Obviously, I have not kept up with this blog having instead moved to Twitter, now X, to discuss political issues. My main, very apolitical, hobby is traditional darkroom photography. Below are a few links to recent postings on my other sites.
Krueger Photography – San Francisco Gallery
Krueger Photography – New Orleans Gallery
Krueger Photography – New York City Gallery
I have considered restarting the Reality Thinking Blog, mostly as a nonpartisan discussion of the increasingly destructive divide between the two US political parties. Politics in the US has become monetized. Media, from corporate networks to individual blogs, have have prioritized profits and audience share over utility. Feed the audience whatever it takes to keep them coming back and ignore everything else. Regardless of which side you’ve chosen, the fact is that neither side has all the answers and neither side is always right or always wrong and if you can’t acknowledge that, then you need to rethink your position.
Democracy is about cooperation and compromise. It’s not about crushing the other party. Political parties are always going to prioritize winning, but obsessing about it to the point of not being able to govern, defeats the very reason for their existence. Just like government needs to have its authority divided into co-equal branches, political parties need opposing parties to keep them from being corrupted by their own power. US democracy works because there is, or was, more than one party sharing power. If you take that away, the US will lose the critical feedback that keeps both parties from going completely off the rails. Unless something changes very soon, the US will become the one-party government that Americans have always condemned in countries like Russia, China, and North Korea.