The Future Is Itself A Story, And

The Question For So Many Is The Quality Of Work, The Future Of Work Under Globalism And De-industrialization. A Typical Example Is A Person Who Had A Good Factory Job Making 80,000 Dollars, With Health Insurance, Who Was Able To Send His Kids Possibly To College And Then He Or She Suddenly Loses That Job Because The Factory Closed Down. And Now That Same Person Is Bagging Groceries At Walmart And Making $35,000.

Russian Is Such A Tough And Complex Language That I Am Happy Enough To Understand Everything And Read Most Things Pretty Well, But, Without Constant Practice, My Speech Is Not What I Wish It Was, And I Would Sooner Write In Crayon Than Write A Letter In Russian.

There Are Systemic, Painful Problems Of Globalization And De-industrialization That Cannot Be Solved With A Phone Call Or A Tweet Or An Angry Speech Or Trying To Isolate The Press And The First Amendment. Sooner Or Later, The Donald Trump Show, Which Is A Projection Of Strength And Authority, Will Have To Deliver To His Voters. And If He Doesn't, In Very Real Terms, If He Can't Supersede A Situation Where A President Cut The Unemployment Rate In Half, If He Can't Do Better, If He Can't Open Factories And All The Rest That He's Promised, Then I Think He's In Trouble.

What About Our Refusal To Look Squarely At The Degradation Of The Planet We Inhabit? In The Last Election Cycle Many Candidates Refused Even To Acknowledge The Hard Science, Irrefutable Science, Of Climate Change. The President, While Readily Accepting The Facts, Has Done Far Too Little To Alter Them. How Long Are We, Are You, Prepared To Wait?

Capitalism In Russia Has Spawned Far More Al Capones Than Henry Fords.