A RISING TIDE OF POPULISM… (…as a highly infectious form of political botulism) Whenever there’s a massive surge of collective discontent with the status quo in any society, that discontent is often expressed in several ways. Unfortunately those ways rarely
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OUR AMERICAN GUN CULTURE (…appears to be moving back to the ways of the wild, wild, west) The almost hourly reporting of another mass shooting, somewhere in America, would make it appear that our society is rapidly losing its grip
NO ONE SEEMS TO BE ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS… (…whenever police resort to deadly force…) Every time a police officer in this country ends up shooting someone…whether black, hispanic, or white…and regardless of that officer’s racial or ethnic identity as
MOVING RELIGION TO A BACK SEAT ON THE BUS OF THEIR LIVES… (…leading them to just be Easter Catholics and Christmas Christians) Recent demographic research has apparently found that Americans have drifted further away from formal affiliation with any kind