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president has withdrawn.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!
