Peace Center to Present a 3-Part Series on Tackling the Rise of Extremism

The Peace Center just shared an incredibly important update with Lower Bucks Source (LBS), and we wanted to bring this vital conversation directly to you, our readers.

They’ve teamed up with the Tikkun Olam (Social Action) Committee of Congregation Kol Emet to host a vital 3-part series examining something many of us have been thinking about lately: the resurgence of Fascist ideology, White Supremacy, and Christian Nationalism in America.

Basically, they are asking the tough question: How did ideas that The Greatest Generation thought they had thrown on the “scrap heap of history” manage to take root again in the land of the free?

Credit: Peace Center

To answer that, they are bringing in an absolute powerhouse of a speaker.

Steve Nolan is a 30-year career military officer who served as the Chief of Mental Health for three military installations and the Chief of Combat Stress in Afghanistan. He’s also the clinical author behind “American Carnage, An Officer’s Duty to Warn.”

Nolan is going to pull back the curtain on the individual and mass psychology behind these movements. He’ll be explaining “malignant narcissism”—which he describes as the essential ingredient to Fascist leadership—and how it impacts our current political landscape.

If you’ve been looking for a deeply intellectual, front-lines assessment of what’s happening to our democracy right now, this is it.

Here is the plan if you want to join: It’s a 3-part program running on Wednesdays (July 8, July 15, and July 22) from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

You join them in person at Congregation Kol Emet in Yardley (1360 Oxford Valley Rd), or you can stream it online. It’s completely free, but you need to register ahead of time to get the Zoom link. Click here to register and get Zoom installed.

 Let’s show up, get engaged, and learn together!