PZ Myers and politics

PZ Myers

Concerning politics, the atheist PZ Myers has proposed: criminalizing gun manufacture; abolishing the U.S. Senate, or at least reduce it to a purely ceremonial function; and outlawing the Republican Party (see: Atheism and politics).

Concerning his first three political proposals given above, Myers states:

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I know it’s all unrealistic, and isn’t going to happen, unless there’s a revolution (which, at the rate we’re going, isn’t entirely unlikely). Basically, I’m suggesting that we correct the failings of the first American revolution, which wasn’t revolutionary enough, change our mindset to make capitalism accountable, and shut down the most extreme propaganda organ. It’s not as radical as it could be — a real socialist would suggest that the people should seize total control of the production of weapons, for instance, but I’ve become less trusting of the will of the people nowadays.

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Reaction to Donald Trump being elected in 2016

See also: Donald Trump and American atheists

In January of 2017, the atheist and secular leftist PZ Myers said about Donald Trump's presidential victory:

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This span of time representing the agonizing death of American idealism, decline of liberalism, and collapse into corruption has played out as the background of my life. That’s depressing. History is not going to remember me, but I managed to live through a terrible period that will be remembered, unpleasantly. It would be nice to go out on a note of optimism, but that’s probably not going to happen.

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