Lloyd Bowers

loybow3@gmail.com

Lloyd Bowers
  • Home
  • Books
    • Divide the Country!
    • Freedom is a Public Utility
    • The Results of Polar Bear Research
    • Keep These in the Family
  • About the Author
  • Favorite Quotes
  • Blog
  • Press
  • Contact
  • Language

Testimonials

Home Site Categories Testimonials
Submit Testimonial

Submit Testimonial

Blog

February 16, 2026

Polarization

I first heard the term "polarization" in the modern American context in a book The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisonship has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America, by political analyst Ronald Brownstein, published in 2007. Again and again, Brownstein frets over important elections decided by "razor-thin margins". The lack of common ground, expressed by politcal-party loyalty and the absence of cross-voters in Congress, suggests deep divisions in the body-politic, although the voters don't like cross-overs by politicians who represent them.


February 14, 2026

The Disunity Myth

America does not have a problem with so-called "disunity", because America is no longer a single nation. It has evolved into two nations governed by a single national government. Each election is hardly more than an effort by one of those nations to take power and depose the other. The hostility rachets up the tension before each election and makes it hardly more than a war of nerves carried on between sworn enemies.


February 12, 2026

Thinking about the Epstein Case

Given the fall-out from the Jeffrey Epstein case, more than a few Americans have dusted off their old copies of Mario Puzo's The Godfather, since it tells a number of stories about the dark side of the American Dream. The Godfather Vito Corleone leads an intriguing double-life, on the one hand as a gangster involved in gambling and prostitution—and, once in while, murder—and as a family- man with an inviolable sense of loyalty to family members and friends from the Old Country who get into trouble with corrupt Establishment types.


Lloyd Bowers

loybow3@gmail.com


Share
copyright © - 2026 Lloyd Bowers All Rights Reserved.