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An occasional blog of post-apocalyptic politics and culture.

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The Trump Show... and What It Means for the Rest of Us

The Trump Show... and What It Means for the Rest of Us is a look at the racist underpinnings of the current Presidency. Please read, follow and comment...

Photo above: Donald Trump and his Laughing White Men’s Supreme Chorus back when they thought they were celebrating the removal of you and your children from affordable health care in the U.S.

Its been a bit comforting to hear more and more conservatives and liberals speak out on the threat the Trump administration poses to our democracy. Progress! But I find we continue to dance around the issue…

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Has the Time Come to Mandate Universal Service?

My latest blog post — a continuation of thoughts on citizenship. Read, Like, Follow and Comment. Has the Time Come to Mandate Universal Service?

Photo above: John F Kennedy meeting with early participants in the Peace Corps, a program of people to people outreach in foreign countries. Radical Centrism: Remaking Citizenship Part II

In my last post I promised a more detailed follow up on a key idea about rebuilding citizenship in the U.S. — mandatory universal service to country. Some will say it’s easy for me to advocate universal service…

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What Can We Do — What SHOULD We Do — for Our Country?

Here's my latest blog post about positive moves we can make to rebuild our notion of citizenship in the U.S. What Can We Do — What SHOULD We Do — for Our Country?

Radical Centrism Papers: Remaking Citizenship I

“Ask not what your country can do for you… Ask what YOU can do for your country!” So John F Kennedy inspired us almost 60 years ago in his electrifying inaugural address.  But since the idealism he unleashed with that statement, it seems we’ve been just been doing a lot of forgetting. Politicians, presidents, political parties, preachers and…

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WWIII May Have Already Started... Here’s What It Looks Like on the Ground

Evidence continues to mount that Russian involvement in democratic republic elections and politics is a coordinated effort to destroy them. Read my latest blog pos: WWIII May Have Already Started... Like, follow, comment... Thanks!

I made a bit of a mistake in my Thank You Comrade Putin post — a very American mistake — of believing that what happens in the U.S. is some kind of special history, when in fact, these days, everything must be taken in a global context. So here’s a well-researched article by Michael Carpenter that appeared in The Atlantic recently detailing Putin’s use of fringe groupsto further his war on…

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Bol’shoy Spasibo, Comrade Putin...

Bol’shoy Spasibo, Comrade Putin... is my latest post about the war on our elections and our democracy being conducted by a hostile foreign state — and what we should do about it. Read and enjoy...

Friends, Romans, Countrymen! I come not to trash Vladimir Putin but to thank him!

It appears that his main purpose in interfering with our 2016 elections (and activities since), was not primarily to create policy, or even to elect a sympathetic President, but to expose and exacerbate the fault lines in our democracy, in order to destroy us from within. Because of his intelligent analysis as an sw…

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OMG! Run for Your Lives! It’s... SOCIALISM!

It's my latestest blog post, OMG! Run for Your Lives! It’s SOCIALISM! Please read, enjoy, comment follow...

Before they succeed in making “socialism” into a dirty word again let’s pause for a minute and do the American thing: let’s call bullsh*t…

Boy, do we need an education in how governments work. Stuart Varney’s viral segment on (shudder) democratic socialism and the recent Facebook meme-storm demonizing socialism is a great example of how propaganda financed by the superrich, and manufactured by…

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Calling Things by Their Real Names

I'm posting on my blog again. Come visit and share your ideas. Here's my latest entry on Calling Things by Their Real Names

I love a good debate. I’ve have many of them with friends on every side of the political spectrum. Radical Centrism — my prescription for recovering a dynamic center to US political life — is based on the notion that we should not eliminate the wildest ideas from any side of the discussion about solutions:  libertarianism, socialism, Democrat, Conservative, Trumpist.  To do so risks the mistake…

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OK. It's the Trump Show

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Can We Talk?

My latest post to my blog goes back to some of the fundamental problems with today's civic conversation. The question is "Can We Talk?" Check it out, comment, follow... thanks

My recent experiences with this blog, Facebook and other social media has given me a closer view of our extreme difficulty in crossing the partisan divide into the other’s inforverses, and actually exchanging ideas. In a later blog, I will reprint comments and my experiences (so far) but for now I’d like to give my overview of what are the impulses, and where they come from.  Not surprisingly, I…

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Can We Just Calm Down for a Minute, and Discuss Sensible Immigration?

With a small constituency that brings out maximum demagoguery, immigration is one of the most distorted and misunderstood issues around. Check into my blog about centrist solutions, and let me know what you think...

Radical Centrism Papers: Immigration I

Immigration is a hot-wired topic. Both Democrats and Republicans  — understanding how frequently and baldly the issue has been demagogued — “play to the gallery,”  because, well, immigrants are a powerless constituency, so who gets hurt??? The not-surprising answer is that a few individuals and families get badly hurt, and that nothing actually gets done.

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Time to Deconstruct Systemic Racism?

It’s time to end it. “But how?” you plead. “Because we are blind. No, not colorblind as we had hoped, but blind to our own prejudice… How can we rise above … ou…

Heres a recent blog post on racism in America. Please click to read, like and comment on my wordpress site. Heres an excerpt:

“Let's be honest: The notion of racial identity in the US today is a fabricated social construct based loosely on historical generalizations about national and/or cultural behaviors. Humans have always had a dangerous ability to separate into categories, to create stories on the flimsiest evidence in which they are the heroes, (the "people"), while demonizing the "other ( "the enemy"). These "differences" — undiscoverable by any analysis of DNA, evolution, or other actual science — are identified in the modern day of radically mobile (and mixing) cultures, almost exclusively, by a single identifier: skin color.

This is why, throughout my posts I hesitate to even use word race or racism: skin color is NOT a race. Even if it were, our modern history has proved that any presumption of limitation on human capacity based on the skin color, sex, culture or orientation, is demonstrably false.”

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Obama and Racism

The last in my long-delayed series on Racism in the US. Looking at how Obama sparked a provably racist backlash that is damaging our country...

Heart of Darkness III

Warning: Not for the faint of heart. This post will likely offend some… please stop reading if you can’t stand it. I’m not trying to be insulting, only honest. Because of our troubled history in this country with racist thinking in all its disguises (see my LAST POSTabout systemic racism), I have little confidence that people can even identify their own racism, or how their…

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Readers React! So What Would YOU Do to Deconstruct Systemic Racism?

The latest conversation on my Wordpress site. lots of commentary on this issue! Please go to my site and comment freely

Below is a comment I received on my last post about ending system racism. It seems to require a fairly long response. Love to hear from more readers as well… Please comment below. From Shal: “OK, Pat..You are now on the clock..You are President of the US (not king or emperor, mind you) and you have veto-proof majorities in both the House and the Senate..The SCOTUS isnt going to be able to declare…

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Time to Deconstruct Systemic Racism?

Time to Deconstruct Systemic Racism?

It’s time to end it.  “But how?” you plead. “Because we are blind. No, not colorblind as we had hoped, but blind to our own prejudice… How can we rise above … our tribal selves to reclaim our humanity and move forward together as one country?” Well, there are models… Let’s be honest: The notion of racial identity in the US today is a fabricated social construct based loosely on historical…

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Our Heart of Darkness

Please read my latest blog about cultural racism and its impact on national character. Join my blog and comment onsite.

In honor of Black History Month, this is the first of a multi-part series on the struggle for racial equality in the U.S.  I’m aware of the potential arrogance of writing about racial experience while occupying the throne of the U.S. racial pyramid (whiteness), however false it may be.  I hope you will have forgiveness ready should I blunder into words and concepts that are offensive. My interest…

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Global Corporations; Global Solutions

My latest Radical Centrism blog post on the rising threat of global corporatism. Read, follow, comment!!!

Radical Centrism Policy Papers 2   1957 Sadie, with family, living life to the fullest on a daily basis… RIP with love.  I’m sure my three week abscence of posts about politics, history and culture has been devastating to my devoted audience. My deepest apologies to both of you. My darkness of the last few weeks was due to the loss of my favorite cousin, Sadie. Our love for each other, fostered…

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