The line wasn’t coined by Donald Trump. Every Republican who declared their candidacy for the presidency stated that we needed a president who will “make us proud again to be an American.” It wasn’t that long ago when Democrats were rallying to “return America to greater standing in the world” and to find our “moral authority once…
Category: Gary Kroeger
The Current State of Affairs
If your aim is true as a politician, then you must be willing to go where you are needed most. For over a year I have dreamt of representing the people of Iowa’s First District in Washington and have worked toward that end every day and night. Along the way, however, I have become increasingly…
What’s your CSI?
Do you know what I’m really tired of? Besides, shortfalls in education budgets, short-sighted environmental policy, political bickering, hyperbole, and demagoguery. I’m tired of acronyms. The intention of an acronym is to reduce space in writing. Once a long name, like the Association for the Proliferation of Acronyms, has been established in a document, the…
THIS is the right time!
The other day a friend asked me why I am running against two well-known Democrats. He said, “Kroeger, you’re not known in politics, maybe you should look at this as your trial run and prepare for another race in a couple of years.” I understood where he was coming from, I’ve heard that before and…
Social Acceptance
A recent poll said that 43% of the Democrats polled in Iowa identified themselves as “socialist.” I find that a bit suspect and alarming and it has stirred controversy among Democrats and Republicans, alike. Democrats who don’t want to identify with socialism and Republicans to fan the flame that Democrats want to take America toward…
A Capital Idea!
I’m a Capitalist. I want a boat, a bigger house (maybe with a moat!) and I want make enough money so that I never have to worry about the bills…along with a sports car and a little bling. And if my capitalist dream ever comes true….I won’t change one word of what I’m saying today about the market, regulations and…
The Sky is Falling!
I was talking with someone with whom I share very few political positions. We respect each other and I always enjoy our discussions, but we are political opposites. This was not an angry or contentious discussion by any means, but toward the end I realized, perhaps for the first time, that our views of the condition…
Who’s the greatest of them all?
I saw a poll among voters that concluded that President Obama has been the worst president in post-FDR history. They ranked President Reagan as the greatest. It isn’t hard to dismiss this sort of faux-information as meaningless, given the fact that The Kardashians and The Bachelor continue to get high ratings, but I must admit that a wave…
The History of Winners
Years ago I was struck by a line from Woody Allen’s “Crimes and Misdemeanors.” The film’s protagonist, Judah, imagines his family celebrating a Passover dinner as he contemplates (his real life) guilt after having his girlfriend killed. He asks the table about the ethical consequences and his imagined aunt responds, “And I say if he…
Reply to All
Sometimes something will circulate on the internet or pass around as a mass email that will catch my attention and I will feel the need to respond. When it is something that I believe to be dangerously false or propagating a destructive myth, I will send a “Reply to All” message back to address some of the…