Tuesday, October 31, 2017

I feel some happiness creeping back into my life (#3196)

     Taking down the trump nightmare is having a positive effect on my overall mental health. I know I am talking about an American administration that is supposed to be representing we the American people but it just isn't so. Instead it is an American administration that is representing themselves over the American people. I have a duty to resist and revolt against them as if we were in a struggle for the soul of America for surely we are. That there is now hope with legal proceedings being implemented against this administration is encouraging and strengthening my resolve to fight as hard as ever for our country. The small smile that is growing on my face is the real evidence that progress toward removing the trump stain to democracy is probably inevitable. Now I am not going to say for sure that trump will be removed but that it is a real possibility is welcoming.
     Yesterday I tried to be objective about the initial indictments being served and as has been my modus operandi of late I chose to be skeptical. Well I am well satisfied to say that my skepticism was adequately destroyed by yesterday's action. A major development toward charging high crimes and misdemeanors was initiated with more to come. The sense of relief I and a majority of Americans feel is difficult to measure but surely it is enormous. We have had to endure the worst case scenarios in our heads for months now but it seems we are to be saved from much more. That the republican party and trump specifically are inept at destroying our democracy the damage has been limited although still painful.
     If we can somehow survive the horrendous tax cut bill that republicans are working hard to give to their donors at the expense once again of the working middle poor class then we may just find ourselves awakening from the damndest nightmare I have ever experienced. While the Mueller investigation guts the trumps from within we the American electorate need to obstruct republicans in Congress from turning our democracy into a pre civil war plantation. Where the new era slaves will come from those who are in jail for not being able to support their families or businesses. This nightmare may well be ending and the little crack of happiness I see is beginning to grow into an outright ear to ear smile.

Monday, October 30, 2017

And so it begins... (#3195)

     For all the nightmare that has been the alleged victory for trump on election night November 8, 2016 I have been waiting for the nightmare to end. As improbable as it was that he defied most every poll that had Hillary Clinton winning our presidency that night, he pulled it off "somehow". Well finally, almost a year later we are finally finding out the process of that "somehow". Maybe not so much all the pathways manipulated to secure him the electoral college advantage but the behavior of his underlings is now being revealed. As indictments are served and trump colleagues taken into custody the heavy wheel of justice is turning now and much like the miller's wheel turns grain into flour, the indicted are about to be squeezed into revealing the downfall of trump.
     Now I may be getting ahead of myself by including trump but if we have seen anything from his behavior as our leader it is that he is arrogant and a bully. Which tells me that he was motivator of all decisions relating to the Mueller collusion with Russia investigation. Certainly my conjecture is based upon trump's behavior and not much else at this moment but that is why indicting these underlings is so important. They will spill the beans on trump because they are less than honorable men and saving their own skin will be their priority as opposed to telling the truth of things. Several factors have been discussed in the media which leads me to believe that there is plenty of evidence still around that will make trump vulnerable to being charged for crimes.
     What those crimes are is still in question but trump's base is about to get a lesson in reality if anything. They will see much more clearly that their hero trump is not their hero but instead a manipulator and con man who has stolen their future. His lies concerning Hillary and Barack will be shown to be just that, lies. How they process that will be interesting but surely they will not allow an initial barrage of truth to upset their cognitive dissonance but as the Mueller process continues they will eventually have to come to grips with their leader trump deceiving them. It is still early in this investigation but I am starting to get the sense that our democracy may survive the hoodwink that trump and Russia perpetrated on a now acknowledged ignorant and biased American society that was to my utter dismay, ripe for the picking.

Sunday, October 29, 2017

If you refuse to acknowledge reality you too can be a republican! (#3194)

     Well, it is a bit more than that. You have to harden your heart or just throw it out altogether to be a more secure republican. The problem with the tough love to no love republican party is that they are the ones deciding what your troubles are and then not caring to help alleviate them. Instead they want to increase your troubles because they think that more chaos and suffering is the answer to solving chaos and suffering. Another distinction about being a republican is that logic and common sense are subservient to personal beliefs. This one is the most frustrating to me. How the magic of belief is somehow greater than the real life truths of life. Sort of like children who never grew up from their fantasies.
     The concept of using a carrot and stick to motivate both animal and human into choosing behavior roles is well established. Yet how republicans employ the concept is to forego the carrot and instead apply the stick in differing measures. Well that won't work with animals and you can visualize a republican beating an animal to death as his plan to get the animal to change. In most cases it won't work and the animal will likely die. With humans it is even worse. Humans take to be whipped, like the African Americans who were brought over as slaves, with a building animosity that we non African Americans can never truly understand. Generally though we humans hate being whipped by the stick and yet republicans seem to not care.
     We democrats also apply the carrot and the stick concept to behavior change but we, unlike republicans, know that the carrot is most always the first option and the stick most always the last option. Hence the bleeding heart liberal mantra from the brutishly cruel republican party. Given the choice and knowing that all humans deserve to have a living experience free from the savagery republicans seem to enjoy, I actually am proud of being called a bleeding heart liberal/progressive. First because it demonstrate that I have a heart and second that it bleeds for justice and equality. Something republicans would not know about since their own selfish behaviors would not allow them to consider the hardships of others outside their own prejudices.
     

Saturday, October 28, 2017

The beginning of the endgame for trumps (#3193)

     The biggest mistake trump made was letting Mueller keep his investigation going. Of course the investigation going forward is the proper thing to do but trumps are not about proper or even fair and just. They are about doing harm and not getting caught so letting the Mueller investigation go forward was a shock to me anyway. Well the time for ending it is long past now and the end results are starting to come about. I suppose the trumps thought that they could sidestep any charges if they just controlled the outcome as they expected. Well the world kept turning and the trumps got caught not being prepared so here we are at the beginning of the end game.
     The arrogance of an inept con man is now on full display. He will likely use his propaganda machine over at fox cable news to lie and distort all facts concerning the coming indictments but even that firewall will prove to be ineffective since the rest of the respectable media has been alienated by trump through his "fake news" attacks. That trump has no friends in most of the country he has little sympathy from the majority of us who have been ill treated by his demands and harmful policies. His expectation that the republican party would be with him through thick and thin is coming to be an illusion he fell for as well. One thing we know about republicans is that they will eventually circle the wagons against one of their own if it causes them irreparable damage.
     Soon the trail of indictments and confessions will lead back to the con man in chief and he will be faced with a decision to make. Not unlike nixon, trump will have to decide to either let his arrogance keep him in office and try to defeat reality or accept his defeat and leave the public political scene. Knowing what I know about the creature I doubt he will let himself admit that he could be caught by such as us in the web of deceit he created. His arrogance and narcissism won't allow it. So the show will go on and trump will likely still be out front of it barking his lies while the rest of us calmly connect the dots toward his guilt.

Friday, October 27, 2017

Do not ever normalize the trumps (#3192)

     I am seeing a normalization of the trump agenda creep into the liberal narrative a bit. A sense of being constantly overwhelmed by the audacity of their vision is taking a toll on some of our less hard fighting liberal/progressive members. An acceptance of sorts to an inevitability given the relentless attack to our common decency. Well I am here to say that no such backing me down will be acceptable. I hate what the trumps are doing to us. After the election I was afflicted with a "gut punch" sensation not unlike the time a woman I loved left me for a different life. This gut punch feeling deflated me for about a week and then I got my resolve back with an anger that has not subsided.
     No matter how much crap the trumps shovel at us I will stand against them with all that I have. I am not about to lose my anger toward them and the motivation that it instills in me to call them the liars and thieves that they are. No matter how much they try to propagandize their untruthful vision. They will get nothing from me as long as they are in power. I refuse to accept anything they do as legitimate and rational. Their bullying of the rest of our society is beyond my control but until I have no breath left they will have to crush my life out to get past me. I am done playing nice and being civil with brutes who have no moderation to their cruelty.
     So in sum, join me and do not allow any normalization of trumps while you have breath. If there is one thing in life to fight for it is the truth of things. I will not abide the steady disintegration of fact and logic so that some con men/women can steal our heritage and destiny. My anger is at their agenda to harm and hurt Americans in the name of their greed. I will not tolerate them and neither should any of us who hold honor and dignity as virtues. This is a battle that affects all of us and if we don't get our heads on straight and fight it with the best of who we are we will find one day that fighting them is impossible. So do this for your future self and your children, do not normalize anything trumps and instead disgrace them with facts, truths and logic even if they care not a bit about what you think or do. Stay strong!

Thursday, October 26, 2017

The republican party has too much hate (#3191)

     The republican party doesn't care so much about others as they do about themselves. When you find that a majority of republican white people think they are discriminated against as a race, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-americans-discrimination-poll-npr_us_59f03071e4b04917c594209a, you begin to see the fact that republican voting white people cannot nor will not acknowledge that other races have been institutionally harmed for centuries, https://www.tolerance.org/professional-development/on-racism-and-white-privilege. The pattern is settled as to why these white people vote for republicans. The republican party has aligned itself more closely with a race based ideology that non whites are harmful to the American way of life. Whatever the hell that means since our nation is a melting pot nation!
     Lest anyone forget we are a nation populated from every, if not most every, country on the planet. We were only newly populated and formed a few centuries ago so we are not inherently a white race nation. In fact we confiscated this nation from dark skinned Indians who lived here for millenniums. So the argument that our nation is to be preserved as a white one is absurd and egoistically racist. Now how do we get the white republican voters to change their attitudes and behavior toward their god given right to be right about an all white society? Well I sure as hell don't know other than better education but that is a long term solution at best, but letting them gain power in our government sounds like a nightmare idea, yet here we are in that nightmare.
     Again I will say it here, there were 46.9% of eligible American voters who did not vote in the 2016 election, http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a8265143/almost-half-eligible-voters-did-not-vote-election-2016/. So to try to change the way racists think is truly a challenge so far beyond our ability. The better short term solution is for us democrats to get out our vote and make sure that those 46.9% of voters understand how important it is to have a say in how our government represents us. Otherwise we will end up with more trumps in the future if we survive this one. I have no doubt there are republicans and many independents who are now ashamed of there vote and would not do it again however there are still too many who have hatred in their hearts and no matter what the trumps do they will never accept anyone who isn't white and proud to keep it that way!

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Confounding the republican threat (#3190)

     I don't worry about foreigners coming to our land here in America to destroy us. I worry about the right wing racists here in America destroying our nation. They are here now and are doing their best to dismantle all that we have struggled to attain over the last century toward perfecting our union. For the life of me I cannot fathom how they accomplished the power grab in our nation's capitol but it has happened and the window for us to reverse that power grab is still another year away. So in the meantime we must use every ounce of energy we have to obstruct and stall the republican attempts to cause suffering and inequality to working middle poor class citizens.
     There are many more of us than them so all we need to do is engage in the voting process. I know that republicans have made it hard for us to vote and win but we have to find the path to registration and then actually voting if we are to make this current nightmare end! There should be no other greater priority than for us to get our right to vote established and then be prepared at all costs to use it. Nothing should be as vital to our health and welfare as our vote. So stop being cavalier about not caring to vote. It is vital to our continuing democracy and the continuing modernization of our society. Remember, America has always been the great melting pot of the world where all can come and be part of creating the greatest society human history has ever developed.
     We are not racists here as a rule. We have some that have hijacked our politics for now but if we would just focus on getting them out we can then focus on other important issues that don't require us having to beg and plead for our lives. The republican party has become the monster that we thought only existed outside our shores. So the battlefield is here now and if we don't prepare ourselves by arming all of us with a right to vote we will find that that right to vote will also not be available given the republican history of disenfranchising voters. Nothing is more important if you are of age to vote. Nothing! Work, partying, sports and games are all irrelevant if we become servants of masters who despise us when we weren't paying attention.

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Society has a duty to all it's citizens otherwise what's the point? (#3189)

     We must all be able to see the larger picture. Life is not about constant struggle and suffering at the expense of a few who would be kings and queens. Life is about community and partnership in all ways that make for more opportunity and involvement. We are not born into this world to become the servants of others as a rule. We are born into this world to be part of it's existence in purposeful ways otherwise why be part of a system that will not recognize or help us move beyond being conveniently ignored and expendable? Democracy is the framework for bringing all into our better purpose yet there are those now who control our democracy that are abusing it. They are not selfless leaders bent on improving the human condition for all but instead they are selfish leaders bent on improving the human condition for some and making life harder for everyone else.
     So as we all look at the bigger picture of what society should be like, we must remember that we have other options. We can get involved in our politics and vote like it is the most sacred gift we possess and elect those who see society as a framework for improving all life or we can take our society and change it by any means possible if we are denied our rights under the current political leadership. It is our responsibility as American citizens to honor the intent of our national constitution and it's amendments. We are not done perfecting our union and until we stop the current charade of leadership in our nation's capitol we won't get that chance.
     What I mean by the last part of the title of this particular blog, "otherwise what is the point?" is that the point of society is to bring us together and bond us to each other. If that bonding is not a factor in this current society then this current society ceases to provide it's core responsibility. I won't be washed up in the illusion of a democracy because of habit or what I may lose, because I will lose much more if I don't fight to keep our society open to all of it's citizens, not just some privileged ones. When one of us is bullied by those in power we all are bullied and if we don't all stand up for the one who is it won't be long before the cowardly slippery slope of the allowed bullying finds it's way to each of us. Democracy demands that we protect each other from attack and if we don't then we have failed to uphold the genesis of democracy.

Monday, October 23, 2017

Unity and vote! (#3188)

     The republican brand has been exposed for its sniveling despicable cowering to the wealthy and the radical right in our nation. That is the base of the republican party, the wealthy and the racists! So we Democrats have an opportunity to change the political majorities in the House and even the Senate. We cannot do anything through this 2018 election to remove trump from the presidency and if somehow he survives the Mueller investigation and prosecutions we can however change his ability to legislate without a buttress. By possibly securing majorities in both chambers of Congress we the Democratic party can put an end to trumps democracy destroying agenda the current Republican majorities are working feverishly to bring to fruition.
     There is only one path for us to accomplish this. We must unify our liberal voters into a common cause to end the Republican representation where we can and we must get our vote out and vote. I say it again here like a broken record, 46.9% of the voting electorate did not bother to vote in the 2016 election. That is almost criminal in my mind but it is what it is and the only way we can make this turnaround come about is to get those 46.9% back into their duty to vote. One silver lining about trump is that his and the Republican agenda is so egregious that many who voted for trump or didn't vote at all are appalled by what is currently happening. So they are prime for steering toward the Democratic alternative but we must give them a purpose.
     Unifying is the first step toward that purpose. Those of us who wish for greater liberal/progressive policies must learn to accept that change is often slow and methodical, much like it took 300 years to finally end slavery in America, another 100 years for us to crawl out of the segregated Jim Crow laws and another 50 years before we finally elected a half black/half white president. We must be vigilant in our march forward into the future often accepting the smaller steps while always preparing for the larger ones. We can do this Democratic party members with the help of the more swayable Independents and the now many disaffected moderate Republicans.

Sunday, October 22, 2017

The republican budget must not pass with massive cuts to health services (#3187)

     The time is right now to hit your representatives up especially republican senators who previously voted against dismantling Obamacare. These senators will prove pivotal in keeping the 1.5 trillion in cuts to medicaid/medicare out of the republican wealthy tax break budget. The trumps tried to end Obamacare through outright repeal legislation and failed and now the trumps are trying to do it with their budget. We must force them to remove the health care cuts from their budget through constant and forceful protest. We must make this the number one priority for the good of our nation and for those who will surely suffer irreparably without the minimal health care we currently have, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2017/07/18/435981/8-ways-house-republicans-budget-will-harm-working-families-pay-millionaire-tax-cuts/.
     This tax cut for the wealthy is obscene in it's intent since the wealthy have never been doing as good as they are while the working middle poor class has not been doing well at all. The focus should be on bolstering working middle poor class through minimum wage increases as well as social security increases among other policy enhancements. Instead this republican budget slashes programs aimed at helping the vast majority of Americans in the working middle poor class. The only way we are going to get any relief from this budget passing through the republican controlled congress is for us to put such heavy pressure on what is left of the moderates in the republican party so that they follow their conscience instead of the cruel republican whip!
     The devastation that will occur if this budget is passed will include premature deaths and suffering of the worst sort. The inhumanity of this budget will be no less than an intentional republican knife in the back of the American majority. We must stop this from occurring since the aftershock of this bill, if passed, will linger for decades if it does pass into law. We must wake up and put aside all of our differences and unite against this despicable bill. I cannot say it enough, we must stop our bickering even if just for a moment in time to make sure this budget of the republican party goes down into the dustbin of history!

Saturday, October 21, 2017

Work to unite Democrats, not to divide us! (#3186)

     It seems that every election cycle has some disaffected Democrats trying to start a third party to get more of what they want. Yet when that happens we always end up with less. Why? Because for the longest time there have been 2 major parties and although third parties in the past have made some significant differences they have not been able to break into national prominence. the reason being, much like in 1992 when Ross Perot ran as an Independent he siphoned off enough votes from the Republican Incumbent George Bush the older that the upstart Democrat, Bill Clinton was able to win the presidency, https://www.270towin.com/1992_Election/.
     Or like when in 2000, the election of George Bush the Younger was aided by the third party Green candidate Ralph Nader, who siphoned off enough votes from Democrats for Republican Bush to win by a little over 500 votes, thus taking the winner take all state of Florida, https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2000. In our more modern era, third parties have been nothing more than spoilers for deciding who wins the national election between Democrats and Republicans. So when an outreach is forming from the left to go third party the Republicans will ultimately benefit. Same goes from an outreach from the right, Democrats benefit.
     So it would behoove our Democratic party to work within the Democratic party to change our policies to reflect our more modern vision. Any other course of action to go third party is a direct slap in the face of us Democrats who are trying to change our party from within. The cost of such a third party attempt by Democrats brings about a benefit to Republicans like the current trump dilemma. We have to get our base voters out and turn Independents toward our message regardless if our message is perfect for us or not. Remember, we are building a consensus of a big tent strategy which means we must attract others who are not as pure liberal/progressives as we are but who at least share a general sense that we are working for not only ourselves but for them as well.
     

Friday, October 20, 2017

We must crush republicans in the midterms! (#3185)

     There is only one way back from the brink we are currently at and that is to stop the republican nightmare beginning in a less than twenty days in Virginia and then in a little more than a year at the midterm elections. There has to be only a single focus for all intelligent Independents and Democrats, vote for Democrats everywhere in every public position. The time has come to stop this self imposed demoralizing death scape in it's tracks. We are fortunate to still be alive as I see it because the psychopath trump could have already put us into a position of choosing between death and subservience to him. As well he could have easily by now started the last human war this planet would ever have known.
     So in less that 20 days in the great Commonwealth of Virginia we begin to reverse the abomination of republican politics. If not there will be no hope for us as a modern society. We will fall back into the despair of authoritative rule much like the dark ages before enlightenment. The crusades that existed then against the heretics of the rulers will be like child's play compared to what will happen to us when the psychopaths of today ply their advanced torturous pleasures upon us. Democracy as we know it will come to an end and those who wield power will maintain their new authoritarianism with a life long grip. This may sound a bit melodramatic but I assure you that the endgame of this is exactly the goal of the current republican party.
     There will only be privilege and advantage for one class of person and that is the obedient wealthy. The rest of us will be serfs who serve at the pleasure of our owners. Yes, owners since we will no longer be able to express our individuality through free will. Instead we will be marked to adhere to controls set forth by the most zealous of the republican hierarchy. There will be no middle class only the top and bottom of the poor class. This is the republican agenda and if we don't stop it it will come if you have the vision to extrapolate it out to it's endgame. In less than 20 days we can begin to end the nightmare in Virginia and then grow from that overwhelming victory right into the midterms where we can see the end of republican politics as an agenda to make us all subservient to them.

Thursday, October 19, 2017

No human being left behind (#3184)

     There is no deliberation. There is no exception. There is only acceptance of every one of us. Now some of us have proven to be greater and lesser human beings but that is on the maturing individual. There can be no distinction made at the beginning as to the equal value we each possess when we first begin our lives. This is why it is an imperative for all of us to have an equal opportunity to begin growing into and through to our maturity. How can we do this is an unsolved puzzle that has been elusive to us in the past. Our societies revolved around privilege and advantage instead of nurturing all toward our common goals. Several societies in the past have tried to implement structure as to child rearing and growth behavior but the powers that be cannot seem to move past the privilege and advantage dynamic.
     Even here in America with examples from the native Indian cultures of the community raising the children as equal partners has been ignored by the more dysfunctional survival of the fittest crowd. The idea of all children being innocent at birth and worthy of a proud and decent life is not able to infiltrate the minds of those who think themselves more worthy than others. Which is why we need to keep proving to them that gender, race, creed nor cultural difference is a factor when applying the same opportunities to all. Our species is varied slightly overall in appearance but not in the more important attributes like the molecular structures of DNA. We all have the same biological abilities and mental accessabilities necessary for us to function as equals yet we don't seem to care about the reality of facts as much as we care about the irrationality of our own biases.
     This is why we fight for social justice as a rule. We are still living as barbarians in too many of our paradigms within our evolving modernized societies. As we move further from the antiquity of inequality and prejudice we see the stragglers of these inadequacies fighting harder not to let go. We must force them to loosen their grip on our advancement through time and space because the future holds no place for the bigotry of intolerance. The innocence of every child born needs to be preserved at the beginning of their growth in order for a proper maturation process to take hold. We cannot treat our children any less than all children and we shouldn't treat our children as more than any other child. They, due to their own merit, will prove themselves out when they begin to comprehend what they want as individuals.

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

The little idiot emperor! (#3183)

     We have seen little enough from trump to explain his purpose for wanting to be president of the United States except maybe a personal economic one. He ran as a republican yet he is doing nothing for them that will advance the nefarious republican agenda. It is a silver lining for this democrat because he is not accomplishing the worst that he intends. He instead is alienating his party so much now that the fracture has made new bedfellows of democrats and enough republicans to stalemate the republican agenda. I had thought by now that I would be dead from all the upheaval he could have caused in my life and my anger back at him surely would have instigated me to lash out in some form that was squashed under his militant boot.
     But so far he has only shown his inept ability. Nothing so far he has done is undoable when he is finally removed from office. His executive orders will be reversed and with his lack of legislative accomplishment will be to our advantage. The unity we previously quarreling democrats are now finding is the tonic we need to not only end the era of trump but to take back Congress and again change the party majority on the Supreme Court. In less than a few weeks we will get the first indication of the depth of the destruction trump has caused to the republican party when Virginia holds it's state vote for elective office. Democrats there are doing well so far and republicans are not.
     Then we will see in a little over 1 year just how much damage to the republican party trump has done and will continue to do before then. The little idiot emperor has no idea how to manage the tremendous advantage he has had since January 21st. He has squandered his opportunities so far and made more enemies than friends. His little oversized ego is guiding his path and if we just sit back and let him destroy himself and the republican party without him destroying us then so be it. We democrats have got to stay vigilant in moving forward giving nothing even after fighting to the end. I doubt trump can defeat the enmity he has callously nurtured with his republican colleagues to accomplish anything significant and that is good for all of us, not just in America but in the world at large.

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Income inequality and voter suppression, the staples of the republican party (#3182)

     If you are a republican you believe that income inequality is NOT a problem. If you are a republican you believe that voter suppression is NO big deal. I only mention two agendas of the republican party here but they are ominous. As the republicans continue to try to lower taxes on the wealthy and reduce social programs aimed at curbing income inequality there can be no doubt as to my claim on income inequality. Everywhere you look you see republicans calling out to their base that lowering taxes on the wealthy will lead to increased jobs and production. Well their base believes them despite all evidence to the contrary.
     What has happened in the past is that when these wealthy get their huge tax breaks they put the extra money into banks or other creative enterprises that do not help to create new jobs. The only way to make the wealthy create more jobs is to tax them at a higher rate so that their profit margin shrinks which forces them to create new opportunities to make the money they were used to making. They want more wealth and to make them chase it you have to tax them at a higher rate not a lower one. But republicans don't want you to know that since the wealthy are the majority of their donors and like good little soldiers republicans follow the orders of their donors to the point beyond lying to their constituents.
     As well is the voter suppression tactics. They attack minorities as others and then blatantly say that many undocumented are voting illegally. This makes it easy for them to illogically justify the strict identification laws they roll out and the closing of voting stations where the majority of the "others" vote. They atack education and then make it difficult for these smarty pants young adults to vote at their schools. All the tactics the republicans employ are thought out through their right wing think tanks for the purpose of keeping as many democrats from voting as possible. Have you noticed that it is a rare occurrence to see a democrat make it hard for republicans to vote? Because despite our differences in policy we democrats believe in democracy and knowing that republicans are subversive in voting calculations we still believe that Americans stand above party when it comes to our national heritage. We may be foolish but we will not stoop to the republican strategy of undermining the wealth of our nation nor the constitutional right of our citizens to vote.

Monday, October 16, 2017

Rape, racism are about demented power of one over another! (#3181)

     Let this be very clear, the actions of rape and racism are about exercising power over another. Denying persons of a different skin color and/or a different gender the respect and dignity of freedom. For anyone to accept the ideology of a perverted sense of sexual domination and/or an erroneous entitlement over another human being does suggest a mentality of inadequacy. The person perpetrating demented power will display tendencies that rationalize their own vision without the confidence of logic. They will think and behave as if no other person has their obviously self proclaimed privilege in an equal amount. Theirs is the beginning and end of all rationalizations despite all evidence to the contrary.
     They are this way because they don't allow themselves to accept their own humanness. They will not admit that they are fallible in their thinking because they have no other way of obtaining their desired position. They use force without control to acquire their needs. Since they had given up the idea of using logic and common sense as their foundation. So no reasoning of argument or debate will pierce their minds or their purpose. I have seen glimpses of people like this my whole life. Some were outright takers and put down characters who alienated "others" and forced themselves upon women who were vulnerable. I knew who they were since most are long dead but their behavior is still fresh in my mind.
     Had I been older and stronger I could have confronted them but they were much more likely to snatch my life away at the hint of disapproval. Power can do that to us. It can make us quiver in the dark as we hide from their intent. I am older and stronger now and will not let any of those who exemplify that way of thinking and doing in my presence or in my sphere of living. I rebuke their lifestyle of force and belittling however the manifestation occurs. To have lived through the shame and remorse of a bygone era of rape and racism as an acceptable part culture I can say this now with emphasis. I will not accept that which I know is wrong as an excuse for anything. Power to deny will be met with power to stop the denier. Power to control will be met with the force to stop the controller. We live in America where freedom and equality are more than just slogans, they are real and it is all of our duty to keep it so.

Sunday, October 15, 2017

I want to pay taxes that modernize our society (#3180)

     I have am not wealthy nor even middle class economically, yet my taxes take a chunk out of me that has me scrambling to make sure they get paid. I have to sacrifice many things in order to make sure I have enough when they are due. Yet, I am happy to do so especially here in California where they are put to some real good usage. Nationally I am unhappy about our military budget being out of control and the only way the military budget can be reduced is by us moderating our own ridiculous military spending. Now I know military spending is a post all it's own but for today generally it is an area where we can reduce it significantly in order to provide a better social life for all Americans.
     So let me set this straight, I believe in taxation with representation as long as that representation is the will of the people and not the will of greedy selfish special interests who don't give back to society but instead pillage society. Taxation is for the betterment of society not the fear mongering influence of masked fanatics. I like it when our roads and bridges are modern and our transportation systems are sleek and efficient. I like it when our social programs that are in existence because we have not yet been able to control capitalism to the point where capitalism is a fair and just system. Unlike today where it is still mostly the dog eat dog paradigm of few rules and dishonest actors.
     I want our taxes to enrich the research and development fields of scientific and logical discovery while expanding our educational system so that not one citizen has to give up their right to be educated. No doubt I want health care for all and fair and equitable distribution of wealth between labor and management/ownership. No more discrimination based upon anyone's choice, gender or race. So that whoever we are we can participate in advancing our society toward being an example for the rest of the world instead of currently being the painful laughingstock of the world. I want to pay my taxes in order that smart and creative ideals are our legacy to pass along. Remember we will not be long in our existence as individuals but as a collective group we can build systems and protocols that make the lives of our children and their children much more inclusive and opportune. I want to pay my taxes so that we can keep building a better life.

Saturday, October 14, 2017

We liberals see a bright future whereas republicans can only see a brutal now (#3179)

     It is as if republicans don't dream at night or have any imagination. I know as a liberal/progressive I see the world through the lens of what the future could be and work to make it so. I don't want to live in the present as my only option. The present is not bad for sure but it doesn't hold out hope for all. It is still in the midst of being of antiquated thinking. We have too many souls who are content to keep things in the status quo and for me that is unacceptable. The status quo leaves too many more other souls without the same hopes and possibilities. I don't need to accept that great and grand possibilities are impossible. I look at the current present and see all the evidence I need.
     Generally, where once we lived in caves and fought for our individual survival, we now mostly live in homes and use economic forces to allow us to survive. From the ancient past to our current one we have evolved and that evolution is ongoing. We have not arrived at any form of Nirvana yet so onward and in this case upward we go into the stars. Not only are our cultures assimilating but we are becoming a more comprehensive species in knowledge and in the expansion of our curiosity. We are an amazing species whose data inputs with long and short memory abilities make us a most unusual biological data processor with sensory capabilities. We can individually and collectively analyze, reason and conclude on a panoramic scope of paradigms. Our future is boundless and we are the masters of it.
     We are just beginning the great adventure of the human experiment and nothing will stop our advancement through both time and space but ourselves. So when I hear republicans talk about going back to whatever ideal they rationalize in their minds it makes me cringe at the thought that they would rather settle for a dubious bygone era that could not have rationally existed instead of embracing what could be right out in front of their noses. If it be fear that they shrink into to avoid the future then they need a lesson in courage. If it be ignorance of what the future can be then they need a lesson in imagination. Either way, going backwards into an illusion with republicans may seem a safe harbor but it is just not so. Going forward with all of us is the safest harbor of all because we are all going toward something better that aligns with our evolving advanced natures together.

Friday, October 13, 2017

Death by a thousand cuts (#3178)

     The trump administration is well on it's way to destroying our nation one small step at a time. With his 50th signed executive order trump has just taken another backward step otherwise doing what his majority Congress was not brutal enough to accomplish although just barely, break Obamacare. Yet as we see now the intent of what a deathtrumpcare health system looks like, the courts will have the final say on this latest travesty. The trump is trying to circumnavigate the legal status of a law ultimately without the consent of Congress and by that process has practically doomed his executive order to stop subsidy payments for the poorer among us to finally have health care. The courts will rule against him in the face of legal logic and once again the courts will come to America's rescue.
     I don't know specifically how we can stop the many future cuts to our American character but eventually our nation will crumble under the many harms trump is doing to our national identity. Either our democracy will implode or our citizenry will become nothing more than cannon fodder in the battle to save it. What trump is trying to do is to take our protocols for governing and defy them with an imperious attitude of swagger and incoherence. He would lie as easily as tell the truth depending upon the outcome he is seeking. None of us will escape the sting he is wreaking upon us and if we don't accomplish some kind of legal removal he will continue his bull in a china shop act.
     Even now some republicans are starting to get that although trump plays in their republican sandbox he is no friend. He is outside the bounds of normalcy when it comes to precedence and honor. His only goal is to make himself more of what he desires and the rest of us are not his concern. Yet he is in the president's chair and his actions directly affect our survival. What must be done is his removal and in our democracy there has to be protocols that protect us from the horror that is trump. Whether our other political leaders in the republican party have the courage to stand up to him and declare him unfit is yet to be seen but it is one sure way to make sure trump is no longer in a position to destroy our democracy and continue to cause great bodily harm to our society.

Thursday, October 12, 2017

When we hide knowledge from each other we harm all of us (#3177)

     Growing up I had to learn all I could from my own impetus because those around me weren't able to share what they knew with me, for whatever reason. Most likely because they didn't know themselves. Our society is terrible at passing along fundamentals and more complex formulas for all to know. We are expected to know most all out in the real world otherwise we get chewed up and spit out. Now the wealthy children have no such problem since their parents can spend their money to make sure their children have the knowledge they need to have a better life out in the real world. Non wealthy parents are not so fortunate in getting their children taught necessary knowledge and understanding.
     So like many of us who were not blessed with wealthy parents we struggled to learn on our own. Yet not having a guiding hand in many cases our self taught awareness often came up short. This is something I hate about capitalism, it encourages us to hide information and knowledgeable utility form ourselves so that a few can prosper at our inability to compete. It has been this way since time immemorial and it is one thing that must change if we are ever going to fully embrace our modern future. I know it is good to have market based economies that encourage the ideal of merit and innovation as incentives to achieve but if we are not able to allow all to know how to fully understand the process then we are harming ourselves by creating a class of citizen who has no future.
     This class of citizenry has already grown to about half our population since that many are now working around the range of poverty wages just to stay alive. We are better than this but unless we can see the problem for what it is and then find the strength to apply a workable solution then nothing will stop this poverty laden class of citizen that even I am part of from continuing to increase. The fault lies with making learning a scheme for profit. If we do not help our fellow human beings along in the knowledge attaining process we are ultimately joining in the advancement of our own species extinction. Yet the greedy powerful political ones will not care as long as they can make theirs and the hell with all the rest of us.

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Honesty is always the best policy (#3176)

     I have come to this conclusion after many years of struggling with it. Because there were some times where the truth appeared to do much more damage than an omission. Yet, that damage was not mine to decide. I cannot understand every future implication that comes from lying or omitting the truth of something. I have to trust that the truth is what we all need to be able to decide how we next act or think. It is on us each individually to decide how the truth is received as opposed to not knowing the truth and acting and thinking without the fact of the truth. I am not a god nor a wise enough man to ever be able to distinguish the best for all. I have to trust in the truth to help us through life.
     Yes, even when the truth is incredibly difficult and harsh on us. We must take it for what it is and then choose to do what we must. Our society is a jumble of mixed up scenarios and no one, and I mean no one, is immune. We all have our harsh realities that we wish were not true but nonetheless they are. So how we next move forward should help us change the dynamics of what caused our awful truths to be real. We cannot change that which we are shielded from knowing. We are sensitive creatures all of us in our own ways but despite our sensitivities we need to gird up our defenses and accept reality as it is and then move forward into a better world if we should so choose.
     We may all be sensitive in our own ways but we are also strong as well so the truth should if anything make us more purposeful about what we do with our lives and give us the necessary knowledge to grow from it. We are better off living in our reality with all the truth and not just most or some of it. The truth of things reveal all our scabs and warts and that is real, not some fantasy that has no defects. How much better would all of our lives be if others would just quit trying to shield us from what is real. We need to know how to begin our lives and if our lives are built upon lies or omissions then we will never reach our true potential. I accept facts and truths on face value no matter how embarrassing or shameful they may be. It is then that I can go about not repeating the embarrassing and shameful realities. If it is honest then it is real.

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Courage is selfless, lack of courage is selfish (#3175)

     Let there be no doubt, there are two outcomes to our actions. If we are courageous we are putting ourselves out there with strength and conviction. If we are not courageous we are giving in to our fears and feeling the cowardice that goes hand and hand with it. When I was younger I felt that giving up my life before I had even lived it was foolish. But not all acts of courage require me to forfeit my life. I may have felt that then but it was not true. I could have been more forceful in my stance for righting wrongs if I would have realized that being courageous is actually the pinnacle of living. Yet I wasn't and I am here to say so that others may have an opportunity to learn from my mistakes. I don't mind being an example of how not to do things as long as I stopped the wrong behavior and thinking and changed it to right behavior and thinking.
     I often use my own experiences to describe human nature, acts and thoughts because for one thing I know what I have thought and done without any doubt. For another we all seem to respond closely enough to similar circumstances one way or another for me to extrapolate out what I could have done as opposed to what I actually did. Live and learn and then get better. When I shied away from a fight I was being a coward in that my fear overtook my resolve to stand for principle. I remember those moments far more than the ones where I did take a stand and felt the thrill of triumph over harm. Those cowardly moments are hard on me as I see myself as better than that but it was was it was and no one is harder on me than me.
     But those moments of cowardice are behind me and the selfishness I experienced letting myself be a coward didn't help anyone. Today I am much more confident in the selfless actions I take because in the end I am greater than lesser and the only way to prove that is by showing it. Since I was a child I have always wanted to be a force for good and living in my courage allows me that opportunity. I know I will pay a price someday sooner or not that will require my life but that is not as fearful now since I am older and have lived my life. But I wish with all my being that I had been open to learning how much more life is worth living when courage is the first and only option. I always think of my personal hero Nathan Hale and his defiant and courageous death statement made when he was only 21 years old, http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/revolut/jb_revolut_hale_1.html.

Monday, October 9, 2017

The dishonesty of the republican party (#3174)

     Nothing new here. They have been dishonest since I can remember being somewhat politically aware. Which was just after the Eisenhower administration. There has been nothing of value that republicans have offered since my early age accept nixon creating the EPA, The Environmental Agency, which now is antithetical to today's republican party. However nixon gets nothing from me on his accomplishment since it were stolen at a cost of thousands of deaths of American soldiers for his treasonous act to subvert the peace process in Vietnam by colluding with officials in Vietnam to keep the war going, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/31/opinion/sunday/nixons-vietnam-treachery.html.
     reagan lied about the effect of trickle down economics being a boom for our economy when it was actually designed to bust our economy, https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/09/27/tax-cut-fever-republican-supply-side-theory-hogwash-bruce-bartlett-column/704464001/. Much like today as trump and his acolytes are still trying to push the illegitimate propaganda. reagan also set about to destroy worker's rights by undermining unions as a force for providing equality and bargaining rights for economic fairness to employment, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/opinion/reagan-vs-patco-the-strike-that-busted-unions.html.
     The younger bush pushed us into a needless war based upon intentionally false information, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/michael-morell-bush-cheney-iraq-war/. That bush the younger allowed a booming economy to go into a great recession is fact and although there is blame to pass around the buck always ends with the president who had years to bring our economy back from the brink but didn't, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business-july-dec10-geithner_09-08/. Almost nothing any republican president has done since I have been alive is worthy of a progressive modern society. We are fools every time we elect a republican to public office and as such we are still fools for who we have leading all of our government now!

Sunday, October 8, 2017

Finding blame instead of finding solutions (#3173)

     The trumps are at it again. They don't seem to understand that Obamacare is an outline for which health insurance companies are made to be responsible. Without the outline health insurance companies are free to make their decisions based solely upon economics instead of factoring in the human quotient. So this latest call by the trumps to democrats to somehow join with them to destroy Obamacare is not only against the principles of the democratic party but is a direct call to harm and kill people. The republican mind is scary in that they don't care as much about people as they do about their own financial success. Where greed and selfishness are the higher calling with them.
     You can see it in their religious beliefs as well. They don't adhere to the Christian teaching of love thy neighbor nor help the poor and sick. They have instead turned those ideals on their head and now castigate their neighbor and revile the poor and sick. The republican jesus they serve is a mean nasty brutish one who has no relation to the supposed middle eastern man of 2000 years ago. The republican party has found that by bastardizing the bible in a way to interpret it how they want to they can pretend to be Christian while neglecting the truth Christianity portends to offer. Making claims about their new Christianity that has swept up the rest of the true believers in a trap they cannot seem to extricate themselves from.
     The sad truth is that many religious sects are now just platforms from which corrupted men can control less informed believers. It is at such a point that to be affiliated with religion makes me suspect the whole idea of faith and grace as just illusions to ensnare the gullible. Not all believers in a god or a religious ideal are gullible or uninformed but it does beg the question of the necessity of the belief if we are just used as pawns in a game beyond our intent. I am one not affiliated with any religion nor have I any belief in a god. However I do live an honorable life without the need for someone else to tell me how to do it. I look for solving solutions instead of finding blame. I do call out the nefarious ones but not because I hate them but because I love the rest of us.

Saturday, October 7, 2017

When you find your courage come join the rest of us who are fighting to preserve our democracy! (#3172)

     If you haven't already shaded your character enough to somewhat accept the trump and republican manifesto of fascism then come join us and fight to preserve our democracy if you can find your courage. You know what courage is right? It is that moment when you feel vulnerable for taking a stance you know is right! That is courage, to put your own life in jeopardy no matter how unlikely it will be that it actually ends up with death or great bodily harm. You will also know your courage when you see yourself standing up for principles instead of over your own fears of disapproval. Because the ones who would disapprove of you being a champion for the best of who we aren are not the ones you should be seeking approval from.
     Life is finite and anyone selling a story that says we should be mean to each other in order to improve ourselves is a liar and a thief. If life were perfect and some were not then some form of stick may be required. But in world as wholly imperfect as ours there is never a reason to be mean to people to make their lives better. Remember, life is finite and as people are born, live and die there is a never ending amount of suffering and disabuse that is not being eliminated. But those like the trumps and the rest of the republican party do not see life like that. They see life as not equal nor free. They want us to be under their control living as they think fit. Well that will not happen if the rest of us who are not already living out in courage will find it within themselves to quit being selfish and cowardly and join us.
     Sorry for the harsh language but the truth of things need to be known so we can go forward correctly without having any doubt about living in courage. Again it is not easy and many are hesitant to live in courage because of their perceived material loss and/physical loss. There are still brutes out there trying to subdue us to live like servants. Well none of us are born to be servants unless we actually choose to be and I doubt in today's day and age there would be many. So finding our courage and standing tall for what is right is the best remedy for changing our current dynamic of brutes leading our nation. Don't be afraid to fight, it is actually a worthy catharsis to rid ourselves of fear while giving us the pleasure of an exhilarating courageous purpose!

Friday, October 6, 2017

Cut 1.5 trillion from medicare/medicaid et al... and give it to the wealthy as a tax break (#3171)

     So republicans think this new budget of theirs is a good idea. Take from the needy and working middle poor class taxpayers and give to the wealthy who, by the way, are already wealthy. I just said that right? It is hard for me to think that there were 219 congresspeople who voted for this but 219 republicans actually did yesterday. Not only that they did it in such a way as to bypass the filibuster rule in the Senate. So we are back to trying to protect medicare/medicaid/housing/food stamps etc... with needing at least 3 republican Senators to vote against this horrific bill because all it will take is 50 votes in the Senate to pass and go to trump's desk for his signature.
     No democrat will vote yes on this despicable bill because once again it is an all republican invention. The republican party is out to destroy the American working middle poor class because they just don't care how people live. They want a large labor pool to choose from at the cheapest possible price because the one thing we know about most of the wealthy and their republican sycophants is that they are greedy and tend to be sociopathic/psychopathic. Their ability to have empathy for others is nonexistent. Yet one thing they are really good at is lying, cheating and stealing. Otherwise their minority strategies would not now be the majorities in all the branches of government.
     I know this much, if this bill does pass the Senate it will be the end of democracy as we know it. The wealthy will become even more wealthy and the American working middle poor class will have far less to live with and many millions more will fall further into poverty. Which is fine by republicans because once again they don't care about the working middle poor class. Yet they still need our votes come election time and while we still have the right to vote it would behoove us to vote them out of office in an overwhelming way. Even if this bill fails it won't be the end of it as republicans are not prone to changing from their devious inhumane ways.

Thursday, October 5, 2017

Anthony Kennedy is still the swing vote on the majority conservative supreme court (#3170)

     I am still angry as hell that republicans blocked President Obama's Supreme Court nominee and then we voting citizens gave republicans a gift for doing it. So instead of us having a majority liberal court we remain with a majority conservative one. This last election was most important in that it would decide the majority of the Supreme Court one way or the other and we got the worst of it by not electing Clinton. But the one last hope is that although the court swings conservative it still swings and occasionally it comes back liberal on some issues of the constitution. Thanks in large part to Anthony Kennedy. Although Kennedy is a conservative he is also practical about adhering to the precedents of earlier court decisions.
     He even comes down as a liberal on a few issues and the gerrymandering issue is one of them. It would be a remarkable coincidence if in this current republican controlled administration that gerrymandering was curtailed in a way that made it nearly impossible for republicans to continue to draw district lines that keep them in power. They have been very successful at it since they were able to win the house back in 2010 and from that census redraw district lines that heavily favored them winning a majority of the House district seats. The Supreme Court has not had an occasion to hear a gerrymandering case that would effect the whole nation until just now. So if Kennedy can define a test for how districts need to be drawn the end of gerrymandering as we know it is on the near horizon.
     You can see how important it can be to democracy and equality if Kennedy left a legacy that brought us to the ideal of one person one vote in expressing the people's representation. It would be a monumental achievement for a man who despite his conservative leanings ended up a liberal champion. We liberals have been fighting to end gerrymandering as a rule since we also were caught out using that dirty political strategy. We stopped doing it and have been fighting with republicans to do the same but they won't stop unless Kennedy can come in riding the white horse with a solution. The 4 liberals on the court are with him so the reality of an end to gerrymandering is real but only if kennedy can find a remedy in the form of a test to apply to his siding with the liberals and ending gerrymandering forever.

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

For the most part Obama was proactive and trump is reactive (#3169)

     In other words, Obama created solutions to problems as best he could while trump only tries to destroy things as best he can. It is like Obama is complex and can anticipate future outcomes whereas trump has only his simple hatred for the working middle poor class to motivate him to make life harder for us. The difference between the two is immense. It astonishes me that there were enough people who could be fooled into voting for the republican carnival barker trump over the democratic party candidate that best suits their classical needs. I am still dumbfounded as to how it did occur but we are seeing evidence of it with the Facebook ad buys by the Russians to demean democrats and the Mueller investigation which is showing signs of collusion between the Russians and the trump campaign to smear Hillary Clinton.
     So not only was trump able to steal this last election but he is the worst sort of person to be our leader as well. We are stuck with him until it can be proven that his acts are verifiable in court or if he decides that the evidence against him is too overwhelming and he retires on his own. Yet in the meantime we are left with trump and his mission to destroy the good work that President Obama worked hard to achieve for the American working middle poor class. What is even more revealing is that trump is showing his ineptitude fully by not even being able to control his Congressional majority and do his worst against us. Instead he has failed at killing Obamacare for now and looks like he will fail at giving the wealthiest a huge tax break.
     So even in his simplicity trump is finding complexity and he is not able to adapt to it since it is foreign to him. He only knows the way of the bully and thus far he has alienated enough of his majority in Congress to get nothing done. I dare say he will only be a one term president through his electoral theft as most of the sides in politics are loosely forming an anti trump coalition. What will come of the anti trump movement is yet to be seen but for the most part it wont include trump winning a second term if he survives his own scandals to make it through his first term. I do appreciate even more what President obama did for us in light of what trump is doing against us and as the saying goes, screw me once shame on you, screw me twice, shame on me! There will be no screwing the American working middle poor class twice for trump!

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Why does it have to happen to you before you realize it is wrong? (#3168)

     I am always satisfied when I see or here about someone who was against some common sense policy reverse course and then support the common sense policy. But all too often it is because they are victims or are personally associated with the adverse effects of the policy they previously supported. Why does it take some personal or direct cause for us to see the error in our judgment? Take for instance the recent mass murder in Las Vegas where a member of a band that was playing realized that his lack of support for gun safety legislation was wrong after witnessing what can happen without gun control. Why does it have to take being in a disaster for us to see what a disaster can do?
     Although I am grateful the young man realized the mistaken choice he made previous to the slaughter, it shouldn't take a slaughter for anyone to understand the devastation one creates. I know that putting my hand in an open flame will cause me harm and pain so I don't do it. That logic is contrary to our current policies of allowing allowing people, especially unstable people, to buy and own weapons that are not made for civilized society. These weapons are made for battlefields in the event the military needs them, not for citizens who can abhorrently take lives of others at a moments notice. I would think that the republican party would at least know this much that allowing automatic weapons to infiltrate our society without so much as a check on who is doing the owning is wrong on so many levels that the idea of it would be absurd to them, yet it is not!
     So instead of using basic simple logic and saying no to allowing free rein to anyone who wants a military grade weapon at their disposal and putting our society at risk in the public square, republicans choose not use the basic simple logic. So in light of that I can only conclude that our safety is secondary to some imagined right for the populace to have weapons of mass destruction at the ready. I could also assume that since most republican politicians take enormous amounts of campaign contributions from the gun lobby that they are not prone to advocating against the gun lobby's wishes. It is cowardice and stupidity that republicans operate under and until we decide to vote them out of office, there will be more mass murdering terrorists committing slaughters in our future.

Monday, October 2, 2017

The republican party does not care for Americans (#3167)

     In case you are too involved in your own life to notice what is going on with all of life here is a clue. The republican party does not want to help Americans to be healthy, nor to have a livable wage, nor to have a retirement. They also don't like women in positions of achievement, nor women to have control over their own bodies. The republican party does not like minorities who are not white, since republicans subscribe to a dishonest white privilege over equality. The republican party does not want full employment nor livable wages for American workers while also not wanting social programs to bridge the gap away from destitute poverty. Now I have just hit a few of the lowlights about the republican party so that in case you weren't up on reality this will help you decide what kind of person you are when you cast your next vote.
     We democrats on the other hand want full employment with a livable wage so that having to have a social safety net is less required. We democrats want women to decide their future based upon their goals and their control over their bodily functions. We democrats want all American workers to have a retirement that comforts them in the last years of their lives. We democrats believe in the unique American trait of the melting pot where people from all walks of life can experience freedom and equality not only here in America but in the world overall. We democrats want full universal health care for all of our citizens to be healthy and fully capable of living their dreams without the fear of bankruptcy if they or their children develop a debilitating illness. We democrats want the American dream for all and that is what we are fighting for.
     So if you can read this you now know the difference between the republican party and the democratic party. It is now all about you and what kind of person you see yourself as being. A republican one that could care less about the plight of Americans as they are denied more and more of their dream to find happiness or of a democratic one where we all share in the wonder and excitement of being alive in a caring society that puts all of it's citizens ahead of the republican agenda of shame, brutishness and greed of selfishness. You can go back to your busy life now and do what you do but at least now you know what the choices are for the next time when you cast a ballot for one political party or another.

Sunday, October 1, 2017

America, a scourge with trump at the helm (#3166)

     I love my country and all it's possibilities but not today and really not since trump stole our presidency. Now my love for my country is limited to the few things that are being done right in the face of all the wrong being done by the trumps. It isn't just me that is in an uncomfortable limbo about our nation, it is the rest of the world that is in shock that we Americans have allowed a con man to lead us and steal from us our pride in exemplifying equality and justice. We are now run by a want to be gangster who loves his nazi/kkk fellowship. What is even more galling are the churches who are defending his anti christian nature as christian.
     I am no follower of religion but even I respected the goodness and mercy the church tried to teach in the past. But the teachings now in the church are so far from the humility and love that Christ supposedly died for that one can only assume that Christ is no longer the example of religious exceptionalism. The cowards in the church have instead now fallen prey to the mean nasty brutish haters who would sooner crush life that lift it up. But enough about how we Americans have fallen to our knees to worship a republican jesus and instead let's focus on the barely human swill that drives our federal and state governments. These republicans have sought to diminish the nature of free will and natural rights to an economic argument centered around white pride and survival of the fittest.
     The rest of the world sees our fall into fascist tendencies with segregation being reborn and misogyny appreciated. The rest of the world is contemptuous of our current leadership and it won't be long before they are contemptuous of all Americans for allowing it to continue. They would be right in their assessment because we Americans have lost what value we had in being the model instead of the avoidance. I love my country despite the trumps and as such will fight for her to eliminate the trumps from all spheres of public office. The republican party is the vehicle for which the trumps have commandeered and until we shut down that vehicle and the trumps we Americans will continue to be an embarrassment to any enlightened mind.