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The midterms are fast approaching, as is the “fall back” to Standard Time: that blissful-but-all-too-brief 4-month period in which our clocks & schedules align in a healthy way with our natural circadian rhythms, allowing us to flourish for 1/3 of the year until we “spring forward” back into the earthly hell known as “Daylight Savings.”

With the Orwellian-named “Sunshine Protection Act” (which Marco Rubio has been pushing since he was a Senator back in 2018 & which Donald Trump also vehemently supports) dangerously close to passing — the House has passed it, Trump supports it, & only a few Senators are holding it up at the moment — & with the “Fall Back” to Standard/Benevolent time coming in a few weeks, CJ decided to revisit the unhealthy absurdity known as DST.

Join CJ as he discusses:

• Some info on the pending evil called the “Sunshine Protection Act” [sic] that would make DST permanent, including some unhinged rants from Donald Trump in support of it, & overwhelming expert opinion in favor of ending the biannual time change, but in favor of Standard Time rather than DST
• Where the idea of biannual time changes & Daylight Savings Time (DST) came from historically. (Hint: As is usually the case with anything bad in the past 100 years, Woodrow Wilson bears some of the blame.)
• Some of the problems, costs, and even dangers of DST
• The origin of standardized time zones (which originated more in the private sector) as a contrasting case study
• The idea of DST as a rebellion against nature

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Due to events of the past 6 weeks, CJ has not only been slowed down on multiple DHP projects that, back in August, he expected he’d be able to complete in September; but, unfortunately, this has also caused his family to again be in an acute financial emergency!

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• A 2020 NBC News article on the controversy surrounding the time change (Note how, among opponents of the time change, the politicians favor year-round DST, while actual scientists & medical people support year-round Standard Time — why, it’s almost like politicians don’t give a shit about science or human health & well-being when it goes against what they want!)
• A 2019 article from Washington University in St. Louis talking to one of their experts about the virtues of Standard Time, which includes links to other related articles.
• The National Sleep Foundation’s 2021 position statement in favor of Standard Time
• Save Standard Time (a website & organization dedicated to making Standard Time year-round for the sake of human well-being)

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Unfortunately, CJ did not have time to do both an election episode & a Halloween episode this year, so he opted for the latter. (Next October, assuming the DHP is still around & CJ isn’t a homeless beggar, and assuming World War 3 and/or Civil War 2 aren’t disrupting everything, CJ will do Halloween DHP episodes again!)

In this off-the-cuff episode, CJ shares some thoughts and historical perspective on the imminent presidential election, viewed primarily through the lens of two important concepts in American political history that he’s covered multiple times on the DHP over the years; namely, civil religion & party systems.

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