About Jack’s Journal

We Americans have big, serious problems.

The problems are not small, like a feud with your neighbor over his burning, or you were taken advantage of by an incompetent auto mechanic. The problems are not like that; they are National, and the problems are now.

You know what the problems are:

  • the Covid pandemic and those who won’t get vaccinated;
  • the dysfunctional divide in Washington, and those who won’t compromise to get  useful things done;  
  • fires and floods and drought, and those who won’t accept that the climate is changing;
  • chaotic immigration, and those who won’t even try to fix it;
  • the quality of education, and those who protect poor teaching and low standards
  • the politization of the Supreme Court, and those who use it for their own interests;
  • inflation, and the way it hurts ordinary people;
  • gun violence, and those who supply the guns, and those who use them to rob and kill;
  • social media, and the way mega-scale wastelands facilitate misinformation;
  • race relations, those who are racists, and those who accuse everyone of being racist;
  • we don’t nominate good candidates for President; instead we get Hillary and Trump;
  • a President who seems error-prone;
  • Trump, and those who support him and his re-election.

You can no doubt add others.

These Journal articles will address such problems in an effort to inform, educate, and provide well-reasoned analysis and understanding. They will, I believe, have a unique view, and will encourage thought. It’s a journal (like a blog), so response and discourse are encouraged.

You may well and legitimately ask, who the hell is Jack Dixon to address such big and important issues? I have no dramatic answer to that. My biographical information is available in this website for you to inspect. I am 91, well educated, have a lot of life experiences, I keep informed, and I try to be reasonable and thoughtful. The answer will have to be in the reading.

The problems listed above are serious, and maybe the most serious of them all is that we seem to have lost our way and therefore aren’t able to solve them. But I believe America will survive, not because I have faith in the politicians whose job it is to solve problems, but because I have faith in the majority of the American people to soon enough get back to the central requirement of a successful democracy:  individual responsibility.

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