After decades, I still suck at being an adult

Our Eastern Coyotes are so damn big because they bred with wolves . This beautiful one was in my yard this morning

If you feed Santa after midnight https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/ne2Qh0cYapHK9OOlnjz6

My goddaughter in Guatemala selling balloons last night so she can buy Christmas bread and chicken for the people who dig sand from the riverbed near Pana. She’ll deliver it today.

Smart dog in a storm

Pretty rain in my front yard

I just said “good night Phancy, You are a good cat” And my iPhone started playing” Merry Christmas, Kiss my ass” I swear, and I don’t even use itunes

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from the struggles of an awakened civil society and public opinion expressing their plural and contradictory discourses through a free press" (70-71). Thus, it is safe to say that the US have functioned as a modern liberal democracy- albeit a flawed one.

#politics 3/?
He defines democracy as "political power exercised either directly or indirectly through participation, competition, and liberty" (110). In the African context, Abdoulaye Bathily (1994) has made the point that "By democratization we do not mean only political democracy as expressed through multi-party systems as has become fashionable in Africa recently. Genuine democracy derives from the struggles of an Genuine democracy derives ...

2/? Shoot forgot to # the last one. #political
O'Neil (2010) has a very useful discussion of democracy. He distinguishes between the Greeks' direct participation and the Roman Empire's republicanism. He then reminds us, "As political rights and institutions have expanded over the centuries, republicanism and democracy-Roman and Greek thought and practices-have become intertwined to produce the modern liberal democratic regime we know today " (O'Neil 2010, 112).

1/? I've seen a few people here mention that some on the right like to say that 'the US is a republic not a democracy.' There is a very nice way to respond to that that I use when students claim that in class. It'll take a thread though:

Night! #dogsofcoso

Not the calm day I had pictured. Warning loud children and dogs

#ADHD in Color https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/2i0xDSZyfcBw07HE6C7q #AIArt

I’ve come to realize that one of the best aspects of coso is that people aren’t constantly lecturing and exhorting each other to do or think something. We are permitted to just be.

Here is a blog from 2017 in which someone discusses their personal experiences growing up among #ChristianNationalists and the hope that people put in #MikePence #religion https://www.autostraddle.com/i-was-trained-for-the-culture-wars-in-home-school-awaiting-someone-like-mike-pence-as-a-messiah-367057/

While the groups I have written about have been evangelical and fundamentalist protestants, a few Catholic or Catholic adjacent groups have similar beliefs. For instance, Justice Amy Coney Barrett's People of Praise embraces many of the same gender and political beliefs. While obviously Barrett works outside of the home, she has been in a subservient role within the belief system. #ChristianNationalists

#ChristianNationalists. #Quiverfull Though children are kept out of most nongroup activities, they participate in such groups as Generation Joshua, TeenPact,6 and
debate groups, which prepare them for social roles (Butler, 2013). The
emphasis of many activities is on strong debating skills, so that the
Joshua Generation can convince others of the superiority of their way
of life, or at least win access to political power.

The Quiverfull movement utilizes some of the same methods as those
of the Twelve Tribes, but Quiverfull also plays a longer, more political
game by educating their children in political debate and politics, and
by giving birth to enough children to gain greater political influence
(Crank, 2005). #ChristianNationalists

1 fear of #ChristianNationalists is that secular humanism will lead to a world government. This fear has been disseminated since the 80 at least.
(LaHaye, 1980; Campbell, 2017). Because of this fear, they believe children should be trained up to hold important government posts and fight against a secular state. For more info, you can read this article that I wrote with a colleague. warning: The article does discuss #childabuse https://www.ijcam.org/articles/religion-and-state-authority-control-of-the-child Page 16 has some of the pertinent info.