http://www.opednews.com/articles/life_a_alone_071006_continuing_to_ponder.htm
Prior to this, I had advocated that the time was right to try and set the political scene on its head by having campaigns carried out in a reality TV format so that costs could be kept down and real issues could be discussed.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_alone_070907_what_about_a__22realit.htm
We all know the status quo in American Politics is not functioning well. Elections are getting way too costly, which leaves a few media tycoons and others in charge of sound bites which kill and mislead all too quickly. So, I have discussed elsewhere, the need to make it, first, easier to reform, update, and amend the parts of the constitution which no longer enforce nor support good governance. (Come on! Our founding fathers would have been astounded that we only have amended their work about 15 times since 1795 and have not touched the document again since almost the 1960s. They talked about making a more perfect union—not to claim by default or neglect that the union was already perfect, i.e. as some people imply when they want to keep the status quo for their own personal benefits.)
I advocate constitutional conventions be encouraged and started up with support of all parties.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_kevin_an_070729_needed_now__constitu.htm
For example, the problems with elections themselves have more to do with the negative aspects of winner-take-all voting system. This should be one of the first areas of election reform. (Shorter campaigns and spending limits need to be enforced in many aspects of campaigns. Otherwise equal-access laws for all candidates need to be created and enforced.
http://the-teacher.blogspot.com/2007/11/since-voting-theorists-feel-that.html
I first set forth the problems faced by evangelical progressives in today’s world by looking at the now-classic study of “What’s the matter with Kansas?”. In it I indicated that there was a tend big enough in Kansas and other Midwestern states to include combinations like progressive evangelicals as had been prominent in America from the 1840s through the 1970s. (There is also room for peoples of myriads of faiths and beliefs who are ready to improve on the messed-up economy, government spending, and status quo America is facing today.)
http://www.opednews.com/articles/not_sh_kevin_an_070501_progressive_evangeli.htm
WHO AM I?
I come from a pair of families with a great number of members serving (or having served) in the U.S. military—all with the best intentions. I, however, am an American educator who needs to show a more balanced view of our world to our students and youth than what American media and public education have provided.
Graduating from a Kansas high school in 1980, I had had no foreign language educational experience. I had only even crossed a U.S. border once to Tiajuana by the time I was 20 years of age.
Yet, I have now (1) crossed border to nearly 100 countries, (2) have lived and worked in ten countries—sometimes with the support of the U.S. government or other agencies--, and (3) have learned fluent German and Spanish as well as intermediate levels of Japanese, French plus smatterings of other languages.
In short, since the 1970s, I have been experiencing continuously a sharp learning curve about America’s position in the world and about global relations and global economies specifically.
As a teacher or professor, I see myself as a servant.
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