Revolution 2.0

With the current emphasis being on it is all about the guns, this episode will add a strong pitch for tough gun crime penalties. That is the subject of today's short-form episode. It is always dangerous and wrong to ascribe responsibility 100% to any person or group; there is always shared responsibility. It is as true in ending gun violence as it is anywhere else. “It is all about the guns,” is just as wrong as, “It is all about the criminals. With the current emphasis being on it is all about the guns, this episode will add a strong pitch for tough gun crime penalties. The announced purpose of various levels of proposed additional gun control laws is to reduce gun crime. The ten of thousands of gun laws on the books are obviously not doing much to reduce gun crime, which is why we need more. And the proposed and recently enacted laws will also accomplish little. Here is a different approach: enact and enforce tough gun use laws. The point here is to attack the criminals doing the crimes: To take a whack out of gun violence, take a whack out of the criminals. =========================== CONNECT WITH ME: ===========================    YOUTUBE: Subscribe here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q?sub_confirmation=1    WEBSITE: https://revolution2-0.org    E-MAIL: Will@Revolution2-0.org    SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9  APPLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552  GOOGLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv  FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/revolution2pod  TWITTER: https://twitter.com/WillLuden  LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/revolution-2-0/    -----    Revolution 2.0's mission is to deliver on the promissory note and continue the founding direction that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”    The core, driving principles at Revolution 2.0, are:    1. Personal Responsibility - Take it, teach it.  2. "Be Your Brother's Keeper" - Taking care of one another.    I'm Will Luden, the creator and host of Revolution 2.0. We do not advocate for people or parties here—we advocate for principles and policies. Those that include having a moral compass, searching for, and implementing common goals, and using a combination of facts and unbiased, agenda-free reasoning.    Today, you and I have an equally unique and exceptional role to play in continuing to move America forward. 

If we are going to get the politicians the nation needs, we must be the voters the nation needs. Politicians reflect the electorate. That is the subject of today's short-form episode. Question: How do we get a government of thoughtful, dedicated public servants, committed to the people and the nation? Candidates and office holders who do deep dive research before taking a position, and are willing to learn from those with opposing opinions? Office holders committed to the people and the nation, not to themselves? We need to be thoughtful, dedicated citizens and voters. Voters who do deep dive research before taking a position, and are willing to learn from those with opposing opinions. Voters who are committed to others and the nation, not to themselves. =========================== CONNECT WITH ME: ===========================    YOUTUBE: Subscribe here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q?sub_confirmation=1    WEBSITE: https://revolution2-0.org    E-MAIL: Will@Revolution2-0.org    SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9  APPLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552  GOOGLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv  FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/revolution2pod  TWITTER: https://twitter.com/WillLuden  LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/revolution-2-0/    -----    Revolution 2.0's mission is to deliver on the promissory note and continue the founding direction that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”    The core, driving principles at Revolution 2.0, are:    1. Personal Responsibility - Take it, teach it.  2. "Be Your Brother's Keeper" - Taking care of one another.    I'm Will Luden, the creator and host of Revolution 2.0. We do not advocate for people or parties here—we advocate for principles and policies. Those that include having a moral compass, searching for, and implementing common goals, and using a combination of facts and unbiased, agenda-free reasoning.    Today, you and I have an equally unique and exceptional role to play in continuing to move America forward. 

Post WWII in Berlin, Russia engaged in one of its many and continuing attempts to expand its land, power and influence by harming millions of others. The US responded with the heroic and surprisingly successful Berlin Airlift, saving Berlin from the vengeful grip of Joseph Stalin. At the same time, then US Army pilot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Halvorsen (Gary Halvorsen) became famnous for being the Candy Comber, delighting and encouraging the children, their parents and all of Berlin by “bombing” the hungry, deprived children of Berlin with tons of candy. This sequence of events had started with the Allied bombing of Berlin during the war, moved to the Soviet post war aggression, then onto the Airlift, next to the Candy Bombing, to, eventually, freedom for all Germans. Each step played a critical part. Recently the legend of the Candy Bomber was honored when a modern group brought in critical supplies to beleaguered Ukraine in the name of the Candy Bomber. Today, each of us, in our own way, can be a Candy Bomber, bringing delight and hope to anyone or any group in our lives. What is your way? What could be your way of doing exactly that? =========================== CONNECT WITH ME: ===========================    YOUTUBE: Subscribe here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q?sub_confirmation=1    WEBSITE: https://revolution2-0.org    E-MAIL: Will@Revolution2-0.org    SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9  APPLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552  GOOGLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv  FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/revolution2pod  TWITTER: https://twitter.com/WillLuden  LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/revolution-2-0/    -----    Revolution 2.0's mission is to deliver on the promissory note and continue the founding direction that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”    The core, driving principles at Revolution 2.0, are:    1. Personal Responsibility - Take it, teach it.  2. "Be Your Brother's Keeper" - Taking care of one another.    I'm Will Luden, the creator and host of Revolution 2.0. We do not advocate for people or parties here—we advocate for principles and policies. Those that include having a moral compass, searching for, and implementing common goals, and using a combination of facts and unbiased, agenda-free reasoning.    Today, you and I have an equally unique and exceptional role to play in continuing to move America forward. 

Independence Day, AKA the Fourth of July, and Juneteenth both represent relentlessly continuing progress and freedom for all. That is the subject of today's short-form episode. Of the usual 11 Federal Holidays, 4 of them, over one-third of our holidays, celebrate the necessarily difficult and bloody rise from slavery to freedom, listed in order of their annual celebration: 1. Martin Luther King Day 2. Memorial Day 3. Juneteenth 4. Independence Day =========================== CONNECT WITH ME: ===========================    YOUTUBE: Subscribe here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q?sub_confirmation=1    WEBSITE: https://revolution2-0.org    E-MAIL: Will@Revolution2-0.org    SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9  APPLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552  GOOGLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv  FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/revolution2pod  TWITTER: https://twitter.com/WillLuden  LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/revolution-2-0/    -----    Revolution 2.0's mission is to deliver on the promissory note and continue the founding direction that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”    The core, driving principles at Revolution 2.0, are:    1. Personal Responsibility - Take it, teach it.  2. "Be Your Brother's Keeper" - Taking care of one another.    I'm Will Luden, the creator and host of Revolution 2.0. We do not advocate for people or parties here—we advocate for principles and policies. Those that include having a moral compass, searching for, and implementing common goals, and using a combination of facts and unbiased, agenda-free reasoning.    Today, you and I have an equally unique and exceptional role to play in continuing to move America forward. 

"Believe all women," hurts MeToo. Fair trials with competent attorneys on both sides support both justice and MeToo. No coincidence. That is the subject of today's short-form episode. The Johnny Depp/Amber Heard celebrity abuse and poop spectacle proved a few things: 1. The Enquirer and Star magazines are tame by comparison. 2. The bizarre admonition that we should, “Believe all women,” should never have been uttered, much less insisted upon, as a way of adjudicating abuse claims made by women against men. 3. MeToo is strongly intact. MeToo was not on trial. Amber Heard was, and she lied many times about key issues. =========================== CONNECT WITH ME: ===========================    YOUTUBE: Subscribe here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q?sub_confirmation=1    WEBSITE: https://revolution2-0.org    E-MAIL: Will@Revolution2-0.org    SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9  APPLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552  GOOGLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv  FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/revolution2pod  TWITTER: https://twitter.com/WillLuden  LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/revolution-2-0/    -----    Revolution 2.0's mission is to deliver on the promissory note and continue the founding direction that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”    The core, driving principles at Revolution 2.0, are:    1. Personal Responsibility - Take it, teach it.  2. "Be Your Brother's Keeper" - Taking care of one another.    I'm Will Luden, the creator and host of Revolution 2.0. We do not advocate for people or parties here—we advocate for principles and policies. Those that include having a moral compass, searching for, and implementing common goals, and using a combination of facts and unbiased, agenda-free reasoning.    Today, you and I have an equally unique and exceptional role to play in continuing to move America forward. 

"Enough is Enough" is an empty phrase, right up there with “Do Something!” We need implementable specifics, or it is all just posturing. That is the subject of today's short-form episode. An empty phrase, right up there with “Do Something!” Unless the people and groups shouting these sentiments are willing to: 1. Detail exactly what changes need to be made. 2. Work through how they would be implemented. 3. Outline how these changes would create the desired results. 4. Accurately define terms like assault weapons and be clear about what you want to ban or further restrict. 5. Stop using phrases like “We need gun control,” implying that we do not already have tens of thousands of laws on the books. And stop the accusatory, self-righteous cliche wars like, “Republicans want to save fetuses and kill children,” and, “Democrats are fascists who want to take your guns and  control your speech.” 6. Stop making “need” an argument against gun ownership. No one needs a vacation home, or a sports car, a $500K annual income, or a 3K square foot home. …then the shouting on both sides is nothing but self-serving grandstanding, guaranteed to squash any fixes. =========================== CONNECT WITH ME: ===========================    YOUTUBE: Subscribe here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q?sub_confirmation=1    WEBSITE: https://willluden.com    E-MAIL: Will@Revolution2-0.org    SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9  APPLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552  GOOGLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv  FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/revolution2pod  TWITTER: https://twitter.com/WillLuden  LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/revolution-2-0/    -----    Take 10 With Will Luden is centered on blending personal responsibility with being our Brother's Keepers. Blended, because neither stands alone. When this is done well, and we talk about how to do that, we create better lives for ourselves, our communities and the nation. I have been podcasting for years, pulling together my decades of experience as a high-tech CEO, two years by the banks of the Charles River in the Harvard B-School, 3 years, 2 months and 25 days (but who's counting?) in the Army, including 27 months in the Far East, and a lifetime of rich experiences, including many successes as well as failures, to deliver insights, well researched facts, questions and calls to action. These episodes will give you specific information, combined with ways to think things through, that you can use to clarify and grow your thinking on the issues of the day. And to know how to take action on the issues that are important to you.   I focus on culture, because politics is downstream from culture. I touch on religion because culture is downstream from religion. A recurring theme is that we, not they, are the ones who need to make things work. We are the people in charge, not the politicians. We, not the corporate chieftains. We, not our neighbors. We. Us. Together. We make it happen, or it happens to us.

Financial literacy for our kids and for us. Simple rules, hard to follow. I often learn, including learning financial literacy, by teaching my children. The rules for understanding financial literacy, and financial success, like the rules for succeeding in life, are simple to understand, and hard to follow. And once you know both of these truths, financial success gets a whole lot easier. 1. Make more than you spend 2. Spend less than you make 3. Debt is a four letter word. NEVER finance anything that depreciates 4. Pay yourself first 5. Delayed gratification 6. What's the ROI? "Compound interest is the 8th Wonder of the Word" - Einstein If you find value in what I provide... =========================== CONNECT WITH ME: =========================== YOUTUBE: Subscribe here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q?sub_confirmation=1 WEBSITE: https://revolution2-0.org E-MAIL: Will@Revolution2-0.org SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9 APPLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552 GOOGLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/revolution2pod TWITTER: https://twitter.com/WillLuden LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/revolution-2-0/ ----- Revolution 2.0's mission is to deliver on the promissory note and continue the founding direction that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The core, driving principles at Revolution 2.0, are: 1. Personal Responsibility - Take it, teach it. 2. "Be Your Brother's Keeper" - Taking care of one another. I'm Will Luden, the creator and host of Revolution 2.0. We do not advocate for people or parties here—we advocate for principles and policies. Those that include having a moral compass, searching for, and implementing common goals, and using a combination of facts and unbiased, agenda-free reasoning. Today, you and I have an equally unique and exceptional role to play in continuing to move America forward.

This is a combination of what I call Everyday Wisdom and political oddities. Get back to me with a few of yours. That is the subject of today's 15 minute episode. =========================== CONNECT WITH ME: ===========================‍ ‍ YOUTUBE: Subscribe here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q?sub_confirmation=1‍ ‍ WEBSITE: https://revolution2-0.org‍ ‍ E-MAIL: Will@Revolution2-0.org‍ ‍ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9‍ APPLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552‍ GOOGLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv‍ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/revolution2pod‍ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/WillLuden‍ LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/revolution-2-0/‍ ‍ -----‍ ‍ Revolution 2.0's mission is to deliver on the promissory note and continue the founding direction that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”‍ ‍ The core, driving principles at Revolution 2.0, are:‍ ‍ 1. Personal Responsibility - Take it, teach it.‍ 2. "Be Your Brother's Keeper" - Taking care of one another.‍ ‍ I'm Will Luden, the creator and host of Revolution 2.0. We do not advocate for people or parties here—we advocate for principles and policies. Those that include having a moral compass, searching for, and implementing common goals, and using a combination of facts and unbiased, agenda-free reasoning.‍ ‍ Today, you and I have an equally unique and exceptional role to play in continuing to move America forward.‍

The two critical questions in the abortion debate are: 1. When does human life begin? and 2. When is it permissible for the state to sanction the taking of that human life? My answer to question 1. At the time of conception. Regarding question 2. The state, government, sanctions, even encourages, the taking of life in wars, law enforcement and self defense. Some states allow for capital punishment. Is it okay for the state to sanction the taking of a human life to protect the life of the mother, when the conception results from rape, when the child is likely to grow up disadvantaged, or merely for convenience? I believe that many, and perhaps most, of those who support abortion know that all, or at least some, of those aborted are indeed human and duck the human issue question because they do not want to admit, out loud or to themselves, that at least is some cases they support abortion for convenience. Understanding issues like this is part of our overall Revolution 2.0™ goal of creating better lives for ourselves, our communities and for America. =========================== CONNECT WITH ME: ===========================‍ ‍ YOUTUBE: Subscribe here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q?sub_confirmation=1‍ ‍ WEBSITE: https://revolution2-0.org‍ ‍ E-MAIL: Will@Revolution2-0.org‍ ‍ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9‍ APPLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552‍ GOOGLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv‍ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/revolution2pod‍ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/WillLuden‍ LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/revolution-2-0/‍ ‍ -----‍ ‍ Revolution 2.0's mission is to deliver on the promissory note and continue the founding direction that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”‍ ‍ The core, driving principles at Revolution 2.0, are:‍ ‍ 1. Personal Responsibility - Take it, teach it.‍ 2. "Be Your Brother's Keeper" - Taking care of one another.‍ ‍ I'm Will Luden, the creator and host of Revolution 2.0. We do not advocate for people or parties here—we advocate for principles and policies. Those that include having a moral compass, searching for, and implementing common goals, and using a combination of facts and unbiased, agenda-free reasoning.‍ ‍ Today, you and I have an equally unique and exceptional role to play in continuing to move America forward.‍

Once, Disney nurtured, delighted and educated the young, and gays were fags. Neither is true today. One change is bad, the other is good. That is the subject of today's 10-minute episode. What's the resolution? How do we go forward in the 14 months before the Florida bill takes effect?. 1. Read the https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1557/BillText/er/PDF (bill). 2. Get involved with your local schools. Kids are indeed the future of our nation--and the world. 3. Disney and DeSantis can work it out to their mutual satisfaction. It should not be that hard. 4. Allow freedom of speech to corporations as well as individuals. =========================== CONNECT WITH ME: ===========================‍ ‍ YOUTUBE: Subscribe here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q?sub_confirmation=1‍ ‍ WEBSITE: https://revolution2-0.org‍ ‍ E-MAIL: Will@Revolution2-0.org‍ ‍ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9‍ APPLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552‍ GOOGLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv‍ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/revolution2pod‍ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/WillLuden‍ LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/revolution-2-0/‍ ‍ -----‍ ‍ Revolution 2.0's mission is to deliver on the promissory note and continue the founding direction that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”‍ ‍ The core, driving principles at Revolution 2.0, are:‍ ‍ 1. Personal Responsibility - Take it, teach it.‍ 2. "Be Your Brother's Keeper" - Taking care of one another.‍ ‍ I'm Will Luden, the creator and host of Revolution 2.0. We do not advocate for people or parties here—we advocate for principles and policies. Those that include having a moral compass, searching for, and implementing common goals, and using a combination of facts and unbiased, agenda-free reasoning.‍ ‍ Today, you and I have an equally unique and exceptional role to play in continuing to move America forward.‍

As our country grew, the places that we were able to gather and speak freely were many, and changed over time--all while preserving the ability to speak freely. That is no longer true. Declaring support for free speech means nothing if all that means is support for speech you can tolerate. Supporting free speech means something only when you support speech you personally find intolerable. “I Disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death Your right to say it.” Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Understanding issues like this is part of our overall Revolution 2.0™ goal of creating better lives for ourselves, our communities and for America. =========================== CONNECT WITH ME: ===========================‍ ‍ YOUTUBE: Subscribe here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q?sub_confirmation=1‍ ‍ WEBSITE: https://revolution2-0.org‍ ‍ E-MAIL: Will@Revolution2-0.org‍ ‍ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9‍ APPLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552‍ GOOGLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv‍ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/revolution2pod‍ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/WillLuden‍ LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/revolution-2-0/‍ ‍ -----‍ ‍ Revolution 2.0's mission is to deliver on the promissory note and continue the founding direction that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”‍ ‍ The core, driving principles at Revolution 2.0, are:‍ ‍ 1. Personal Responsibility - Take it, teach it.‍ 2. "Be Your Brother's Keeper" - Taking care of one another.‍ ‍ I'm Will Luden, the creator and host of Revolution 2.0. We do not advocate for people or parties here—we advocate for principles and policies. Those that include having a moral compass, searching for, and implementing common goals, and using a combination of facts and unbiased, agenda-free reasoning.‍ ‍ Today, you and I have an equally unique and exceptional role to play in continuing to move America forward.‍ That is the subject of today's 10-minute episode. Please listen or watch on YouTube, like, subscribe, and comment.

Telling the truth in love is always a winner. And it leads directly to the core goal of Revolution 2.0™ of creating better lives for ourselves, our communities and our nation. What are some similarities between truth and love? Hint:  neither loving only the loveable nor accepting only the truths that confirm our current worldview are praiseworthy, nor do either create any change. And change is needed. Understanding issues like this is part of our overall Revolution 2.0™ goal of creating better lives for ourselves, our communities and for America. =========================== CONNECT WITH ME: ===========================‍ ‍ YOUTUBE: Subscribe here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q?sub_confirmation=1‍ ‍ WEBSITE: https://revolution2-0.org‍ ‍ E-MAIL: Will@Revolution2-0.org‍ ‍ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9‍ APPLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552‍ GOOGLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv‍ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/revolution2pod‍ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/WillLuden‍ LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/revolution-2-0/‍ ‍ -----‍ ‍ Revolution 2.0's mission is to deliver on the promissory note and continue the founding direction that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”‍ ‍ The core, driving principles at Revolution 2.0, are:‍ ‍ 1. Personal Responsibility - Take it, teach it.‍ 2. "Be Your Brother's Keeper" - Taking care of one another.‍ ‍ I'm Will Luden, the creator and host of Revolution 2.0. We do not advocate for people or parties here—we advocate for principles and policies. Those that include having a moral compass, searching for, and implementing common goals, and using a combination of facts and unbiased, agenda-free reasoning.‍ ‍ Today, you and I have an equally unique and exceptional role to play in continuing to move America forward.‍

Focus on two differences: 1. Unlike God, government has nothing to “give away” until it first takes it away. 2. No matter what we give to God, we get more in return. With government, it grabs a slice of what it takes before giving anything back. Casinos take about 5% of every dollar bet; government keeps close to a third of everything it collects before it “gives back.” Understanding issues like this is part of our overall Revolution 2.0™ goal of creating better lives for ourselves, our communities and for America. =========================== CONNECT WITH ME: ===========================    YOUTUBE: Subscribe here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q?sub_confirmation=1    WEBSITE: https://revolution2-0.org    E-MAIL: Will@Revolution2-0.org    SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9  APPLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552  GOOGLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv  FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/revolution2pod  TWITTER: https://twitter.com/WillLuden  LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/revolution-2-0/    -----    Revolution 2.0's mission is to deliver on the promissory note and continue the founding direction that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”    The core, driving principles at Revolution 2.0, are:    1. Personal Responsibility - Take it, teach it.  2. "Be Your Brother's Keeper" - Taking care of one another.    I'm Will Luden, the creator and host of Revolution 2.0. We do not advocate for people or parties here—we advocate for principles and policies. Those that include having a moral compass, searching for, and implementing common goals, and using a combination of facts and unbiased, agenda-free reasoning.    Today, you and I have an equally unique and exceptional role to play in continuing to move America forward.   

Being "dissed" verbally does not justify a violent response. We must learn to control our emotions, and not blame them as the root cause. That's the subject of today's 10-minute episode. =========================== CONNECT WITH ME: ===========================    YOUTUBE: Subscribe here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q?sub_confirmation=1    WEBSITE: https://revolution2-0.org    E-MAIL: Will@Revolution2-0.org    SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9  APPLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552  GOOGLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv  FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/revolution2pod  TWITTER: https://twitter.com/WillLuden  LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/revolution-2-0/    -----    Revolution 2.0's mission is to deliver on the promissory note and continue the founding direction that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”    The core, driving principles at Revolution 2.0, are:    1. Personal Responsibility - Take it, teach it.  2. "Be Your Brother's Keeper" - Taking care of one another.    I'm Will Luden, the creator and host of Revolution 2.0. We do not advocate for people or parties here—we advocate for principles and policies. Those that include having a moral compass, searching for, and implementing common goals, and using a combination of facts and unbiased, agenda-free reasoning.    Today, you and I have an equally unique and exceptional role to play in continuing to move America forward.   

The alternative title of this episode might be, “My feelings make it true.” In today's Take Ten With Will Luden, we go over why unless we–you and I–get over this feelings based approach to everything important in our lives, we will never fix the ruinous political divide in America. And fixing this is a part of our overall Revolution2.0™ goal of creating better lives for ourselves, our communities and for America. N.B. This is a complete blog, also acting as a signpost, pointing you to this episode on both the new Revolution 2.0™https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q ( YouTube) channel, and where you enjoy your podcasts, e.g.,https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552 ( Apple),https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv ( Google) andhttps://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9 ( Spotify).   Continuing. Our feelings are a part of us that we feel cannot be challenged. “It feels cold outside,” and “This is how you make me feel,” are statements of absolute truth that we want others to respect, not challenge as either false or ill conceived. When our feelings are challenged or denied, we tend to double down in our own defense, and become further wedded to those feelings while rejecting both the feelings and reasoning of those contesting our feelings. And then rejecting them as well. That is why feelings based political thinking will forever preserve and deepen the disastrous divide here in our America. We need the opposite. Facts and logic can and often should be challenged, tested and revised. Divides narrow and can disappear this way. Both opinion- and agenda-driven politics are in exactly the same league as feelings-based politics. Only politics–any important thought for that matter–based on facts and logic is separate and better. Far better. That does not mean that you have to be a greasy grinder about your thinking. Just rational, thoughtful and open to better facts and logic. BTW, “greasy grinder” is a term that I heard in my freshman slide rule class. My teacher described himself as dedicated to his craft; immersed in his professions–a greasy grinder. Challenge our feelings, and things can easily fall apart. Challenge facts and logic, and things might get better. When our politics are feelings based, nothing will get better, and can only get worse. Challenge facts and logic, and things might very well get better. One of the core issues we deal with in everything from politics to finances to law enforcement is the substitution of feelings and opinion for facts and logic. This is the lazy approach, requiring little or no research, and no logic. Just state your position, and hold forth. And you never have to say things like, “You were right. I have changed my mind.” This lazy approach delivers terrible results. Describing the feelings based approach reminds me of the times, perhaps the many times, in high school when I had not done my homework, and still wanted to be given credit for participating in class. I did not know what I was talking about because I had not done the reading or the work, but I leapt in anyway. Full of passion–and feelings. But no facts. I was lazy–and loud. The students who had done the work knew I was full of it. The ones who had not might very well have thought I was onto something. Sound familiar? If we want better results, we need to be responsible citizens and careful voters. It is on us, not them. It is never on “them.” It is not us v. them, and it is not them v them. It's us. I am recruiting you into the ranks of citizens and voters who are careful to apply facts and logic before forming opinions, and, further, to be open to changing those opinions when new information is available. That's how we–we–drive the change we need.Using feelings and opinions to choose preferences like your favorite color, sports teams, ice cream...

Not delivering the needed, behavior-changing consequences to Putin and Russia is the international equivalent of defunding the police. And will have similar results. This 10 minute episode will help us in our lives, and help us to think through the issues surrounding us. N.B. This is a complete blog, also acting as a signpost, pointing you to this episode on both the new Revolution 2.0™https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q ( YouTube) channel, and where you enjoy your podcasts, e.g.,https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552 ( Apple),https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv ( Google) andhttps://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9 ( Spotify). Continuing. Russia is governed by paranoid, autocratic rulers. It has been invaded three times, twice by the Germans, and once by France under Napoleon. Napoleon captured Moscow before retreating, and Germany under Hitler came within spitting distance. Partly as a consequence, Russia is hungry for huge amounts of “buffer” countries on its borders to help protect it. Russia has long been a bold, cruel aggressor notably in the last 90 or so years. 1. In 1932/3, Russia under Stalin induced a famine in Ukraine, killing upwards of 3M people. Stalin then replaced the dead population with Russians, helping to create today's minority Russian-leaning population in eastern Ukraine. 2. In 1939, Russia invaded Finland with 21 divisions totalling 450,000 men. 3. Also in 1939, Russia under Stalin sided with Hitler and Nazi Germany by signing the Molotov–Ribbentrop non-aggression pact, allying the two dictatorships. 4. In 1948, Russia under Stalin attempted to https://revolution2-0.org/kyiv-kiev-we-need-candy-bombers-not-city-bombers-will-you-volunteer-ep-390/ (starve and freeze out divided Berlin) in an attempt to have the entire city for himself. 5. More well known is the failed 1979 Russian invasion of Afghanistan. The US supplied the Afghans with the highly effective Stinger missiles, essentially creating a No-Fly zone over Afghanistan. 6. In 2008, Russia used force to occupy the 20% of the country of Georgia it declared to be leaning to Russia. Sound familiar? 7. Russia has twice attacked Chechnya, attempting to topple its anti-Russian government. In 1999, then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin led the military response against Chechnya. https://www.history.com/topics/vladimir-putin (Putin), Boris Yeltsin's handpicked successor as President, said of the Chechen defenders, “We will rub them out, even in the toilet.” Again, does anything sound familiar? 8. In 2014, Russia invaded and annexed Crimea, then a part of Ukraine. And now Ukraine itself. What country is next? Does anyone believe that almost a century of Russian aggression will end with Ukraine? Does anyone believe any dictator when he says that he is finally satisfied, and does not want to gobble up more territory, power and people?  In 1938, British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, believed Hitler when the Nazi leader signed the Munich Agreement saying that he would finally be finished with his many territory grabs if he could just have Czechoslovakia. Even as Chamberlain was triumphantly waving the paper signed by “Herr Hitler,” claiming that, “We will have peace in our time,” Winston Churchill responded with, “He (Chamberlain), had a choice between war and dishonor. He chose dishonor.” Hitler attacked Poland in 1939, breaking the agreement and starting WWII. Churchill became Prime Minister the next year. Sanctions might be hurting Russia, but they are not stopping the invasion and the killing. We must do more now to help Ukraine, Eastern Europe, NATO, and ourselves. It's past time for a No-Fly Zone over Ukraine. In the mid-seventies, Fram oil filters became well-known due an ad campaign that featured the slogan, “You can pay me now, or pay me later.” The mechanic in the ad offered the viewer a simple proposition: Pay me now...

As Russian bombs rain down on Kyiv and other cities in Ukraine in Putin's effort to expand his rule, let's remember when another Russian President, Joseph Stalin, tried to freeze and starve out most of divided Berlin in 1948 in his attempt at expanding his rule. Perhaps more importantly, let's remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Halvorsen (Gail Halvorsen), the justifiably famed “Candy Bomber,” an Air Force pilot who gave joy to the kids of Berlin, and hope to the adults, by parachuting–parachuting candy in enormous quantities to the children of bombed out post WWII Berlin. Children who had little or nothing, and were simply hoping to survive. Stalin failed in his effort. Let's work and pray that Putin also fails. And work and pray that future bombs are like candy, not explosives–nuclear or otherwise. And work to be one of the candy bombers. This 10 minute episode will help us in our lives, and help us to think through the issues surrounding us.  N.B. This is a complete blog, also acting as a signpost, pointing you to this episode on both the new Revolution 2.0™https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q ( YouTube) channel, and where you enjoy your podcasts, e.g.,https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552 ( Apple),https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv ( Google) andhttps://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9 ( Spotify).     Continuing: In 1948, three years after the end of WWII, Russian President Joseph Stalin closed off land and water routes to war-torn Berlin in an attempt to drive his erstwhile war partners, the US, Britain and France, out of divided Berlin so that he could have the entire city to himself. This was one of the major–and cruel–Russian moves in the First Cold War. Putin's invasion of Ukraine is the major–and  cruel–Russian moves in the Second Cold War. I hope and pray that it stays cold. Then Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen made history by being part of the heroic https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-airlift (Berlin Airlift), a seemingly hopeless response to Stalin's attempt to steal Berlin from his Allied partners. The Allies, primarily the US under President Truman, made the decision to fly in everything the citizens of blockaded Berlin needed to survive: Coal, food, clothing, medicine–everything. A flight every 30 seconds for 18 months, totalling 300,000 flights in all. In cold, drafty propeller driven planes which were forced to fly in a narrowly defined air corridor. During a record cold winter. After a year and a half and against all odds, flying in 23 million tons of critically needed supplies, the Berlin Airlift succeeded, and Stalin was forced to lift his blockade. At the same time, C-54 Skymaster pilot Halvorsen made a different type of history by also becoming the Candy Bomber, giving joy, laughter and reasons to celebrate just being alive to tens of thousands of kids in devastated Berlin. And hope to all of Berlin. Halvorsen and the other pilots he recruited dropped candy from tiny, handmade handkerchief parachutes from their Airlift planes. We can all do the same in our own way today. Halvorsen noticed a need, and found a way to meet it. We can all–and should–do the same in our lives. His first encounter with the children came when he noticed a group of them standing behind the wire fence blocking entry to Tempelhof Airfield. When he approached them, he was disheartened to find that he had only two sticks of gum in his pocket; breaking each of them in two, he handed out four half sticks. The kids who got gum, handed the empty wrappers to other kids, who sniffed and licked the wrappers to get as much flavor as they could. “They came right up to me, speaking in English. Those kids were giving me a lecture, telling me, ‘Don't give up on us. If we lose our freedom, we'll never get it back.' American style freedom was

In our time together today, our “Take Ten” with Will Luden, we will compare Putin and Hitler, Biden and Chamberlain–and look for today's Churchill. I normally resist parallels to WWII Germany, but there are too many now to ignore. Russia is following Nazi Germany's path to expanding its territory, using the same lame excuses backed by significant military strength. In September of 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, France and Britain declared war on Germany. In May of 1940, Britain made Winston Churchil l its Prime Minister. Resisting the powerful appeasers in his own cabinet, Churchill rallied his nation to stand up to Hitler. Eventually, even strongly isolationist America was drawn into the war only by the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941. Had Britain either negotiated or surrendered, Germany would likely have won WWII.  And where do you think we’d be today? We need our own Winston Churchill, or we will lose, and lose big. Where is he? Or she? This 10 minute episode will help us in our lives, and help us to think through the issues surrounding us.  N.B. This is a complete blog, also acting as a signpost, pointing you to this episode on both the new Revolution 2.0™https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q ( YouTube) channel, and where you enjoy your podcasts, e.g.,https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552 ( Apple),https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv ( Google) andhttps://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9 ( Spotify).   Continuing: Putin is following part of Hitler's playbook play by play. 1. Go back with me to the point in history when Adolph Hitler started adding tens of millions of people and entire countries to Nazi Germany without firing a shot. Under the guise of uniting all German speaking peoples, Hitler added the Rhineland, Austria, and the Sudentland, the German speaking part of Czechoslovakia. Putin is adding parts of Ukraine under the guise of uniting all Russia loving people. 2. Hitler exclaimed long and loudly about how Germany needed to build military strength and increase its size and international prestige to assuage the undeserved embarrassment and humiliation of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles (Treaty of Versailles). Putin is being equally loud and devious when he claims that Russia needs to avenge the underserved embarrassment of the breakup of the Soviet Union. 3. Just as Hitler invaded Poland after creating a false flag attack, Putin created an excuse to invade the rest of Ukraine, the vast bulk of that country's territory and population. 4. Prediction. When Germany invaded Poland, both Britain and France had had enough, and declared war. No country will find the courage to find a response that will drive Putin out of sovereign Ukraine. There is no Churchill to swim against the tide and stand against Putin. Sanctions will not deter Putin any more than the Treaty of Versailles post WWI, the ultimate in sanctions, kept Germany from rearming. Biden will be the modern version of Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister who hande4d over Czechoslovakia to ol' Adoplh, believing Hitler's lie that Chamberlain could trade Czechoslovakia for peace. No other country has the strength to stand up to Russia, even if they could summon the courage to try. If anything is to change, we the voters in the US must force that change. We must take on that responsibility. We, the US, have the required military strength and other resources to take on Putin and his territorial and power and influence ambitions. We lack the desperately needed leadership.  And without America leading, the world lacks leadership on any issue of this magnitude. We need leaders who can see clearly what is unfolding, have the political courage to speak out, even if that means going against popular opinion, and, finally, summon the courage to act when danger looms.  From

In our time together today, our “Take Ten” with Will Luden, we will separate the causes people are protesting or supporting from the tactics used; they are most often incorrectly blurred to favor the person or group making the comments.  Let’s go over some foundational principles first: 1. The ends do not justify the means; means are ends in and of themselves. As soon as you say that your ends justify your means, you are saying that might is right. 2. “Whatever it takes,” might be an acceptable strategy if: A. Your cause is fundamental to the survival of mankind and B. You’re dead, no pun intended, certain that you cannot be wrong. 3. Follow Revolution 2.0™'s Golden Rule of Political Tactics:  Use only the tactics that you are okay with being used against you. This 10 minute episode will help us in our lives, and help us to think through the issues surrounding us.  N.B. This is a complete blog, also acting as a signpost, pointing you to this episode on both the new Revolution 2.0™https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q ( YouTube) channel, and where you enjoy your podcasts, e.g.,https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552 ( Apple),https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv ( Google) andhttps://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9 ( Spotify).   Continuing: It is the height of arrogance to claim that tactics that you approve of using in support of causes you favor are unacceptable to the point of being criminal when unemployed to support causes you do not believe in. The trucker protest in Ottawa crippled the capital city of Canada for over two weeks, and shut down the https://www.ambassadorbridge.com/ (Ambassador Bridge) that carries 30% of the annual trade between the US and Canada.  A 2004 Border Transportation Partnership study showed that 150,000 jobs in the Detroit–Windsor region and $13 billion in annual production depend on the Detroit–Windsor international border crossing. Ambassador Bridge map and discussion. Trucker protest photo Latvia protest photo. Many of the same people and groups who enthusiastically support the trucker protest get self-righteously irate and want to shut down other protests when they block an intersection for an hour or two. And these people and groups want to export the trucker protest to other cities and other countries. Now for more about separating the causes from the tactics: Truckers and others have every right to protest, but they have no right to cripple cities and major thoroughfares. We can either approve of or criticize the anti-mandate cause for the protests, but we cannot approve of the tactics.  Civil Rights protesters, including those supporting BLM and wanting change post the George Floyd murder, have every right to protest, but they have no right to block streets, burn and loot businesses, and invade police stations. Once again, we can debate the worthiness of the causes, but we cannot approve of the tactics. 3. Supporters of a failed presidential candidate have every right to protest, but they have no right to invade our nation's capitol. Debate their stolen election promise if you will, but do not support the tactic of invading the capitol. The intentional mistake that I see in all three areas, truckers, civil rights, Jan 6th, is that people who are in support of the cause focus on the cause, and gloss over the tactics. Phrases like, “Mostly peaceful,” and “Peaceful protest supporting democracy,” come to mind. People who are against the cause, focus on the worst of the tactics, and gloss over the cause. Phrases like, “Another night of violence, burning and looting,” and, “January 6th was the worst and most dangerous event in America since the Civil War,” come to mind. Separate the causes from the tactics, the fly poop from the pepper. Stop making people and events either all good or all bad. Either all black, or all white....

The Sound of Ignorance. In our ten minutes together today, our “Take Ten” with Will Luden, we are focusing on the jarring sound of ignorance in political, economic and other discussions in our country. From the very top with the most powerful political leaders and cultural influencers to the anonymous cowards on Twitter. This raging ignorance has taken the form of warring cliches substituting for knowledge and reasoning. This, not the alleged election fraud from both sides, is indeed a threat to our democracy. Let's start with an example that is much in the news: CRT–Critical Race Theory. One side claims that if you don't teach CRT that you are distorting history. The other side says that if you do teach CRT, that you are distorting history. But very few on either side have sufficient knowledge of history to even begin having an intelligent discussion. Even fewer take the time to put the facts, should they have any, into a useful, coherent argument. Think back to any time that you heard either CRT or the 1619 Project being discussed in the media–pro or con–with anything more than cliches and claims, laced with partial truths, being thrown back and forth. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana, noted writer and philosopher. “Those who do not know history, are condemned to stand by as their country is destroyed by those who make it up for their benefit.” Will Luden, podcaster. That’s what’s going on in our country today. This 10 minute episode will help us in our lives, and help us to think through the issues surrounding us.  N.B. This is a complete blog, also acting as a signpost, pointing you to this episode on both the new Revolution 2.0™https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q ( YouTube) channel, and where you enjoy your podcasts, e.g.,https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552 ( Apple),https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv ( Google) andhttps://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9 ( Spotify).     Continuing: The Sound of Ignorance. With apologies to Simon and Garfunkle and their mega hit “Sounds of Silence.” Paul Simon wrote the song quietly referring to the social isolation people were feeling–even 60 years ago. Today’s version, The Sounds of Ignorance, loudly refers to us and our country becoming more and more ignorant of history, of the core facts pertaining to any key issue; unwilling to listen or learn, and unable to reason. Along with the 1619 Project, CRT loudly and often makes the claim that race and oppression, with whites being the oppressors and POCs being the oppressed, was a desired goal of the Founders, and played a vital part in the creation of wealth and power in America, and is still with us, preserved in our culture, legal, political and business systems, and that America must be torn down and radically reconstructed if we are to be rid of scourge of racism and oppression. One of our responsibilities as citizens is to understand enough of American and world history to make sense of the many political statements and claims that are tossed at us every day. To start, let's go back to the Constitutional Convention of 1787.  Wait, Will, didn't the Revolution end with Lord Cornwallis’ defeat in 1781? Why wait six years before having a constitution? We did have an original constitution, The Articles of Confederation, enacted in 1781. These Articles provided only the loosest form of confederation, with little or no central power. It was often correctly called a “league of friendship.” No central military, no central taxing authority. Simply the 13 states calling themselves friends. Pause for a quick question. What percentage of voters could tell you which year the Declaration of Independence was signed? Going furtner, what percentage of voters could tell you which country we fought to gain our...

The 7% Supreme Court Justice. President Biden promised that he would pick his VP candidate from a pool of only black women. From that pool, representing 7% of the  United States, he chose Kamala Harris. The same thinking that led to Ms. Harris being the Vice President of the United States is going to give us the next lifetime appointee Justice on the Supreme Court. With the 2020 nomination slipping through his grasp after a series of primary defeats, Biden turned to the powerful US Representative, Jim Clyburn, D-SC and the Majority Whip in the House to make a deal; Biden would appoint the black female Justice Clyburn wanted in exchange for Clyburn's support. The rest is political backroom history. This 10 minute episode will help us in our lives, and help us to think through the issues surrounding us. N.B. This is a complete blog, also acting as a signpost, pointing you to this episode on both the new Revolution 2.0™ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q (YouTube) channel, and where you enjoy your podcasts, e.g., https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552 (Apple), https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv (Google) and https://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9 (Spotify).   Continuing: The 7% Supreme Court Justice. In the tradition of former Mayor and Chicago political boss, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Daley (Richard J. Daley), President Biden is paying off a political debt by fulfilling his promise to appoint a black female to the Supreme Court, the highest count in the United States. Richard J. Daley held political office in Illinois for 38 years, including 24 years as the Mayor of Chicago. His son, Richard M. Daley, held office in Illinois for 39 years, including 22 as the Mayor of Chicago. You don't create a dynasty like that without receiving and paying off many and large political debts. That's exactly what then candidate Biden set in motion when he rescued his failing presidential candidacy by promising the powerful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clyburn (Jim Clyburn) that he would nominate a black female to the SCOTUS in exchange for Clyburn's campaign-rescuing political support. Going into the SC primary Biden was trailing Bernie Sanders badly–many pundits had written him off. After making the deal, Clyburn delivered SC to Biden, and the rest is political dealmaking history. More specifically Clyburn wanted US District Judge http://www.cnn.com/2022/01/26/politics/shortlist-breyer-replacement-supreme-court/index.html (J. Michelle Childs) on the Court. Guess who is on President Biden's short list for the nomination. Far beyond just the stench of a deal promising a nomination to SCOTUS in exchange for turning around a failing presidential campaign, is just how deeply wrong Biden is in citing race and gender as his initial and fundamental criteria. Why on earth would the President restrict the pool of candidates to the 7% of the population that is both black and female? Is that how you get the best qualified candidate? No, but that is not what Biden is looking for. He is paying off a political debt while appealing to blacks on the basis of race and not on the basis of making their lives better economically or in any real way. All while pandering to the Affirmative Action set. You know, the people who believe that two evils can make a right. What really happens is that when you create the second evil, it does not erase the first–it simply perpetuates it.  Affirmative Action, and this is by definition an affirmative Action nomination, substitutes “qualified” for “best qualified.” It must make that substitution, or Affirmative Action would be completely impossible for anyone to defend. Listen carefully to those supporting this nomination and other Affirmative Action policies; they always emphasize things like how many qualified candidates that their process surfaces. How many...

Passing as a POC. Rewarding people and groups because they are slightly or completely non-white is just as unacceptable as the previous wrong of punishing people and groups for having exactly that physical trait. Both are blatantly racist, and have no place either in our hearts or in our country. This 10 minute episode will help us in our lives, and help us to think through the issues surrounding us. N.B. This blog acts as a transcript and a signpost, pointing you to this episode on both the new Revolution 2.0™ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q (YouTube) channel, and where you enjoy your podcasts, e.g., https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552 (Apple), https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv (Google) and https://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9 (Spotify).   Continuing In the earlier, ugly days of racist America, if a person was in any way noticeably black, they were treated as all black. And especially in the slave and Jim Crow states, that was done to create an unfair and undeserved advantage for the whites; they even had names indicating your fraction of offending blackness. Someone who was half black would have been called a mulatto. A quadroon was ¼ black, and an octoroon ⅛ black. I would have been a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Like_Me (hexadecaroon). It was terrible, cruel and is a remaining stain on our nation. On the other hand if you had any portion of black blood but looked white, you were said to be able to “pass,” pass as being white–a huge advantage. Appearances were all. And for those many continuing to seek advantage today, still are. Today, if you have the slightest amount of non-white features, you can pass as a POC, a person of color. And today this is the advantage. This is just as unfair and wrong, and is done to give unfair advantage to people who look in any way non-white. Today's color preference flip is still wrong, unfair and needs to be stopped now. All we have done is flip the evil. Story: In 1969, a Star Trek episode showed the hatred and unfairness that existed between two differently colored peoples on the planet Cheron. Each group had half black and half white faces, with a vertical dividing line down the middle of their faces. The group whose faces were black on the right side felt justifiably and completely superior to the group whose faces were white on the right side. This developed into a race hatred that completely baffled the crew of the Starship Enterprise. As it should have. It made no sense at all. Insane and damaging. Flipping the colors side-to-side makes all the difference? Takes an evil and makes it into a good? And it's exactly what we are doing today. Black or POC used to be bad and white good, and now black is good and white is bad. Insane and damaging. This kind of insanity breeds absurdities that underscore the wrongness. For example, taking calculated advantage of the race flip, Rachel Dolezal, a white woman born to white parents, faked being black to the point where she became an NAACP chapter president. Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, gained advantage in her work and in politics by pretending to be Native American. And stranger things yet fall out of this insanity. George Zimmerman, a man of mixed race, was accused–and acquitted–of murdering Treyvon Martin, a black youth. The identity politics crowd felt the need to invent a new term, “White Mexican,” to describe Zimmerman, who is clearly a POC. Lots of twisting and shouting needs to be done to make everything black and white–with the white at fault. President Biden said loud and clear that he was going to select a black female as his running mate in 2020. Seems that being half-black and all female helped qualify Ms. Harris to be our Vice President. Despite having paltry support even from her home state of California in her quickly failed presidential run....

Gratitude: Does The Left Have Any? Does The Right Demand It? We are busy politicizing everything, including science, law enforcement, religion, sports, medicine, history and education. Now we are doing the same thing with gratitude. We are making gratitude political. To our peril. This 10 minute episode will help us in our lives, and help us to think through the issues surrounding us.  N.B. This is a useful blog, a signpost, pointing you to this episode on both the new Revolution 2.0™ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q (YouTube) channel, and where you enjoy your podcasts, e.g., https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-2-0/id1353135552 (Apple), https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uMi0wLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv (Google) and https://open.spotify.com/show/6rr6fi3AMW0GoAfYQ64lf9 (Spotify, )as well as reading them here.  Continuing: It all starts with gratitude. Gratitude is the bedrock, the touchstone–cornerstone–for any effective philosophy, religious dogma, or simply a way to get through life or the day successfully. Ingratitude makes for a grim and unproductive outlook on life, love and politics. Perhaps the most pernicious form of ingratitude is encouraging others to refuse to be grateful. Many on the Left are clearly ungrateful for much of anything, and are encouraging others to join them in this harmful thinking. The 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory distortions of history encourage us to be angry at America instead of knowing how fortunate we are to be in the country that is the most successful of all time, and offers the most freedom and opportunity of any country in the history of history. With claims that everything from healthcare to housing are human rights, there is little to be grateful for here, either. But note the irony: These so-called rights are to be supplied by the very country, America, which is vilified by the same people who claim that America is so deeply flawed that it needs to be re-built. And the taxes in the main come from people the Left criticizes as privileged capitalists.  For their part, many on the Right seem to be demanding that people be grateful. Their position is that people must be grateful for what they get, especially for what they get from taxpayers. That's nonsense. You can't demand gratitude any more than you can demand love or respect. All three must be offered up voluntarily. We are surrounded 24/7 with things we can–and should–be openly grateful for. If you have access to running water in your home, be grateful. One in three people on the planet don't have access to a decent toilet, and one in nine don't have clean water close to home. How about electricity? We all get frustrated when the power goes out; when it returns, our response is likely to be, “Well, finally! What's with those people?” Over 1.2 billion–with a “B”–people don't have any electricity to lose in the first place. Their power is always out. Let's pause for an important distinction: Gratitude is not the same as contentment. The masthead of the Denver Post used to include the saying, “There is no hope for the satisfied man.” Being grateful for everything you have does not mean that you have to be content with everything you have. Some people confuse, “I'm grateful.” with, “I'm good with things the way they are.” Being grateful does not mean going limp. In fact, it takes more strength and discipline to be grateful than to complain. We all can–and should–strive for improvements. And setting new plans and striving, pushing is best done while resting on a firm foundation of gratitude. And being grateful just works. And I like things that work. OK, your turn. Going from water and electricity, to freedom and opportunity, add some things that you are grateful to have. Take your time. Share them with friends and family, and in the comments. We all have the personal responsibility to practice and encourage gratitude, entirely independent of any...

Victims share responsibility with perpetrators and any and all actors in an event that may impact them negatively. That is the subject of today's 10 minute episode.

The Dinner Table: Some of the most valuable and enduring lessons that we need to learn are best taught at home. Conversations at the dinner table is one way, but activities and conversations in the car, during exercise, or while just hanging out are all wonderful opportunities. I include all of it under “The Dinner Table.” Continuing: N.B. This is a summary, a signpost, pointing you to this episode on both the new Revolution 2.0™ YouTube channel, and where you enjoy your podcasts, e.g., Apple, Google and Spotify. The dinner table is where we share values, skills, tips and tricks--anything that if passed along might make a difference. The dinner table includes where we eat, in or out, traveling in the car, watching TV, hanging out--anything we do with other members of our family. There is rich evidence in sports and politics about the value of the dinner table. The Mannings (football), Kennedys and Bushes come immediately to mind. Go as far back as the Adamses. The government cannot possibly be either our dinner table contributors or other participants. This is the only way to pass along our values as well as knowledge to our children and grandchildren. Passing along values and knowledge is far more valuable than money or possessions. The world is our dinner table. This podcast makes the case for the nurture side of the nature vs. nurture discussion. And let's take the vs. part out; both are powerful influencers, and should not at all be looked at as being in opposition one to the other. Nature and nurture. And we are also going to talk about the different roles and responsibilities we all have around the dinner table--part of the nurture element. The family dinner table is the metaphor we'll use, but the roles and responsibilities are transportable to other settings. Conversations at the dinner table can certainly be effective, as are doing activities together, conversations in the car, during exercise, and talking while just hanging out. I include all of this under “The Dinner Table.” For the dinner table to work, to start with someone has to know something worthwhile. No, I am not talking about biases or opinions based on preconceived notions. And I am not talking about lecturing anyone, or trying to be right simply because you know, by God, you're right. I am talking about things that will make the people around you better if they listen and take action on what you said or showed them by example. Making your case verbally with logic, making your case by example, making your case with care and with the other person's benefit in mind can open a path for you to be heard. Share what you believe if you can also share, calmly and logically, why you believe it. And for the dinner table to work, someone else has to be willing to listen. Not be willing to buy into everything that's said, but to be respectful enough to listen. Imagine that; a conversation where the speaker has something valuable to say, and the listener has enough intellectual curiosity and respect to actually listen.  The evidence of the power of the dinner table is all around us. I'll pass along some examples I have read about, and some from my own experience. And, my guess is, you have examples of your own.  In sports, one of the first examples that comes to mind is the Manning family. Archie, Dad, and sons, Peyton and Eli, were all starting NFL quarterbacks; the sons have two Super Bowl rings each. Had the eldest son, Cooper, not been diagnosed with spinal stenosis the summer before he was to play football at his Dad's alma mater, the University of Mississippi, he could easily have been the best of the three sons. How did that happen? Football, specifically quarterbacking, was discussed at the actual dinner table, and frequently practiced in the backyard and other settings. For many years. Here's another football family: the McCaffrey's. Ed, the Dad, won three three Super Bowl Rings; one as a wide receiver with...

We should all want the best K-12 education possible with the most efficient use of taxpayer money. That is the subject of today's 10 minute episode.

Don't slide away from a nation of laws downward toward becoming a nation ruled by agendas and biases. That's the subject of today's 10 minute episode.

Complete immigration solution: Secure the borders, paving the way for a fair and effective long term solution. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q

The truth about capitalism v socialism. And insights about redistribution and communism and the correct size of government. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5CDliD-PRQE_8bO4Eg98Q

All nations, and every person was or is greatly flawed. Search for those entities whose contributions are far in excess of their flaws. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioLesnCIp_Y

Financial literacy for our kids and for us. Simple rules, hard to follow. That is the subject of today's 15 minute episode.

Alec Baldwin, as we all do, needed to check the firearm himself. He should be found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. That is the subject of today's 15 minute episode.

Longtime friends are walking away from affection and mutual enjoyment over vaccines. That is the subject of today's 15 minute episode.

Sanitized history is a lie. And lies can never lead to where we need to be as individuals, a community or a nation. That is the subject of today's 10 minute episode.

If you want anything in America to change, you must get involved. That is the subject of today's 10 minute episode.

If we want better candidates and politicians, we need to be better voters. That is the subject of today's 10 minute episode.

Most so-called news sources are focused on pandering to their target audience; “details” like real news and the truth are seldom considered. That is the subject of today's 10 minute episode.

Focusing on what divides us for personal or political gain is evil. Falling for that means that we are following their evil. That is the subject of today's 10 minute episode.

Classical liberals were committed to individualism, liberty, and equal rights. That is the subject of today's 10 minute episode.

The Progressive goal is to have as many disinterested voters as possible vote, ensuring there will never again be a Republican President. That is the subject of today's 10 minute episode.

Today's Key Point: Neither those terrorists nor the TSA are the core problem: We are. That is the subject of today's 10 minute episode.

The inconvenient truth, with no apologies to Al Gore, is that we are taking a human life for convenience. Where is our responsibility?

Those who say that nation building does not work are either ignorant of or simply ignore history. That is today's 10-minute episode.

Finish HS. Have a full-time job. Don't have kids until you are married. That is the subject of today's 10 minute episode.

Three things I know about God; He exists, you are not Him, neither am I. That is the subject of today's 15 minute podcast.

Kamala (Et tu Brute) threw her boss, President Biden, under a tank. That is the subject of today's 10 minute episode.

COVID is real, the vaccines are a miracle, contrails are not chemicals. That is the subject of today's 10 minute episode.

Is Joe Biden competent; not is he a good president--is he competent? That is the subject of today's 10 minute episode.

Labeling minorities as helpless victims is destructive. This damage will last for generations unless arrested now. That is the subject of today's 10 minute episode.

We have a massive and inexcusable crisis at our Southern border. But the crisis is merely a symptom; the disease is in DC--and in us. That is the subject of today's 10 minute episode.

Ducking out on our financial obligations regardless of type, student debt, credit card cards, taxes, or other, is always wrong. That is the subject of today's 10 minute episode.