Tag: Eric Hoffer

• Defusing the angry Trumpsters

  Sorry I haven’t been posting lately. For being sort of retired, my life has been plenty busy lately. Mainly I’ve been hosting family, who seem to have finally accepted that we have moved to Western Massachusetts and suddenly want to visit. My brother arrived for a weeklong visit. In the middle of it my sister…

  Mark

  August 11, 2016

  Politics 2016

  Barack Obama, Civil War, Donald Trump, Donald Trump supporters, Election 2016, Eric Hoffer, Hillary Clinton, Insurrection, Japanese, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Scott Adams, Tea Party

• Running scared

  What would you do if you knew that your life, as you have known it, was going to change fundamentally? Great traumatic events happen to us in our lives, but none of us welcome them. When they happen, we tend to seek out the comfort of the known rather than confront the discomfort of the…

  Mark

  March 28, 2014

  Politics 2014, Sociology

  Conservatives, demographics, Eric Hoffer, Republicans