About Political Meanings

The writings here date back to May of 2003 and are by David R. Remer, that's me. I was exposed to some extraordinary education in college in philosophy of everything, economics, art, society, science, and religion. One professor in particular, Nikhil Bhattacharya, had a profound effect on me in the early 1980's and opened my mind to the value of critical thinking and asking questions which got to the root of things.

I began to pay attention to my society around me, and take an interest in things I never thought I would, like economics, finance, other religions, history and more history. One day, many years later, I realized I had developed a skill at this kind of inquiry which sought meaning in the news and current events going on around me. I knew then, that writing was in my future at some point. Years later, after becoming a settled family man and stay at home Dad raising a daughter, the opportunity to write presented itself in the form of blogging.

That was back in 2002 and I set up a blog of my own. But, I didn't know how to reach out to folks to invite them to read what I had written. So, I joined a group blog which centered on political debate and discussion called WatchBlog. I had an audience, and many of the sites readers respected and provided positive feedback to the inquiries and meanings contained in my articles.

I later became the managing editor of WatchBlog, and founded an another web site which eventually became an all volunteer political action committee known as Vote Out Incumbents Democracy, or VOID for short. I was accumulating a very large number of articles between these web sites, and set up PoliWatch to become an archive of all my political essays and critiques, (beats reams of paper stacked in the corner getting dusty).

Overtime, the archives of my writings on PoliWatch became rather popular in Google's indexes and others, and the hits on my archives warranted doing something special with the PoliWatch website. In July of 2008, I converted the PoliWatch web site into a group all partisan debate web site similar to WatchBlog, and added a Forum section in which other folks with good heads on their shoulders and the thought that they should write someday, could begin with assistance and some guidance to become able political bloggers and writers themselves.

Being so new, only a week old now, the PoliWatch Forum has no guest writers yet, aside from what I have written to start the ball rolling. But, I am hopeful PoliWatch will become a community of political bloggers and writers who have a penchant for more than just replicating mainstream media news. I hope PoliWatch will become populated by younger and brighter writers who also seek the meaning behind the news, and what that meaning portends for their, and all of our, futures here in this great experiment in democracy and Constitutional government in America.

Which brings me back this blog called Political Meanings, which is now the new home for my writings and essays over the years since I began writing in the middle of the first George W. Bush administration. It seems like so long ago, now.

That is about all there is to say about this blog. But, there is much insight and history in the archives of the writings here, which predate the rest of the country awakening to the meaning of what was going on. If I may be permitted, in these writings I warned of the economic mortgage and credit crisis coming in Fall of 2006. I warned that the invasion of Iraq would cost America vastly more than she would ever get back from that folly. And I warned long before the pundits got on board, that Iraq would interfere with and impede the efforts to stem the spread of terrorism in the world.

No one I know can see the future with certainty. But, it is not difficult to see and follow trends to their logical conclusion ahead of time, when one peers behind the news events of the day and inquires into their meaning for the future. More often than not, such inquiry will put one at the front of the pack in knowing ahead of time what is likely to come to pass.