We can pivot to become the Good Republic

Yes, will America become the next Evil Empire? Perhaps we already are. Many who study world history and analyze current affairs say we already are. They say we have been despite all the immense good America has done for so many people around the globe. Just ask, however, Indigenous Americans. Ask the Vietnamese and others in Southeast Asia, in the Koreas, and those across the Middle East and all over Latin America and the Caribbean. Today ask Canadians, Greenlanders, and the Danes. We Americans destroy and build shiny new places, but at such enormous costs we bury the ruins beneath those glowing beacons atop our hills. Sometimes such actions has paid off for everyone, such as rebuilding Germany and Japan after the Second World War. Regardless, however, we humans everywhere are rife with contradictions and the inability to perceive what we refuse to see.  Continue reading →