Persistent Resistance

  We are at an age when dedicated self-interest is choking democracy at the throat . Truth—real, unvarnished, hard-edged truth—can’t even get back in the room anymore. Not because it’s been disproven. But because if it were let in, it would name names. And those names? Too many of them now come with book deals, speaking fees, and segment intros on cable news. I saw it clearly when I wrote Conditional . I’m not an expert. I’m not a specialist. But I’ve got eyes—and I grew up on Sesame Street. I know how to play “One of These Things Is Not Like the Others.” So why is it that not a single major voice warning us about autocracy ever brings up the most glaring difference between the U.S. and every fallen democracy they compare us to ? We do not have a centralized government. We are a federal patchwork. Fifty laboratories. Fifty separate power centers. That’s not a glitch. That’s the whole damn design. Would that save us? Maybe. All of us? Probably not. But would California go down witho...

  You’re Not Canceled. You’re Just Wrong. Remember when your biggest fear online was a chain email that said you'd die if you didn’t forward it to ten people? Now we’re all living in the upgraded version—except instead of dying, you just lose your job, your social circle, and maybe your sense of reality. We don’t call it cancel culture as much anymore, but the rules haven’t changed—just the volume. Welcome to fear, rebranded. And it was born in households with cold parents and warm screens. The Myth Cancel culture is often framed as a tool of moral justice—a digital reckoning that holds people accountable when traditional systems fail. But that’s not its origin story. Not really. Cancel culture is the child of forced consensus . And forced consensus is a survival instinct born in chaos. How It Really Started Gen X parents were, by and large, raised in instability—emotionally and economically. They came of age in latchkey households, shaped by absenteeism, cynicism, and broken trust...