The Great Recession has also become the Great Divider, not unlike the Civil War. Now as then, America’s new great divide splits along a fault line pitting big losers against big winners, politically and economically. Such is the root cause of America’s cultural warfare. Tragically, many who call themselves winners are what capitalismincrisis.org names as […]
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The boiled frog story was huge at the yellow brick church on 27th Street in Ogden, Utah. The Sawyer kids entered dutifully during the 1950’s, but without parents. Others had moms and dads accompanying them. I felt unsupported, trying to figure out how the world worked; how I should act within it. There were important […]
Read MoreIn our last episode, Professor Robinson was reflecting on how to make capitalism great again…concluding…America must get its plow horse…too-long sidelined as a hobby horse…back into the field. Quite simply…Joan says…it’s about strengthening productivity of the American economy; it’s about weakening wealth-hoarding schemes…about delivering knock-out punches to fraud. This is the only route to […]
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According to New York Times opinion writer Michelle Alexander, a new nation is struggling to be birthed. We are not the resistance to this birthing, she says. Instead, we are the new-nation-movement itself. It is Donald Trump and his minions, Alexander claims, who are the resistance; the ones pushing back; the ones blocking the pathway […]
Read MoreAn anonymous writer claiming senior White House status dropped a bomb in a New York Times op ed published September 5, 2018. A synopsis of some key points is below. The writer defends what he calls the work of the “steady state,” not the so-called “deep state.” The latter alleges public employees who thwart the electorate […]
Read MoreAccording to New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman these three “climate changes” aren’t really about the weather. Instead, they describe enormous societal “earthquakes” now changing the very nature of work: technology, globalization and “tomorrow won’t do, I’ve got to have it now.” Learn more at: Why Are So Many Political Parties Blowing Up? – […]
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