A few weeks ago, I wrote about the coming Right Wing push for a Christian theocracy. Since that time, there’s been a not so subtle foundation being laid for a revisionist history of America’s founding. While we have seen spiteful preachers mixing politics and religion on the Religious Right for…

As our summer ritual of leaving the States and living in Europe began, I was arranging to meet up with a friend in Germany. He and I went to high school together in the DC area but he’s been living overseas for the past 7 years. Our trip coincided with…

We have now completed three days of the January 6th hearings. Despite all that we knew going into the hearings, we are finding out that the level of anti-democratic plotting and actions are far worse than we ever imagined. Listening to some of these revelations are surreal, frightening, and stomach…

My wife and I had an interesting discussion this past week about my writing and the idea of Radical Centrism. She’s been my biggest fan and my best critic, something I always appreciate even when it’s something I don’t want to hear. With such polarization in this country, and such…

Party Politics. We all know the term but let’s call it what it really is: manipulation of the populace for personal gain, ie: winning elections. Originally, the ability to do this had its limits. Nixon told his people that he wasn’t a crook until it became blatantly obvious that he…

Politics is filled with lies. It’s a known fact. Some are smaller white lies, such as when a politician exaggerates all the good work they’ve done in office. Others are not only lies, they’re dangerous, such as the great election lie. However, as damaging as the election lie has been…

I recently wrote an article entitled, We Can’t Wait to Take Our Kids and Leave this Blood Soaked Country, after Buffalo but before Uvalde. (LINK). The fact that it was relevant again a week later is sad, frustrating, and the worst part…all too predictable. The American Right is choosing to…

American politics has become a weird land of extremes and paradoxes. While we intellectually acknowledge that there is a whole political spectrum, we still viscerally boil everything down into two boxes. In order to understand or frame ideas, we seem to have this irresistible need to place people into one…

I had a different article planned for this week and maybe I’ll get to it later. But right now, I want to speak about the horrors once again visited upon innocent Americans. I could be talking about the 17 people being shot after the NBA playoffs in Milwaukee on Friday…