Welcome to Curt’s View

In this time of strife, conflict brewed by disinformation, I believe we should have more communication, not less. We can’t fold our cards, retire to our bunkers, and succumb to the dark forces that seek to divide us. To that end, we should discuss our political views and engage in social commentary.

The intention of this blog is to connect, to reignite dialogue between the foxholes, and to recognize and unearth our shared humanity. It is only by communication that barriers can be shattered, offering paths back to common ground, disinformation vacuumed out.

“Being taught to avoid talking about politics and religion has led to a lack of understanding of politics and religion. What we should have been taught was how to have a civil conversation about a difficult topic.” ~ Ryan Fournier

Putin, Kanye West, Genius, and Pedophilia

Putin, Kanye West, Genius, and Pedophilia

April 13, 2022
If anyone is a Communist, it’s gotta be the people who lavished praise on the Republican’s favorite Communist, Putin, the ‘genius’, as Trump calls him.
Putin and Family Values

Putin and Family Values

March 23, 2022
Family values is simply a license to hate. Putin knows this. Back in the day, the right-wing movement was saturated with racism, blacks being the faggots, with a Bible thumping pastor finding Biblical references to justify the terrorism.
Book Burning II

Book Burning II

February 14, 2022
The 1619 Project isn’t a doom and gloom tale. It is a history of triumph, achievement, endurance, incremental victories against impossible odds, courage.
Book Burning

Book Burning

November 21, 2021
Fascism has a playbook, handed down from generations of dictators, all who ascended to power using this easy-to-follow checklist. Part of that checklist is doing away with "objectionable" reading material.
The Texas Anti-Abortion Bill

The Texas Anti-Abortion Bill

October 7, 2021
Texas recently passed a draconian anti-abortion bill, seeking to sabotage a woman’s right to choose. I’m always amazed at the hypocrisy of pro-lifters who won’t lift a finger in protest when deranged gunslingers execute our children in places like Parkland and Sandy Hook, or San Jose, and Colorado Springs...
The Cult

The Cult

September 7, 2021
Recently, Trump held a rally in Alabama, attended by an unmasked crowd, COVID-19 raging in the state, a state with one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. The attendees are playing Russian Roulette with their lives. That's a cult.
Racism Is the Great Con

Racism Is the Great Con

August 16, 2021
White people fell for the racism con that their ultimate survival, their prosperity, their happiness, depended on the enslavement and suppression of others. This is our legacy. How could we be so dumb?
Voter Suppression: No Food or Water

Voter Suppression: No Food or Water

March 30, 2021
In the 19th century, voter suppression of African Americans morphed into a different form: Poll Taxes and literacy tests, the threat of murder hovering like a dark cloud.
Voter Suppression Bills

Voter Suppression Bills

March 30, 2021
After the 2020 election Republicans introduced over 250 voter suppression bills, mostly aimed at communities of color, making me realize that the cancer Trump exploited was still breathing, simmering, waiting for the next demigod to ignite the cesspool.
Intentional Cruelty: A Tale of Two Meetings

Intentional Cruelty: A Tale of Two Meetings

January 23, 2021
In early May 2018, eleven senior advisers of the Trump administration were called to the White House Situation Room. A month earlier, the Trump administration had launched the “zero tolerance” immigration policy, effecting parents with small children.
Orwell & Trump’s “Brave New World”

Orwell & Trump’s “Brave New World”

January 6, 2021
Trump meets most of the criteria of Orwell’s 1944 definition of fascism: “Something cruel, unscrupulous, arrogant, obscurantist, anti-liberal and anti-working-class… almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘fascist’.”
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