Monthly Archives: May 2016

Bernie Sanders and Magical Thinking

Posted on May 24, 2016 by creativeconflictwisdom

The real issue in the election is magical thinking. Bernie supporters (like the Trump supporters) have been sold a brand of magical thinking: free college, tax reform, trade protectionism to produce the old 1950s high paying jobs with benefits, isolationist … Continue reading →

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Truth, Dare, Fundamentalism and Uncertainty in the Crises of Friendship

Posted on May 20, 2016 by creativeconflictwisdom

I have been reflecting on the circumstances in which we break up a friendship over political differences. As this has happened to me several times recently in our fraught political climate. Logically the following may be going on and may … Continue reading →

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This is How Fascism Comes to America: a Conservative View from Robert Kagan

Posted on May 19, 2016 by creativeconflictwisdom

Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing columnist for The Post. The Republican Party’s attempt to treat Donald Trump as a normal political candidate would be laughable were it not so perilous to the … Continue reading →

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Insurgencies: 1968 and 2016

Posted on May 19, 2016 by creativeconflictwisdom

Historians will draw parallels between two years of US political insurgencies: 1968 and 2016. I was a witness to 1968 in Europe: the Paris Uprising that delivered nothing as De Gaulle used it to boost the Right. In the US … Continue reading →

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Declining Conflict Handling Skills with Ageing

Posted on May 15, 2016 by creativeconflictwisdom

My late father always had a difficult strand, but it became worse with age, a higher proportion of whom he was, until in his 90s he could be very difficult to deal with, unable to meet his own interests in … Continue reading →

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Modest Realism in Conflict: Top Ten Conflict Tips

Posted on May 14, 2016 by creativeconflictwisdom

Modern political discourse in the US seems to have become detached from reality in so many ways in the current 2016 Presidential Election campaign and before. So I thought it a good time to post one of our Top Ten … Continue reading →

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Tomorrow Belongs to Trump?

Posted on May 13, 2016 by creativeconflictwisdom

My inner Cassandra fears that the combined effects of Trump’s evil political genius, the gullibility of great swathes of the American electorate, the Republican Party’s long term moral bankruptcy, the political campaign ineptitude of Hillary Clinton and the DNC, plus … Continue reading →

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The Fundamental Attribution Error in American Politics

Posted on May 11, 2016 by creativeconflictwisdom

Something that is rampant in current political discourse especially among Progressives engaged in their uncivil war: “In social psychology, the f\Fundamental Attribution Error, also known as the correspondence bias or attribution effect, is the tendency for people to place an … Continue reading →

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