Preserving American Values
Our nation stands under attack … not from without but from within. American values, our politics, and our culture have been corrupted.
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In my previous post, I wrote about the evolution of our society from one which preached the importance of society and individuals having concern for the welfare of their fellow man and acting accordingly to one in which it’s all about “me.” Where self-centeredness is the prevalent norm and socially acceptable. This is damaging our democracy and our…
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Recently, two new books that explain the danger the Trump presidency poses to the survival of our democracy have attracted much attention: Trumped Up: How Criminalization of Political Differences Endangers Democracy, and Clear and Present Danger: Narcissism in the Era of Donald Trump. Briefly stated, the first argues that the large polar-opposite groups that have developed in response…
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It’s lunch time and either your children are clamoring for McDonalds or you want a dependable fast meal. It used to be that McDonalds was a place to feed yourself and your family cheaply, getting some reasonable nutritional value although accompanied by too much sugar and carbs. Today I was on the Massachusetts Turnpike and went to…
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Recently I saw two very interesting and seemingly inconsistent interviews. The one was with David McCullough about his book, The American Spirit. The other was with Kurt Andersen about his book, Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History. McCullough talks about the American spirit in familiar terms. It is based on the aspirations of…
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In the midst of the tsunami of allegations of sexual harassment and assault against a variety of public figures and their resulting fall from power, I kept wondering where is the media’s coverage of the allegations against Donald Trump? Finally, The Atlantic recently recounted the accusations of each of the nineteen women who have in the past…
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We have recently seen a rash of accusations against public figures involving various levels of sexual harassment/assault. Most have been fired by their employers or Boards. Only Roy Moore continues to receive unqualified support from both the Alabama Republican Party and his base. That these acts were committed is beyond disappointing. To become aware of the extent to…
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I am not a fool nor do I avoid unpleasant truths. I have always been well aware that, despite the stirring words of theDeclaration of Independence and the many laws that have been passed over the years to decrease the instances of discrimination faced by our Black fellow citizens, Black Americans continue to face a…
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W. E. Du Bois, in his classic The Souls of Black Folk (1903), stated that “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, – the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men.” In the United States, that relationship and the resulting divisions between the groups has, despite all the civil rights laws…
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I previously wrote in a post that Donald Trump will do and say anything he feels he needs to in order to get what he wants. He has no morality or ethics. It’s all transactional. The end definitely justifies the means for him. The New York Times pointed out several days ago that the one group that Trump cannot…
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