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Dan Johnson's avatar

Hi Reed - some active suggestions here in what you’ve written, proposing centrist think-tanks, media, etc.

Where, when, and how to we get the traction to get these things happening anywhere beyond the digital universe?

There are a growing number of centrist SubStacks - like yours and Adam Kinzinger’s.

A small part of my frustration is, beyond substack subscriptions with noble intentions, what are we *doing*.

Is there any “active resistance” developing? Or what’s the way forward? Skip the “resistance to what is (and what’s coming)” and focus on positive alternatives?

But in any case - seems to me we need a map for moving beyond SubStack & blogs - and into a more active, identifiable, cultural assembly of some sort.

I don’t know how to get there.

Seems to me that for the past 50 years, the right has been selling culture out in favor of economic policies they want.

The left has settled for selling out their ideological economic base in exchange for whatever they could get.

The right, for economic policy, has sold out culture to left-wing culture-kooks who aren’t even leftist in economic policy - they’re just culture kooks.

So right wing greed has been willing to sell society to culture-kookism, so as to continue achieving right wing economics.

In short - none of them look great & none of them have done us any favors.

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Glenda Pennington's avatar

U.S. citizens with financial and other assets are tired of this political conflict. Really, people? This shows how protected and comfortable we have been. It shows how little most of us know about much of our world and the longterm torturous lives that so many people live. If you lived in Afghanistan or Iran or Saudi Arabia, can you imagine living under the cultural requirements by their governments and religious leaders? Are we in the U.S. sunk by a few months of an outrageous political turnaround here? If so, where will we be in two years, four years, or 50 years? We have to develop some backbone and protect our country on many fronts and we have to dig in for the longterm. Our current situation took many years of persistent, organized, thoughtful, dedicated work by people determined to change our government. It will take many years to get back on track. “Never, never, never give up! Never give in.” Winston Churchill

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