Month: November 2018

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PART 2 of “Choose a Better Worldview to Build a Better World”

November 30, 2018 GlenAnderson 0

Our nation and world are in a horrible mess.  The December 2018 episode of “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” TV series examines how to solve the problems. A person or an entire society has a “worldview” — a way of seeing reality — that strongly directs their behavior and public policy.  The worldview that currently dominates the U.S. government and society has caused escalating greed, corruption, cruelty, oppression, war, and other bad things.  Instead, we need to replace that worldview with its opposite — a worldview that is humane, compassionate, peaceful, fair to everyone, and environmentally sustainable. An unjust society seeks to […]

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A psychiatrist thinks we should treat alt-right bigotry like a disease.

November 25, 2018 GlenAnderson 0

The psychiatrist in the article linked at the end of this blog post thinks we should treat alt-right bigotry like a disease.  This would help us understand how to use public health methodologies for a solution to alt-right bigotry.. He says alt-right bigotry is not technically a discrete medical disease, but that “there are good reasons to treat bigotry as a public health problem.”  He says, “some of the approaches we take toward controlling the spread of disease may be applicable to pathological bigotry: for example, by promoting self-awareness of bigotry and its adverse health consequences.” “[W]hat if, in an […]

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New “war game” scenarios show U.S. NOT winning wars against Russia and China. The real solution is to STOP PROMOTING WAR ALTOGETHER!

November 25, 2018 GlenAnderson 0

The Pentagon spends a lot of time, effort and money using computer-simulated “war games” (as well as actual physical exercises using airplanes, ships, submarines, etc.). The latest Pentagon scandal is that — after spending vastly more money on the military than any other nation on earth (and more than many potential adversaries combined), the Pentagon says the U.S. would NOT win wars against Russia or China. The Establishment’s solution is to spend EVEN MORE money on the military, even though this strategy has failed. The REAL SOLUTION is to STOP PROMOTING WAR ALTOGETHER.  We must work for REAL GLOBAL PEACE. […]

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Labor should stop letting Democrats abuse us. Labor should return to vigorous grassroots organizing.

November 25, 2018 GlenAnderson 0

The U.S.’s labor movement is suffering very badly, with a steep decades-long decline in membership and power. This article explains a bold remedy: http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/21580/forget_elections_labor_needs_to_get_back_to_its_roots?link_id=8&can_id=1d662460c0abb8939c5044c82927552b&source=email-the-illegitimacy-of-the-ruling-class-the-key-to-how-tammy-baldwin-won-re-election&email_referrer=email_458360&email_subject=the-illegitimacy-of-the-ruling-class-how-tammy-baldwin-won-re-election   Here is one excerpt from early in this article: At this point, betting our future on the next brutal mating ritual of Republicans and Democrats is not a bet most workers are willing to take. Since the 1950s, union membership decline has been a straight line downward, regardless of which political party is in power.   Another excerpt: [O]rganized labor has become so marginal Donald Trump has been able to usurp its role as the […]

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Stop Hurting Other Nations. Accept All Refugees Caused by Our Violence.

November 25, 2018 GlenAnderson 0

Parents teach children to clean up their messes. We must teach our government the same lesson. The U.S. keeps attacking other nations, making it impossible for victims to live there, but the U.S. refuses to accept those refugees.  Survivors in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Yemen and many other nations cannot live safely in their home countries . The U.S. has a moral obligation to invite our wars’ refugees to settle here. The U.S. arms dictators and other abusive governments that abuse and kill their people.  The U.S. abuses other nations in many ways, causing those populations to flee for safety.  […]

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Kids’ federal lawsuit against U.S. gov’t is repeatedly blocked and allowed to proceed.

November 13, 2018 GlenAnderson 0

The “Climate” and “Young People” parts of this blog have previously reported that a number of children and teenagers have sued the federal government for failing to take strong actions to protect the climate, thereby depriving them of a good future.  This lawsuit has persisted for several years.  First the Obama Administration fought against it.  Now the Trump regime is fighting very hard against it.  For several years this lawsuit has suffered roadblocks, rulings allowing it to proceed, more roadblocks, more rulings allowing it to proceed, and so forth — off and on, off and on, off and on. Here […]

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Trump’s anti-immigrant 2020 census question is going to court

November 13, 2018 GlenAnderson 0

Previously (on this blog’s “Immigration” page) I had reported that Trump wants the 2020 census to ask whether people are immigrants.  My previous posts explained why this is a horrible, racist, anti-immigrant, and anti-Democrat proposal. In early November 2018 Trump’s citizenship question on the 2020 census was going to court. Here is an article about that:  https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/census-citizenship-question-lawsuit_us_5bdccf39e4b09d43e31efd46 The ACLU is fighting Trump’s citizenship question.  See this information:  https://www.aclu.org/blog/voting-rights/fighting-voter-suppression/how-census-citizenship-question-could-affect-future?ms_aff=NAT&initms_aff=NAT&ms=181103_freespeech_newsletter_signupaudience&initms=181103_freespeech_newsletter_signupaudience&ms_chan=eml&initms_chan=eml  

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We Can Replace Cynicism and Despair with Empowerment and Hope

November 6, 2018 GlenAnderson 0

Our world is in a serious mess.  We are suffering from a number of big serious problems. It is easy to feel powerless and despair. But if we let the oppressors get us down, we’ll be even worse off. The good news is that WE CAN INDEED ESCAPE THAT TRAP. WE CAN INDEED EMPOWER OURSELVES AND MOVE AHEAD. I wrote the following document more than a year ago, and it is still valid. Please read and share this: We Can Replace Cynicism and Despair with Empowerment and Hope

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We Can Empower Ourselves to Replace the Current Cruelty and Corruption with Truth, Compassion, Fairness and Democracy

November 4, 2018 GlenAnderson 0

Instead of the Cruelty and Corruption Being Dumped upon Our Nation, What Better Values and Policies Do We Want the U.S. to Affirm? Let’s Actively Work to Restore Truth, Compassion, Fairness and Democracy! Glen Anderson wrote this article in the spring of 2017, a few months into the Trump regime. Its message is still valid. Hard realities are settling upon us. It’s not just the new Executive Branch filled with ignorant and corrupt people who want to destroy the government’s ability to serve the broad public interest. It’s also most of Congress, which is fully complicit. And it’s the mainstream […]