Category: Role of Government
What Can We Do — What SHOULD We Do — for Our Country?
Radical Centrism Papers: Remaking Citizenship I "Ask not what your country can do for you... Ask what YOU can do for your country!" So John F Kennedy inspired us almost 60 years ago in his electrifying inaugural address. But since the idealism he unleashed with that statement, it seems we've been just been doing a lot ...
Global Corporations; Global Solutions
Radical Centrism Policy Papers 2 I'm sure my three week absence of posts about politics, history and culture has been devastating to my devoted audience. My deepest apologies to both of you. My darkness of the last few weeks was due to the loss of my closest cousin, Sadie. Our love for each other, fostered ...
Saving the Republic: Choosing and Winning Our Battles
Radical Centrism Papers: It's War. No Less - Part 2 See my Fierce Patriotism post from last week for the introduction this three part blog series. The concluding post in the series is scheduled for the end of this week and is called We Have Met The Enemy, and He Is Us. It will be a reflection on how each ...
What Does Morality Even Mean Anymore?
Radical Centrism Papers: 2Doesn’t it seem like our nation used to have a true moral compass? That the gathered mass of our people had a more common sense of purpose and destiny? The nation had fewer laws, but it brought individual values into political and business decisions — the quiet web of morals and manners ...
Open for (Small) Business
Radical Centrism Policy Papers 1 I start these ramblings with a critique of the way the left and the right view American business: both appear to see business activity as a monolithic economic function. What this perspective misses are the vast differences between small business and large corporations. These are not — in effect and ...
A Modest Proposal: Radical Centrism
Amid the battlefield that has been created for us by inviting us to bait and battle our political opponents, I fancy myself striding, gladiator-like, into a no-man’s land below the fireworks to lay down a modest proposal for the rest of us. I’m calling it Radical Centrism. Radical Centrism (RC) recognizes the humanity of all sides, ...
Boomerville, USA
Mom and Dad Create the World, Part III My experience growing up was like a lot of kids, I suppose. Though I don’t remember it, my first home after the Arkansas home of my mother’s parents, was in Selah, a small suburb of Yakima, Washington. With my parents and my older brother, we had arrived ...
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Mom and Dad Create the World: Intermission As I share pieces my family’s story as an avatar of the World War II generation, now is a good time for a frank truth: that my parents and their entire generation got a big assist from government. A visionary President (Roosevelt) instituted reforms driven by the collapse ...
Time for Sanders Supporters to Grow Up?
Well, recent troubles with the party management and power structure of the Democratic Party illustrate that they seem to be as busy as the Republicans at tearing their party apart. A Salon editorial by Sophia McClennen published last spring, is one of the most articulate expression of the resentments of a substantial portion of the Sanders wing ...
MetaDada 'Pacolypse 
Takers and Makers? Our Readers Respond…
We are especially grateful when our readers and followers take the time and effort to thoroughly respond to our various posts. One of my fervent hopes is that, even with politics as they are, in this space we can engage in passionate, but respectful, exchange of ideas. So I'd like to post a recent exchange ...
By metadadablog on November 10, 2017