Wayward Landlubber

     Trump wants to declare ANTIFA a terrorist organization, even as he encourages the white backlash to the George Floyd killing at the hands police. ANTIFA, for those too dim to understand, stands for anti-fascist. If you are against anti-fascism you are by implication, FOR fascism or tolerant of it. Toleration is always desirable, but some things can never be tolerated. This group of deplorables, dare I say "basket of deplorables", includes racists, misogynists, homophobes, and fascists. Why pick on them, you might ask? The answer is that they are intolerant of the people they have targeted. Donald Trump deliberately encourages this open hatred because he is one of them. Tolerance allows expression even though it may not be practiced by the individual. Intolerance implies a complete denial of whatever activity is not tolerated. Intolerance eventually leads to abuses that can't be tolerated in civil society. This dilemma is confusing to us liberals, we are usually more ...

     Chauvanism is defined as extreme patriotism, it was broadened in the 1970s to include misogeny. If you are male and escaped the Women's Rights advocates calling you a male chauvinist pig at that time, congratulations. The word is derived from a much decorated French soldier who was wildly supportive of another world leader reputed to have tiny hands (or whatever), Napolean Bonapart. Some sources say that this story may have been an exaggeration: as devoid of truth as Republicans are devoid of empathy. Never-the-less the word remains with us, as does the actions illustrated by this word. Another irony, most people who practice chauvinism would not know the definition, or think there is something wrong with it.      Among this group of people who practice chauvinism is one Officer Derek Chauvin who, until recently was a Minneapolis police officer and member of a supposed group of "Cops for Trump". This is the Donald Trump who is using the presidency to e...