Private Idealism and Public Moderation

In my personal moments, when musing about the various political and philosophical issues that are bubbling in today’s discourse, I often look at issues in two ways…

A decision must be made.

Photo credit to Phillip Goldsberry. Follow the link for more of his work. I will start by saying that if Biden wins, I will respect the win. I will accept that for the next two to four years we’ll live with higher taxes and the expansion of cancel culture, the ease at which we label […]

The inherent problem of political violence

The riots, the burning, the looting, the screeching, the assault, the murder. The fires burning around this country are a cause for concern, if not outright fear. What we’re seeing is a normalization of violence against our political opponents alongside the desensitization of very combative terms such as enemy, criminal, German National Socialist. And yet, […]

Collateral Damage

This election cycle is crazy. The way that it divides people has been something to behold. Friendships, online friendships, marriages, relationships all dissolving because we’ve lost our ability to tolerate our differences. And it’s not even in primary relationships. The tribalist notions have been extended to secondary groups: families, clubs, businesses, organizations, all being tied […]

The Authoritarianism of Compassion

I’ve seen, read, and heard so many people call themselves compassionate on both the left and right. I’ve also seen those same people become vicious, hateful, rage filled monsters toward people that they disagree with, that mostly happening on the left, though I see it on both sides. Compassion is an interesting virtue. Merriam-Webster defines […]

The power of projection.

Featured image credit Victor Fitzpatrick, click to follow more of the artist’s work. I have a friend, who shall remain nameless, who struggled for a long time with paranoia and anxiety, would often tell me how often she would run into people who were connected to someone from her past. More than that I will […]

This is exactly why we need free speech… and why I’m voting for Trump

Cancel culture, censorship, thought speech, implicit bias, silence is violence, my truth, disinformation, misinformation. What has been happening over the last decade, and particularly over the last 4 years in the “free press” has been both hilarious and frightening. Recently, an article was published in the New York post that has been removed on social […]

An Inconvenient fact

I have had the same conversation many times regarding the founding of the country and the 3/5ths Compromise. Many of today’s “woke” progressives, when posed with the question regarding how the then enslaved African slaves would be counted in terms of representation, would have said they should get full representation, signaling their virtue and giving […]

Why government isn’t the answer

I can’t tell you how many times I have heard, “Well someone should make a law about that,” or “well there should be a program to deal with that.” And yet, when we look at local, state, and even the federal budgets, we are drowned in a sea of red ink, mismanagement, graft, nepotism, and […]

Biden’s Brave New World

For what it’s worth, I have no clue who the hell is going to win the election. The polls were wrong in 2016, but they show Trump at near a double-digit or a double-digit deficit against Biden. The pollsters have said that they fixed the issues, but who’s to say. I’ve heard and read about […]