by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 4, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, Cheatocracy, Cryptocracy, Featured Post, Frederick Buechner, Jamelle Bouie, Kakistocracy, Kleptocracy, Listening to Your Life, Project 2025, Representative Democracy, the president's lies, Theocracy
September 4, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, We Are Suffering From A Multitude of Dangerous “Ocracies” With a Common Origin If you like to play Scrabble, don’t try to use “ocracies” as a word because it is not in any dictionary. I should begin by saying...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 8, 2021 | Dartmouth Hitchcock Health, Donald Trump's future, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Economic inequality, equal justice, Featured Post, Georgia's runoff election for two Senate seats, Impeachment of Donald Trump, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden and the Future, Polarization in America, Senate Republicans' plans to block or delay the confirmation of Joe Biden, Social Determinants of Health, The Attack on the Capitol, The House considers impeachment, The president's enablers, the president's lies
January 8, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, I Am Trying To Hold On For Twelve More Days While Everything Seems To Be Spinning Out of Control Do you remember where you were and what you were doing when you heard that John Kennedy had been shot...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 5, 2021 | Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Georgia rally, Georgia's runoff election for two Senate seats, Polarization in America, QAnon, Senate Republicans' plans to block or delay the confirmation of Joe Biden, the president's lies, Trumps phone call to the Georgia Secretary of State
I told myself that I was done with Trump. I resolved that I would just trust that he would soon be gone and that despite the warnings of fear mongers and hypercautious media types looking for audiences I would just continue to assume that Joe Biden would be...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 22, 2020 | A Promised Land By Barack Obama, Culture, culture wars, E.J. Dione, Empathy, Featured Post, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality, Polarization in America, President Trump, Resilience, Social Determinants of Health, The election of Joe Biden, the president's lies
I have had the feeling, and I know that it has been shared by many of you, that 2020 was the most difficult year that I can remember. Against that universal feeling, or perhaps because of it, The Washington Post published an editorial last week entitled “20...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 6, 2020 | ACA, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, diseases of despair, Donald Trump's future, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Featured Post, Healthcare in Rural America, Improving the health of the poor, Joe Biden, John McCain, Retrograde Mercury, Social Determinants of Health, the plight of "red state" rural Americans, the president's lies, The Triple Aim
November 6, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Observations During A Nail Biter That Will Determine The Future Of The Country And Healthcare I have been watching CNN or listening to NPR for most of the time since the polls closed on Tuesday evening....
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 3, 2020 | Build Back Better, election scenarios, Health in America, Jennifer Rubin, Joe Biden, Joe Biden and the Future, Martin Luther King Jr, President Trump, The 2020 election, the president's lies, The Triple Aim
Almost 100 million votes have been cast before election day. We are told that the turnout for this election will be huge. We are also told that Republicans know that anything that reduces turnout increases their chances of winning. I am OK with their enjoyment...