Personal Reflections of a Middle-Aged Man

Thoughts and Opinions as I Grow Older

Category: Frank-ly Politics

  • Democracy When I Left, Autocracy When I Returned

    Earlier this week I was talking to a friend. She was expressing her concern for the employees of a large employer in my state. My reply was to wonder what…


  • There’s A Sucker Born Every Minute

    Please excuse my word choice, but it seems appropriate for the times. While growing up, I would hear the saying, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” with others being “educated…


  • A Time of Radio Silence?

    Have you noticed ever since the election, it seems as if the political world on the Democratic side seems a bit subdued. We haven’t seen too much of Biden, hardly…


  • Out with 2024, In with 2025

    I wasn’t sure how to end the 2024 blogging year, especially as we are about to enter 2025 with an authoritarian-minded president-elect. I’ve no life experience for such a situation.…


  • Disappointed and Disgusted with Dinosaur Democrats

    I am a voter who increasingly is finding it hard to remain in the party to which I have identified for over 40 years. Yes, I am an older white…


  • American Folk Hero?

    Andrea Chalupa (whose former partner was Sarah Kendzior) has a podcast called Gaslit Nation. It should come as no surprise, it is a very liberal progressive show intent on saving…


  • Rolling Over, Playing Dead

    It has now been a little over a month since the election. The president-elect has been very busy with selecting his “nominees” for key cabinet positions. One, Matt Gaetz, has…


  • Surrounded by Sexual Predators

    The new cabinet is being worked out by the president-elect. As always, he is surrounding himself with the best, very fine people. Better than any cabinet ever assembled, and the…


  • It’s the Day After…

    There was a movie that came out in 1983 called The Day After. It was about what would occur if a nuclear bomb hit the United States. As one might…


  • A Hollow Holiday–Veterans Day

    Today was the day our nation honors our fallen hero’s, our Veterans, who fought in past wars defending democracy against global enemies, starting with those who died in World I. …


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These are the inner wonderings and thoughts of a middle-aged man who happens to be a father, husband, grandfather, friend, brother, son, and thinker.