THE "GLORY" WITHIN
DELUSION CONTINUES TO FUEL AMERICA’S DECLINE It has been a long time since I stopped respecting anyone who told me they were a card-carrying Republican, a few decades at least. I just didn’t share their enthusiasm for free markets, limited governance, and corporate excess. More importantly, I suspected quite some time ago that the Republican Party had become a kind of closet coven where racists, Christian nationalists, gun nuts and a sordid variety of other social misfits f
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DEADLY INSTITUTIONAL COLLAPSE
AMERICA WATCHES AS INHUMANITY TRIUMPHS Once upon a time, in the “exceptional” land known as America, there were foundational federal government institutions that generally acted to meet specified and legally sanctioned policy objectives. Sometimes, these objectives were met imperfectly, but often they were met. In today’s America, foundational federal government institutions are failing to even try to meet specified policy objectives that are within established legal bounda
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MARCHING TO NOWHERE
A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF A PLAN On October 18th, the people marched and protested, nearly seven million of them. That is around 2% of the population of the entire United States of America. That is a whole lot of pissed off people.* Then, a little over two weeks later on November 4 th , a lot more people than expected voted in a few important off-year elections around the nation. The Democrats won all of them and almost all of the rest, seemingly to their own surprise.** No
Nov 13, 2025