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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When you look back at American history honestly, what is one thing that makes you proud and one thing that makes you wince?”
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American aristocracy could learn some things from the old world
A big American founding myth is that we eliminated the aristocracy from our government, but the real American innovation is making it much easier to join the aristocracy starting as an outsider. Sure, great. A little closer to meritocracy, one hopes.... - aharoni...
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The Democratic Party should join the GOP to counter MAGA
Today* I helped my family move my maternal grandparents back into their home in Altadena, from which they had been evacuated due to the Eaton Fire in LA for over 2 months.... - Skippy8801...
Why does it have to be blue vs. red?
Whatever happened to meeting in the middle on political issues? I am old enough to remember when American politicians were generally more moderate, not so partisan and seemingly unwilling to compromise as they have been recently.... - AskAves...
On the topic of patriotism... and whether Lee Greenwood can still bring a tear to your eye. On the cusp of our Nation's 250th birthday... The following was my response to a $hit-poster in my town Facebook group....... - ballz2dwallz...
Thanks, I super appreciate your expertise here. What's your sense of why this steady increase in power? Is it part of the nature of being human, or the seduction of power, or the speed of getting things done when you have executive (in comparison to deliberating and voting), or a... - zookatron...
Fair enough, this goes back to my first point in my first reply. Obviously managing the American empire is much more complicated than an ICE, but I see that more as a symptom of bad leaders rather than a cause of leadership being hard.... For the next 100+ years, every American gen will be worse than its precedessor
There's a strange American exceptionalism that believes that the US is uniquely positioned to be great forever. Likewise, there's this immaturity that takes it for granted that every generation ought to live better than its parents' generation.... Rashida Tlaib Attacks The Foundations Of America
Rashida Tlaib holds a seat in the United States Congress. She represents a district in Michigan. She has used her position to attack the country and its core institutions in strong terms.... I think polarization is a slippery concept. Congress is more polarized, in the sense that there is less overlap on voting for instance. And the electorate is more firmly polarized, with fewer undecided voters.... - onHow can we step outside the biases that distort our judgments of human development and history, especially if our neurological and transcendental structures themselves constrain what can appear to us as reality?bysfoens...
More than fifty percent of what we "read and hear is a lie." Really? Please walk me through all of the lies in Robert Middlekauff's The Glorious Cause published as part of the Oxford History of the United States series.... Research says this; The Bill of Rights was created to protect individual liberties from federal government overreach, primarily for the people living under U.S.... - WWRS...
WOW! As I read so many opinions on today's political goings-on, I am embarrassed, as a National Merit teacher, by how little today's Americans know about American history, world history, American government, and political science.... More than fireworks. More than history lessons. More than politics, this is what Independence Day means to me, an abundance of flag waving, because symbols are a powerful presence.... The American Ideal Was Real Until We Stopped Protecting It
America was built on the idea that every citizen stands equal before the law. The Bill of Rights laid out clear protections for individual liberty that applied to rich and poor alike.... - Debradrs...
so you are absolutely correct. Yes. A Father's Day celebration was proposed in West Virginia before the nationally promoted version tied to Spokane, Washington....