Two Habits I’m Trying—But So Far Failing -- to Break
This piece is appearing as an op/ed in newspapers in the very red congressional district (VA-06) in which I ran as the Democratic nominee in 2012.*********************************Feeling connected with...
View ArticleThree Cases: The Slave Power, the Nazi Regime, & Today's Republican Party...
“Evil” can be usefully defined as “a coherent force that consistently works to make the human world worse.” (Or, “to make the human world more broken.”)I hope you’ll agree that if such a “coherent...
View ArticleRegard "Evil-doers" Like the Loved -- but Rabid -- Dog, "Old Yeller" (VIDEO)
In the 1957 film, "Old Yeller," a boy love his dog. But the dog gets rabies (in the process of saving the boy's life, no less). And the boy, still loving the dog, must kill him.That's how, ideally, we...
View ArticleWhy Aren't Liberals Better Fighters? (13-minute VIDEO)
Factors discussed: Belief systems, in which "fighting" is regarded as "wrong." Fear, feeling vulnerable to being hurt and bested; lacking the fire in the belly to go toe-to-toe.The dynamics...
View ArticleSo Many INEVITABILITIES in the Human Story
The future of humankind is uncertain: we can't know whether our species will get its act together well enough for human civilization to survive on this planet for the long haul or whether we will...
View ArticleHow Thoroughly Subservient to Trump Will Senate Republicans Be? (11-Minute...
They've shown a few signs of life lately, but history gives little ground for hope they'll stand up to a lawless, destructive, fascistic President. YouTube VideoFor a collection of my written works,...
View ArticleThe American People Are Now the Main Reservoir of the Nation's Brokenness...
The people didn't get this messed up on their own. The propagandists of the right worked for years to make Conservative America this detached from reality, and this estranged from their own traditional...
View ArticleWray Surrenders. Is There Nobody Who Will FIGHT This Evil? (VIDEO and Text)
Here is a video In which I weave together the interconnected stories of ** Wray resigning, rather than making Trump fire him, or -- MUCH BETTER -- rather than fighting Trump on his effort to...
View ArticleSo Disturbing to Witness One's People Turning Toward Evil
I live in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. 2:1 Republican. In the 1990s, I did hundreds of hours of talk radio conversations with the conservative, traditionalist, often fundamentalist, Republican,...
View ArticleIt Turns Out, Having a "Big Picture" Understanding Can Really Matter (Text...
I have decades of experience now in how our contemporary culture of intellectual understanding has little interest in finding Big Ideas to illuminate the Big Picture of what’s going on in the Human...
View ArticleOur Disinformation Problem Exemplifies the Dangers of Game-Changing...
I just made this video, exploring a new idea I’m pondering: that game-changing technologies are inherently dangerous, because they (maybe) inevitably create opportunities for destructive forces to gain...
View ArticleWhy Do We See So Much Cowardice Displayed on Today's American Stage (TEXT and...
Here’s the 18-minute video. Description follows.YouTube VideoDescription: A lot of cowardice has lately been publicly displayed -- people caving because of intimidation, violating Tim Snyder's "Don't...
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