The all or nothing republican party (#3226)

     Using the reconciliation process to pass major legislation, like the current disingenuous tax bill, is the proof of the republican party's concept of "my way or no way at all". Reconciliation allows for the republicans to pass legislation through the senate with only 51 votes. In case of a tie, 50-50, the vice president gets to cast the tie breaker and since the vice president is a republican all the senate needs are 50 of the 52 republican senators to vote for the decimating tax bill for it to eventually go to trump. Instead of using a bipartisan approach on tax reform that makes good economic sense and does not destroy the working middle class recovery, republican have chosen to hurt the working middle poor class so that they can give the wealthy even more tax breaks they don't need.
     Income inequality between the wealthy and the non wealthy is enormous as it is but this tax bill by republicans will make the disparity even worse, http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/22/news/economy/us-inequality-worse/index.html. We democrats can and do recognize that the tax code could use a refreshing and would have worked with republicans to modify some glaring problems within it. Yet no, republicans wanted more and the more is the great tax cut for the wealthy that they don't need but want anyway. So if it hasn't been obvious to you yet that the republican party represents the wealthy and not the working middle poor class then you have been living in an illusion. So since we American working middle poor class are the 95% majority in the United States it makes me wonder why we cannot nor will not support the democrats who are for the American working middle poor class?
     What I find is that many who still support republicans are hung up on social issues. They put their belief systems ahead of logic, education and science because they are afraid to learn the truth about all things real. The republican party takes advantage of that while also dividing us against each other with smoke and mirrors that play to our biases and prejudices. Using subjective emotional tactics republicans have effectively taken our objectivity and replaced it with a survival of the fittest, cause harm where it feeds your selfishness attitude philosophy. Even the religious community has now evolved into a sort of white supremacy platform that accepts the cruel brutish sins of their leaders over the morality of their non republican opponents.

Putting the pressure on republican senators (#3225)

     Today, tomorrow and the day after are crucial to us democrats if we want to salvage what is left of our society. The senate republican tax giveaway to the rich and burden to the American working middle poor class is about to become law if we don't make it too hard as possible for some moderate republicans to vote for it. The moderate republicans in the past have helped us stay the destruction of Obamacare for the moment and now we need them to do the same for this horrendous economic redistribution to the wealthy. The koch brothers, longtime right wing donors, are threatening the republican party with withholding their massive annual funding for republican politicians. The kochs want this tax break so bad that they are willingly letting everyone know that if their lackey republican senators don't pass this bill that they will make it harder for any defecting senator to be reelected.
     So the only way we democrats have as a path to defeat this bill is to make sure these republican senators will lose their reelection no matter what the kochs do if they vote for this bill. It is the only way we can make them understand that the people of the United States are in charge here, not the koch brothers. There are enough republican senators who are already reluctant to vote for this disgusting bill but we need to put all the pressure in the world on them to keep them from caving to the trumps and kochs. All we need are 3 votes to defect and the bill will go down to defeat. It is especially important because like the Obamacare destroying bill, republicans only have a small window left to them to pass this despicable bill with only 50 votes. I don't mind doing some tax reform in general but not under the conditions republicans have forced into being and not under the guise of a wealth redistribution to the top 1%.
     Our focus has to be hard and continuous on the disreputable republican bill so that it is not passed in the dead of night while we were otherwise engaged. Stopping all things trump for now is all we can do until either the Mueller investigation disrupts our political landscape or until the next election in 2018 and we can wrest control of Congress from the current republican majority. Either way we need to stay on top of all that we can do through protest and resistance. We cannot allow distraction from keeping our vigil on blocking the trump agenda. We can do more than one thing at a time as so I have been reminded but I also know we liberals tend to get hung up on the outrageous while letting death defying legislation pass by without much obstruction. We have to keep tour priorities sharp and clear and with the short term crucial problems as well as the long term crucial problems. Either way we need to keep our nerves on edge for the next year unless the Mueller investigation changes that dynamic.

Defeating Moore in Alabama (#3224)

     There is nothing more important for any of us at this moment in time. A convergence of the worst candidate republicans could field and a very unpopular president and despicable republican led congress has given us democrats a chance to overcome an impossibility unprecedented just two months ago. There is little doubt that there is a democratic tide coming in 2018 to sweep under many previously held republican seats in congress but the tide couldn't be more appropriate if it started it's trajectory here in Alabama, roll tide! I know that the state is a deep red state with no statewide office held by any democrat. But with a great democratic Alabama son running with a moderate tone and a willingness to work with all Alabamians to make a real difference in their lives the chances of this senate seat turning blue becomes somewhat probable.
     If this becomes a watershed moment for democrats in 2 weeks time the idea that the south is beginning to turn it's back to republicans gives us democrats a chance to offer a moderately progressive agenda aimed specifically at improving education, health care and opportunities for employment that would lift the south up in more general ways. Focusing on tabletop issues of economics, education and health care would go a long way toward renewing a democratic partnership with the south. It can all start here in Alabama culminating in the next 14 days. But we cannot sit back and expect Alabamians to learn this on their own. We must get our resources out to the democratic candidate Jones so he can make his case in the most effective way, loudly and often.
     It will take an inundation of advertising and message focus to get Jones over the hump of the traditional knee jerk voting for republicans in the south. That Moore is a dastardly alternative to Jones will help and highlighting Moore's penchant for young girls can only deepen the mistrust and dislike many Alabamians already feel toward him. Jones is a candidate that has shown that he is tough on those who harm while wanting a more prosperous and enlightened future for his Alabama constituents. The time is now for all of us nationwide to get on board with Doug Jones and help him get his message out there with a flood of support over the next 336 hours. The time is now and the tide is ready to roll!

The collusion of trumps and Russia appear to be true (#3223)

     From the end of the election until now I have suspected something untoward with our national election. The idea that trump could carry otherwise states that had polled against him right up until election night in November 2016 seemed implausible. I know that his message of hate and division was popular with a minority segment of our voting electorate but in no way was it as popular as it showed the night of the election. So something else had to be in play of a nefarious nature. The republican party has shown over the last many decades that is not above changing the rules of our elections to help themselves gain power. From gerrymandering absurd districts in order to secure representation to disenfranchising legitimate eligible democratic leaning voters.
     Now we are seeing the slow exposure of evidence that is making a case for treason against the trumps and the republican party. There were voting machines that were tampered with but those investigations were shut down by republican leaders. There were high level meetings with Russians by the trumps that were not disclosed or were lied about happening that have now been shown to have taken place. There was the warning before the election that the Russians were influencing the outcome of our election in order to get their favored candidate elected. But even worse were the republican leaders who refused to disclose this intelligence from our internal security services about Russian involvement, https://crooksandliars.com/2016/12/mitch-mcconnell-squelched-disclosure.
     With the ongoing Mueller investigation into the Russian connection most all of us still stunned voters expect the rest of the facts to come out. That the trumps colluded with the Russians in order to rig our election seems most likely now and for that there should be recompense made to the American people. As Mueller continues to acquire the necessary proof of the collusion we must stop all things trump that is possible in order to limit the damage the traitor to his oath of office made to protect and serve the United States of America. That he was even given the oath of office is an abomination and the punishment for the trumps and the Russian collusion should be severe and swift.

Accepting the truth of our past will help us put it behind us (#3222)

     The simple fact of being honest about who we are and what we have done is the first step toward growing into maturity. Otherwise if we lie to ourselves or refuse to admit the truth we will never grow beyond our own shame and fear. This is real simple folks. We cannot change the past no matter how we try to manipulate the truth of it. It happened and it will never change no matter how it is lied about. So letting the facts of what really happened be laid out for all, of at least someone, to see is the only way we will ever become a society that is evolving forward instead of staying still. Who am I kidding right? Who among us wants to spread the word of our past if it is ugly and disgusting? Truth is though that we have to tell someone who will listen and not judge us while informing us that our nature to be selfish and cruel is not acceptable in a civilized society.
     We are all guilty of bad behavior. Did you hear me? Every one of us is guilty not only once or twice or tenfold, but most all of us many times over beyond counting. So the idea that we would assume that we are the worst of what a human being can be is ridiculous. However some of our truths are much worse than others and that is where we need to find professional counseling that will help us overcome it and face the consequences of our hidden secrets. I had a problem with alcohol and most all of my dirty little secrets have a direct link to being inebriated. I have come to terms with that and first off quit drinking. Then came my remembering of the worst of what I did and making amends where possible and being open about it with another human being. This is the only way I know of as to how to let go of the past and actually change who I was into the better version of who I am now.
     What we see in our national politics with republicans is an equivalent manifestation of my own problem. Although it has little to do with alcohol it is still a vehicle toward expressing low esteem in a malicious and uncaring way. Politics, like the survival of the fittest dogma, is a virus that seeks it's comfort within us. When we humans treat each other with discriminating disrespect and indignation we are proving our own hatred and condescension without a blanket to break the fever. We live to instill the worst of who we are because we cannot get past the worst of who we were. We all change over time and that is our own personal evolution so letting go of the past by telling the truth of it is our remedy and our prize is a greater wisdom to live out the rest of our lives with.
     

If you want to keep breathing you better get serious about politics (#3221)

     That is correct. If you care that our planet has any breathable air left for the many of us you had better get involved in what politicians are doing. You can be safe with democrats since we want clean air and water. We democrats have worked to improve our atmosphere and water supply so that it is cleaner and more abundant since the onset of the industrial revolution. Yet the republican party politicians are working to dismantle the cleaning efforts of our water and air. Just as two examples look at the mess republicans made in Flint, Michigan with the water supply and have as of yet to repair that on going damage, http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/04/us/flint-water-crisis-fast-facts/index.html. Second look at the current trump administration and their efforts to dismantle the (EPA), Environmental Protection Agency, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/02/donald-trump-plans-to-abolish-environmental-protection-agency.
     So if you are still using that same old argument that all politicians are the same you are not paying attention and in fact you are part of the problem by not being more informed. To continue to repeat falsehoods about how our politics operate you lessen the chance that we can save ourselves from our own ignorance on our part and greed on the part of the republican party. This is not a false flag warning. Those of us who have been witnessing this demolition of enlightened thinking since well before the Reagan era have seen enough events to know what each political party is doing. True, both parties have some minor quirks to them that make us all shake our heads but in the bigger picture it is only republicans who are actually reckless and uncaring about the future of our species.
     The republican party has decided that they will wean out humans they determine are unworthy of life. Yes, that is what I said! They feel the survival of the fittest concept is the best concept and they set the criteria for determining who survives and who doesn't. Of course that is outside their own dispensations for themselves through privilege and advantage. The republican party also would destroy our planet for most habitable life even if it meant that they were to die themselves. I know, how can I make that kind of statement? Simply by following their agenda. They would destroy without considering the consequences of their destruction and therein lies the problem. The republican party will only see what is in front of them and even then they will lie to themselves if it means they somehow can make a buck from it or to puff their chest out and say look at me aren't I special!

Democracy is an earned value otherwise it will be taken if we don't safeguard it (#3220)

     What we are seeing with republicans right now is a willingness to steal our democracy from us. From their winnowing of American citizens eligible to vote to their attack on our free society by instituting christian religious fundamentalism into our laws, it is plain for all to see and decide for themselves if we want a theocratic form of government or a democracy. This move to stifle voters in heavy democratic leaning areas is not hidden, it is well documented and by manipulating the laws republicans have been successful in their efforts. Although some court cases later may decide the fate of prejudicial gerrymandering by republicans other efforts to stifle the vote fall along the poll tax spectrum. Manipulation is how republicans proceed and there is little to stop them given their current command of our legislative, executive and judicial branches.
     But their blatant attack on the rights of citizens and the policies of government designed to help those of us who are not filthy rich have begun to stir the type of resistance we are going to need to grow in order to stop the republican advance toward a theocratic/authoritarian form of government. The republican party is not above going to the treasonous extremes of colluding and partnering with our enemies abroad to secure victories at home. Our national government has never been weaker and more susceptible to losing the battle to protect our democracy than right now. So the only other alternative to us the citizens of the United States is to take to the streets and airwaves to demand that our republican representatives back off their push to destroy our democracy, all the while preparing to vote them out come 2018.
     Many in our nation are ignorant to the happenings given the cognitive dissonance and their duty to their peers to follow along like good little sheep. So maybe we deserve to lose the greatest form of government if we are so cavalier about denying that it is under attack. But the many of us who are not ignorant and are calling out for the rest of us to get on board with crushing this attempt by republicans to take that which is the most profound from us, which is our open and free society, will find that we will not go quietly or silently into our future without forcing a showdown. I think of the patriots who have given all for our nation to have the great mighty democracy that is here right now and with all I have I will not dishonor my heritage as an American citizen by letting little punk thieves from the republican party destroy it.

Thankful for having a liberal progressive mind and heart (#3219)

     I am the best version I could ever be as far as trying to live a good honorable life. I do not accept the selfish bigoted view of conservatives who want what they want when they want it whether it is right or not. Their survival of the fittest mindset makes them think they can take without bearing any consequence of their taking. Well that is not me. I would rather do without even when it is mine to have if it gives someone else a more needed fulfillment. I do not see luxury or even beyond necessity as right for me when so many are just trying to survive. When children go without and feel the brunt of shame because of the hand me down clothes or the meager opportunities they can only muster. I do not blame the parents for the fate of their children I blame society for not giving the parents more opportunity to provide a more adequate upbringing for their children.
     Which is why I am thankful for being a liberal progressive. Because I see the path forward for a better society that annihilates the survival of the fittest selfishness and instead embraces a floor, beneath which no one may fall. From there we give opportunity to all and then allow for differences based upon creativity, innovation and merit. But first we must all have the beginning that is worthy of every human life. This is what I am thankful for because it takes those shameful moments of poverty and lack of opportunity and replaces them with an quality of life that leaves no one without the means nor opportunity to be the best version of who they are.
     The nuts and bolts of this ideal has to come from the considerations of many in order to get the most profound and efficient way for our society to treat each of us with the respect and dignity that we all need to begin with. Our society is built to include all of us otherwise what is the point of society? If all society is going to offer is only opportunity and respect for some through privilege and advantage then the ideal of cooperating in that society becomes disadvantageous to the many. So a rethinking to how we apply our society to all must evolve otherwise the society will fail. We are still in this discovery mode as to how to best formulate our society and when we all speak out about what the problems are and what solutions may be available we will then begin to grow our society to match the needs of our citizens while including us all with the best chance to be the best of who we can be.

The 2018 elections cannot come soon enough! (#3218)

     I don't know how we survived this long under the dark cloud of republican rule in all three branches of our government. But if we can somehow hold on until November 6, 2018 the nightmare that is trump and his acolytes will begin to brighten. Because on that day there will be a massive voter turnout unlike any mid term election in recent memory that will bring back to our Congress to a democratic vision. Not only will the House likely turn blue by a good margin but the Senate, which was a concerning prospect only a year ago, will find that the majority by probably a somewhat slimmer margin, will turn it's controls back to democrats. Controlling the House and the Senate will only give us democrats one of the branches of government but a mightily important one in our quest to control and deny the trump agenda.
     The presidency will not be subject to change unless of course the Mueller investigation makes it so, so not until 2020 will we get a chance to flip the presidency back to where it should have been with democrats in charge. But until then the Congress is the focal point of 2018. What that does is give us dems the ability to manage the unbridled selection of far right wing judges being allowed to be seated in life time positions. It also gives us the opportunity to actually debate policies with trump that he otherwise would not have to do given his current majority in Congress. That fact alone gives us Americans the check against the far right which is leading the republican party.
     But of consequence as well if not as much are the state house races where 48 states will elect officials to lead their states forward. Many are republican controlled as of now but with the disenchantment now permeating our nation with the trumps and their working middle poor class destroying agenda I expect the republicans to be on defense in protecting what leadership positions they have with little hope in many areas. So if things go as they are now projected our nation will begin to awaken from the trump nightmare with an actual agenda to not only stop trump but to reinstate some normalcy back to local and national governance. It cannot come soon enough as the trumps are trying mightily to destroy as much as they can before their limited time in power comes to a halt. We must keep our necks bowed to the task of reversing republican rule though in the meantime to limit the damage that will have to be reversed beginning in 2018.

Most of the wealthy are polluted souls (#3217)

     Maybe it is time for the pitchforks to come out. The constant greed of the wealthy, especially the worst of the wealthy, is mind numbing and painful to the American working middle poor class. Where these less than honorable souls get their constant need to hurt others is beyond me. Instead of being grateful for their "successes" they turn obnoxious. They are boors of the worst kind in that they like being boors. They feel like the world is their oyster to open and expose at their will no matter what happens to we the metaphorical oysters. They live in a condescending bubble that is without the struggle and plight of despair that they create. Instead of championing improvements in life for all who would try, they crush the souls of the rest of us as if we were an annoyance to their being.
     They don't equate that their good fortune is at the expense of all of us having a better chance for a better life. They can only see inwards toward their own desires and make decisions based upon their wants and needs. I keep saying this over and over and maybe someday everyone will understand this that there are finite sources of money and if the wealthy control most of the money then the overwhelming majority of the rest of us have less to spread out among ourselves. Which makes life miserable and chaotic for most of us especially the poor. I get that the wealthy deserve through merit and hard work the rewards in life for their successes, yet not at the expense of the rest of us who are working hard to just keep basic necessities within reach. The wealthy do not need to be super wealthy and there has to be a mechanism that caps the wealth that anyone or any corporation can obtain.
     There is too much wealth at the top where there are too few souls hoarding. The rest of us are fighting over table scraps and that is not how a healthy democracy survives. Because after a bit of time the rest of us see the necessity of demanding a more sensible economic distribution. The wealthy who deserve and have earned their fair share deserve rewards but not an endless amount. The rest of us deserve to have more than table scraps as a reward for hard work. Somewhere in there is the model of a solution but we are not there yet and until we are the wealthy need to be stopped from ending up with all the money and the rest of us ending up with even less than what we have now.

The republicans and their undertows (#3216)

     This is a wave themed post about how we democrats are building momentum toward the coming mid term elections on November 6, 2018. The building blue wave is beginning when all special elections are taken into account. Democrats are over performing everywhere, even in deep red states and although we democrats have not busted through with any major deep red state victories, in our losses we were as close to winning as we have been in many many decades. In fact we are not only losing these close supposedly blowout wins for republicans but we are destroying republicans in blue state victories. To recap, we are close to winning where we were previously unable to compete and we are winning heavily where we were previously challenged. So the tide toward democrats is building and there are many elections that have taken place recently to prove this, http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/360860-cook-political-report-predicts-democratic-wave-in-2018-midterms.
     So the question becomes what are republicans going to do to combat the coming mild tide or tsunami tide that surely is coming? Many in the republican party are not aware of the tide yet because their media is not reporting such awfulness to them so as to keep them in a bubble and their president is calling most of it "fake news" as well. But there are those in the republican hierarchy who are aware and are fearing the consequences of a takeover of the House and Senate by democrats. Their options are limited since they are in control of the agenda and that agenda stinks on high with the American electorate. But they made promises to their donors and are under pressure to pass some of the worst legislation ever presented as law.
     It is a tricky box republicans have put themselves in with few ways out but one of them is their ability to propagandize anything and everything at democrats to their advantage. So to combat the coming wave, republicans are creating undertows in order to stymie the wave and reduce it's effect. They will tarnish any and all democrats with lies manufactured as diversions. They will lie about the effects of their policies despite the fact of them being shown to be lying. They will call it "fake" wherever and whenever they are challenged. They will never admit that they are wrong despite all evidence to the contrary. One thing is certain, as we have seen with the Russian interference in our elections of 2016, republicans will go to any length to keep their power and continue to destroy the hopes of the American working middle poor class.

A day of rest from the political nightmare (#3215)

     Today is Sunday so there isn't much news out there today that is groundbreaking. So maybe it is time after so many months of railing against republicans to just sit back and enjoy the fruits of being a good democratic person. Over the last few days some good things have happened and I would like to think of them instead of the dispiriting agenda of the trump republican party. I got some things done around the house that had been sticking in my craw because of their complexity. Yet through perseverance and a willingness to think outside the box I found that I have solved them. There was even a longstanding issue with my truck that found resolution and for me a relief since I worry about things that will have an effect on me well before they come due.
     Also some family matters have found some enlightenment as well. It is good to be someone who is looked upon as a good example and then sought out for advice when appropriate. I don't know what the future will bring, but at least the path toward it is defined and clear. The major obstacles in my life as it is today all have avenues of pursuit and that is all I can ask of life is to have an opportunity or two to make my life better. It is on me whatever life throws at me so I had better be catty on my feet to avoid being hit smack dab where it hurts. I am also finding that the things I enjoy are actually still enjoyable and that helps me along in life when the things I don't enjoy come flooding in. Yet I am still on top of things in my life and that is worth acknowledging.
     So although today's post is of little significance to anyone else very much it is to me and I am the one I began writing this blog post for. I wanted to speak out about what was right and wrong with the world and although this last year has been inexorably intolerable I can take solace in the fact that I am fighting with all that I have against the trumps and their sycophant accomplices. But again today is a day to remember that I have still the goodness of heart I began my life with and that is a constant in my life despite my railing and ranting at those who don't, especially here at home in America. I am rooting for us today on the sidelines but tomorrow I will be back on the front lines calling it like I see it without a fear of reprisal or admonition. I am not afraid of the bad in the world because I am much more overjoyed by the good that destroys it.

The decency factor is at play in Alabama (#3214)

     When we hear from the woman Alabama governor that she believes the women who allege sexual assault from the republican senate candidate, but will still vote for the cad, https://nypost.com/2017/11/17/alabama-governor-will-still-vote-for-moore-despite-accusations/, we have to question not only her objectivity but heart. It seems to me she is somehow able to compartmentalize the fact of the trauma these women experienced at the hands of this lech. If perhaps this happened to her daughter or her granddaughter would she still feel the same loyalty to her party for allowing this horrible human being to become a leader and example? Maybe so but if anything this right here tells us all we need to know about some of the people who support the republican party.
     The policies they advocate for are policies that enrich the wealthy while destroying the American working middle poor class. And this Alabama governor sees fit to support another cog in the grinding wheel out to destroy our society despite the fact that a pervert of this nature is the one helping with the grinding. It is a shameful day in America when we find such ignorance and disrespect for women in general by another woman but disrespect aimed at the American people, especially Alabamians. So it is with hope that a man who is running against the pervert is a democrat with a history of standing up to criminals, thieves and murderers. A profound choice is available to Alabamians on December 12th when they cast their ballots for their next senator.
     Will the decency factor help snuff out the pervert from holding office or will the pervert gain more votes from the decent and brave democrat who is heads and shoulders above the pervert as a human being. My guess is that this is a bellwether moment and a harbinger for the future. I predict the decency factor will be enough to turn the tide on the republican disabuse of trust and fidelity of the people of Alabama. The more Alabamians learn of the nature of the pervert the more they are inclined to vote against him or to not bother voting at all. The stench of voting for such a cad will not wash off lightly and the idea of a criminal in waiting having the chance to steal the innocence of the young and be rewarded, will be too much to bear for the decent folks of Alabama!

The rot beneath trump (#3213)

     There is no doubt that what ails America is being revealed through trump. Not the way trump had expected though. He thought we would be looking at democrats as the rot but what we see is the republican party as the rot. For those who supported trump are the ones who are decaying right before our eyes. There is no democrat in control of our government so all eyes are on the republicans and it is obvious that the republican party is the one that is degenerate. From the republican congress working to punish the working middle poor class in America to the judiciary being filled with hellishly unqualified pretenders of legal objectivity to trump himself festered with the character of a diseased demigod. Throughout all of the republican political and religious landscape there are those who would never be held up as an example of honor nor nobility.
     As the daily lowlight reel of bad behavior and greedy legislation continues to roll out from republicans there is nowhere to hide for them. They are beholden to their wealthy corporate masters and all the pretense of blaming others for their offerings is gone. They are now brazenly forwarding legislation that takes from what little the working middle poor class has in order to give to the wealthy who are filthy rich already. If that isn't rot of soul nothing is. Making life miserable for the many to lick the boot of the few is as low as it gets and for republicans that is how they roll. What is even more offensive is the so called "Christian" community standing by the worst natures men could display. As long as those men are republicans there is no admonishment for their repulsive behavior by so called "Christians".
     When the honorable among us who are democrats are being blindsided with disinformation and strategic false evidence further shows the rot of the republican party. They attack those of us who are trying mightily to keep America the melting pot of the world while upholding the principles of democracy. Because the republican party has no plan to grow America to an even stronger ideal. Instead they are preparing to rot America of democratic ideals through their purge of equality of opportunity and one person one vote attacks. The vile nature of the republican agenda is a disease and it continues to disintegrate all that is well and good about America.

Building the blue wave... (#3212)

     I am not concerned so much with how republicans will respond to the growing blue wave come this next general election in November 2018, but I am focused on getting out our base to vote. Not only our base but the Independents who are struggling to find any commonality with this current republican party. As far as the republicans being concerned I don't think many of them actually think a wave will come. They live in their bubbles and don't allow so much as objective news to reach their eyes and ears let alone their mental processes. They are assuredly worried about attacks from their right but not so much from the center or left.
     They believe they have the heart and soul of America on their side and nothing seems to dissuade them even the harbinger victories by democrats in red states. Despite the democratic failure to pick up US House and Senate red state seats as of today the margins that democrats are competing at are historic in that the past overwhelming victories by republicans are now squeakers. When democrats secure their own blue state seat victories they are now by overwhelming margins. So the worm is turning and even telling republicans the facts of it are not enough to register in their already locked down brains.
     So we democrats continue to advance quality candidates and upgrade our political processes to a more democratic nature so that we attract more and more to our inclusive policies and overall vision for them. On the other hand though republicans are intent on destroying the fabric of our society as to social and economic issues all the while ignoring the protocol for patriotism as a duty to our nation. The advancing wave is built upon the equality and fairness of our democracy, not some whistle call to segregate and demean. But it's okay to tell the republicans this because they do not hear the warning. They are smug in their bubble and are secure in that they are right no matter what reality and logic has to say about it.

The never ending conniving republican party (#3211)

     From lying under oath and obstructing justice whenever they can the republican party is showing itself as the party of the incorrigible. They do not want truth or fact to be the normal since it destroys their narrative based upon ignorance and hatred. And that cannot happen or they will be exposed as the cruel brutish souls that they are. So we live in times where the media is actually struggling with whether to tell the facts instead of just mimicking the falsehoods. Where republican politicians will lie to our faces and double down when they are caught up in the lies. Where the facts and truths of things are far less important than republicans maintaining control and power over our government.
     Even when the tide is beginning to turn against the deplorable republican party they are conniving ways to change the reality. Where the Mueller investigation and the Alabama senatorial campaign can be arranged for a republican advantage is the latest finagle that republicans are considering. If the current AG resigns from the AG job and returns back as a write in candidate in Alabama it may well work out for republicans since he held the senate seat before his elevation to AG a year ago. Meanwhile whoever the new AG becomes trump will no doubt instruct him to fire Mueller and disband the investigation. It cannot be done now since the current AG recused himself and therefore cannot fire Mueller.
     The broken wheels in the minds of the republican party are spinning nonetheless to solve these two immediate problems since the Mueller investigation is getting closer to trumps and the Alabama senate seat is in jeopardy of being won by a democrat. I don't know if the republicans can pull this off since first the current AG doesn't want to resign nor does the current republican candidate for senate in Alabama. But given the track record of the republican party and it's uses of manipulation instead of democracy we may well see another dastardly act normalized by the republican party to further their grip on our lives and the further decline of honorable governance.

trump the criminal has met his match with Mueller the crusader (#3210)

     If I had a bazillion dollars I would bet it all on Mueller. First off I rarely bet so this is how much I believe in Mueller and even more so in the incompetence of trumps. I say trumps because that includes his family and his many collaborators. That this level of treason has been going on under our noses is shameful and we democrats should be cognizant that we were asleep at the wheel while all this collusive behavior was playing out behind the scenes of our democratic process. There have to be better safeguards if only to protect our democracy at all costs. The hijacking of our voting process, by at least the restrictions placed mainly on democrats from voting, should have been our wake up call. That a foreign power has been given the keys, by republicans, to our freedoms is the worst of what we should have been aware of.
     However I won't blame us democrats for not having suspicious minds about an American political party, republicans, that over the centuries had been less about treason and more about patriotism, regardless of their misguided and hurtful national policies. Yet that has changed and we the American people had to find out about it in the form of a "coup" by republicans to gain power throughout our national government. Well thankfully we are a republic and not an authoritarian nor monarchal government so we are somewhat secure that our democracy will survive thanks to the separation of powers between the states and the federal government. Our constitution also demands that we the people self rule through elections that are decided by we the people.
     There are some archaic devices in our election process however that keep self rule at less than democratic and those are the electoral college and the superdelegate inventions. They must go as well as the inevitable departure of trumps through the Mueller investigation and prosecution. However if trump decides to resign that will gladly be received as well. Yet the rest of his confederates, in more ways than one, must also go out with the trash. So however the departure it must come from the exposure of facts that lead us to the criminality of not only trumps but the colluding republican party members who sold their country out for the power and prestige they so thoroughly tarnished.

If you care about people's lives you will never vote republican (#3209)

     I find that if you vote for republicans your greatest argument is about being against things that would actually improve people's lives. It is as if you hold others to a higher standard than you hold yourself. Notwithstanding the hypocrisy in republican politics like right now with the Roy Moore pedophilia allegations where he, Moore, is not lambasted for his immoral illegalities, like the few democrats who have the same addictive behavior. But putting that aside, it is the overall concept of republican voters who have put a head hunters price on the head of those they deem unworthy of living in the nation of their birth. These republican voters see those who are not wealthy or of the right (white) skin color as lesser human beings than themselves.
     I see life as a gift for all of us to experience without exception. Yet the republican party holds to the survival of the fittest mode as long as they, republicans, are granted advantage and privilege. They sit back in their prejudices and biases and proclaim that the unwashed masses are the problem, not the system that makes them unwashed masses. It is a hatred that has been borne deep within their souls as a metastasizing cancer with little hope for a cure. The genesis of their hatred is individual to them despite the fact that others have the same right to hatred but instead choose to change the system that created it instead of embracing that system to feed their hatred. This is the republican way, use whatever cognitive dissonance is available to deny the facts of things so that their opinions of things can overrule.
     Destroying life in order to make it better is abhorrent and murderous. There have been figures in our human history who have tried such practices and each time their cause to rid the world of "undesirables" was based upon their own criteria, not some rational internationally agreed upon decision. The Hitlers and Pol Pots of the world are the worst of who we were and now the republican party is following in their footsteps. Republicans may not be openly calling for direct extinction practices but their policies are indirectly advancing to the same conclusion. Starving children, forcing slave wages and denying political, human and individual rights to the rest of us are all meant to make their ideal of the world more sterile and compact without respect to freedom, liberty and most of all the sanctity of life.

Race and religion wars are crap! (#3208)

     It is not easy living in this time of human evolvement where race and religion are used as weapons to divide us. First of all we are all human beings so race delineating race within our species as divisive is petty and mentally deficient. As to religion I must remind all persons that all religions are belief systems, not fact systems so grow up and quit being so afraid to being alive. If you boil all the wars down to their intent it is for power and money. I have heard stories of wars being fought over love but cannot confirm that with any reasonable search. So back to wars being about power and money. Only a few benefit from armed conflict and certainly not those who fight those wars. But let me be clear about intent as to who starts wars.
     There are some greedy power hungry souls who create controversy in order to foster wars among people. They are the ones who are in the wrong since killing innocents for an ulterior motive is ghastly and demented. We who are attacked in the wake of war have every right to defend ourselves but we are not the ones who provoked the war to begin with. Whether defending our mutually agreed upon forms of government or to break away the chains keeping us from the liberty of freedom, fighting wars to win back civilized behavior is acceptable. This is not what I am referring to here. What I am referring to are the wars fought over whose religion is the right one when there is no way of knowing which is or whether religion itself is factual. The same goes with race wars, fought over who is the greater shade of color is not only ridiculous but it is psychopathic.
     As for me I choose to accept the reality of common sense, logic and factual truth that we are all the same regardless the "look" each of us has. Our differences are amazing and should be heralded not abused. As to religion I have one position that being that I don't accept fairy tales, superstitions or folklore as my foundation for living. I accept my own sense of morality, ethics and principles for living based upon one simple phrase, "do no harm". John Stewart Mill is well known for this "philosophy" and it is one I have found is the most profound "religion" I can actually call real. Anything else about religion is for me no more than an Aesop's Fable. If we humans can ever get past our race and religion wars we will be a mighty species to behold and admire.

Electing Doug Jones, the Democrat, to the US Senate from Alabama is now critical (#3207)

     For several reasons, the first and worst being the pedophilia allegations against Roy Moore the Republican. The Democrat in the race, Doug Jones, must be elected despite the heavy Republican presence in the Alabama voting electorate. The many pedophilia allegations against Moore are the worst of why but another very important reason not to vote for him is that he would solidify the 52 voting advantage republicans now have in the senate. To lower the Republican majority to 51, by electing Democrat Jones, would be close to a death knell to the bills Republicans are trying to pass that are aimed at destroying the American working middle poor class. With a bare majority Republicans could not withstand losing 2 Republican senators who do not vote for their brutal legislation.
     As Republicans and trump have alienated several retiring Republicans it is almost certain that not allowing another yes vote to enter the senate would be enormous for our nation. Moore has more than just disgusting sex habits with children as an Albatross to bear he also has problems with racism and aligning himself with white supremacists, https://americanbridgepac.org/report-american-bridge-releases-research-report-judge-roy-moore/. That Moore has also openly defied our national constitution is yet another reason not to let him into our political system. Twice he was removed from the office as the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme court, https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-27/roy-moore-isn-t-just-defiant-he-s-dangerous. So not only are there many allegations of his pedophilia emerging but his disdain for our national constitution increases the stench of his defiance of the rule of law.
     Doug Jones on the other hand is a man of honorable character who has given bold work in service of our nation. He upholds the rule of law and fights for those who are beaten down by the bullies of the world. His prosecution of KKK members for church bombing speaks to his personal principles and courage to stand up for those who are wronged by the very same forces Roy Moore would align himself with, http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/27/politics/who-is-doug-jones/index.html. The contrast between these two candidates is crystal clear and for the first time in a long time Alabaman's will get a chance to improve the perception of their state by electing someone who will make the world notice that they are not the like the stereotyped backward ilk of Roy Moore.
     

The republican new normal, mean, nasty and brutish (#3206)

     With trump as president after learning all his nasty and mean behavior it is no wonder that a man like roy moore can feel comfortable running for senate with a cloud of child sex allegations hanging over him. It is like it is just a minor distraction in his overall considerations and the considerations of republican voters. The new normal folks where indecency, adultery and even hints of incest are not enough to sway a republican voter, unless of course it is a democrat who is doing it. Protect their own is the republican priority even if their own is the most vile of who we humans are. I had never considered that lowering the bar below a snake's ass would still be acceptable and actually happily acceptable to any political party. But it seems I have been schooled otherwise by the republican party.
     Over the last few years I have unfriended and disassociated myself from all persons who defend the republican party. Many have criticised me for this and even now I will not attend any family function that has a practicing republican involved in it. I look at it this way, I am the only thing I can control somewhat so my presence anywhere I can voluntarily go must always be tempered with do I let those who would destroy our democracy the privilege of being around me. It may sound presumptuous of me to think I am special but in light of them being republican voters I am heads and shoulders above their morality, intellect and human kindness. So I stay away since that is what I can do to punish them for punishing everyone else with their votes.
     I am saddened that many that I know are still republicans even though the facts of the republican party's agenda are crystal clear. The family and friends who cannot nor will not disassociate themselves from their previous allegiance to republicanism are now persona non grata with me. I refuse to live and accept a world where racism, misogyny and hatred are the new normals. The primitiveness of mindless actions are not the way forward. We are an enlightened species regardless of the singular role republicans are playing to change that. The death of the mean, nasty and brutish is coming and the sooner the better. The era of republican domination over our politics is on the horizon and those who will not accept that will be crushed by the heel of history as we march forward into our enlightened future.

In the House and Senate republicans are not running for reelection. (#3205)

     So far to date 11 House republicans, many of them leaders in the House are not running for reelection. 2 republican Senators are retiring. With Democrats only 3 House members are not running for reelection. There are more from both parties who are not running for reelection in the House but only because they are running for other offices, https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_U.S._Congress_incumbents_who_are_not_running_for_re-election_in_2018. Besides the large lopsided number of republicans not running compared to the small amount of Democrats retiring, republicans in the House who are retiring are from leadership positions. Which tells me that there is a conflict within the republican party that has fractured the leadership with the obnoxious far right wing.
     The two republicans in the Senate are also well respected leaders within the establishment republican party but it seems they are facing a right wing in the Senate that has forced their hands to leave. Even one, Flake from Arizona got on the Senate floor and ripped trump and his followers a new one. I can only say that on November 8, 2016 it looked for all the world that the republicans would undo all the advances made by liberal progressives over the many decades of modern growth here in America and around the world. But instead a year later what we are seeing is a republican party, that despite having majorities in all the branches of government, implode in on itself and as of yet have not been able to pass one law or repeal any policy they campaigned against.
     The one big change that the trumps and republicans achieved was to remove us from the Paris Climate Change Agreement and as it stands today, we Americans are the only ones not a signatory to the Pact as every other country in world has signed on. So even their victory at removing us from a necessary agreement has made them look childish and incoherent. There is nothing about this last year of republican domination of our politics that has any honor to it. We Americans are currently a laughingstock and quite possibly these retiring republicans cannot bear that fact anymore. Well they can retire all they want but they are still part of what brought it about. Duck and run may give them some initial relief but it will be short lived if what we saw in Virginia and the rest of the nation during the elections last Tuesday night.

The blue wave cometh! (#3204)

     Yeehaw! Well Whoopee anyway. Last night is the first time in exactly a year that I have felt my American roots with such conviction. I knew deep down in my soul that we Americans are not as bad as we have been showing over the last year with the election of trump and his demoralizing working middle poor class destroying agenda. I knew we were made of stuff greater than our worst behaviors. That is really a no brainer of a statement but in our reality here in America it was in question. Just look at the response from trump about the election last night and you see the hateful childish mind of his at work. He is a liar and a thief who would rather do anything to make himself into a demigod.
     Well the opposition to him struck back much like the force in Star Wars. We hit him and his agenda hard and fast with a relentless pounding. He will feel the effects of this political drubbing all across America right up until the midterms when an even larger blue wave will be able to extract some justice by flooding his ilk out the doors of Congress and the state houses. What trump refuses to understand either because he cannot or because he willfully won't is that we the American people control our destiny. We are not in his tiny little hands like he thinks. We are the other foot that has been waiting to drop on top of his clownish pampered head of hair. He has shown who he is over the last year so there is no doubt left to appeal to. His day is coming but in the meantime we the blue wave have some more momentum to build.
     In two days less than one year we will be back at the voting booth in every state in our union voting for Democrats who will take over the majorities in both the Senate and the House. If we Democrats hold our fire until then we can explode on Republicans and deal their party a real damaging blow. All we have to do is be patient and vigilant while stopping the trump and republican agenda every time it sticks it's head up to lie, cheat and steal from us the American working middle poor class. If trump doesn't survive the charges of collusion and treason that are rightly aimed at his corrupt administration than all the better but regardless, November 6th 2018 will see another broadside on the stalled republican ship and 2020 will be the barrage that takes that ship down so far beneath the water that there will be little left that it even existed in the first place.

Today is the day in Virginia and New Jersey etc... that we vote! (#3203)

     Today is the beginning of the end for trumps and like minded republicans. If my sense of things is correct we will see a large turnout everywhere an election is held today. The biggest and most telling election comes from Virginia. The nature of that governorship and the two lower offices of state government have closed to an even status if you believe the polling. I however don't think the polling is truly reflective of how the voters will respond today. I fully expect an overwhelming turnout from voters who voted in 2016 and from voters who didn't. Why you may ask? Simply put it was the election of 2016 that woke America up!
     As the unfavorables for the republicans elected in 2016 show us that they are not appreciated, a backlash is commonly experienced in the next election. Historically that is one precedent. Yet there is more. The Mueller investigation is showing a deceptive if not treasonous side to the republican "winners" that has never been experienced before in American politics. It is my perception that we will not reward the party tied to the criminal activity like republicans are by electing more of them. I know they have their base who will let them get away with murder if that were the case but for the most part the rest of us are not so zealous in our loyalty to party to allow criminals to run our government. I expect a large turnout and a heavy vote for democrats.
     Every election going forward is going to be a referendum on the republican government majorities strategy of destroying the American working middle poor class. I say this with confidence this time because there is no way that democrats have been involved in these policies of taking away health care, diminishing social security in all its forms and reapportioning tax breaks toward the wealthy at the expense of the American working middle poor class. Those almost 50% of the electorate that sat our the 2016 debacle will be less inclined to do that this time since their liberties and freedoms are being attacked by republicans as well. So as I say here, when we democrats vote we win and today is the first reflection of that ideal across the US in the states that have elections.

Republicans want the poor to just disappear (#3202)

     Republicans won't say it out loud or in other ways unless among themselves but they want the poor class to just die. For some immoral reason they think that the poor are worthless and just a drag on their lifestyle. They see the world as a big playground without the troubles of poverty or disease. They are furious at we Democrats for wanting to help all of life have a better one instead of thinking like them that only a few deserved ones should have a better life. We Democrats are for all the people while Republicans are just for the wealthy people. It is as simple as that so it makes me wonder why and how Republicans can garner enough support to be in charge?
     We the poor and not wealthy are by far the largest voting majority in our nation. Yet somehow the wealthy through Republicans have been able to manipulate our political process in ways that have given them the majorities in every branch of our government. Their ability to finagle our Democracy to the point of ruining our Democracy is anti American and treasonous. Yet they care not a wit about that because the ends justify the means with them. They would have us all gone who are not them no matter the means. You get that don't you? They have no allegiance to the principles and nobility of our democratic institutions. They only want their selfish desires and those desires are their highest priority.
     You cannot count on Republicans to have a worthy soul to do the right thing for America since doing the right thing is whatever satisfies their own agenda of greed, power and wealth. If somehow they do something for all Americans it is of a secondary concern since getting what they want will always be their first priority. If we the poor were not so abundant because of their greed they would not need to end us as an strategy for them. Yet that is the byproduct of their greed, more poor than necessary. So they will keep and grow their wealth while trying to find ways to end the rest of us in some fashion. What has always been their answer in the past was war but that is less likely now since the rest of the world for the most part has come to embrace peace. Republicans will try though and if decreasing Social Security and Medical coverage opportunities for us poor helps them kill off the poor among us then that will have to do for now!

People who sell out humanity are a scourge (#3201)

     The consequences of greed and power are the lessening of the human experience for all others. We see this play our with republican politics enormously but we democrats have a few bad apples ourselves. Yet the few bad apples we have are in no way the rule it is the exception whereas with republicans it is a hard and fast rule. So any kind of equating of both parties being the same is like saying one penny and a 100 dollar bill are money. Sure they are money but one is in absolute excess of the other. So comparing a penny to a 100 dollar bill and saying they are the same is a con job! Regardless though anyone who puts themselves in a public position above the duty they have to all the rest of us who are represented by them is an act of treason to their public oath.
     The same goes for those who are culpable in the Russian hacking and election interference from 2016. They went outside the bounds of American politics by becoming accomplices with an antagonistic foreign power just so that they could gain power, influence and wealth. These are also guilty of treason and if the word treason is going to mean anything to us as against all that we hold dear then the punishment for treason has to remain most severe. Our society and the society of our children depend upon us holding the line when it comes to attacks against our democracy. The republican party has crossed that line and soon enough we will know how many of them were culprits in the scheme.
     I always knew republicans were for the wealthy in our society but never would I have guessed that they would commit treason to prove it. The shame I feel for those who represent us in the public sphere and for those who voted for them and then still back them despite admitting that treason is not an offence they would call dishonorable, is immeasurable. The worst of it is that if democrats had committed treason they would have been screaming for the hangman and the guillotine yet since it was republicans it's okay because to them the ends justify the means. The stark reality that this displays is that republicans cannot win with their ideology of survival of the fittest and the best only for the wealthy so they have come to embrace a strategy were they sell their souls, a legacy of American patriotism, to become a prostitute for the worst that humanity can do it itself. The trade off is ignorant and disgraceful while the damage to the rest of us has yet to be fully suffered!

The proud ignorant racists are trying to win, will we let them? (#3200)

     I have to ask since several races in Virginia have come into doubt as to who will win. Again, will we let the proud ignorant racists win? I feel like I am in some surreal reality where questions like this are the normal. Yet this isn't some bizarre alternative reality it is the only one we have and it has become an outright nightmare! How in the name of all that is good can a political party like the republicans who despise women, hate those of color and love the embrace of treason even be considered viable as a political force? Are we Americans so out of tune with the honor and nobility of virtue? Do we even know what virtue means? I have to ask because right now republicans control the Senate, the House, the Presidency and the Supreme Court. How can it be that the republicans can win without having the morality or the ethics of a decent honorable person?
     Well they do win while not having these fine qualities and if that is what America represents then that is who we are. Lacking in conviction of purpose for being a better example to our children and the world at large. Our shame is there for all to see and yet we don't care. How long can I keep up a stiff upper lip and say that this isn't who we are contrary to all the evidence? We more honorable Americans have a chance to wake up the rest of us otherwise non voting Americans in a little under 72 hours in many local and state elections across our country and get them to vote for a better future. Time will shortly tell if we did and if so then the wave toward crushing the republican party in the 2018 midterm national elections will have begun. If not then the worst of who we are will be without a doubt.
     I try to stay optimistic that the ones who are voting will make more than just a symbolic vote for their traditional candidates from their traditional party's. I would hope that the electorate would ask themselves do these candidates reflect my inner core of democratic values? Do these candidates stand up for those who need protecting and for those who are denied fair respect? Do these candidates make me proud to be a soul who loves more than hates? Putting all political parties aside and voting for a candidate that has the best interests of all people at heart is what I think America is waiting for. We need to have politicians represent us as who we could aspire to be and not as who they demand we be by some other factor not in tune with democratic principles.

The whirligig of calamity will not deter me (#3199)

     As we get close to another important midterm election the stakes have been raised by some who would distract us from our focus on building a wave election in 2018. The culprits have an agenda whether their own or of those who control their actions, regardless the mess they stir is not about to claim me from my mission of advocacy for the liberal/progressive agenda. I will as well continue to debunk the claims of the conservative republicans who think that they can continue to bamboozle the American electorate. We know now that Russia used a campaign of false information dressed up as legitimate and manipulated our media as its vehicle to cause dissent in our Democratic party. We are now even seeing some Democrats being selfish in their own agendas regardless of the harm they are causing.
     Still I will not stoop to their bait. I remain vigilant and convinced that the liberal/progressive ideal is the best for not only American citizens but for democracy itself. When we are all included in fair and opportune policies and programs then we all share in our nation's growth. We are the means by which democracy and equality exist in the first place as we have seen the conservative republicans wish nothing more than a two class system, the wealthy and the poor. This is not democracy nor is it democracy lite. It is class warfare to undermine democracy and instead promote a wealth backed autocratic system. Our forefathers and foremothers did not fight all these centuries to see a gang of thugs come into our government to destroy the values they gave their lives for and neither will I.
     So despite the onslaught of negative media, yellow journalism and corruptible jingoism I remain vigilant in fighting for equality, opportunity and fairness within our democracy and fight against all that would snip at democracy's heels. Nothing will stop what is left of my life from being a patriot to American democracy at it's core and what had made us the greatest nation on Earth up until the controversial election of trump last November. We can still reclaim our greatness but we must purge the vile poison of conservative republicanism from our political life blood. The time is coming in 4 days where we begin that purge and it starts in the great states of New Jersey and Virginia. Nothing will deter me and neither should nothing deter all the rest of us toward building that wave that will sweep republicans from office continuing on toward 2018.

Science, the building blocks of life and existence (#3198)

     When we all get to the point where we agree that knowledge is our friend and the lack thereof our enemy we will find that our commonalities will dominate over any of our differences. We will all be invested in the same core understandings and connectedness. Science is the future of our species and if we can find our way toward embracing it above the awkwardness of our fears and trepidations we will finally grasp the mantle of a superior species. Until then we are just struggling against the nature of antiquity and the failings that always inures. Yet we do have the fortune of having evolved into the enlightenment of thought and reason. Our minds are adept in their abilities to not only compute but to memorize and store comprehensively.
     Our bodies are of a design to allow for practical and useful movements. We can use our mobility to understand our current geographical unknowns here on Earth and with scientific applications can now advance off our planet toward other objects in our near universe. We have used science to give us wings where only the birds knew of flight. We have also mastered propulsion so that the lack of oxygen in space is overcome with ingenious methods of preservation. Science allows us to further the vast sum of knowledge we have already acquired. Our abilities are being expanded because we value the methodology of the scientific experiment. Even with the most basic of proofs of mathematics and physics we are now able to project our species out beyond the only home our species has ever been recorded existing.
     Science does this for us where no other form or paradigm has before. In our conscious state we are a species to behold. With our biological sensors of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell we can interpret objects and subjects with relative ease. I have been saying this since I started this blog many years ago, we are biological probes with onboard computers with memory, reason, analytics and the ability to conclude. We are already what we are trying to devise in mechanical form. The blueprint is there for us and science will help us to create these mechanical devices as forerunners to discover that which is still unknown. Much like the mechanical probes we have sent out into space to record the workings of our universe in ways we are not able to do for ourselves, yet.

I try to feel empathy for trump but as of yet cannot (#3197)

     It isn't easy for me railing against trump 24/7 as I am a human who thinks that all humans have some decency in them that translates into them having at least a specter of goodwill toward others. But in trump it is hard to recognize. I don't even see a warmth in him toward family that would have by now shown itself at least in a few examples. Yet nothing of humanity as far as I can tell. He is more the fractured drone who thinks he is a Queen Bee. A want-to-be in disguise. His whole demeanor is to attract attention to himself and the more adoring the attention is the more exultant he becomes. Again, I am a human who thinks everyone has at least a modicum of humanity in them but with trump I have yet to discover it.
     What he has shown me is his contempt for most everything not him. He condescends to all other life forms except those who praise him and quite possibly those who have dirt on him. The most boggling is his perfect record of not admonishing Russia and Putin. For me it is obvious to extrapolate out that Putin has some nasty dirt on him and not even the disgusting trump wants it to be known. As for us here in America who are not his donors we are subject to his despise of us through his tearing down of our social progress, our economic progress and our constitutional rights. His disdain is not shrouded behind any mask, he is upfront and bullying about it.
     Still though as a human being I am troubled that I cannot find it within me to feel any empathy for him as a human being. He is an existential part of our lives and such things created in nature must be given some deference. However I feel more for creatures that exist in the darkest part of nature than I do for trump. He has shown the world that he cannot nor will not respect life like a real human being who has curiosity and compassion underlying his personal code for living. He is a broken being who masquerades as majestically unique. He is not complete in the mind nor the heart and as far as his nature goes I cannot wish anyone to have to be in his presence and experience the disjunction of his pretense. I will keep trying to feel empathy for him as a service to myself but trump is giving me nothing to work with.