Category: America

I am the king. I am above all others. My great and unmatched wisdom is a gift to you.

Once upon a time, a group of wealthy men decided to join forces to ensure that their wealth and power would never diminish. They needed a way to control the people who lived below them so that they needn’t worry about revolution.  But their home nation was long ago designated for free people, and free people have desires of their own. And to the wealthy men, any desire by the masses to glean power, and wealth, would lessen their own…

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So, Marianne Williamson. The world got a look at her last week during the Democratic debates. And mostly what you heard was that she’s a freak and has no business running for President of the United States. May I remind you that we currently have someone as POTUS who no one thought would ever be President, and he used the exact opposite tactics of Williamson to get there. She’s all about love. He’s all about fear.  He’ll never be President. …

I love my mom. And she listens to the Fox TV version of talk radio. It made me sad when I visited her last month. Everything is either jingoistic, or promotes the destruction of liberal thinking. And it’s all filled with manipulation and the very thing she and others like her profess to hate—fake news.  I am an Independent. Which is to say I don’t think either of the two major parties in the US have all the answers. Rather…

Freedom is like Love. It’s a good idea, but one so vast that human beings are incapable of comprehending it.  Like the universe.  Like God.  We are not designed to understand these things in their entirety. This is why we gravitate to soundbites that simplify our ideas of these things.  It’s why “fake news” works.  It’s why we go to meetings every week where we are told to “love each other.”  It’s why politicians can spin lies—and somehow get away…

I am white. I am a male. I was born in the United States in the 1960s. I had nothing to do with any of these things. And yet, these things define me.