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Republicans’ Megalomania Threatens Democracy

      America was founded on megalomania, an obsession with power of domination over others. This social structure originated in England before finding roots in this Country. To this very day England’s Kings and Queens reign as a symbol of a monarchy. These royal subjects continuously serve as a lineage of white supremacy. But in America, the new experiment took a different approach. […]

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Vote back better

     My Dad skated for the Minnesota Gophers hockey team after he finally got done serving “for the duration” in World War II in the Philippines.  So, of course, he was our coach as we PeeWees tried to learn to play hockey in Minnesota in the late 1950s.  As a coach, one of his favorite go-to instructions to us was, “OK, team, back to the basics!” […]

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A world without money

     Climate change and environmental destruction will prevail if money prevails as the god that national leaders (and almost all the rest of us) worship, or don’t know how not to worship.  Part of indigenous wisdom is not being under the control of this civilized force.  What would a world without money — or a world that saw and understood money differently — look like? […]

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The myth of redemptive violence

     The myth of redemptive violence is everywhere, a unifying force that keeps gun sales healthy and military contractor’s wealthy.  Real violence is everywhere as well, both intentional and accidental, but it’s fragmented and isolated, a sudden moment that shouldn’t have happened, needn’t happened — a human soul is ripped from her loved ones.  Such moments bring only shock and grief. […]