Cleaning House 3

In CH2 we talked about the erosion of American values among young adults under 30 and how education at primary, secondary & college is not what it used to be. In fact, its nothing like it used to be, focused more on societal mores, standards & political ideology and less on historical/contemporary reality, meaning real world facts and truths concerning our existence.   I believe this is happening because the...

Cleaning House 2

In CH1 of this series we discussed ways we could clean up our polity {populace} to once again represent a unified body politic. I suggested such things as building the wall, upgrading immigration policy, stopping birthright citizenship, sanctioning/criminalizing so-called sanctuary zones, legislating a new plan of attack for dealing with people here illegally, mandating English as our official language, requiring fluency to...

Cleaning House 1

In response to an article I had recently written on culture and gun violence, a good friend asked where do we start? How do we begin to turn this thing around and get back on the road to reason, fairness and sanity? It’s a good question and not an easy one, but it seems to me the obvious answer is to start with the wall. Many of the underlying problems in our society stem from the uncontrolled flow of illegal immigrants...