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According to this article, many people who decry wokeism have trouble defining the term.

When challenged in this regard, I borrow from what etiquette maven Emily Post said about manners, in an effort to calm an anxious lady who had been invited to a fancy dinner party and didn’t know what fork to use with a given course.  “Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.”

In a related way, we have this definition of “empathy,” which is used in the introduction to each episode of “The Hidden Brain,” a weekly radio show syndicated on NPR: “Empathy, at a deep level, is the understanding that someone else’s world is just as real as yours.”

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Should We Appease MAGA by Rewriting the Constitution?

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Do you think this will change American lives for the better? If so, how?

Rewriting the U.S. Constitution will take some work, as I’m sure you’re aware.

Should We Appease MAGA by Rewriting the Constitution?

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California’s Next Governor?

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What does the most affluent state in America need in its next governor? I’m pretty sure it not a Trump supporter.

Yes, we have traffic, which we hate.  But that’s because everybody and his dog wants to be here for our economic opportunities and our natural beauty.

In general, we reject racism, ignorance, corruption, and environmental destruction.

California’s Next Governor?

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Understanding Social Democracy

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I can’t swear that the content of the meme here is accurate; in fact, most affluent Scandinavians I run across admit that they pay higher taxes than Americans.

They claim that the attraction is that they aren’t forced to live among uneducated slobs where people are dying of treatable diseases with masses of impoverished people living on the streets.

Isn’t there something to be said for that?

Understanding Social Democracy

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