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Letter to My Political Representatives: Help, Democracy is Slipping Away!
At this moment, no policy issue, regardless of its importance, is a greater priority to me than the preservation of democracy in America…
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Anyone But Biden
Thank you President Biden, but for the sake of our democratic future, I ask that you endorse Governor Whitmer for President in 2024.
Massachusetts Must Prioritize Health Over Supreme Court Edicts
If Massachusetts politicians continue accepting the status quo, the health of many Massachusetts residents will assuredly decline, and worse.
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ChatGPT: The Winner of the 2024 Presidential Election will be…
ChatGPT predicts the winner of the 2024 Presidential election 6 months early. And the winner is…
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Handcuff Our Rogue Supreme Court
If Massachusetts continues to play by the now defunct politico-judicial rules, we should expect to see many unnecessary American deaths.
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A Rational Revision of Capitalism
We can incentivize entrepreneurs to create safer products in a manner that will prospectively reduce the number of product related deaths.
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Senator Mitt Romney, An ?Honorable Politician
An honorable Senator Romney would immediately use his political capital to undercut Senate GOP Leader McConnell and the GOP caucus’ Trumpian agenda by resigning from the Republican Party, declare himself an independent, and caucus with the Senate Democrats as, in Romney’s own words “my (Republican) party really doesn’t believe in the Constitution.”
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The Republican Party’s Path to Power is Predicated on Political Paralysis, Societal Mayhem and Worse
America is polarized because political paralysis, societal mayhem and worse are the Republican leadership’s only path to power. The GOP has shifted so far to the right that it has now become professional suicide for most Republican Senators and House members to participate in a political compromise.
United We Fail, Divided We/They Succeed, A Data Driven Solution
We can continue as a unified & polarized nation, incapable of addressing our problems or we can look at the data and find a mutually agreeable solution.
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Governors Must Prioritize Health Above the Supreme Court’s Unhealthful Edicts
Federal judges must be forced to prioritize the health of society ahead of their unhealthy anti-abortion and pro-gun policies. There is a path forward but Blue State Governors must act now!
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Political Thinkers Who are Concerned That Fascism is Coming to America
Numerous political thinkers are concerned that fascist ideologies have made inroads into America’s political system and fascism is now a serious threat to the future of America’s democracy.
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A Thought Experiment: Biden’s National Unity Government with a Republican Vice President
The best way to ensure a Biden Presidential victory is by creating a National Unity Government with a Republican as Vice President.
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Fascism is Coming to the U.S.A.
MAGA politicians and supporters are using fascist propaganda techniques (The Big Lie, The Firehose of Falsehoods) to polarize society and enfeeble our democracy, as others have done in Turkey, Hungary, and many other former democracies. The future of America’s democracy is no longer a forgone conclusion.
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Our Illegitimate, Illogical, and UnAmerican Supreme Court
As the Supreme Court has violated its uncodified compact with America it is time for America to reassess the Court’s privileged position in our society.
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One Physician’s Frustrations of Practicing Amidst the CHIPHIT Complex and Implications for the Future of the U.S. Healthcare System
If we hope to improve the healthcare of all Americans we must redirect funding away from the CHIPHIT complex and toward entities that prioritize a high quality, low cost, egalitarian healthcare system.
Fewer Guns = Fewer Gun Deaths, There is a Solution…
There are policies which will reduce gun deaths and there is a way to implement these changes, at least for the residents of the Blue States, but it requires us to treat the US Supreme Court as a judicial-political entity.
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Donate Now. Inaction is Tantamount to Complicity.
Democracy in America is no longer inevitable. Act now. Inaction is tantamount to complicity.
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Pardon Him or Not
The Resolution to Preserve America’s Democracy is the best way to politically nullify Trump and save America’s democracy even though it circumvents some of our sacrosanct legal principles.
The Voter Enthusiasm Gap Predicts the GOP Will Control the House of Representatives
As Sept 2022 polling data finds 51% Democrats and 52% Republicans are “almost certain” to vote, these equations predict GOP will win the House of Representatives by 10-17 seats.
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A New American Patriotism and The American Flag
Democracy loving Americans should proudly display the American flag in support of the aspirational ideals of the US Constitution.
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A 10th Supreme Court Justice
Seven weeks before the November 2022 midterm election, President Biden should nominate President Barack Obama as the 10th Justice to the US Supreme Court…
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Move Presidents Day to Election Day
America should move Presidents Day to Election Day as a means to increase voter participation and celebrate America’s democracy.
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The Republican Party has become “The Party” of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eight-Four
The Republican Party has become ”The Party” in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eight-Four.
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Federal Red-Lines and Massachusetts’ Relationship to the Federal Government
Massachusetts needs to debate whether there are “red-lines” which, if crossed by the Federal government or the Supreme Court, will trigger the Commonwealth to alter its relationship with the Federal Government.
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Covid-19 “Fair-Share” Healthcare Surcharge for the Unvaccinated
The decision to remain unvaccinated inflict avoidable healthcare and economic costs on Massachusetts’ vaccinated residents and economy. It is time to make the unvaccinated pay their fair-share.
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How to End Gerrymandering, Big Money and Americans’ Distrust of Federal Institutions
A greatly expanded House of Representatives would address Americans’ lack of “social trust” and fix many of the intractable issues which contribute to our dysfunctional Federal government
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President Joseph Biden, the Last Democratic President!?
As a result of sociopolitical trends, technologic innovations, and insights into human behavior, I believe there is a reasonable probability that President Biden will be the last Democrat to occupied the Oval Office for several decades.
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Why Patients Refuse the Covid-19 Vaccination – It’s Political, Mostly
The US is progressively falling behind other countries on COVID-19 vaccination rates. My patients tell me the reason is…
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My White Privilege and Antiracism
Those of us who have obtained the American dream have a moral obligation to use our resources to help make America a country where every child has an equal probability of obtaining the American dream.
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Biden’s Most Important Political Priority
All Americans and activist organizations must subjugate their personal and organization’s priorities to the need to ensure America’s democracy survives beyond 2024.
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A Political Thought Experiment: Democracy’s Survival Is Predicated on the Judicial Conviction and Imprisonment of Donald Trump
To protect our democracy, Trump must be expeditiously convicted in Federal Court and his conviction affirmed by the Supreme Court. He must then be remanded to prison according to statue.
America Needs The Presidential Propaganda Prohibition Act
America must create a mechanism that will prevent the President of the United States from using the big lie propaganda technique before it is too late…
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8,300 House of Representatives Will Help Fix America’s Democracy
We should begin the process of repairing America’s distrust of the Federal government by changing the composition of the House of Representatives so that each House member had only 40,000 constituents, similar to the Great Compromise of 1787…
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Erase His Name From Our Consciousness: Substitute “#HeWhoMustNotBeNamed” for “@realDonaldTrump” and “Donald Trump”
To reduce Trump’s influence on we must erase his name from the public discourse. Substitute #HeWhoMustNotBeNamed when you intend @realDonaldTrump, Donald Trump, President Trump, or Trump.
Talking Politics with Patients
Physicians teach their patients the science they must understand to enable them to make informed healthcare decisions. Is it not also a physician’s responsibility to explain the science underlying public health policy and the connection between political choices, public health policies, and their health and longevity?
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Lock Him Up or Not
America’s democracy now hangs in the balance. We can neither allow the criminals to go unpunished nor should we create a legal process that does further damage our fragile democracy.
The Blue State Domestic Ambassador for the Coronavirus Pandemic
Governors of the Blue States should create the “Blue State Domestic Ambassador for the Coronavirus Pandemic” to implement a mutually agreeable, multi-year, Blue State Coronavirus Mitigation Plan predicated on Blue-State ethos.
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Hostage the U.S. Economy to End Racism in America
It’s time that moral America align its pocketbook with her ideals. Let’s make the racists and their co-conspirators literally pay the price…
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Healthcare As a Role Model for An Equitable Solution to our COVID-19 Inequity Problem
The COVID-19 pandemic will exacerbate the US economic inequity problem and threatens the viability of our healthcare system, a solution…
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Political Purity at The Ballot Box Will Be Counterproductive and is Immoral
Invoking “political purity” as a reason to “not vote” is an immoral choice that can only ensure the institutionalization of values you abhor and may be the final nail into democracy’s coffin.
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Promoting a Community’s Economic Diversity
If we can continue to ignore our gentrification problem, our communities will become increasingly economically and socially polarized and politically unstable. One alternative is …
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Democracy Requires We Nail Down the Roving Political Goalposts
America’s nearly 250 year experiment in democracy is dying. Our system of “check and balances” now exists only in name. Maybe the death of democracy in America can be forestalled or averted if…
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How to End Egregious Medical Bills
If we hope to create a healthcare system that is sustainable and meets the needs of all members of our society…
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The Democrat Party Needs a Competent Propaganda Machine, Like the Republican’s
The Democrats must play the political game according to the rules as the exist, not according the the rules they wish existed…
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Is Your Physician Prescribing the Best Medicine for You?
Physicians are required to prescribe a medication whose risk/benefit ratio they may not be able to fully assess or have never used….
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A Centrist Democrat President Will Enshrine Authoritarian Rule in America
There is only a single political path that has the potential to enshrine democracy in America. A centrist Democratic Presidential nominee is not on that path.
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It Is Time to Impose Price Caps on our Healthcare System
As our capitalism based healthcare system is not fiscally sustainable nor efficient, we need to explore alternative options…
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Hillary v2.0 Cannot Win the 2020 Presidential Election
Mr. Biden is a “Hillary v2.0” candidate and as such he will not be able to beat Donald Trump. I thank Mr. Biden for his service to our country, but it is time for him to set aside..
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Fortifying the Circle of Prosperity as a Means to Reduce Economic Inequities
We owe it to our children and grandchildren that we leave them a world that is at least a little better than the world we have inherited…
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It’s No Longer Your Father’s Republican Party (or There Are No Honorable Republican Senators)
There are no longer any honorable Republican Senators…
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Red-line Supreme Court Rulings and the Future of the Supreme Court
If the Supreme Court tilts too far to the right, it may find that several states will begin to ignore its rulings…
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Democracy in America was Fantastic!!
America’s great experiment in democracy is in a death spiral…
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Pharmacists Should Be Required to Inform Patients of the Least Expensive Purchasing Option
Pharmacist should be legally mandated to disclose the lowest possible price of a prescription to the patient during every transaction…
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A Proposal to Increase the Transparency and Quality of Electronic Health Records
Errors and bias (inadvertent and commercial) in the computer code of EHRs can have serious ramifications for the health care system. As the EHR’s programming code is proprietary, there is no opportunity for the health care community to identify and fix these errors. However…
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United We Fall, Divided We (One of Us) Stand
We can continue as a unified and polarized nation which is incapable of addressing the problems that face our society or…
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Hacking Can Be Patriotic
We need Federal legislation to encourage hackers to help society build more secure IT solutions…
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