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Good, Democracy’s 6th Virtue: Exercising the Right to Vote, and What Weren’t We thinking?
Oddly enough complaining about election outcomes, while not illegal, should probably should have some liability attached for those people who could have voted and didn’t. There is simply no excuse. And then there were the people who voted based on the surface information of the campaigns which is by nature unreliable. Voting only based on…
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Good, Catching Fire, and Resistance
The question keeps coming up; “Why isn’t the resistance catching fire?” Yes there are demonstrations, and they grow as a form of expression that could be called the safe theater of the political. In the past that theater could nudge a nation of conscience right or left significantly. Things are very different these days so…
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Good, the Young, the Earth, and Hopes Hiding Place
If you have ever been in a fender bender car accident, you know at the sound of the crunch the present moment is already the second casualty. Red and blue lights form to fill out the changed ambiance, and strange people you don’t know arguing fault fill the day that perhaps your drifting concentration brought…
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Good, and the 4th Virtue of the Next Democracy
The Fourth proposed virtue of the Next Democracy, “Respect and Reverence for all Life and the Living“, sadly brings us to the divisions in this country over health care and environment. For women, the divisions regarding life and the living are so very vulnerable to misunderstanding because of the semantics of this whole struggle. The semantic gulf somehow tragically makes…
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Good and the Evil Art of Enforced Disappearance
When people start disappearing without due process you have to wonder what is going so terribly wrong. Perhaps it would be unfair to compare the seeds of what is being planted right here in the United States today to the runaway brush fire of Chile’s enforced disappearances in the 1970s, but the crop has been…
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Good, Freedom of Speech in the Context of Democracy’s Morality
The Third Virtue of the Next Democracy is “Freedom of Speech and Expression“. The first two virtues, 1. Speaking Truth and 2. Building a Shared Reality partially set the stage and context for Freedom of Speech, for speech, free or not, is nothing without context. Sorry but these virtues are not presented cafeteria style where you can choose one…
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Good, The Second Virtue of the New Democracy, and Shared Reality
If a culture becomes obsessed with differences and competition, not surprisingly they will end up finding differences and competing in those differences. Now if that same culture builds a transactional economy focused and based purely on those competing differences, look out, for you will end up with what we have today in the United States; a…
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Democracy and Truth: The Power of Knowing What Else is True
In a training session on Trauma Resilience the presenter who has worked the earthquakes, tsunamis, fires, and large disasters across the globe directly assisting people who appeared to have lost everything, forever, gave me a life saving question to ask. She taught people how to help themselves and fellow victims of disaster by counseling themselves…
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Democracy’s First Virtue: Telling the Painful Inconvenient Truth
Truth in times like these will more often than not contain an arrangement of facts that are both painful and inconvenient. A recent public hearing showed a crowd screaming at a minority party representative to do something. Do what? The painful truth is there is nothing to do in politics if you have lost your…
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Good and Why did four to five hundred People Need to Die in Gaza?
How you might ask will this writer tie the deaths of four to five hundred people he doesn’t even know to the word good. The answer is simple; he can’t. So I will write about something closer to penance. I can’t explain what is happening in Gaza that is good any more the than author, Thornton…
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