Obviously I'm not happy. I have lost elections a lot of times. My first was 1972, my brother and I worked for George McGovern, We went to the HQ every day after school and registered voters on week ends, I was almost knifed in the Dallas projects by a pimp lookimg guy who said white people had no business there. I was saved by a huge line backer who must have been 7 feet tall who said "He's doing this for our people." The pimp looking guy slunk away. I was a sophomore in highschool, We were saving the world. We lost by the second greatest landslide in American history.
I can handle losing an election it'w who won that makes me mad. People saw how terrible Trump was just four years ago but they have totally forgotten. Americans would rather feel economically secure than be free. They have traded their freedom for security and this will become apparent over time.
An anonymous idiot comments on the blog, "You only have yourself to blame for the culture in which we live. I had to inherit this from old fools like yourself who helped it become like it is today." Does he nt even notice all the anti Trump things I'e said? I Have spent my whole life working to change the world for the better and had zero effect. I changed nothing,I bear no responsibility for Trump that is insane. I am proud of my life time of social protest and left leaning organizing. I would do it all again if I had it to do over. I might try to find some more effective ways.My brother and I were major organizers in Texas in the Central America Movement,fighting contra aid.
Ultimately all we can do is trust God. That is the only protection we have against the ravages of history. Sometimes that takes the form of going home to be with Jesus. Before I do that,however, I would like to think I took a few with me and made the world a bit better.
See the guys at top of page in grpahic? That's my image of who I am that's my youth that ideal as I grew up. It probably had no effect on anything Still we tried. We hada ourselves a time
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Trump says "I love the uneducated." That's because they vote for him. If not for that, he wouldn't give them the time of day. But as it is, he panders to them. He gives them exactly what appeals to them: stupidity. His whole campaign was an appeal to hatred, bigotry, and stupidity. And folks like our 'anominus' friend loved it. Millions of them. Just like Hitler.
I wonder what it will be like four years from now. With the courts all packed with right-wing extremists, chosen specifically for their loyalty to the fuehrer. With taxes for the rich eliminated, creating an enormous national debt that ultimately will completely collapse the economy. With the FBI transformed into the new Gestapo, doing whatever he tells them, especially going after political opponents and dissenters. With Homeland Security becoming the new SS under Tom Homan (the ex-ICE director), removing millions from the population, along with liberals, homosexuals, Asians, atheists, Muslims, people of color, and anyone else the deem to be "unfit" citizens of Trump's America. With the Education department replaced by the new Ministry of Propaganda, whose job will be to indoctrinate children with Trump's hateful ideology and a perverted form of Christianity. With Kennedy (the conspiracy theorist and science denier) running Health and Human Services and the FDA, banning vaccinations and all kinds of drugs. With Elon Musk overseeing the elimination of most federal regulations and consumer protections, allowing corporations to pollute the land, air, and water with impunity, and sell unsafe or dangerous products with no recourse for the customers who are harmed or killed. With tariffs creating economic warfare between nations, and dramatically raising the cost of living. With all of our international alliances and partnerships shattered, leaving America to stand alone with no support from the countries that always used to be our friends. These are all things that Trump wants to do. And what his idiotic fans demand.
O yea, that's kind of what I expect.. I am sure it will all encompassing like that too, Also they got the senate. It occurred to me last weeks of the campaign his supporters don't just not believe the things we sayI think actually see those has his good qualities, He' an asshole who wants to be a dictator but that means he's strong! My best friend I grew up with lives in France. I am asking him if he has a spare room.
Hello, this is off-topic from the post, as I can't find a different way to contact you, but I am trying to find a response you made many years ago to the "Tale of the Twelve Police Officers." I have read the original anti-parable, and it's been bothering me for several days. I've been searching for a meaningful solution to answer the anti-parable, but I've come up short.
I found this blog through this website:
https://christiancadre.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-resource-tale-of-twelve-officers.html
The links to your response no longer work, and I haven't been able to find it in your blog archive. It might be a long shot, but if you still have your response from 16 years ago, I would love to see it.
Found it! I could not find it on my blog or the cadre blog but total accident i ran into it on my site religious a priori: https://religiousapriori.blogspot.com/2011/04/twelve-angry-sterio-typesanswering-mark.html
Why did all those people vote for Nixon? Now, I don't believe in either side, but Nixon just came off of something called Watergate. How dumb could they be?
I'd like to offer some words of encouragement, but I can't think of any. I'm sorry.
hey JAB I think Trump makes Nixon look like a boy scout, I would rather have Nixon than Trump, yes I hated Nixon. He's was far smarter than Trump. I think he had a sense of the good of the country, He did establish EPA.
Mike I appreciate the thought. What can we say? Here we go again!
Nobody voted for Nixon after the Watergate scandal. He resigned, because he understood that he would be impeached.
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