe that we live in a democratic government that represents the pinnacle of a free society. Rhetoric by both sides of the political spectrum props up the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The GOP’s Stances on Climate Change and Corruption Disqualify them to...
© Josh Sager – May 2014 When debating with other Americans on issues of partisan politics, I have often run into individuals who have a “pox on both their houses” attitude in regard to the Democrats...
View Article
