To Errol is Human

Think about who some of Trump's main supporters were--white middle class and lower middle class men who live in the Red States.  Imagine you are one of these men and you’re not able to work enough to provide for your family. It’s humiliating. Your self-respect inevitably will take a nosedive. Add to that your disappointment in your government and how betrayed you feel. That’s gonna make you really angry. If you combine that with low self-respect, you end up picking a Donald-Trump-type. (more on how that works later). While many Trump supporters have said that they weren’t so much voting for Trump as they were voting against Hillary Clinton – Trump being the lesser of two evils--they could have chosen one of the other dozen Republican candidates, but they didn't. They picked Trump, or more precisely, Trump's vibe.   If Tolstoy is correct in suggesting that the nature and the quality of our leaders emerges out of the consciousness of the people, we will

    I've posted this article before, but in view of the current geopolitical circumstances, it feels more relevant than ever. In this version, I've added responses from essays written by sophomores from English classes at Fremont High School to whom we presented the vision.     As I continue to immerse myself in commentaries, literature, and a wide range of perspectives, I am still struck by the lack of  what John Naisbitt called a "Strategic Vision."      So, I've spent the last 30-40 years working on that strategic vision--I believe what you will read here can provide some of the roots from which we can grow a more viable, user friendly culture.      I believe that we cannot "figure out" solutions or create "policies" to implement them. The solutions must be grown. We have to think in terms of, at the very least, decades. Therefore it is incumbent  upon us to develop an approach to education that will prepare youth to be the awar