Dr. Potts (Picture is my late wife).

@wtfm.lol

Author. Strategist. Located in the Philippines. Writing about the Indo-Pacific/West Philippine Sea. Still fighting fascism. 📚 https://books2read.com/ap/xqY50L/Cliff-Potts 📡 endfascism.xyz | occupy25.com | wps.news

This isn't about today's headlines. It's about a discussion America should have had in 2006. We postponed it. We argued about everything except the one question that mattered: What should our long-term energy future look like?

☆ Thank you for spending another morning with Grandpa. History isn't just about presidents and generals. It's also about the kids who stayed awake at night wondering whether the adults in charge could keep the world from destroying itself.

☆ Tomorrow we'll remember Hiroshima. My goal isn't to tell you what to think. It's to help you understand why that day still echoes through history, politics, literature, music, and the memories of people who grew up in the nuclear age.

Did your union ever admit it failed to recruit your kind of work? Did organizers arrive years too late, after layoffs, outsourcing, and contracting had already hollowed out the field? Tell us what happened. We are collecting the history they left unwritten. WTFM.LOL

Twenty years ago, Kevin Phillips warned that America's dependence on oil was becoming a political problem, not just an energy problem. We largely ignored the conversation. Twenty years later, we're still living with the consequences.

☆ I also wrote about these fears in WPS News and turned some of them into fiction in Eight Feet of Dirt. It's set in 1959 because I wanted readers to experience the world as people understood it then, not through the benefit of hindsight.

Organized labor did not merely fail to win technical workers. In many workplaces, it never seriously tried. That distinction matters because it changes the question from “Why were workers hostile?” to “Why did the institutions responsible for organizing fail to arrive?” WTFM.LOL

☆ That's why you'll hear me mention books like Alas, Babylon and films like Fail Safe, Dr. Strangelove, Planet of the Apes, The War Game, and later The Day After and Threads (available on YouTube). They were mirrors held up to the anxieties of their time.