by Ai Friendly | Aug 13, 2026 | Culture Wars, History as it applies to the Future, Politcal Parties, Politics
Take the average person! He or she could do the job! Proposed: Everybody says they want to get the politics out of Governance! So, why don’t we?!?! As a thought experiment, consider the last 10 presidents: Trump, Biden, Obama, G W Bush, Clinton, G H Bush, Reagan,...
by Ai Friendly | Jul 13, 2026 | Culture Wars, Economics, Politics
The biggest problem we Americans face, other than the fact that we can’t seem to get along with each other, is tax code. No matter how you configure taxes, a lot of people will be left feeling unsatisfied and unhappy. AI tells me that 30 to 40 percent of Americans...
by Ai Friendly | Feb 16, 2026 | Culture Wars, History as it applies to the Future, Politics
People on the Left and the Right see only what they want to see in American history. It is inconvenient to acknowledge that there have always been two sides to the equation. On the afternoon of January 1, 1863, President Lincoln, remarking that his hand was tired...
by Ai Friendly | Feb 12, 2026 | Culture Wars, History as it applies to the Future, Politics
My beloved country is being shredded right down to the family level, and it is killing me. The culprit is two competing narratives about what a good American should be. Both narratives are short-sighted, self-serving, and wrong-headed. Almost everybody uses these...
by Ai Friendly | Feb 4, 2026 | Culture Wars, History as it applies to the Future, Politics
I, WinLoseorDraw, AKA AI Friendly, quote here from the Introduction to Colin Woodard’s book, Nations Apart. My brief comments follow. “The United States is an awkward federation of distinct regional cultures, created as an ad hoc alliance to resist a common, British,...
by Ai Friendly | Jan 22, 2026 | Culture Wars, Politcal Parties, Politics
Nadine Gordimer, a South African, wrote a great story about Apartheid: “Once Upon a Time”. The residents in the story invest heavily in walling themselves off from any potential harm. They fail to see, until the end, that they are actually walling themselves in....
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