Blue Star Press – Political and Social Commentary
POLITICAL TAFFY PULL
by Ken Grossberger, PhD Have you wondered where the political middle went? In a highly polarized age, the right-wing pulls to the far right and the left-wing pulls to the far left. That leaves a larger middle where the moderate Republicans and moderate Democrats find themselves falling into the center with the independents. Axios reports…
THE STATE OF THE RACE FOR PRESIDENT
by Ken Grossberger, PhD The ridiculous level of dishonesty in election campaigns and the media is a major issue in politics today. The desperate attempt to win at any cost has left too many voters in this cycle with the familiar feeling of having to pick between the better of two difficult options. The polls…
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ANALOGIES – THIRD PARTIES AND FORMER PRESIDENTS
By Ken Grossberger, PhD There is much discussion about how the 2024 US Presidential elections will play out, and media types have pushed several comparisons to prior elections, seemingly in an attempt to predict the future from the elections of the past. Analogies are usually not perfect, but there are a few that might be…
TIPPING POINT
by Ken Grossberger, PhD “The critical point in a situation, process, or system beyond which a significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes place” (Miriam-Webster Dictionary). Donald Trump has been the focal point of the American political discussion since he first walked down the escalator in Trump Tower in 2015 when he announced his…
THE HAMAS FIELD TRIP
by Ken Grossberger, PhD The news media has reported numerous Pro-Palestine, Pro-Hamas, Anti-Israel protests on a wide variety of American college campuses. This is bizarre, and perhaps the student protestors (paid outside agitators notwithstanding) are a bit misinformed. Some recent, undisputed history. As previously stated in a prior blog, on October 7 Hamas put on…
INFLATION IS RISING, OR IS IT FALLING?
by Ken Grossberger, PhD Politicians love to spin reality into a self-serving interpretation. Inflation may be the number one topic in this year’s presidential election, and both Biden and Trump have contrived diametrically opposed stories. Both cannot be true at the same time, but this is the silly season. The key topic this year, as…
PAPER TIGER REDUX
by Ken Grossberger, PhD President Biden’s foreign policy mantra is to avoid escalating current conflicts. To use his favorite word: don’t. Don’t do anything that will upset America’s enemies, don’t properly defend American troops abroad, don’t do everything possible to protect American interests, and certainly don’t upset the not-so-mainstream media, upon whom his re-election, in…
THE CORRUPTION OF THE MEDIA IN A POLARIZED POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT
By Ken Grossberger, PhD The media, both liberal and conservative, would have us believe every paranoid notion they foment, like Biden will sell us out to Iran and Trump will be a dictator. Believing this nonsense is the intellectual equivalent of going to a bar at 2AM and taking notes. Journalism, as we used to…
POLLS, POLLS, POLLS – What Do They Really Tell Us?
by Ken Grossberger, PhD It’s the silly season (again) and all the punsters and pollsters are making predictions as to who is leading and who will win. How do they know? The answers they use are in the almighty polls, but what do those polls really tell us? The consensus is that voters begin to…
A HOUSE DIVIDED, OR IN THIS CASE QUARTERED
by Ken Grossberger, PhD In the United States we have two political parties, but two major groups each within each of those two parties. The Republicans still have the mainstream, traditional GOPers, and also the Freedom Caucus-Trump nationalist types. The Democrats have their own mainstream, left of center group plus the progressive left wing. There…
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