Showing posts with label US culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US culture. Show all posts

Sunday, November 27, 2016

Robert Oscar Lopez — Let California Go


The American Thinker is very conservative. The author of this post identifies California with everything that is wrong with American politics and culture from the conservative point of view and recommends that California become what it already is, it's own country with greater territory, population, resources and wealth that most other countries.

I realized a long time ago that California is a bell weather for both the rest of the US and the world. It is a creative place and what begins there spreads throughout the world over time. Look to California for what the world will look like over time. This makes conservatives blanch. But separating California from the rest of the United States won't slow down the process much at all. It's what's happening.

The American Thinker
Let California Go
Robert Oscar Lopez

Friday, November 4, 2016

Deena Stryker— Americans Are Having a Collective Breakdown

For the first time since my return to the US in 2000 - and taking into account my ten-year stay in the seventies — I see Americans losing faith in their system of government.

During the Watergate years, they were angry, as they had been during the Vietnam War, when students freely called policemen ‘pigs’ and were shot at by National guardsmen on a US campus.…
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Deena Stryker: Americans Are Having a Collective Breakdown
Deena Stryker is American and French writer who lived and worked in both Western and Eastern Europe when Europe was still divided. Her books include Diary of the Cuban Revolution: Conversations with Fidel, Raul Che, and Celia Sanchez, recently republished, with photos from her Cuba Archive at Duke University; Une autre Europe, un autre Monde, America Revealed to a Honey-Colored World and A Taoist Politics: The Case for Sacredness. She currently lives in the US and is a contributor and Senior Editor at Opednews.com