politics
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Good and the Princely Trappings of Fascism
Standing on the podium with a stern smile of self-importance while rank after marching rank of soldiers turn and solute the supreme leader of the failing kingdom has long been a favorite of soda cracker dictators enjoying the hopelessly pompous… Continue reading
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Good, Your Garden, Their Forest, and Our Next Better Democracy.
If you have ever planted a garden you know the optimism of green spring day shoots clearing the soil level, and the heartbreak of the first hail storm. Never mind all the bugs, snakes and other four legged pests feasting… Continue reading
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Good, Dictators, Billionaires and a Servant Leader
The trick of a successful dictatorship is to reduce all considerations to the balance of power and then grab power at all costs and any consequence. If you have the power you can do anything you want and usually what… Continue reading
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Good, Human Rights, Aspiration and Grit
Be it Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, or Disability Rights, at their outset, all of those movements had little to no federal support, legal basis, or even local support. The true broad scope of movements of human rights seem always to… Continue reading
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Good, Nonviolence, Pacifism, and Servant Leadership
Strangely enough there is nothing passive about nonviolence or pacifism. Nonviolence and pacifism are hard choices that must be actively engaged against the mainstream. Nonviolence itself is a decision that counters a deeply embedded instinct to respond violently to insult… Continue reading
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Good, Law and Order, and Simplicity as Paradox
How can one achieve simplicity in a complex society? Is it a choice to keep it simple or is it an obligation to wade into the complexities of the human drama. Each reader will have their opinion as does this… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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