The Democrats’ problem with Donald Trump Fearful repression is no match for fearful aggression. The Democrats have fearful repression which means discovering that they have a mean and even cruel streak in their unconscious threatens their belief in themselves as good and decent people. If you’re a Democrat and “doth protest — this — too much,” relax. All people have a shadow to their…

There can be no real independence in a society that lives in denial of facts that it chooses not to believe. The boiling frog is an apologue (moral tale using animals) that talks about putting a frog in water and gradually increasing the temperature until it is boiling and in…

As a leading resource for helping people overcome conflict avoidance, I recently did a LinkedIn survey across my general feed and 16 groups I belong to asking: “How often do you feel conflict avoidance contributes to an individual’s or organization’s failure?” Of the 525 who voted, 71 % answered Frequently…

I will make this mercifully if not shamefully brief because it is more hypothesis than thesis. It occurred to me during one of my walks where I do my best, and oftentimes most outlandish, thinking. I will let you be the judge of which it is. Many will say that…

When you’re a hammer the world is a nail; when you’re a Supreme Court Justice, the world is the Constitution. How can we improve the chances that SCOTUS will be impartial in its rulings, when underneath each Justice’s ruling is an all too human being? By human, we mean someone…

Do you know what fearful aggression is? It’s the way many animals act aggressively on the outside when what it fueling it is fear. …

A know-it-all who doesn’t know what he’s talking about is a jerk; whereas a know-it-all who does know what he’s talking about is merely an a-hole. — Do you know any a-holes? When you interact with them, do they get the better of you? Do you deal with them by trying to avoid them? What if there were a way to interact with them where they never get the better of you and you therefore never have…

The main and possibly only hope for the Ukraine War to end in favor of Ukraine, is for the war to last long enough for the Russian people including their oligarchs to become a “rising tide that lifts all hopes” by breaking through Putin’s KGB mind through a sheer and…