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What the United States is - a Union.
It is not - a nation, country, or state!

1. Introduction
    
2. Time" as an emblem for inextricable cultural differences
    
3. The Old Nation-Building Myths of America
    
   • America's white European "Melting Pot"
      
   • The myth of the Gilded Age - the Horatio Alger story
      
4. A More Perfect Union, Not Country, Nation, Or State
    
   • A More Perfect Union
      
   • It's not a country - here's why
      
   • It's not a nation - here's why
      
   • It is not a state but rather a union - here's why
      
5. A More Perfect Union as a 21st Century Kaleidoscope
    
   • After the 21st Century Gilded Age economy collapses
      
   • A Kaleidoscope of Individuality and Achievement
      
6. A Second Civil War Between Groups
   • We can divide people into tribes, ethnicities, and races. So we do.
   • We can group people into cultures and religions. So we do.
   • We can divide people into geographic groups such as Mississippians and Californians. So we do
   • We can consider any person "not of our group" as "the other." So we do.
   • And when we fail as individuals to achieve happiness, we can blame "the other." And so we do.

                                                                                                                      

  California's Distinct History, Divergent Culture,
and Diverse Economy

1. #Calexit. Perhaps 170 years of invidious doubtful scorn is enough
   1. A New California Republic?
   2. Introduction to a Necessary Political Revolt
   3. The Roles of Migration and Spain, not England, in California History
      • BEFORE THE 16TH CENTURY
      • FROM 1492 TO 1869
      • MIGRATION SINCE 1870
   4. The essential Pacific-centric world view of California's economy and culture
   5. Born Golden, Born a Californian, but not in these "dis-United" States
       
2. The Counter-Ascendancy of California Empirical Egalitarian Progressivism
    
3. Old California Progressives sense déjà vu when looking at the Newsom Era despite the need to secure states' rights because of Trump's America
    
4. 21st Century California vulnerabilities to active Neoliberal political opportunists
    
5. To A God Unknown: Steinbeck, Stine, and Medieval California
    
6. Overcoming Words That Blind and Bind (6 Post Series)
    
   • In California we are overcoming words that blind and bind since we want our descendants to survive
      
   • In California we are overcoming words that blind and bind - such as the words global and climate
      
   • In California we are overcoming words that blind and bind by discussing biosphere science
      
   • In California we are overcoming words that blind and bind: about lie, error, digital and information
      
   • In California we are overcoming words that blind and bind: avoiding the ideology of Neoliberalism
      
   • In California we are overcoming words that blind and bind: the trap of the technology promise
      
7. As a California Democrat, you must praise the $15 minimum wage and ignore the evil of Apple - it's all very confusing and very wrong
    
8. Brexit: "Ignorance is bliss" is the core theme of an initiative/referendum democracy like California's
    
9. California and Kentucky - A tale of two states: From Sen. Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850 to Obama's Affordable Care Act
    
10. The 21st Century Disruption Way-of-Life (2 Post Series)
     
    • The California tradition of discontinuity and displacement needs to be mitigated
       
    • Emperical Egalitarian Progressives act to rebuild California infrastructure and jobs
       
11. Climate Change: The shiny old object catching the eye of some lesser wrong-headed politicians
     

                                                                                                                      

  Climate Change & Environmental Issues

1. Climate Change Black Death surrounds us (3 Part Series)
   • The coming Climate Change Black Death. If only humanity knew in advance what was coming and that something could be done about it! Oh, wait....
      
   • No, The Green New Deal is not new. But two generations of Democrats - Ocasio-Cortez and Pelosi - begin the push toward implementation
      
   • The personally disturbing population collapse of Monarch Butterflies and nearly all other insects
      
2. The California Green and Gold Deal (2 Posts)
   • The California Green and Gold Deal: What a plan for climate change looks like as it's implemented.
      
   • The Deplorables to advance Climate Change Black Death by trading The California Green and Gold Deal for "more affordable" new cars for older voters
      
3. Has Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cost us decades of progress on the Green New Deal?
    
4. As the midterm election approaches we should be in great fear of Climate Change. Why aren't we?
    
5. In California we are overcoming words that blind and bind (6 part series)
    
   • In California we are overcoming words that blind and bind since we want our descendants to survive
      
   • In California we are overcoming words that blind and bind - such as the words global and climate
      
   • In California we are overcoming words that blind and bind by discussing biosphere science
      
   • In California we are overcoming words that blind and bind: about lie, error, digital and information
      
   • In California we are overcoming words that blind and bind: avoiding the ideology of Neoliberalism
      
   • In California we are overcoming words that blind and bind: the trap of the technology promise
      
6. Gray Whales versus Offshore Power (5 posts)
    
   • Limited Time Only - Act now to own your piece of the Pacific Ocean off the Mendocino Coast
      
   • FERC Ponders Allowing Public Input, Environmental Review of Proposal for Electrical Generators in Whale Route
      
   • Obama's Administration & the wave energy technocrats: What whales?
      
   • The Cloud versus the Gray Whale
      
   • Gray Whales threatened, again!  Wind and wave electrical generation structures planned for Pacific Gray Whale migration route
      
7. Climate Change and California Wildfires (4 posts)
    
   • California's devastating wildfires are a slow moving yearly rehearsal for our future with Climate Change
      
   • Foolish planning and the inevitable wildfires: What could have been learned from John Steinbeck about California's true climate
      
   • Northern California is on fire
      
   • What was wrong with managed timber harvesting??? When your air is clogged with congestive climate change, who should be blamed?
      
8. The lack of comprehensive political economy goals will create concurrent pecuniary and environmental disasters for the U.S. Gen X and later generations
    
9. While The Deplorables roll back environmental regulation: Tropical cyclones (aka hurricanes and typhoons) wreak havoc on Atlantic and Pacific coastlines
    
10. The Anthropocene is not real: How arrogance of human-importance has allowed climate scientists to trample chronostratigraphic science creating fake news for political purposes
     
11. "Clear waters and green mountains are mountains of gold and silver." Seeking a Beautiful China and California together in harmony for our grandchildren
     
12. Xi Jinping's 21st Century Silk Economic Belt and Road: About California's future if China becomes the world's 21st Century economic center
     
13. Slowing the 21st Century Disruption Way-of-Life: Emperical Egalitarian Progressives act to rebuild California infrastructure and jobs
     
14. Privatizing the federal government's purpose: Let's run government like a business - ensconce research results, obscure future plans, secrete executive activities, avert unwanted publicity
     
15. For 3rd Graders and Donald Trump: Where the water in a river comes from
     
16. For the sake of our children we must not suffer fools gladly: What exactly does it mean to advocate "tolerance"
     
17. This week Bannon promises a dystopian future: California opens environmental defensive front in Trumpism's anti-California War
     
18. Climate Change: The shiny old object catching the eye of some lesser wrong-headed politicians
     
19. #Calexit. Perhaps 170 years of invidious doubtful scorn is enough
     
20. Who will represent the trees?
     
21. Donald Trump: just kill a 3-inch fish and thousands of family businesses so I can win California in November
     
22. To A God Unknown: Steinbeck, Stine, and Medieval California
     

                                                                                                                      

  Egalitarian Progressivism

1. The Counter-Ascendancy of California Empirical Egalitarian Progressivism
    
2. Old California Progressives sense déjà vu when looking at the Newsom Era despite the need to secure states' rights because of Trump's America
    
3. Regarding "When We Rise" - How history repeats itself and why we must protect "San Francisco Values"
    
4. In California we are overcoming words that blind and bind: avoiding the ideology of Neoliberalism
    
5. In California we are overcoming words that blind and bind: the trap of the technology promise
    
6. Slowing the 21st Century Disruption Way-of-Life: Emperical Egalitarian Progressives act to rebuild California infrastructure and jobs
    
7. The critical civics lesson America & Trump needed: 21st Century Ideologies in America & the Government$ of the United States
    
8. Manifest Destiny versus "those babies" - The culture war threat to California's history, folklore, identity and people
    
9. The 115th U.S. Congress aims for budgetary chaos in California public services by 2020
    
10. The Second American Civil War begins in an assault on the most dynamic people in California's tech, farm and service sectors
     
11. 21st Century California vulnerabilities to active Neoliberal political opportunists
     
12. The Cruel Illusion of the California Dream Early in the 21st Century
     

                                                                                                                      

  China & The Pacific Rim

1. The essential Pacific-centric world view of California's economy and culture - #Calexit. Perhaps 170 years of invidious doubtful scorn is enough
    
2. Xi Jinping's 21st Century Silk Economic Belt and Road:  About California's future if China becomes the world's 21st Century economic center
    
3. Xi Jinping's strategy for a 21st Century China: With thoughtful characteristics a President tends his plan for 1.4 billion people for 2020, 2035, and 2049
    
4. "Clear waters and green mountains are mountains of gold and silver." Seeking a Beautiful China and California together in harmony for our grandchildren
    
5. The Art of the Pro-Communist Deal:  President Trump enlists the United States in Xi Jinping's 21st Century World Vision as U.S. Pacific allies reject him, and by necessity us
    
6. ^{(6 part series)}
    
   • What reporters and you cannot learn from Twitter about the three redwoods or China's plans for their children's economic well-being in 2035 and 2049
      
   • "Ignorance is bliss" was a warning to provide for the next generation, economic advice from a poem America has forgotten but China has embraced
      
   • The story of China's new leadership generation as evinced by the life and words of its President
      
   • American voter ignorance of the fire sector puts the U.S. real economy constantly at risk as China acts to provide for its next generation
      
   • Governing 1.4+ billion people is a challenge that has no historical parallels; what Americans need to know about 21st Century China's government
      
   • As the Chinese plan to make life better for their grandchildren, Trumpworlder's ardently struggle to make America second-rate again
      
7. Economic ideologies have declared war: Why Western Neoliberal capitalists fear socialist China's Xi and fear for capitalist Russia's Putin
    
8. No, it is a "tax" not a "war" How supposed anti-tax Trumpists confuse the ignorant by calling it "a trade war with China"
    
9. Tariffs: Trump's excise tax to be collected soon from his deplorably unknowing fans
    
10. "We’re modernizing our nuclear arsenal" to save the word of Jesus, Pence warns China and the world at the Koch funded Dr. Strangelove institute
     
11. Why you should fear Trumpism's Steve Bannon: War with China within 8 years and other reasons
     
12. The U.S. "China threat" disinformation industry. It's ramping up agitation for a war with China in East Asia which America cannot possibly win!
     
13. The lack of comprehensive political economy goals will create concurrent pecuniary and environmental disasters for the U.S. Gen X and later generations (5 part series)
     
    • Part 1 - Introduction
       
    • Part 2. About Assertive Political Economics
       
    • Part 3. About China's most recent 4000 years
       
    • Part 4. The 2018 Huawei Porche is the warning "canary" in the American political economy "mine"
       
    • Part 5. Whither the future of an America directed by technology semi-literate voters
       
14. The risky policies of "know nothing" political amateurs: Protecting the value of U.S. technology, including biotechnology, could be suicide
     
15. IMF: Far-reaching in your life but not on your list of chat acronyms
     
16. History Matters: The 2016 Bi-Partisan Attack on the Pacific States People, Beliefs, Economy, Defense
     
17. Sanders and Trump to destroy Pacific Rim states of California, Oregon, and Washington
     

                                                                                                                      
 
  5G Technology

1. 5G Technology: it may start a world war, it won't be available to all, you don't need it, it is important to corporate interests and government. Why is that?
    
2. The U.S. "China threat" disinformation industry. It's ramping up agitation for a war with China in East Asia which America cannot possibly win!