May 9, 2008
After Hillary, Voting With Conscience and Pride
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention This general election more than most will test the courage of voters to avoid lesser-evil strategic voting that has propped up our two-party plutocracy. People...
April 24, 2008
How Hillary Can Knock-Out Obama
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention Now is the time for Hilary Clinton to take a bold position that in one brilliant, courageous stroke shows the nation that she is more...
April 16, 2008
The Most Powerful People in America
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention They are not the rich and superrich, nor the politically powerful running the two-party plutocracy, nor the greedy heads of banking and finance companies, and...
March 28, 2008
The Reflecting Pool
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention Whether you see yourself as a truth seeker, patriotic American, independent thinker or voter, or just someone with bad memories of 9/11, you should make...
February 28, 2008
God Bless Ralph Nader
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention Because he wants to salvage American democracy and help Americans, Ralph Nader is running for president again. He deserves the support of all Americans that...
February 24, 2008
Delusional Hope: The Obama Rapture
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention Never have so many hoped for so much because of rollicking rhetoric and pulsating platitudes. A tsunami of hope has plunged America into electoral euphoria....
January 17, 2008
False Gods Create False Hope
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention The good news is the huge pent up public demand for political change. The bad news is that presidential candidates have made a mockery of...
January 4, 2008
Change Yes, Ron Paul No
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention Ron Paul's obnoxious supporters like more traditional political activists can spin and delude themselves about election results. But the Iowa caucus results could not be...
December 19, 2007
9/11 Truth Manifesto
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention For evidence that America's political system is a criminal conspiracy, open your mind to piles of new analyses that prove beyond doubt that the official...
December 12, 2007
Obama versus Clinton versus Plutocracy
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention Here comes another inconvenient truth. Despite all the attention to Oprah for Obama and the pundit blabbering about the Democratic primary horse race the outcome...
December 2, 2007
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Disappoints
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention RFK, Jr. has disappointed millions of liberals, progressives and environmentalists by endorsing Hillary Clinton. RFK, Jr. once said: "the Republicans are 95 percent corrupt and...
November 20, 2007
First Woman, First Black, First Latino, or First Honest President?
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention The phrase honest politician has become an oxymoron. We should not be impressed by the prospect of having the first woman, first black or first...
November 15, 2007
Sane Bush Hatred
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention The Wall Street Journal gave the top half of its opinion page yesterday to a long essay by Peter Berkowitz titled "The Insanity of Bush...
November 11, 2007
The Grand Delusion
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention With an endless, futile and costly Iraq war, a stinking economy and most Americans seeing the country on the wrong track, the greatest national group...
October 31, 2007
Politics the Virtual Narcotic
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention Fast forward to Election Day 2008: Network anchors, cable pundits, and state and local election officials are going nuts as evening hours pass and voter...
October 26, 2007
Ron Paul Reality Check
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention As self-professed champion of the Constitution presidential candidate Ron Paul has missed a monumental opportunity to educate Americans about the criminal behavior of Congress in...
October 21, 2007
Does Larry Sabato Really Want A Constitutional Convention?
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention Why would a prominent law professor supposedly in favor of having the nation's second constitutional convention organize a symposium where the keynote speaker is dead...
October 1, 2007
Time to Boycott Voting
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention After many years of political disappointment, more progressives, liberals and conservatives - and certainly moderates and independents - know in their hearts that voting for...
September 23, 2007
Next Step to 9/11 Justice
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention Everyone thinks of terrorism and homeland security for lessons learned from 9/11. There is another opportunity. Make our government trustworthy and truthful....
September 5, 2007
Painful 9/11 Truth
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention Many technical analyses cast doubt on the official explanation of the collapse of three World Trade Center buildings, including those presented by an impressive new...
August 25, 2007
Why Has Congress Failed Americans?
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention The Founders of our nation and the Framers of our Constitution surely did not foresee the day when, of the federal government's three branches, the...
August 11, 2007
Why the Government Tests Few Chinese Imports
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention Massive amounts of Chinese imports are threatening public health and safety. Many food and consumer products pose risks. Lead in children's toys and jewelry. Toxins...
August 6, 2007
Removing a Failed President
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention We no longer can trust Congress to impeach and remove a terrible president. The Washington Post has published an op-ed piece by Robert Dallek that...
August 2, 2007
A Metallurgist's Insights Into the Minneapolis Bridge Disaster
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention The incredible collapse of the Minneapolis bridge will send a message to the nation that has been repeatedly sent for decades, but that our political...
July 31, 2007
Americans Stuck In Political Stupor
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention The latest bipartisan George Washington University Battleground Poll rightfully received media attention because of its depressing data. There is historic political pessimism and cynicism. But...
July 18, 2007
Maria Made Me Cry
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention I unexpectedly found myself crying over the Iraq war as I read the obituary of Capt. Maria Ines Ortiz, a highly praised Army nurse. What...
July 13, 2007
Seeking Political Reform Through Solidarity
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention All over the Internet are sincere efforts to reform and improve America's political-government system. The downside is fragmentation of the subpopulation that has escaped brainwashing,...
July 6, 2007
Senator Specter Fights for Constitution
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention On the Friday before July 4 Republican Senator Arlen Specter showed his respect for the U.S. Constitution and his anger about President Bush's repeated pissing...
June 28, 2007
Thanks for Dick Cheney
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention When someone in high elected office shows the nation how vulnerable our Constitution is, we should be thankful for the wakeup call. Like many ruthless...
June 25, 2007
Political Attention Deficit Disorder - New Psychiatric Condition
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention According to a report not yet released, the Council on Science and Public Health of the American Medical Association has recommended that a chronic...
June 22, 2007
Are Americans Unready to Boil?
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention The frog-in-boiling water model helps us understand political upheavals: how citizens wake up early enough (or too late) to respond to social and economic oppression....
June 14, 2007
Americans Unready to Revolt, Despite Revolting Conditions
By: Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention The latest NBC/Wall Street Journal national poll results vividly show a population incredibly dissatisfied with their nation's political system. In other countries in other times...
June 7, 2007
Open Letter to Congressman Ron Paul
By: Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention There are numerous reasons to admire you, as I have for many years. Clearly you are running for president as a Republican, rather than a...
June 2, 2007
The Evils of Lesser Evil Voting
By: Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention Condemn progressives for voting enthusiastically for Democrats and the inevitable response is something like "just imagine how much worse voting for Republicans would be." Similarly,...
May 10, 2007
Finding Hope In A Dismal World
By: Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention For so many, hope is down the drain. Hard to fault them. Abundant evidence shows our insane world sliding down a global cheese grater. Fish...
April 23, 2007
Economic Armageddon Is Coming
By: Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention Stop being a compliant consumer. Face the ugly truth. Don't get fooled by the stock market. Accept the need for the mistreated middle class to...
April 6, 2007
From Economic Apartheid to Political Revolution
By: Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention Americans have always accepted a certain level of economic inequality as the inevitable consequence of an open capitalist society where some people through their own...
March 21, 2007
Democracy Dreaming
By: Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention What is this thing called democracy? So easy to talk about, so difficult to make real. Pure democracy is not what our Founders gave us....
March 8, 2007
Taking Democracy Seriously
By: Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention American: So you mean that if you Australians don't vote, you get a fine? Australian: Yeah, and when you Americans don't vote you get George...
February 21, 2007
Economic Inequality Is Real (Bad)
By: Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention Rising American economic inequality has received attention by Senator Jim Webb, presidential candidate John Edwards, CNN's maverick Lou Dobbs, and others. The middle class has...
February 8, 2007
Delusion Destroys Democracy
By: Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy. Will Americans learn to trust their fellow citizens or stay stuck on stupidly backing serial political betrayers?...
January 31, 2007
Healthy Political Faith
By: Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy. It's hard to avoid labels. I am a proud political dissident. Could the majority of Americans be dissidents? Think of the two-thirds of the country that believe the nation is on the...
January 22, 2007
Obama: The Democratic Messiah?
By: Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy. To join the pro-convention effort or discuss issues write the author: articlev at gmail dot com. What a wonderful political distraction is Senator Barack Hussein Obama. Perhaps a good part of his...
January 18, 2007
Runaway American Brainwashing
By: Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy. To join the pro-convention effort or discuss issues write the author: articlev at gmail dot com. Americans have been successfully brainwashed to fear exactly what their revered Constitution gives them the right...
December 30, 2006
A New Year's Resolution for ALL Presidential Candidates
By: Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy No matter how awful you think our government and political system have become, odds are you do not know about this travesty of justice, an incredible failure to honor our fabled Constitution....
December 12, 2006
Economic Apartheid Kills
By: Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy To be successful in overturning our elitist plutocratic system we should add economic apartheid to our semantic arsenal. Better than economic inequality, economic injustice and class warfare, because apartheid is loaded with...
December 5, 2006
Honest Centrism for Populist Democracy
By: Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy The United States has lost its center through destructive centrifugal politics. America seems spinning out of control. It has become a non-populist, dollar-driven, elitist democracy. Centrism can be a powerful metaphor and...
November 21, 2006
Third Parties Fight for American Democracy
By: Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy A great democracy offers citizens sharp political choices. That's what gives political freedom meaning. With two-party control of America's political system, political options and discourse are stifled. We badly need more visible...
November 13, 2006
Direct Democracy Lost in Florida and Colorado
By: Joel S. Hirschhorn With all the hoopla about the big Democratic win, little attention has been given to the assault on direct democracy. Sadly, Florida voters caved in and passed Amendment 3 that requires 60 percent to pass ballot...
November 8, 2006
Field of Screams - The Real Election Winners and Losers
By: Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy Forget political correctness. The revolution has NOT arrived! Bush is still president. The corporate state is safe. The Upper Class has little to fear. Lobbyists will be writing different names on checks....
