Recently I was accused of engaging with people in a way “which is removed from any side taking”. Although this does highlight one aspect of what I have been trying to do with Creating a Nation United, it was meant in an intentionally derogatory way and associated with not “having … More How to Take the “Side” of Compassion while Working against Divisiveness: Creating a Nation United

            Recently I been putting my Positive Political Trolling into effect on a Facebook Page titled Healing From Hate: Angry White Men and the Alt Right – The Documentary. I initially heard about this project because my brother-in-law is part of the team working on the documentary. On the FB … More Positive Political Trolling in Action: Understanding the Difference between the Alt-Right/White Nationalism and the Republican/Conservative Party through Creating a Nation United

           I began watching South Park a few years after its 1997 premier; primarily due to my parent’s refusal to provide our household with even the most basic cable. I was a senior in high school by the time I had started to pick up on the increasingly popular phenomenon. I … More South Park, Satire, and Social Media: Why Positive Political Trolling Matters in Creating a Nation United

I am choosing to begin this section on Perceived Failure with the “icing on the cake” rather than the cake itself. The conversation that follows was one of the last I had before I began my hiatus but it provides the simplest example of conversation gone awry. It does not involve a complicated and nuanced … More Perceiving Failure, Part 1: The Simple, yet Frustrating, Conversation in Creating A Nation United

        I have spent the past several months on hiatus from writing about various conversations that I have engaged in for this Creating a Nation United. I wouldn’t say that the experience has been wholly negative but it has been frequently discouraging. After not writing about these interactions, I decided that I also needed to take … More Perceiving Failure: Creating a Nation United

When Barack Obama finally returned from his post-Presidential vacation to speak with college students in Chicago I was both wary and excited about the potential public reception. To this day, I still think he is one of the most eloquent and empathetic speakers America has elected into the White House. Although his 8 year presidency … More “They” & “Us”: Reflections on Creating a Nation United

This is dedicated to anyone who identifies as an activist, progressive, liberal, democrat. The last time I wrote something was almost a month ago. In that time I have had several conversations with people across America. I have added more friends to my Facebook feed and as a result I have diversified my range of … More Calling all Activists: Creating a Nation United

There’s a new type of avoidance in town and it’s called “Blocking”. As someone who has three decades of advanced avoidance behavior, this one was new to me. Last night I had the pleasure of experiencing something that had never happened to me before. I was having a conversation with a woman, who based on … More Sometimes you will be “blocked”: Creating a Nation United

Yesterday, on March 15, 2017, I had the most interesting conversation online that I have had so far. The conversation can be found in full at the bottom of this post, but before I get there I want to talk a little bit about the process and why I think it matters. Initially, I toyed … More Creating a Nation United: “Judging me will not make you a better person.”

I had come across the Sierra Club post on Facebook several times claiming that Republicans were trying to take down the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). I came across one comment where the individual claimed that it was “a sham, proposed by one Congressman, clickbait.” Given everything that I have seen on Facebook, this claim actually seemed … More Is this the End for the EPA?