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: The Trump Factor

  • Trump’s 1776 Commission Report – Perverting the Founders’ Values

    One of Trump’s last acts as President was releasing the report of his 1776 Commission, members of which included no professional historians but did include right-wing conservative activists and “thinkers.”   It’s no surprise therefore that just as Trump legitimized his fake news, his alternative facts, by calling the authentic mainstream news fake news, this report…

  • Republican Representatives and Senators Must Be Held Accountable

    When Congressmen take the oath of office, they swear that they will “support and defend”  the Constitution.   A central part of the Constitution concerns our electoral process.   It is a core element of our democracy and the peaceful transfer of power. If there were indeed evidence of fraud, and the courts for some reason refused…

  • January 6, 2021 – A Day That Will Live in Infamy

    For weeks, Trump has been absorbed in his own reality – that he won by a landslide but that it was stolen from him by fraud; that the election was rigged.   And his allies have mostly stood behind him and either supported his efforts to overturn the results of the election or actively encouraged…

  • Republicans’ Unscrupulousness Knows No Bounds

    What can one say to the news that twelve Republican Senators now plan to contest the electoral college vote in various states?  Unfortunately, the only realistic thing is to face the facts and say that there is little hope of our country returning to any semblance of political normalcy in the coming years.  Despite all the…

  • The Right-Wing Press, Alternative Facts, and the FCC

    If you look at The New York Times’ “Coronavirus World Map” (December 25), you will be surprised to learn that the U.S. has the second worst record of per capita daily cases. Only Lithuania has a worse record. How sad that this great country, home to one of the finest medical systems in the world,…

  • What Will Happen When Trump’s Defeat Becomes Final?

    During the election, there were times when I shuddered in fear.   I read of roving gangs, for that’s what they were, of Trump supporters in cars and trucks stopping traffic on the Garden State Parkway, the Mario Cuomo bridge over the Hudson, various highways crisscrossing the New York City region, and trying to force a Biden-Harris…

  • Invoke the 25th Amendment

    If Vice President Pence and the Cabinet were men and not puppets, if they had any ethics or commitment to American democracy, they would invoke the 25th Amendment, Section 4, and free our country from President Trump.   Trump clearly is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”  The peaceful transfer of power being one…

  • The Shamelessness of Republicans Knows No Bounds

    The election is over.   Putting aside the recount in Georgia and the undecided status of North Carolina, and for some media outlets, Arizona, Biden clearly has won the election.   Even if Trump ended up winning all the remaining states, which he won’t, Biden still wins.   And the margin of victory in the swing states is such that whatever…

  • Making America Great Again? Trump Fails His Own Test

    We of course are familiar with the Trump slogan and the red MAGA caps. Trump certainly claims that he has. But has anyone in print or otherwise bothered to systematically ask the question, “Has Trump made America great again?” Not to my knowledge. And so that is what this post will assess. In doing so,…

  • In Trump We Trust

    It has been apparent for most of Trump’s presidency that regardless what he does or says, regardless how outrageous, how unprofessional, regardless whether he is fact-checked and shown to have lied, and certainly regardless what the mainstream (non-conservative) media say, Trump’s core base of support believes him, and Congressional Republicans either aggressively support him or…