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It feels wrong and perverse and backward. It makes me squirm both in my seat and in my brain. I do not like this litmus test at all. But I find it helpful in evaluating what is – and what is not – effective politics.  The test – the question – is a simple

I started 2023 with a smattering of Bad Faith Times readers and subscribers, and after some steady growth, we have a real community around this little publication – folks who see through the mind-numbing disingenuousness of the American right wing. I wanted to thank you all for signing up for the

There's a specter haunting National Lampoon’s “Christmas Vacation” – the specter of communism, or socialism, or maybe just a general leftist hostility toward capitalism.  Some of our most vaunted Christmas movies assail the very underpinnings of the consumerist machine churning furiously at the heart of this season of

I once told a right-wing filmmaker that my kindly old grandmother had been arrested and held without bond for wishing a Target cashier Merry Christmas. President Obama, I said, had created a special federal law enforcement task force tasked with snuffing out the last vestiges of traditional Christmastime celebration in

One strategy for convincing someone that the economy is actually good is to get directly in front of their face and spout off economic data and measurements until spittle is raining down on the skeptic.  If you go on long enough – if you cite enough valid statistics that demonstrate a

I have a bad habit of pretending the right-wing mind is some labyrinthian construct that one can only comprehend by sinking oneself into the deepest depths of conservative thought.  Then I see right wingers begging machines to be racist and I realize how fucking stupid I’ve been, how needlessly

Open mindedness, generosity, tolerance, finding common ground in our humanity: This is what the libs want.  By “the libs,” I don’t mean anyone to the left of Newt Gingrich, but rather folks who have tightened their blindfolds during our slow but steady descent into fascism and have hoped against