I see the problem in our backyard garden. The plants bloom, but we get very little fruit compared to the number of blooms on the plants.

The efforts to control how we think about world events are quite scary. The following article on US propaganda by Noam Chomsky is worth reading again: http://www.zpub.com/un/chomsky.html

Apparently, the right wing never reads the preamble to the constitution. I always though that the preamble provided context for how the rest of the document was to be interpreted. Not so for authoritarian brains.

All this energy and still no discussion of the real threat to US elections, which is Repulican loyalists voter suppression efforts and voting machine and vote tabulation computer hacking. The gold standard used to determine if an election was clean is the difference between exit polling results and the actual results. Exit polling results showed that Trump lost Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin. There is no way Russian trolls on social media could create such a discrepancy between the exit poll results and the actual results in those states.

The site looks great. Already plenty of good reading. I found one small issue to look at. There is a Typepad sign listed under LINKS. When I use that to sign in, it takes me to Typepad. When I return to TGP, I am not signed in. I am okay with it, but it seems a bit confusing.