I don’t have any interest in starting a political movement. I just want to live life and be left alone as long as I’m peaceful with others. I’m trying to figure out how to do that. If you’re interested in doing the same — and if you want to do it without the shrill and angry confrontations of politics — I hope you’ll join me in a conversation that might lead to better lives for all of us.
My own political evolution is a long and twisting story. I grew up in a generally conservative household, but I was taught to be a political independent. I also learned — from school and from my own reading — to be an intensely patriotic kid. I believed in our political leaders. I believed in the political system. I believed in the morality of this country’s role in the world.
Who ‘owns’ children? And who should step in when parents fail?
Conflict pushes inner buttons to make me feel like child in trouble
Politicians sometimes lie even when they know they’ll be caught
How are we supposed to tell the illegal bribes from the legal ones
I am angry that life doesn’t work the way I once learned it should
Predictions of doom keep failing, so isn’t it rational to doubt them?
Third parties aren’t any better than two parties if they anoint rulers
As I faced my father’s narcissism, I had to confront who I’d become
What kind of savages are we today? ‘Pick ’em out and knock ’em out’
