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Robert Vogel is a retired IT worker and Free Software advocate living in Connecticut and unhappy with Republicans in government. He maintains a website at http://gopiswrong.net/
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, November 8, 2019 What would it take to have good government ?
As wealth accumulates, powerful take over or game government for themselves. In late stages authoritarianism prevails and people are denied basics. Business as usual now
risks environmental collapse.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, July 5, 2019 Did the US lose WWII ?
We fought Fascism during WWII, but it was always here and has now metastasized to the Trump administration. Republicans never liked the New Deal, have reversed FDR's high values, attacked democracy, rendered checks and balances inoperable, allied with authoritarians, so we lost WWII.
(12 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 9, 2019 On Government. We Haven't Learned.
Time is running out to protect the environment, nuclear proliferation makes global civil war more likely, humanity is self-destructing.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 23, 2019 Thoughts on the Shutdown
The shutdown should anger most Americans. It is unnecessary and, if not ended immediately, should be sufficient cause for Trump´s removal.