The Lonely Conservative: Ideas for the out-of-step

Anyone who is 65 or younger, especially if “well-educated,” has throughout their life, probably received a consistent message from society's mind molders—the schools colleges and media—that liberal is good, conservative is bad. 

Broadly, that translates into redistributing from the Haves to the Have-Nots: whether it’s more taxpayer-paid programs for the poor, supporting Palestinians over Israelis, and, of course, supporting Democrats over Republicans.

I have both liberal and conservative friends. In recent years and acceleratingly so in recent months, the liberals are feeling buoyed and/or angry, while the conservatives are more often sad, silenced, and often lonely. My Psychology Today article today offers a few thoughts for conservatives.

A Total Misfit: A short-short story about a man uninterested in what most people care about

Some people just don't fit in. They have no interest in what everyone else seems to be interested in. 

I write a short-short story about such a person in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

Stories of Seclusion: "I'm Not of This Planet"

This series, Stories of Seclusion, tells composite stories of people who have been or feel alone.

Today's installment tells of a man who often feels so out-of-step with societal norms, he says, "I'm not of this planet." 

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers some of his thoughts.