Category: American Culture
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It’s no secret that for many ambitious people in our culture, it’s all about obtaining as much money and power as possible. And people do all sorts of unethical or questionable things in order to gain money and power. This is nothing new. But in any dictatorship, you have an added factor thrown in. You have a leader…
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I wrote a post on October 7, 2024 noting an analogy between the state of Germany and Germans in the 1920s that facilitated Hitler’s rise to power as well as Hitler’s propaganda tactics and that of the United States and Trump. There is another unfortunate analogy that must be pointed out. Hitler became all-powerful with the…
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There is a lot of finger pointing going on in the Democratic Party. But the lesson to be learned from this election is rather simple: when you know something is a problem, you must deal with it in an effective manner. Problem #1: Trump and most people connected the Vice President with the actions/record of the unpopular Biden…
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Elections in the United States have always been fraught with much emotion. And in the early days of the country there were plenty of shenanigans on the part of politicians running for office. But when it came to higher office, especially the president, people expected candidates to be men of character. Regardless of the policies…
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In the recent Supreme Court hearing of arguments for and against Trump’s claim of absolute immunity from prosecution, three of the conservative judges – Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavenaugh – put forth questions/arguments which were almost ludicrous in their lack of relevance to the issue at hand. These three conservative judges basically said that a president…
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Prior to WWII, towns and cities were designed the old-fashioned way. The city founder or leadership laid out the streets and, increasingly after the early 1900s, created zoning to control what was built where. Even suburbs started in the same way, as small, self-contained towns on the outskirts of a city. After WWII, with the…
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Today, we, meaning the United States, commonly use the following categories to classify a person’s race, both in the census as well as countless documents: white, black or African American, American Indian or Alaskan Native, Asian, or Pacific Islander. There is a separate question that identifies someone as Latino or non-Latino, since one can be Latino…
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We read in the papers about the rising rate of suicide and other emotional problems among teenagers. People point to societal causes to explain what is happening, but while those factors have an effect, that is not the real problem. We have seen articles questioning the role of parents in mass shootings. These articles focus…
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Throughout all of man’s development, there have always been frontiers, places either geographic or intellectual, where an individual could go to grow, to make a new person of himself, to make his fortune – places where anything was possible because it was an open book, man had not been there or done that before For…
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Is there no end to the mendacity of Republican Party leaders; have they no shame? We’ve heard them labeling real news, “fake” news, whereas it is their news which is fake. We’ve heard their claims that the 2020 election was stolen by fraud, whereas they are the ones who have perpetuated fraud in an attempt to steal…
