27. October 2016

Except for those millions of Americans who are so sickened and disillusioned with the present political system, nearly everyone else is paying literal attention to the 2016 electoral process, voting projections, party alignments, and the antics of Mr. Trump. Many of these people believe that their lives will change for the better if one or the other of the major party candidates wins. Ha! Sadly, all this literalness towards this election and our 18th-Century governance principles and...

12. July 2016

Bernie Sander's endorsement of Hillary Clinton today was inevitable. His program of public values and collective good, among other elements, while morally admirable, was always doomed to failure. That failure was to be either a complete collapse into irrelevancy or co-optation by the existing political processes. The ugly reality is that values and ideas outside of the conventional mainstream political processes have no real path to accomplishment. The existing political system is too...