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Blog 3: Don’t Litter or We’ll Send You to Utah!

December 17, 2019 / trese / Role of Government, Where Conservatives Misstep, Where Liberals Misstep

What’s the link between Utah and capitalismincrisis.org? I’ll explain. Consider a sign posted on the Boston Common, put there to dissuade messy picnickers five decades ago. Don’t Litter or We’ll Send You to Utah, it threatened humorously. It’s an illustration of why for some, Utah was and perhaps still is, a four-letter word. (Some consider […]

Tip 25: Boiled Frog Socialism – April 27, 2018

April 29, 2019 / trese / Where Conservatives Misstep

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 […]

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