by asikes1 | Jun 19, 2019 | Al Sikes, Culture Leads Leaders Follow
Politics and the Supreme Court, intentionally, have a tense relationship. Indeed Franklin Roosevelt, when President, attempted to expand its membership so it would find more of his programs constitutional. The Court has the final say and its jurists enjoy lifetime...
by asikes1 | May 24, 2019 | Al Sikes, Culture Leads Leaders Follow
How would you like to be a contestant in a game show? Well, all you have to do is participate in the Presidential nomination contest to choose the Democrat, presumably to run against Donald Trump, himself boosted by a game show. As of now you are on the clock. There...
by asikes1 | May 20, 2019 | Al Sikes, Culture Leads Leaders Follow
Amazingly, a real estate developer, reality TV personality and propagandist has created an alternative universe. Must have been something broken. The setting: the White House. The big house is well known to older generations, but the 21st Century script and staging...
by asikes1 | Mar 17, 2019 | Al Sikes, Culture Leads Leaders Follow
Striping away any veneer that might still cling, politics is now overwhelmed by emotion, completely. The national government is in charge of over $4 Trillion dollars (much of it funded by debt) in annual expenditures and many services that touch our lives daily. It is...
by asikes1 | Nov 12, 2018 | Al Sikes, Culture Leads Leaders Follow
Politics past, and especially the recent past, recall the overriding law of the jungle—eat or be eaten. Predators prevail. C.S. Lewis, in Chronicles of Narnia, wrote his youthful protagonists into the jungle where they encountered many perils along with the lion,...
by asikes1 | Nov 9, 2018 | Al Sikes, Culture Leads Leaders Follow
Chemistry is the answer. No not the chemistry DuPont talks about, but the chemistry that serves up damnably complicated politics and governance in the 21st Century. How has the political chemistry changed as the Super Bowl of politics looms? Notwithstanding President...
