Episodes

Introduction: Abandoning tests and other standards of success as measurements of admittance to better schools, and no longer requiring even minimal proficiency in reading, writing or math prior to graduation from high school, is far worse than what it has been labeled: The soft bigotry of low expectations. It should be called what it is: cruel and dysfunctional application of racist beliefs. Those determined to succeed, despite their strong academic record and test scores, will find a way to ea...

Introduction We have a massive, entirely avoidable 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. Continuing The Democrats want more voters who will be in their camp, with the idea of ensuring that no Republican will ever again be elected to national office–and fewer to state offices. The Republicans in part want cheap labor, and in larger part have no idea how to either get thei...

Introduction Sean Hannity , stalwart in his opposition to taxpayers paying off student loans, voices a full-throated commercial in support of people who owe money to the IRS using his recommended solution to be relieved of some or all of that obligation. When someone does not pay his student loans, the taxpayers get stuck. When someone does not pay what they owe to the IRS, the taxpayers get stuck again. When a credit card holder defaults on his bill, his fellow card holders pay up. And when an ...

Introduction Having a tough week, or even a tough year, does not constitute a mental health issue. This includes the exhausted, over stressed stay-at-home parents, performers of all types, and, well, you and me. The overwrought claims of mental health issues, both by the person involved and certain politicians and media, are, like so much of what is going on today, agenda driven, not fact and circumstance driven. That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode. Continuing Henry Fonda , a WWII v...

Introduction Get the jab to protect yourself and others. People who assert the My Body, My Choice argument in defending actions like getting abortions and not getting vaccines beg the question of whether it is indeed their body or only their body. In other words, if government simply allows certain actions, or mandates others, is the government doing the right thing by protecting others from our actions, or doing the wrong thing by protecting us from ourselves? Oh, and if you care about your lif...

Introduction Universal Service speaks to what we feel that we owe to our fellow countrymen and the nation itself. Universal Income speaks to what we feel those very same people and nation owes to us. Universal Service speaks to what we feel that we owe to our fellow countrymen and the nation itself. Universal Income speaks to what we feel those very same people and nation owes to us. Are we asking what our countrymen can do for us, or what we can do for our countrymen? That is the subject of tod...

Introduction “The Emperor’s New Clothes” is an instructive and prophetic folktale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen , about a vain emperor who is easily swindled and then exposed before his subjects. Today’s version of the swindlers who deceived the vain emperor are the leaders, media and others who, for personal and political gain, substitute race for Karl Marx’s dangerous and failed views of class, i.e., wealth-based discrimination and oppression. That is the subject of today’s ...

Introduction God is First. When I am getting it right, I am working so that I and my 7.5B fellow human beings all finish in a pack as a strong second to Him. That is the subject of today’s 10 minute episode. Continuing People of faith will sometimes say, “I am second,” an appropriate recognition of their place in the universe as not being God. I once heard a speaker say, “There are 3 things I know about God: 1. There is one. 2. I am not God and 3. Neither are you.” As we often do here at Revolut...

Introduction No voter suppression exists or is planned for anywhere, including the “headline” states of Texas and Georgia. That is the subject of today’s 10 minute episode. Continuing In Texas, early voting starts 17 days before the election, and ends 4 days prior. Mail-in ballots can be requested by mail, fax or email. You may vote by absentee ballot in Texas if you are 65 years or older, disabled, or otherwise unable to vote in person. Polls are open 7 AM to 7 PM on election day. In Georgia, e...

Introduction Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s loyalty to his home state of Virginia and not the United (key word here) States was the reason that the Civil War lasted for four years, created more casualties than all of our other wars put together, tore our country apart, and reduced the South to ashes. President Lincoln first offered command of the Union Army to Lee, who turned it down saying that his loyalty was to Virginia, not the Union. Days after he refused Lincoln’s offer, he resigned h...

Introduction “Peace with honor,” was the phrase President Richard Nixon used on January 23, 1973 to describe the Paris Peace Accords that ended the Vietnam War. What really happened was a disorderly evacuation, appropriately ending as a CIA officer helped the last, desperate evacuees to get onto the last Air America helicopter to leave the rooftop of the American Embassy in Saigon on April 29th, 1975. We disgraced ourselves in Vietnam. After promising to lead South Vietnam to freedom and democra...

Introduction Yes, Affirmative Action is reverse racism, supposedly intended to right historical wrongs. Any racism, reverse or not, is wrong. Today’s episode is not an argument against reverse racism. Today’s episode is an appeal to common sense and a clear knowledge of what works–and what does not work. People, individuals or groups, succeed when they are motivated, work hard over time, and know what to do when they do the hard work. They grow strong, succeed, and know how to lead others in the...

Introduction Gwen Berry came in 3rd in the recent US Olympic trials for women’s hammer throwing, becoming qualified to represent her country in Japan this August. Feeling “pissd off”, she turned her back on the flag while the National Anthem was playing. Instantly achieving the intended notoriety, Ms. Berry has been alternately praised and pounced upon; I doubt she cares which, as long as she gets the desired lucrative attention. Attention that has eluded both of the women who stood facing the f...

Introduction Citizen accountability, training and funding must match police accountability, training and funding. That is the subject of today’s 10 minute episode. Continuing Life is a series of two way streets. Two way accountability. Marriage, business relationships, any relationship in fact. Doctor/patient. Law enforcement and citizen. Life. And I don’t mean just 50%/50%. For things to work the way they should, accountability, effort, needs to be 75%/75%. Ideally, everyone takes 100% responsi...

Introduction “Let’s Pretend” used to be an innocent child’s game. It was fun, expanded imaginations and was harmless. And forgotten by dinner time. Now “pretend” means that men can be women, that certain bad behavior never happened, that achievement is racist, and so much more. It is no longer just a child’s game; it is a dangerously distorted view of the world that is driving everything from personal interactions to the politics that run our lives. No longer forgotten by dinner time, “Let’s Pre...

Introduction Come with me on a decades-long journey, with the selected mileposts for this topic being observations and encounters involving race. Looking back, I see a parallel between my personal experiences, and the path that our nation is on. That is the subject of today’s 15 minute episode. Continuing I grew up for my first 15 years in a lily white neighborhood in suburban Philadelphia before the civil rights movement in the 60s. This was the Jim Crow era, but not a Jim Crow area, not the Ji...

Introduction Is this newly minted Federal Holiday designed to commemorate the necessarily long and tortured road from the depravity of slavery to where we are today? A nation celebrating equality under the law, and sufficient and growing opportunities for everyone? Or is it designed as a platform to perpetuate the dangerous lie that America was built on slave labor, that the Revolution was fought to preserve slavery, and that America is still systemically racist, i.e., racist to its core? That i...

Introduction “Give me your entitled, your spoiled, your huddled classes yearning to live for free, the wretched refuse of your indoctrination schools. Send these, the factless, cliche-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the student loan door! But I paraphrase. That is the subject of today’s 10 minute episode. Continuing Let’s review the famous poem on the Statue of Liberty. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. S...

Introduction Speaking of history, as we often do here at Revolution 2.0™, what do you know about the Cultural Revolution in China? This 10 year long socio-political purge under Chairman Mao, 1966-1976, The Cultural Revolution damaged China’s economy and traditional culture, along with incurring a death toll estimated to have been in the millions. We are deep into the dangerous beginnings of our own cultural revolution, a culture war, with its intention of establishing one party rule. That is the...

Introduction Doesn’t everyone want peace? I certainly do, but not at any price, and not by any means. Peace through strength. Peace that builds up those around us is what I want. Do you? That is the subject of today’s 10 minute episode. Continuing Dona Nobis Pacem is the title of a beautiful song done as a round. Only three words in the entire piece; yet it is beautiful, moving and inspiring. How do we get to pacem? I am not a pacifist. Peace does not mean surrender nor does it mean accepting ca...

Introduction “After me, the flood,’” is a French expression attributed to King Louis XV of France, the last King before Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were beheaded during the French Revolution in 1793. Louis knew that continuing excesses by the French leadership, royalty and the church, would lead to disaster, in his words, a flood. The flood came in the form of a bloody and extended revolution in 1789. Continuing excesses by our leadership, politicians and progressive true believers, will also...

Introduction Hard work and sacrifice over time is omnipotent; it builds and strengthens individuals, families and societies. Entitlement is a cancer. That is the subject of today’s 10 minute episode. Continuing “But that’s not fair!” “Life isn’t fair.” The child shrieks that something or other is not fair. He came in 3 hours after curfew and his phone was taken for a day. Her supposed best friend did not invite her to a birthday party. Perhaps eons ago, a cave child complained about not getting ...

Introduction Being polite and thankful is more than just good manners; it forms the bedrock of a well functioning society. That is the subject of today’s 10 minute episode. Continuing At Revolution 2.0™, we have spoken about gratitude , EP 180, 12 Nov 19, being fundamental to living a happy and contributing life. Politeness, good manners, “Please” and “Thank You” are just some of the outward manifestations of gratitude. Let’s start with an easy example. Many of us have either had someone help us...

Introduction On September 11th 2001, 9/11, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists seized 4 commercial airliners with the demonic intent of savaging America by crashing 2 airliners into the Twin Towers, 1 into the Pentagon and 1 into the Capitol area, perhaps even the White House itself. Citizen passengers and crew heroically prevented the latter. That is the subject of today’s 10 minute episode Continuing On Flight 93 that fateful, evil-filled day, there was no debate about personal responsibility and who was s...