Category: Political topics
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Interviening with Extremism
This piece examines the emotional roots of extremist beliefs, highlighting trauma, shame, and the need for belonging as key drivers. It emphasizes that change comes from fostering compassion and humility rather than confrontation. While not everyone seeks to leave extremism, creating safe spaces for understanding can facilitate healing and reconnection.
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Spiral Dynamics and Political Polarization: Why We Struggle to Govern Across Worldviews
How do we govern a nation when its citizens live in entirely different existential frameworks? This post explores Spiral Dynamics as a lens for understanding political polarization, authoritarian regression, and the psychological roots of our cultural divides. By mapping the values behind each stage of human development—from survival to global consciousness—we uncover why common ground…
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Can Democracy Survive Without Truth?
Title: The Truth & Accountability Oath: A New Standard for Presidential Candidates Introduction: Can Democracy Survive Without Truth? The time to address this pressing issue is now. This post will engage in the Dialectic found between our desire to control misinformation and to protect free speech. There is tension, and we must be brave enough…
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Democratically Denying Education – the internal flaw of democracy
Democracy needs education to function properly; without an informed electorate it would be unclear as to what any given person’s vote was based on… this turns voting into a game of chance where we the people are choosing one person or policy based on either no information, false information, or fallacious information. Yet the freedoms…