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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Websites: www.westillholdthesetruths.weebly.com; www.preservingamericanvalues.com; www.thepracticalbuddhist.com. A graduate of Brown U. and U. of Chicago Law School, I’ve had a varied career as a legal aid lawyer, survey researcher, nonprofit executive, management consultant, composer, teacher, and author. I have authored 7 books on topics as varied as Buddhism, child rearing, and politics, the latter of which received a pre-publication endorsement from James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic. My Buddhist blog was selected as one of the top 50 Buddhist blogs on the web.

Category: Politics

  • Stopping Netanyahu’s and the Israeli Ultra-Right’s Inhumanity

    The world is in an uproar over the policies of the current Israeli government—Netanyahu and his ultra-right Orthodox supporters.  Not only did they prosecute the Gaza War out of all proportion to the harm done to Israelis in the October 7 Hamas attack, killing approximately 60,000 innocent people and leveling a large swath Palestinian towns…

  • The Far-Right’s Biggest Lie

    The tactic of “the big lie” was developed by Nazi propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels.  Tell a lie large enough, often enough, forcefully enough, and people will come to believe you and think that it is the truth.   Donald Trump and his MAGA followers have practiced the big lie often—think of “fake news” or “we…

  • Where Is the Democratic Party’s Clarion Voice?

    The Democratic Party is in disarray, trying to determine how best to defeat Trump and the MAGA movement in the next midterm and presidential elections.  Their disarray is unfortunately not new.  After the 2004 election, Vice President Mondale said, “”Unless we have a vision and the arguments to match, I don’t think we’re going to…

  • A Democrat’s Answer to the Immigration Problem

    The issue of immigration—actually it’s just illegal immigration—has become a major concern to a majority of Americans.  I’m sure that is largely because of Trump’s vilification of illegal immigrants. But immigration has in fact been a major problem for many years, even though most Americans were not concerned about it.  It has been a problem…

  • The Radical Right/MAGA Perspective Is Not True to the Intent of Our Founding Fathers

    The Radical Right of the Republican Party—whether it’s the MAGA movement or radical jurists and historians who may not be MAGA—all hold to the same basic tenet:  that the Constitution and Declaration of Independence are to be interpreted as the words were intended at the time it was adopted.  The theory is called “strict construction”…

  • Why the Declaration of Independence Argues for the Removal of Trump

    The Declaration of Independence set forth a list of grievances against the English king that warranted the revolution that the Declaration announced. Some of these grievances dealt with the king’s relationship with the judiciary.  To quote: “He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and…

  • Are Liberals Destroying America’s Ideals?

    In the opening paragraph of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, it wrote, “America is now divided between two opposing forces: woke revolutionaries and those who believe in the ideals of the American revolution,”   What a perfect example of fake news.  By taking on the mantle of American values and attacking their opponents as destroying those…

  • Trump Violates Freedom of Religion

    A recent article in the New York Times detailed how prevalent Christian prayer and Christian conservative perspective has become in the daily operations of the White House.   Trump has elevated the Faith Office to high visibility.  And that office has promised, “an ambitious agenda, including ending what it sees as Christian persecution in America and to…

  • The Failure of Contemporary Arts Culture, including Broadway

    Artistic culture has a role to play in society, historically.  Whether it was art, plays (e.g. Shakespeare), or music, the function of art was to lift the souls or lighten the hearts not just of the well-to-do but also the common man.  And so, until recent times, there were always a decent number of affordable…

  • Where Are the Democrats?

    Trump is all over the news.  He has been aggressive, overwhelming. The Democrats have mostly been missing.  It’s as though since they have no power in Congress to stop Trump and the Republicans, they don’t know what to do.  They held their silly paddles up during Trump’s State of the Union speech, and they have…