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Reflections on Six Months Into Our Transformation Into a Fascist Society

Oh my...

I had hoped that by today (July 20), more people would have become horrified by what's happening to the country I love, but bluntly speaking, that's not happening.

I've never felt so hopeless in my life. I'm astonished at what tens of millions of people support, or at least, blithely accept.

I see another tens of millions of people who are trying to resist, but there's virtually no path to doing so beyond protests because there's no effective leadership or strategy within the resistance movement.

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Working on a Dream

This is a unique performance by Bruce Springsteen. It's a solo acoustic performance of his song Working on a Dream as performed in 2017 on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. It's nowhere to be found online, and I refuse to allow it to be lost. I had saved and digitized the performance because I loved it so much. I think this is how this song should be performed... I'd post the link if it were available anywhere else, but since it's not, I claim Fair Use. 

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I Believe There's No Other Solution But a National Divorce

With all that's going on right now, I'm more convinced than ever that our society has broken apart in such a way that we have irreconcilable differences. We no longer have a common set of morals and values.

Half of us want to transform into an authoritarian nationalistic dictatorship, and the rest of us want to preserve our liberal democracy. We seem to move farther apart every day that goes by. I see no path to reconciliation.

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Why local TV news has changed so much in recent years - and who's responsible

Back before I was involuntarily "retired," I always said that once I was out of TV news, I'd write something like an insider's exposé about all the things people didn't really know about the industry. I now realize I can't really do that because the industry just keeps changing.

However, I can see from the way people comment on social media that there's much the public doesn't understand about what's going on, and I believe I can provide some insight.

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