I wrote this post in on December 10, 2020 from my home office. From here, I can see wetlands formed from Mud Creek. Mud Creek is a small stream about 100 meters from my backyard. It runs for a few miles until it merges with Noses Creek. Eventually, it meets with Sweetwater Creek, a tributary of the Chattahoochee River, Georgia’s largest river.
I have been writing from this office since 1993. I will share more in the future as The Mud Creek Chronicles.
Visiting the past can help us navigate the future. This is especially true now. We have a wannabe dictator and a known authoritarian. They prefer meeting with leaders of authoritarian nations rather than democratic leaders.
Donald Trump and his sycophants were trying to steal the 2020 election. I wrote this nearly a month before he incited thousands to attack the United States Capitol Building. It was obvious. Or it should have been obvious. Autocrat Trump was showing the world that he was determined to stay in office, no matter what.
What did we learn from this attempted coup?
Note: I received this letter on the day of the election. The letter is from Skyler Fussro, a young woman living in the 2055. I have received letters from Skyler for several decades. You can read some of them here. Usually, she is calling me out for our dismal approach to education and climate change. She is also in touch with Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish climate change and humanitarian activist.
But this letter reflects a deep concern she has with Donald Trump’s election by primarily white men and women. She says that the America she is living in is more diverse than it was in 2024. By the way, she lives with her family in a high-rise apartment in central Atlanta. It is a few blocks from Five Points and the campus of Georgia State University. I was a professor there from 1969 to 2003.
Dear Jack Hassard, I write to you again 1 from a future that fills me with dread and a glimmer of hope. The years since Donald Trump's rise have been a dark and perilous time for our once-great nation. His authoritarian rule has crushed the democratic freedoms we once...
101 Years Ago, Germany Sought A Dictator: I Hope We Are Not. Germany had suffered the trauma of defeat in World War I. Significantly, there were plots to bring down German democracy. Donald Trump thinks he’s a “strongman.” He certainly utters some of the words used by dictators and strongmen. But Trump is not A strongman. He desperately wants to be. He is weak and old. Trump may be a weak strongman, but he is a dangerous wanna-be dictator. If he were elected, he would surely undermine and attempt to dismantle democratic guard rails. He’s a convicted felon and shouldn’t be president
Explore the tumultuous journey of a businessman-turned-president whose actions have left an indelible mark on American history. He is acting like a weird madman as he seeks the presidency for the third time. He said he would be a dictator (“Dictator Don”) on his first day in office. I do not speak lightly on this assertion. The plan for a dictatorship is described in the Heritage Foundation document, Project 2025. It is a dangerous plan to uproot and destroy democracy and hand it over to elites (most of whom are dumb rich folk). This is not a joke.
Explore the stark contrast between Donald Trump’s criminal activities and Joe Biden’s commitment to ethical leadership. Understand the implications of their actions on the nation’s future. It couldn’t be more stark given current events in Milwaukee and Washington.
