by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jan 11, 2021 | Politics & Law
There has been an oft-repeated claim that President Trump has been hounded by the press from day one. That’s a subjective statement I don’t think is worth disagreeing with. But let’s recognize it an apologetic attempt to explain why so many...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Dec 29, 2020 | Politics & Law
{Reprint of an editorial by Bruce E. Kenney, used with permission. Was published in the Olean Times, December 26.2020} To Rep. Tom Reed, in the late 1980s, as a Democrat, I ran against state Sen. Jess Present. I was unsuccessful, but during the campaign and after, I...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Sep 22, 2020 | Politics & Law
So many times these last three years I waited for uniting, encouraging words over tragedies and challenges, not unmeasured rallying. Deaths of respected leaders used to be mourned, putting aside political differences for the healing of a nation. When challenged or...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Aug 29, 2020 | Politics & Law
People are not educated about history, yet pass around strong opinions, parroting details they clearly didn’t know the day before. Where did they get them? Revisionist propaganda has been around forever, often skewed one way, then the other. Fake experts (most...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Aug 10, 2020 | Politics & Law, Psychology, Society & Culture
I have studied the psychosocial phenomenon of brainwashing for many years, and it is a blood cousin to something I also research and write about — ideological fanaticism. It took a while to see the pattern before me in our own nation, but now that I do,...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Aug 1, 2020 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
Let’s get my one-paragraph soapbox out of the way: I used to find it intolerable that people don’t understand or accept that protest can be both peaceful and unpeaceful. After all, it may be peaceful all day across one or more cities, but then things seem...
