“Prices of homes, rental units, employees, healthcare, autos, food, staples, transportation, commodities, etc., are rising. Is there anything that isn't politicized in 21st Century America?” – The Lonely Realist The inflationary picture (as well as almost everything else in America’s economy) rests in the capable hands...
“Relative realities are thriving, fed by disinformation.” – The Lonely Realist The late 20th Century was The Golden Age of News. Larger-than-life newscasters earned the public’s trust and proved they were worthy of it. They policed the activities of governments, businesses, and industries. Walter Cronkite, the anchorman...
“America is facing a disproportionate number of existential threats. They can’t be successfully navigated without common agreement that they exist...
“Health in America, like almost everything else, has become politicized.” Instead of being a "United" States of the vaccinated and COVID-recovered, America is suffering through a new wave of infections, hospitalizations and deaths. Importantly, although COVID-19’s Delta variant is increasingly disrupting Blue States, it is...
“Nationalism can build a bridge across the partisan divide.” – The Lonely Realist China has a plan, a well-thought-out plan, for absorbing Taiwan and, in doing so, taking a significant step towards empire-building and global hegemony … and exposing the weakness of America's democracy and military. ...