Category: Democracy
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How Automation Threatens Our Sliver of Power
The Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment were man’s response to societies move from conservativism to liberalism. These periods gave more people freedom. It was not perfect but it was better than the period before where few had any.
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Academia is like the Dominoes of Pizza or the Kraft of Cheese
We are watching daily a trial that for all extensive purposes is occuring because an Academic viewed herself as a Teacher. Academics are not teachers. They live in a place that is inaccessible by design by most. Politics is one by those who speak to the people, not above them.
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America’s Gun Mental Healthcare Crisis
Politicians lie. That is their job. They lie so that they can placate those below them and do the bidding of those above them. If, for a minute, you think that there are not those enjoying American violence as entertainment then you need figure out how to look under the hood.
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Marathon Running and the Old Politician
Marathon running keeps on becoming the sport that demonstrates that the impossible can be done. I would imagine that one day an athlete who has either just or has yet to be born will be better than the greatest of today and today, the greats are legendary.
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The Death of the Library
We should learn a lesson from libraries, the place where we seperate fact from fiction. There is a line that demarks what is real and what is not. Without it, we all just become users of fancy believing that stories are real and real is a lie.
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Optional Stop Signs
citizens not just one group or another or the government writing the laws is unfair and needs to be replaced. Where do you stand?
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Minimum Americans Minimum
Minimum is the smallest amount needed. When we apply this to American Life, it is the minimum salary needed to survive. This salary is Universal Basic Income. It is time for the poor to unite despite our differences and demand UBI to become LAW.
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2021: Not the Finish-line but the Beginning of Lap 2
Tired and on edge going into Lap 2 of the Covid Pandemic and what will be known as the 2020s. Hope can easily be found in numbers. Indian farmers just proved it. United, they stopped legislation by uniting under for a common cause. What is standing between America and Americans from doing the same?
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50 Millions Years Ago
Sometimes we need to be reminded that it is okay that our paths are different than others. The challenge is that the two primary groups, the takers and the givers, do not live easily together like a virus that in the end kills its host.
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American Values – The Compromise?
As a 46 year old teacher I for certain have observed this one interesting conundrum and that is, a class full of middle school students could do a better job than the federal government and especially the Democratic party. Why? Because in elementary school is when you build a student foundation and middle school is…
Observations From the Spectrum 