by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 27, 2021 | Politics |
In his trademark racist way, former President Donald Trump tried to make the Sqaud out to be the true face of the Democratic Party. He zeroed in on these four women of color because they were Black and Brown and progressive. The message: Democrats are not like you,...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 24, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
Over the past few months, several people have asked me about my audience and why I’m writing. My audience is people who follow North Carolina politics, but I also write for myself. I started PoliticsNC in 2013 because I was frustrated with the coverage of North...
by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 22, 2021 | Politics |
The story America told about itself for the first few hundred years went a little like this. Persecuted in their homelands, brave settlers (it went without mentioning that they white) departed Europe for what F. Scott Fitzgerald called the “fresh green breast of...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 22, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
CBS This Morning ran a segment on Mount Airy, Andy Griffith’s home town and the basis for the fictional Mayberry of the Andy Griffith Show. Ted Koppel explores why Mount Airy has become a booming tourist destination for people searching for Mayberry. The show, he...
by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 21, 2021 | Politics |
Two politicians of diametrically opposite character have utilized the same, populist slogan: Drain the Swamp. Then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi popularized the phrase in her party’s 2006 drive for a Congressional majority. A decade later, her...
by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 20, 2021 | Politics |
Immigration polling is complicated, but one kernel of public opinion that shines through in nearly every survey is that Americans support a pathway to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants. This position has held throughout the decades in which our political system...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 20, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
When John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate, he inadvertently created the Idiot Wing of the Republican Party. Until then, the anti-intellectual, anti-democratic tradition within the GOP was kept at bay by the free marketeers dedicated to profits instead of...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 17, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
Seems every week, we watch some prominent or vocal conservative anti-vaxxer die of COVID. Today, it was a couple in Alabama who called themselves “Alabama Pickers.” They gave people advice on buying and selling used items on their Youtube channel. The husband, Dusty,...
by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 16, 2021 | Politics |
Racial division is the most successful political tactic in history. The very notion of race was created by the European elite in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution to fuse white mill workers with their Caucasian employers, thus preventing a union of...
by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 15, 2021 | Politics |
The draconian laws spilling out of Texas’s state legislature must have caused rumblings in corporate boardrooms. Economically, Texas is a state that cannot be ignored. It has the tenth-largest economy in the world and one in five Fortune 500 companies. At the...
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