The Changes of Fall

The leaves will soon turn.  I feel a fall wind colored Democratic blue approaching.  Dare I hope an electoral blue tsunami propelled by progressive Democrats, persons of color and women is hovering ready for us to feel its forceful winds of change?  Democrats are, it seems, throwing caution to that wind unafraid of promoting their progressive ideals that help all people.  After all, to quote our inarticulate president what have we got to lose when a deplorable Trump and his lackeys afraid of Trump repercussions run rough shod over our democracy alienating democratic nations who heretofore were allies and kicking the teeth out of NATO?  Democratic moderation does not work.  It elects Republicans who are divisive and stand for the opposite of humanitarian policies for which Democrats do stand.

Can one imagine health care for all, a foreign policy that retrieves our loyal alliances, eschewing Putinesque tyranny, and a return to procedural normalcy?  Can one imagine policies in concurrence with the science-based realities of climate change melting arctic ice caps that someday will sink our coasts including Boston.  Progressives will attack climate change instead of withdrawing from a climate agreement that the majority of nations signed but from which our less than brilliant president has withdrawn.  Science does not care if one believes in it or not.  It will do what it will do despite the stupidity of some.   A blue wave could save the planet, your home and your life.  What your eyes see is real and it is truth -- the millions of gallons of flood waters all over the nation, tornadoes in states that rarely encounter them and more of them in states that do, and droughts promoting the onslaughts of devastating fire in the once beautiful California and the west so there is zero protection against rains that will come; ferocious hurricanes like Maria that hit Puerto Rico and a president who simply did not care about people with brown skin.  His efforts amounted to little more than throwing paper towels, an insult to people whose loved ones died -- 3,000 of them -- and not 64 dead as a president who lies all the time pronounced.  Can one imagine a legislature that cares about these things; that cares about children separated from their parents, some forever, by a Republican racist attempt to keep America white denying asylum to the tempest tossed of their own nations where death awaits.  

The Mad Men days of white control of our nation, abuse of women and ignoring minority lives are, in hope, coming to a close.  Even though one can see many persons of color, women and progressives on the precipice of victory our fight should never end.  Persons of color, women and progressives becoming engaged and winning means we all will win.  The force of this nation is in its perpetual motion trying still to fulfill its creed and dream that all men -- all -- are created equal etched in our Constitutional DNA and in the Declaration of Independence as our brilliant Founders said, endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights those of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  We are engaged in an eternal struggle with those who want to roll back and rip those rights from those who never had them but fought so fervently for them spilling blood to gain rights for their cause. 

The victories of Maria Robinson in my own Massachusetts 6th state district, in the national House by an upset win in Massachusetts 7th District the win taken by a person of color, Ayanna Pressley, and other hopefuls across the nation like progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York defeating a long term congressman and importantly the Florida's governor's race showing Gilliam, a person of color slightly ahead of Republican DeSantis despite Republican racist robo calls against Gilliam.  Republicans win if they cheat, they negatively mendaciously advertise, are saturated with corrupting unlimited money, if they gerrymander districts to suit them and if Democrats and Progressives pay no attention and worse do not vote.

Persons of color, women, and progressives across the nation are diving into hope and running for office.  Democrats are signing up in droves and will vote in November.  Maybe just maybe the nightmare of Trump will come to a cataclysmic end.  In time, perhaps, we will thank the corruption of Donald J. Trump and his corrupt minions for making this progressive blue wave possible.  I am hoping for a fall Democratic wind of change to emerge soon.

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN TRUMP CON AND PURGE REPUBLICAN CORRUPTION FOR ALL OF US.  VOTE DEMOCRAT AND SAVE LIVES!