Stories by Sara Robinson

Sara Robinson is a Fellow at the Campaign for America's Future, and a consulting partner with the Cognitive Policy Works in Seattle. One of the few trained social futurists in North America, she has blogged on authoritarian and extremist movements at Orcinus since 2006, and is a founding member of Group News Blog.

New Poll Results Are Proof That Republicans Don't Think

A poll commissioned by DailyKos shows just how far to the right the GOP has been dragged by its right wing...and how far out of step they are with the rest of America.
Posted on Feb 5, 2010, Source: Blog for Our Future

5 Ways to Build a Fascist-Proof America

If we want to build a fascist-proof America for the long haul, we must stand up now for everything we believe and everything we are.
Posted on Aug 27, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future

7 Ways We Can Fight Back Against the Rising Fascist Threat

Why the right-wing extremism must be stopped in its tracks or else we face the threat of outright violence and goon rule.
Posted on Aug 13, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future

Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism?

There are dangerous currents running through America's politics and the way we confront them is crucial.
Posted on Aug 7, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future

We've Been Trapped Inside a Bad Health Care System So Long, We Don't Even Know How Much We're Missing

Our current system has robbed us of the chance to save, educate ourselves, see the world and live to a robust old age.
Posted on Jun 26, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future

9 Conservative Myths About Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism

This is terrorism we're dealing with. We can't afford to let ourselves be distracted by spin. It's time to set the record straight with the facts.
Posted on Jun 20, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future

Progressives Have a Chance to Dominate American Politics for the Next 40 Years

The tides of history and demographics, and the way the world works are on our side.
Posted on Jun 10, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The Far Right's First 100 Days: Getting More Extreme by the Day

Their talk is turning ugly, and it's not unthinkable that we could be in for a wave of domestic terrorism unseen since the mid-'90s.
Posted on May 6, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future

10 Reasons Why Conservatives' Fiscal Ideas Are Dangerous

It would almost be funny if their ideas about spending didn't lead us into the deepest financial catastrophe in nearly a century.
Posted on Feb 27, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future

For Decades, Right-Wingers Have Pushed Paranoia and Xenophobic Politics and Called It 'Moral Clarity'

Conservatives live in a world of seething aggression that most progressives can't even fathom.
Posted on Jan 28, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future

10 Absurd Conservative Myths About Obama's Recovery Plan

Instead of taking accountability for this mess, conservatives are firing off the latest B.S. storm. Here's what you need to know to fire back.
Posted on Jan 9, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future

Worried About Thanksgiving Fights with Right-Wing Family Members?

How to counter 10 of the most common myths conservatives believe about progressives.
Posted on Nov 26, 2008, Source: Blog for Our Future

Want to Shut Conservatives Out of Power for Good? Implement Universal Health Care

Giving Americans universal access to health care will undermine some of the deepest and most persistent myths of the conservative worldview.
Posted on Oct 31, 2008, Source: Campaign for America's Future

11 Racist Lies Conservatives Tell to Avoid Blaming Wall Street for the Financial Crisis

Conservatives are twisting the facts beyond the breaking point to support their revisionist history. But don't be fooled.
Posted on Oct 2, 2008, Source: Campaign for America's Future

Debunked: Ten Conservative Myths About National Security

Going after the most dangerous myths spun by conservatives after 9/11.
Posted on Sep 15, 2008, Source: Campaign for America's Future

McCain Shows Us How to Kill an Army

McCain is gunning to tear up an ancient contract between a nation and its veterans, denying security to the very people who defend ours.
Posted on Apr 17, 2008, Source: TomPaine.com

How Did Conservatives Convince the Public to Think Differently About Government?

Part III of a series exploring how conservatives took their worldview to the streets, undermining long-held views about government and society.
Posted on Mar 15, 2008, Source: Blog for Our Future

Learning from How Conservatives Push Their Cultural Worldview

Part II of a series on the strategies used by conservatives to promote their agenda, and the lessons progressives can learn to promote their own.
Posted on Mar 14, 2008, Source: Blog for Our Future

What We Can Learn from Conservatives About Winning in Politics

The same strategies that allowed Conservatives to take control of the country can help us undo their damage. (Part one in a series.)
Posted on Mar 13, 2008, Source: TomPaine.com

When Change Is Not Enough: Seven Steps to Revolution

If history is any indication, we may be on the road to violent revolution. We got here because of the conservatives' war against liberal government.
Posted on Feb 22, 2008, Source: Campaign for America's Future

Private RU-486 Confounds Anti-Abortionists: Who Can We Harass Now?

If women no longer need clinics to obtain abortions, what will anti-choice terrorists bomb?
Posted on Feb 14, 2008, Source: Group News Blog

10 Myths About Canadian Health Care, Busted

We must get past a pile of disinformation.
Posted on Feb 5, 2008, Source: TomPaine.com