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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When did you first feel like civic life was actually yours to shape, and what made that moment real?”
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- Benzi...
The best thing I’ve done ( to "...get rid of the MAGA nonsense and move forward.") is creating real life friendships with people who voted for Trump.... - annabeth...
Politics self-assessment quiz from an integral perspective
I’m obsessively working on a course I’ve been trying to build for 4 years and have recently made big breakthroughs with. I’ve just completed the first draft of questions in the topic of politics.... - Sassiebrat67...
WHY do we continue to look for a "savior"?±±±±
It seems to me, that as a nation, we are continuously looking for a savior. I wonder if it stems from childhood and all the fairy tales we consumed; i.e. Snow White, Cinderella, Bambi etc.... Everything is a mirror of everything. I can definitely see parallels between my online and offline behaviour. I think I often refrain from posting online due to beliefs like, "people don’t care what you think" and "it’s not worth engaging with this".... - annabeth...
So cool to read this. Had me think of a version of rank-choice voting where you can weight your choices too, spread out 100 units of your preference among as many people as you want.... - yurio...
Who am I to decide?
California General Election is here and once again I’m asked to decide the fate of a few propositions which I believe I’m in no position to make decisions on. For example, Prop 2 an 4 are asking for $10B of debt each to fund various important things.... - EZG...
- xander...
I do some google searching, like I am now for prop a in Travis county (which was opaque to me, but now after maybe 10 minutes of research seems like a good idea). I spend maybe an hour total reading overviews and a pro vs con.... - Sassiebrat67...
I was just speaking out the side of my head. And I did the best I could to instill the values, self respect, ethical and morals I was raised with. I guess I didnt do too badly as a divorcee raising between 6 and 9 kids. 8 graduated 6 went to college 6 are married 7 have jobs.... Politics
People who deny that everything is political want to bury their heads in the soil and act like their actions don’t have consequences, as if they live in a vacuum.... - dave...
That is about as heartbreaking and enraging as I was expecting, unfortunately. Sounds like we need better mechanisms for selecting these coalitions. Although my shooting-from-the-hip guess is that I stared at that for a while I'd find other equilibria around civic engagement,... - amahone...
I feel as if we as a country, and a "United" people, have been in a free fall since 2016 and recent years before. I have never seen public opinion become so weaponized as it has been over these past years.... - Sassiebrat67...
Worth mentioning
I think its worth mentioning that Trump has done the ONE thing no one else has been able to do.... The Corruption by him, his family, the D.O.J.,F.B.I., Pentagon, Congress, Senate, being done so blatantly, in our face, has opened the eyes of many to the fact our Constitution has... - Aaron87656...
I think we’re all looking out for a perfect process with maximum effort/ reward yield. The sphere we’re looking to build in is a directed desire ( by research ) for a specific person or candidate ; then, for them to bring our intentions to bureaucracy....