Maslow's Political Blog

Human sacrifice is one of the most misunderstood cultural activities.  It seems inherently evil, and socially awful.  How is anyone benefited because someone else is murdered, even with that person's consent?  How is murder ever OK, at all? Now, to be clear, I don't mean to discuss mass killings or revenge killings or purge killings.  Just human sacrifice.  And to discuss this properly, we need to change our point of view.  Because, in the modern world, human sacrifice is indeed a ludicrous thing.  Not just awful, but senseless.  It begs the question, "Wait, why was this ever  acceptable?"  But it was.  So here's what we need to do: Imagine... ...living in a much smaller community ...having a religion you and your whole community believe in ...not even understanding the word 'religion.'  What we call religion, you just call "very obvious."  It isn't even "obviously true," because that implies it could be false. ...

On Friday night, I saw on Facebook a news story that a group called Election Justice USA had released a report that claimed that the Democratic Primary had been stolen from Bernie Sanders, and that without this fraud he would have won the primary "by a landslide."  These are big accusations. But I've never heard of Election Justice USA before.  So I looked into it.  The website was not very comprehensive (It has actually since been substantially updated, which is alluded to in the interviews to follow).  Here is how they describe themselves, in part: " We are a non-partisan organization advocating for voters' rights and standing against election fraud and voter suppression in all forms. Throughout the 2016 Presidential Primaries, Election Justice has been working to combat unprecedented levels of fraud and voter suppression through legal battles in several states and at the federal level. We are also striving to educate the pu...