Things to remember about American Democracy We have become overloaded with noise these days. There are too many snake oil salesmen out there spending too much money to get us to believe and follow them. They do this not because they care about us, but because they want to exploit us. It is important to …
The Red Plague The Republican Party is Killing Americans Republicans have spent decades exploiting their self-designated roles of “the law & order party” and the “defenders of Democracy”. They claimed to be the only party that would protect us from a growing number of threats coming from a growing number of directions. They claimed to …
The Conservatives’ Premeditated Murder of Democracy Folks around the world are wondering how so many Americans suddenly went absolutely batshit crazy in just the past few years. We went so crazy that we sometimes elected people who were crazier than ourselves. Millions of us seemed to simply switch off our sanity when Trump announced his …
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We Had It Right Seriously, we were kickin’ ass! Let’s revisit America during the middle of the 20th century – roughly the period between the mid-1950s and the early-1970s. Americans had spent the last 200 years pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. They toiled through our colonial period, labored through two industrial revolutions, fought their …
While We Were Being Good Americans A Deeper Dive into what Happened Wealth inequality is typically a good indicator of an unhealthy nation and ours is very bad and worsening. Wealth inequality is almost always a reflection of government policy and the fact that it has varied greatly over time shows that our government hasn’t …
How we got here It wasn’t supposed to be like this…But we kinda know what happened America is in the middle of a slow-motion train wreck. Somehow we went from securing world peace by working with our allies to defeat fascism during World War II (thanks to the many sacrifices of the “greatest generation”) to …
The Free Market The most damaging conin the history of man First, some inspirational thoughts to get this discussion going… “We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity, and ultimately human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down……. No, what unites them all is their willingness to …
Money in Motion It’s how economies work If you want to understand how the economy should work, then comparing it to the human body is useful. We all know we need blood continually flowing everywhere for our body to work. Cells and organs need a steady supply of blood for them to remain a useful …
Is Our Government Incompetent? Let’s revisit this conversation There are three primary takeaways here: The government that we elect is not as incompetent as we are led to believe Corporate ingenuity is not as great as we are led to believe and much of their wealth is due to government help and taxpayer dollars As …
An Argument for Talking with Trump Voters Not doing so strengthens the influence of those who’ve captured them First, a couple of thoughts that get to the heart of this argument: “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” – …
