politics
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Good and When a Detention Facility becomes a Concentration Camp
Detention has become a euphemism for concentration. Facility has become a euphemism for prison camp. With a goal of 3,000 immigration arrests a day this administration is, intentionally or not, setting, the stage for concentration camps in America. This is… Continue reading
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Good, Faux and True Authenticity, and Survival
One of our political parties is looking at the attribute ‘authenticity’ to strengthen their political approach. The challenge with authenticity is that it is nearly impossible to fake or predict. Our current leader is probably where he is because he… Continue reading
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Good , Grief, Funerals in Minnesota, and the Art of Rage
This was written a few days before the assassinations in Minnesota so I will post it lest we forget too soon. Two ways to accomplish change: create a compelling vision with a plan, or simply engineer mass rage. The second… Continue reading
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Good, Empathy, Conscience and War
This writer scans the news for actual facts and waits for the information to either contradict or confirm existing versions of what might be true. This morning of course, the headlines screamed WAR. And below that prospect were the news… Continue reading
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Good and What is Deeper than Opportunism?
Capitalism and the American system take heavy criticism for being opportunistic. Some of that criticism is profoundly merited and some slightly hypocritical. We all tend to love opportunity when it serves our cause. The legal system is being exploited and… Continue reading
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Good, Immigration, and Living in the Frosting of a Cake
I am learning that many people like the current administration’s goals, but dislike the methods used to achieve those goals. David French of the New York Times caught that surprising factoid from a CBS/YouGov poll. That shouldn’t surprise us but it… Continue reading
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Good, Why We?, and Wily Culpability
This Project might pull in more readers if this writer stopped using the pronouns “we” and “us” and started pointing fingers. I think the current approach may be frustrating to some friends both liberal and conservative. There are reasons for… Continue reading
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Good, Character, Class, and Picking Friends and Allies
The one downside of having reached the top is there is nowhere to run from your mistakes. A wealthy businessman who makes mistakes near the top can always resign and pull out the old trope of needing to spend time… Continue reading
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Good, the “Sin of Empathy??”, Rantings and Ravings
I read the other day there are some nationalists who now consider empathy a sin. They have attached themselves to one of the world’s major religious traditions by a thread, if that. Given the times we are in, this touch… Continue reading
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Good, Government as Video Game, and the Strongmen
I doubt many people would mistake a gifted War Craft video game player as a great American soldier. Let’s face it, pushing buttons on a console and starring dazedly at a screen hardly equates to military service. In some ways… Continue reading
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