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		<title>History Does Not Provide a  Road Map To a Better Future</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Each historical age deals with the same basic issues. They are dealt with different technologies, but the issues themselves would be recognized from the stone age until now. How will individuals and their social/government groups make a living? What kind of family units will exist? How will children be cared for and taught? What kind of spiritual practices will satisfy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Left vs. Right is not the Issue, Rather Democracy vs. Extremism</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/left-vs-right-is-not-the-issue-rather-democracy-vs-extremism/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is the political left that our current administration attacks vehemently and relentlessly? It is not a single entity of opposition to any current leader, nor does it describe any single political position.  The political left describes a broad spectrum of ideologies that favor governmental reform in the general direction of more social equality. This political [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Deja Vu History or a New Society?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 04:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Contemporary times have a feeling of deja vu, especially for a history teacher.  Our new administration has its inspiration in an incompletely understood past.  We can begin with an economic system built on protectionist tariffs which harkens back to the 16th to the 18th centuries in Europe. It was called mercantilism.  The system was simple, a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>THE IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 04:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a former world history teacher at Wausau West and Newman high schools, I am dismayed by the attacks on this academic discipline in contemporary United States.  As Mark Twain said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”  History is a story of the past and cannot be repeated because change has occurred, but [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I Am Woke and Liberal</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 04:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am woke and liberal in philosophy, so people are surprised that I have MAGA friends. I am a bit concerned, however, that they may no longer consider me a friend. I have much in common with the MAGA people I know, whether it be the Packers, Badgers, Brewers, Bucks or golf, we can always talk about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Don’t Let Fear In</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 04:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our American society is a big house. There is room for MAGA, Woke, liberals, conservatives, non-political, but not for the plutocratic oligarchic kleptocratic authoritarians now in charge of our government. We, as the people of the United States, are not in favor of a small group of billionaires taking over the government and mining it for our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tariffs and Oligarchy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 04:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is a tariff? It is a tax placed on items imported from another country. Does the other country pay the tax? No, the American importer pays the tax and then passes the increased cost of the product on to the consumer. Who benefits? If tariffs become the major way of collecting taxes it is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Need for Empathy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 04:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is empathy? It is the capacity to “walk in another’s shoes.” To walk in another’s shoes means to understand, feel, and identify as an other. It is different from compassion, which is when one in a superior position feels sorry for a less fortunate other. Empathy is a two-way street. The feeling of understanding [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Realigning the U.S. Towards Dictatorships is Dangerous</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 05:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The new administration is realigning US foreign policy in a dangerous direction.  Instead of traditional alliances with democratic countries, current leadership has expressed admiration for, and aligned interests, with dictatorial leaders.  Principle among these countries is Putin’s Russia.  Russia, is basically a failed state.  Putin’s leadership has handed power to an billionaire class (oligarchs), who [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ultra-Rich are Working to Mount Anti-Democratic Coup</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 04:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Under the cover of religion, and promotion of social-political issues, some members of our ultra-rich class have launched a coup. They have insinuated themselves in the government and judiciary to vote themselves huge tax breaks. Under the last administration, a $1.7 trillion tax cut was enacted. It was heavily tilted to favor the top one-percent. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Words Matter Today Just as They Have Throughout History</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 04:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“In the beginning was the word.” Words matter. They are the stuff of thought. They give shape to our identity, our memories, and our personality. Words float in the air as vibrations of sound, and as electrons via various media. Some we hear, some we read, and some we speak. The world is resounding with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Do We Want a Government of Laws or Men?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 04:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We just celebrated Memorial Day honoring the sacrifice of so many Americans fighting Fascism in WWII. Fascism is a highly personalized authoritarian system. Why should people obey an authoritarian? Their power relies on expressions of loyalty. One approached medieval kings with bows and paeans of praise. They were raised on thrones so that they were [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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