My Letter to Jeff Corker

Events sometimes are so important that they must be addressed.  Though I grow weary of formulating opinion this time I must.

Senator Corker, I am writing to you because I love this nation. I am not a Republican but I care about the well being of our nation and our democracy. I am staggered with fear of this president. I wake up and immediately think that something is very wrong. I think about the danger in which our nation exists because this chief executive holds the keys to life and death of all of us and he is massively dangerous and inept.

I believe this is the worst era in my historical memory. In a way it is almost worse than the milieu of WWII because there is a nation, North Korea, waiting for an excuse to use nuclear weaponry which probably now could reach Washington and there is a US president that is just as threatening as Kim Jong Un.

Larry O'Donnell interviewed an excellent Harvard professor of psychiatry, a Dr. Dotus, who diagnosed the president as psychotic and felt he was qualified to diagnose him as such. He said Trump is the most dangerous psychotic because he exhibits a thin veneer of sanity. But, he said, when the president is stressed he goes off the rails and is irrational. Bringing up the citizenship of Obama yet again when Trump won the last election or questioning the veracity of the Access Hollywood tape saying it's not his voice is a man who is out of touch with reality. The psychiatrist thought that there is a grave danger of nuclear war because when the president is stressed he cannot think rationally and contain himself. It is a more dangerous kind of psychosis because of his thin veneer of sanity.

One usually thinks of psychotic as someone talking incomprehensibly. This president does not exhibit that BUT it does not, he said, make his psychosis any less so and, in fact, makes it more of a grave danger to everyone. His supporters either cannot admit he is out of touch with reality or if they do admit it they don't care and delude themselves. Where are the Republican leaders to corral the Republicans in Congress into facing reality and remove this out of touch man from office?

I call on you, Jeff Flake, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and other rational Republicans to move to remove this psychotic president post haste before there is no nation from which to remove him!

Dying

Since Drumpf smashing into the oval office and especially since this tax insanity increase on the middle class and the poor, blow up of the deficit not to mention the obliteration of health care this administration is killing this nation. Moreover, they are gutting the State Department when we need it most with N. Korea nearing the acquisition of a nuclear bomb that could hit Washington I simply cannot write anymore or at least must take a break from things political in written form. I know I've said it before but I loathe injustice so and Republicans know nothing else but harming the weak and powerless that I risk my health if I allow our national nightmare to rock my life.

It's so bad that I am afraid to greet the next headline every morning. This tax bill given to the megga rich on the backs of the middle class and poor killing health care for millions will be crushing. Say bye to your property and other deductions. The rich can expect their beneficiaries will duck an estate tax they should pay. The 2% who will get their taxes cut big time the savings of which will NOT trickle down to us. It will trickle into their bank accounts. The nation will run an extra trillion or two deficit and Republicans will try to pay for it by eventually taking Medicare, Medicaid, and even Social Security away. George Carlin the great comedian and social critic in his "American Dream" act I have shown, before he died predicted just that. Yes, it is a piece of brilliance. I warn it has some profanity but is stunning in its prescience. What Republicans are doing to this nation is more profane than anything else could be. I will post the George Carlin link below. He says it all.

Add to the insanity a religious wacko pedophile no less will be taking a seat in the senate. I give up!

Why men (and some women) of power and good will cannot stop this speeding train headed for a cliff into oblivion I have no idea. The nation is dying and will take me down with it if I let it. I won't!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPNYxIOGTIU

President Beast

Our vile president Drumpf made a "joke" about his nickname for Sen. Elizabeth Warren, “Pocahontas,” during an event honoring Native Americans Monday at the White House. "Trump was recognizing Native American Code Talkers who served during World War II when he made the remark about Warren.  Native American Code Talkers were largely Navajo Marines who transmitted commands over the radio to soldiers overseas in their native language during World War II, after both sides became more adept at decoding encrypted messages. Native American code became more reliable than Morse code in the war, notably aiding U.S. efforts in the Battle of Iwo Jima.  Trump made his comments Monday while standing in front of a portrait of Andrew Jackson, the former president who signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 that resulted in the tragic Trail of Tears. Thousands of Native Americans died of cold, starvation and disease during the harrowing trek to the undeveloped Western territories."  (See link below for the story)

Drumpf said ″You were here long before any of us were here,” Trump told Code Talkers during the event. “Although we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago. They call her Pocahontas.”

Drumpf is an IDIOT of IDIOTS and those Indian men Code Talkers who gave their service to this nation to help win WWII should NOT shake that asshat's hand. He is NOT their friend. He is a friend to no one but himself. Doing what he did to these native Indian individuals while honoring Native American vets is RUDE, CRUEL and MORONIC, all appellations I would use for Drumpf not to mention insulting to a US Senator whose boots this rancid imbecile so called president could not shine!

Drumpf is simply a cruel and insensitive bastard to (1) make the racist insulting comment to Native American Indians and (2) to do it in front of a picture of Jackson the rancid president who was responsible for the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears one of many treaties with American Indians this nation would break.  Drumpf is an ignorant BEAST. 

There are no words!!!!!!!

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-pocahontas-elizabeth-warren-native-americans_us_5a1c6bd6e4b087444df23562?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

Happy Thanksgiving

 

 
The depths of injustice I see in this world is what fuels the fire of my eternal resistance. I cannot stand the injustice as I sit in my warm house with plenty of food, heat and water at my whim. Why is it like that I always as a youth asked. Why when some have so much others are condemned to that woman's harsh existence in poverty. The child she holds will be another recipient of the madness and nothing will change. Why, why, why, is always my question.

Communism, a good idea except human beings pervert the idea of equality​, ​rape their own people they claimed the wanted to help​ and oligarchs steal the people's cash​. Socialism a good idea that does not in practicality work. Trumpian Nationalist Fascism the opposite form of government to socialism in cruelty, sadism, and perversion threatens to come down on all of our necks except the select rich few will be spared its wrath. Why does it have to be this way when the nations of plenty ignore the sad plight of so many, the haves stuff their pockets with the people's ​cash, fill their bodies with food and after a Thanksgiving feast ​peacefully sleep ​​ and with kindness help those who cannot help themselves?

Happy Thanksgiving and a prayer that someone in this nation of ours replaces

​the savage beasts of Trump with ​

the humanitarian 

​leaders​

we lost

​in days gone by ​

and with kindness help those who cannot help themselves.

Thank you

I was in a check out line in the supermarket. There was an elderly man in the line checking out what he had bought. He had a baseball type cap on with veterans things on it one of which was a WWII Vet patch.

Did you ever kick yourself for not doing what your impulse said you should to do? I wanted to walk over to him and thank him for his service in, perhaps, the only "good and moral war" this nation has waged in the 20th century and in this century in my memory.

I was born after 1945 but WWII is remembered often by me perhaps because I am Jewish but also because of the tenor of unity this nation felt at that time.  It is something I love about that era and wish that unity were here now.

I did not thank him as I became shy but now I wish I had. I will never get the chance to do that now but at least on social media I can make a public statement to those vets of WWII -- THANK YOU SO MUCH. This nation saved my grandparents and some aunts from certain Nazi annihilation in the Poland and the Ukraine if they remained there. I thought that episode of anti Semitism was over but it is not over as it rises again because the immoral president Trump makes room for right wing Nazis, KKK and Jew hating extremists. In Europe nationalism and its accompanying antisemitism hovers over that continent like the plague of death. Poland recently had a nationalist parade of thousands in the street accompanied by what else Jew hating extremists which were so much a part of Polish and Eastern European culture. They hated the Nazis in Poland but many loved when Jews were taken from their midst saying "Bye Jews, bye Jews."

So I thank in spirit that elderly man whom I wish now I thanked in person while he and I are alive. Thank you, sir, for your service!

How Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York’s Subways--My Comment: Betrayal

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/nyregion/new-york-subway-system-failure-delays.html?emc=edit_ta_20171118&nl=top-stories&nlid=75028030&ref=headline

Our nation is crumbling and the beast in the oval office can only try to get his signature tax bill a HUGE windfall for the 2% wealthiest on the little guy's back passed. Drumpf stands to gain at least a BILLION bucks and with the inheritance tax waived his putrid offspring will get it all. Teachers won't be able to deduct the supplies they pay for out of their own pocket for their students but the 2% will get their billions. Many will get no state property taxes deduction as the 2% wealthiest drown in their tax cuts. You, the middle class, will get a tax increase. Our national debt will increase ultimately by trillions.  Billions will be taken out of health care as he sneaks the eradication of the ACA mandate to kill it just as more people are signing up.  He will make Medicare more expensive for seniors who are hurting.  This is how he pays for his tax cuts to the billionaires.  They are tax cuts for the rich and tax increases for everyone else.  He will and has cut food for children and will cut more programs for the poor. He flouts the Constitution's emoluments clause and laughs all the way to the bank making money on us, we the people and we let him just what our Founders did NOT want.

No one knows how much god save me I hate that man in the oval office and what ugly offspring sprung from his ugly loins. He is the evil antiChrist the Evangelicals talk so much about. Look to yourselves Evangelicals is THIS what you think Christianity is all about -- multiple divorces, multiple harassments, multiple businesses where he does NOT pay the people who worked for him, multiple conflicts of interest and unsavory Cretans even the Russian mafia and money launderers with whom he associates.  He is the Judas of our time and the name TRUMP on buildings is the 30 pieces of silver he trades for betrayal of a nation.  You may call it betrayal but I call it treason!

Putin has got something HUGE on this beast and the beast knows it which is why he kisses Putin's ring every chance he can get. He is MADNESS incarnate and will get us all killed but keep voting for these  Republicons and you will reap what you sow. You will pay through the nose while the 2% takes the money and runs to Panama the laundering capital of the world only to make more money than they already have but do not need. You will see no jobs, no money nothing as we have seen through decades that trickle down economics does not work it does not create jobs.

Unfortunately those who are the ethical among us will be taken down this unethical path with him. 

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN TAX BILL WHICH YOUR CHILDREN WILL HAVE TO PAY FOR.

RESIST as you have never resisted before!

Jesus Instructs

I love Al Franken and think this woman, although I support her right to speak out, is making much ado about not very much.  By the way, in the photo Franken is not touching the woman but making a gesture like he was and thinking it funny. It of, course now, is not funny but holy god pillorying Franken for this is ABSURD when our chief executive is guilty of so much more and Roy Moore's actions against teenage girls by an adult man are DISGUSTING.  He refuses still to admit them though the women are eminently believable.

Pray why doncha, Roy Moore you alleged man of god hypocrite, who proselytizes to others that they should reform their ways. Only god, if there is one,  can forgive your putrid actions. The fact that the religious wingnuts cannot see the forest through the trees is just plain sad. They by acquiescing to this behavior are complicit in it.

I direct these so called "religious" wingnuts to what Jesus said since they claim to love him so much: 

"Suffer the little children to come unto me ... But who so shall offend one of these little ones it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.  Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!"

Take that, Roy Moore, you pedophile hypocrite sickening excuse for a human and shame to those who protect this vile man!  I remind you also of another Jesus admonition:

"You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye."

I rest my case.

I know sexual harrassment when I see it

Terkel's Huffington Post opinion:    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/joe-biden-2020-harvey-weinstein_us_5a0a0ba8e4b00a6eece3a13e?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

My Comment: Clearly we, indeed, are in a Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment of women moment. Joe Biden is NOT Harvey Weinstein nor is he Donald Trump and certainly he is not smarmy hypocrite Judge Moore. As is characteristic in this country of nearly every political movement whether it is the protests of the late 1960's or the Tea Party of contemporary time it is taken to an irrational extreme thereby negating in it some good for which it stands.

I believe not only because I love Joe Biden but because he stands for progressive policies that are pro women and more with which I agree and because he is pure and simply a nice, humane and compassionate man.

If we have come to a place where innocent comments of a woman being pretty or innocent pecks on some woman's cheek by a man of power can be labeled sexual harassment then this nation is headed over a nihilist cliff where nothing or no one can be taken seriously.

It is a far cry from a man simply giving a woman a peck on the cheek or telling her she is pretty to the sickening sexual things Trump, Weinstein and religious wingnut Judge Moore have done. Joe Biden is NOT Donald Trump nor is he surely Judge hypocrite Moore.

Let's not take this to an extreme we as a nation do so often when movements form. We ruin them. Joe is Joe and Moore is Moore. Like Justice Potter Stewart said of pornography "I know it when I see it" I know what a sexual harasser of women is and Joe Biden unlike the sick harassers Trump and the religious hypocrite Moore, Joe Biden is not it!

Senate Plans to End Obamacare Mandate in Revised Tax Proposal

These Republican beasts NEVER take a breath [see link below.] This is the so called "Christian" way? Take health care away from those who need it but cannot afford it? This is what they want to do to the nation?  This is what their base elected them to do?

Oh yes, and don't forget, Republicans, send a pedophile to the US Senate.  That ought to help our world wide reputation!

RESIST these deplorable excuses for humanity!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/us/politics/tax-plan-senate-obamacare-individual-mandate-trump.html?emc=edit_na_20171114&nl=breaking-news&nlid=75028030&ref=cta&_r=0

RESIST AND SEND TO ANYONE YOU CHOOSE!

To Be or Not--America's Shakespearean dilemma (short)--Constant Contemplation

To Be or Not: Politics is so slimy and so bad that my motivation to overcome it and help save the humane nation I once knew has ebbed. The Republican Party thinks Democrats are wrong and evil. God knows the Democrats, including me, think the opposition is ugly in character, unintelligent, unthinking and evil so no one listens to each other. It is hard when neither Democrats (me) nor Republicans (them) can budge. 

It is impossible for me to cooperate with white supremacists, part of the Republican essence, who are intent on killing the nation and us who think the way we do and who by genetics's command are in it. I live in constant contemplation of what to do and is it up to me to help do this seemingly impossible task?

Shakespeare's brilliant Hamlet soliloquy written it is estimated between 1599 and 1602 contemplating whether he should live or die trying to overcome his tragic realities is one for our age over 400 years later. Think on it as it relates to our national present dilemmas. What can we do to save ourselves and rectify the plethora of unjust national wrongs our nation has committed? What can we do when violence is not the answer and the obstacles are so seemingly insurmountable?

HAMLET: To be, or not to be--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep--
No more--and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep--
To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels (burdens) bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprise of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action. ..."

Roy Moore says he dated ‘a lot of young ladies,’ but ‘not generally' teens in Hannity interview

NOT GENERALLY? GENERALLY BUT THE OLD SEX PERVERTED CREEP MEANS SOMETIMES? And he usually asked their mother for permission. Are you kidding me? Would a woman in her 30's need her mother's permission to go on a date?

Generally means to me sometimes; he did sometimes have sexual relations with a teenage girl but not GENERALLY meaning NOT USUALLY but SOMETIMES after he asked her mother for permission. Such a pious man who put the 10 commandments in his courtroom -- BESTIAL HYPOCRITE. There must be a commandment that says "Thou shalt NOT have sexual relations with an underage person!" One can be sure if the accuser were male Moore's supporters would melt away. Should not matter. Sex with an underage person is sex with an underage person period end of story.

Our classless president will feel very comfortable with Roy Moore in the Senate. I think he can relate to him. DISGUSTING! Makes one ashamed to be an American and surely has made America not so great again!

No more of Moore -- The pedophile Moore's reaction to pedophilia

This vile story is about whom the state of Alabama may and probably will send to our illustrious body, the US Senate.  Read it and weep for how depraved the Republican part of our electorate who would do this has become.  This takes our nation to a new low if Alabamians decide to send this pedophile defending and perpetrating Cretan Roy Moore to the US Senate because they would rather vote for a pedophile Republican candidate than a Democrat.  No more of Moore: See story below and send this to whomever you chose.  RESIST!

By: SemDem posted in the Daily Kos

It was an open and shut case. A daycare center employee, Eric Higdon, raped a 12-year old child. He was found guilty under a sodomy statute specific to minors by all members of the 9-judge panel supreme court in Alabama.
Actually, make that all 9 members except one.

Judge Roy Moore.

Moore stated there was “no evidence in this case of an implied threat of serious physical injury.” A child was raped. What kind of “judge” says that?
The exact same judge who sexually assaulted a 14-year old girl in a court custody case!
It’s not like Alabama GOP voters didn’t know about Moore’s awful decision: his primary opponent blanketed the airwaves with ads attacking him for it. Alabama GOP voters just didn’t give a ****.  They voted for him overwhelmingly anyway.

(What got lost in Moore’s scandals was the fact that he was entirely unqualified to begin with--Moore was twice removed from the Alabama’s top court for violating the U.S. Constitution.)

But now, Alabama GOP voters recently learned that Moore took a 14-year old child—whom he promised her mother he would watch while she attended a custody hearing— to his home in the woods, gave her alcohol, stripped her, slobbered over her, and tried to guide her hand to his private area.

I wanted it over with. Please just get this over with. Whatever this is, just get it over! --Leigh Corfman on Roy Moore’s sexual assault to the Washington Post

Moore didn’t ask forgiveness, and in fact, is currently fundraising off this incident.
That should have been the end of his political career.  But those same so-called “God-fearing” voters rushed to his defense.  They didn’t argue that this wasn’t true, mind you, just that it was OK.

Sick, perverted bastard is still the GOP’s choice

Their defenses of Moore’s sexual assault have been just as appalling as they are:  (All of these are real)

• Jesus’ dad did it — so Moore was being Biblical
• It was so long ago that she’s the age of consent NOW
• Only one of his victims was 14-years old-— the rest were 16 and 17
• Yeah, 14-years old but c’mon, it was probably consensual (Hannity)
• It was the girl’s fault somehow for not making “good decisions”
• The rape wasn’t “forcible” enough to be a concern
• Screw the victims, they should all be prosecuted for coming forward now
• Yeah, child rape and all….but at least he’s not a Democrat—I’m voting for him anyway

Then Alabama State Rep. Ed Henry, Donald Trump’s Alabama campaign co-chairman, asked if there were any pictures.
That’s it.  I’m out.

Hey, Trump voters: I don’t care what Bernie or anyone else says about your needs, anxieties, or economic troubles.  

When you can justify the rape or assault of children, I’m done with you.
You pedophile-loving, sexual-assault defending, Bible-thumping, Putin-worshipping, evil, authoritarian racist losers can all drown for all I care. (Or, what would be more likely, shoot each other up.) If these are the values of the so-called “heartland”, than f*** the heartland.

You embrace hatred of your fellow man, yet promote lust for someone’s else’s child. Then you have the sick audacity to say you promote “family values”.   You don’t need economic help--you need psychological help.  The only people worse than you are the GOP silent enablers who excuse every monstrous thing because speaking out might mean they won’t get to kick a poor person in the teeth anymore.

You can have them...

To be blunt, there are too many rational people with a basic sense of decency that we need to be courting. Hell, there’s a ton more people who are already on our side that we can go after that simply don’t bother to go out and vote! (Although your constant assaults on their families are helping fix that.)

 

I used to listen to people who said we need to try to align because we are both being used by the establishment. No more. You folks deserve every piece of suffering you inflict on yourselves. Do this nation a favor and leave. GO somewhere far where you won’t hurt anyone else—your own land where you can fetishize assaults—albeit women, children or rifles. This is who you are now and what you do.  Go burn in hell.
We’re done with you.

Light

Last night's bellwether election was won by the forces of light.  It was won by those of us who want to embrace our diverse nation the culture of which was formed by men of genius nearly 250 years ago.  It has been called the world's last great hope for the blessings of liberty and a nation which is not ruled by the whim of tyrants but by the compassion of the people and its laws.  It is and always has been a work in progress.  Over the past year and really before that this nation has been tested whether the forces of evil, hate and darkness will force it to go the way other cultures in other centuries have gone killing hope only to bring tyranny and oppression upon those who have no power, no money, no health and no hope to stand up against it. Our lives and theirs are at risk if we, cannot stop the evil among us who through never ending mendacity, never ending meanness, never ending crudity and and never ending malevolence try to pit us one against the other.

The fight is not over through one election cycle.  It is a never-ending war of ideas without violence but our opposition, if they deem it necessary, will not hesitate to use violence.  Over 300 million guns they hold in their hands which hands are itching to use.  The weapon we will use will be through the ballot, the most lethal weapon on earth. We need to take last night's victory of hope and go on to win more much more never giving up, never faltering and never failing.  We will continue to see the minions of madness carrying the Tiki torches of dark light.  We will continue to see KKK crosses that light up the night sky and will not hesitate to murder the powerless innocent.  Worse, a major Party, the Republican Party, has taken those dark forces in, placed their arms around neo-Nazis and other nationalist ministers of doom and have given them voice, taking them out of their hiding place and placing them in the halls of power with a man who has allowed them that power. Through his small hands Trump can light up a July 4th sky that inflicts massive destruction, war, suffering and the death of innocents.

The magnificence of Churchillian eloquence appending Martin Luther's King's thoughts of non-violence I find energizing:  "... whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." One can be assured the evil, the cruelty and the hate of this Trumpian era has not gone away.  The Tiki torches will still with poison burn and those that carry them will continue to say "Jews will not replace us" yelling "blood and soil," a familiar Nazi phrase.  Trump and his minions, messengers of hate and division, cannot stand.  Trump, taunts an unstable youth and, ironically, becomes a clone of Kim Jong Un, a tyrant he alleges to despise.  He will continue to taunt that man Kim Jong Un who needs but one excuse to explode the only commodity North Korea can export -- a nuclear device.  The innocent of Asia, the innocent thousands of American lives and, indeed, the innocent around the globe will be enlisted to wage a massive war, the fear of which has been reignited by the sickening forces of Trump.

The baton was passed to us by the Greatest Generation and now when the light of our batons has ebbed we must pass it to the next generation to be passed by them on to the next.  This nation must be a nation of free men and women whose great Lady Liberty standing with perpetual light in New York Harbor, has been the beacon of hope to immigrant millions, my own grandparents among them, hearkens and in pertinent part says: "Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp! cries she with silent lips.  Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, the tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

The political fight against Trumpian tactics and mendacious madness goes on.  We must fight them as Martin Luther King said with "non-violence the only road to freedom."  A political war must continue to be waged against an incompetent man on whom some in this nation have seen fit to bestow unimaginable power.  Trump is a narcissistic bully who got lucky in life and who managed to acquire great wealth first through inheritance then developing that wealth, often through unethical means to ultimately hoard it and con a nation into the oval office to reap its immense taxpayer wealth for himself. 

The forces of evil that exist in some of this land that allowed him to prevail must be unceasingly resisted.  I hope justice will prevail and Trump will reap the nation's Muellerian harvest.  Trump must not win and we must not let him. We must see to it that this cancer does not spread throughout our body politic.  We are better than that.  It requires our vigilance and our attempt to seek that power through the ballot, the strongest power on earth, to stop him. 

Last night was a first step on a journey of many steps.  If he wins the light of Lady Liberty's torch goes out and Benjamin Franklin's famous quote to a woman who asked him what the Founders had given us; he said "A Republic if you can keep it."  I would answer Dr. Franklin by saying keep it we will! 

RESIST 

Hiding in Plain Sight

As a lifelong ardent Democrat I have seen this Party snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory. What does internecine warfare get us? Answer: nowhere. Let the bickering go. It does nothing to achieve the policy on which most Democrats and Progressives agree.

Chuck Todd and other mainstream reporters will milk the Donna Brazille story for all its worth pitting Democrats against other Democrats. Do 

​not​

let them. The election is over. Now it is time to unite even if we do not get everything we want.

Generally Democr

​​

ats agree on the big issues so stop squabbling which allows Drumpf to take full advantage of it as the media often does. The media wants you to tune to sell its commercials and does not care if the story is about a bear eating someone's lunch or if Democrats are fighting with other Democrats. It will sensationalize it as if that story is the most important when, in fact, there is a combustible world on the brink of total war with a sick know nothing at the helm carrying the football toward a destructive end zone. The media is about how many viewers and it can get at our expense IF we let it. Do not or we get Trump; maybe someone as bad or even worse if that is possible!

I am dismayed because every time I think Drumpf is sunk I turn on the news and see them trying to make a negative story about anything else they can. This time Democrats are front and center which should not be front page news. Depression sets in but we must turn that off and concentrate who we are.

Whatever the Democratic strategy the essence of the Party will be and is a thousand times more humane and accepting of human difference than what the Republican Party is as a Party of the 2% wealthiest with old very old dogma proven false. The wealth of the richest 2% by lowering its tax rate will NOT trickle down to you and now a Party where the KKK and neo Fascist racists Nazis can find a hiding place in plain sight. Whatever Democrats are they are infinitely better than that!

DEMOCRATS RESIST TRUMP AND RETAKE THE CONGRESS IN 2018 AND SOON THE PRESIDENCY IN 2020!

Terror in our hearts

Attacks on innocents make me sick.  Most are naturally appalled by it again and again and again. Terror attacks on the defenseless have been perpetrated in nearly every continent on earth by religious or political extremists (including right wing extremists.)  They make me ill and, worse, make me feel impotent to stop any of it.  Memories take me back to childhood when at 10 years old thoughts swam around my head that I was so lucky among millions around the world who did not share that luck that in this nation I could say anything, go anywhere and associate with whomever I wished without fear for my life or fear of arrest by powers that did not approve of my thoughts or my friends. 

It is crystal clear those days of historical good fortune, the geographical luck permitting our safety and the freedom from fear have fled. In all probability, within my lifetime those feelings of what it is like to be truly free and feel safe are forever gone.  No longer can one do the simplest act like shopping or movie going or riding a bike or even walking or window shopping without risk in the most benign settings.  It is abundantly clear that mantra swimming around in my head is now "if you see something say something" and I cannot stop that thought swimming in my mind like fish swimming in an aquarium as it keeps going round and round and round without end.   If you see something say something even if it is so seemingly non-threatening as an empty bag or a truck rental.  The reality that bag could explode and kill innocent hundreds is chilling. Our nation's civilians, too, are armed to the teeth even though most here do not have guns but the few that do have multiples of them and possess attachments to them that create a slaughter like Las Vegas.  Outrage of it goes silent.

It has been said more attacks have come in the west because ISIS is taking its last breath defeated in the Middle East in their capital Raqqa cities of Mosul and more.  I believe, though, ISIS is not defeated because it is an idea easily spread from one alienated human and religious fanatic to another and most especially on that ubiquitous invasion of all of our lives the Internet.  Moreover, ISIS is setting up camp now in Africa.  ISIS may be gone in their once stronghold Raqqa but the ideas of ISIS will never be gone and require constant vigilance and upgrades of those forces who want to prevent the poisonous ideas that injure often permanently and kill so many.  ISIS is an entity in and of itself and is a murderous belief for which most major religions do not advocate.

Our greatest challenge is to resist the indictment of all because of the perpetration of the few.  The fear I loathe along with all the innocent lives upended going for a bike ride in New York on a gorgeous fall day is that the murderer, Saipov, according to the NYT, came to the United States from Uzbekistan in 2010, and according to the Times had a green card that allowed permanent legal residence. That gives Trump and those who support his indictment and hatred of the many for the actions of a few ammunition for imposing his travel ban and other discriminatory acts so far restrained by the courts until Trump places in the courts extremist right judges who will sweep up those they do not politically like under the guise of keeping everyone safe.  If that becomes reality none of us will be free or safe --- ever; not here not abroad nor in our living room at home fearing the ubiquitous knock at the door questioning our patriotism. 

It should not be lost to our minds and surely will not be lost to history that ISIS would NOT have been born if it were not for the fracturing beyond recognition of the Middle East through the US  imprudent, illegal and certainly immoral invasion of Iraq, a war killing thousands in a country that did nothing to us.  All those innocent human beings killed by ISIS one can trace back originally to the civil war in Iraq because George Bush and his cohorts knew nothing of history and much less about the history of Iraq and certainly not of the Middle East as a whole.  ISIS was never in iraq until the US invaded it.  Millions have been slaughtered and millions of refugees are running for their lives as the sectarian divisions became exacerbated when the US shock and awe invaded Iraq ostensibly in retaliation for 9/11. Except the perpetrators of 9/11 were not from Iraq.  ISIS and those like it are the fruits of insane US military actions, poorly thought out, and ignorant of history.  Now we are  existentially threatened by a presidential know nothing mental danger who occupies the oval office in the White House with nukes!  Attacks on the west by ISIS give Trump cover for his murderous actions and ideas bathed in hate. Elections have consequences. The ignorance of Trump should strike terror in all of our hearts. 

RESIST -- your life depends upon it!