Categories
America in Crisis Essays

Peaceful Resistance

Today (5 Oct. 2025) in church, one of the readings of the scriptures was Habakkuk1:1-4, 2:1-4. My version of the Bible is the King James version, while the version used at church is a more modern English translation, so my writing here at home differs somewhat from what was spoken today.Regardless, I wish to focus […]

Categories
America in Crisis Essays

Democracy vs. Autocracy

            I created a post in 2023 which I feel now is critically important for the American electorate to review. The post included excerpts from a guest opinion piece in the New York Times, written by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, professors of government at Harvard, “Democracy’s Assassins Always Have Accomplices,” https://www.nytimes.com/ 2023/09/08/opinion /trump-republicans-spain-brazil.html [accessed […]

Categories
America in Crisis

Congress, Where Are You?

            In the midst of the furor over the president’s tariffs, Nicolle Wallace had couple of people on her MSNBC program, Deadline: White House, in which one of the guests specifically placed the responsibility of this chaos created by the tariffs upon our “do nothing” Congress. I propose you all write your representatives in the […]

Categories
America in Crisis Election 2024 Essays

Threat to Democracy

Inside accomplices threaten democracy.

Categories
America in Crisis Election 2024 Essays

Election 2024 (#2)

Why Vote?

Categories
America in Crisis Essays

Hate and Violence

American vice–Un-American, Anti-American

Categories
America in Crisis Essays

Liz Cheney and Rachel Maddow

Wow! This is a combination worth listening to.

Categories
America in Crisis Essays

Democracy’s Assassins Always Have Accomplices

New York Times guest editorial by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt,
reprinted in Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Sept. 2023