PAYBACK

     I have finally figured out what all this embracing of Donald Trump and his ideology is.. it is payback, it is a form of Karma.  But it is not the latter from fate or the former from justice that comes in time. Rather, it is from the actions of man against the perceived grievous wrong of taking the WASP male off his throne of superiority, emasculating him publicly, and daring to accord others equal access and opportunity.   This my friends is vengeful payback; a decidedly malicious revenge for: Civil Rights Laws, the Voting Rights Act, the Women's Movement, the Americans' with Disabilities Act, Human Rights movements of all kinds, Social Security and Medicare, and calling to task those in congress who've used  SS and Medicare for their pork piggy bank for decades. Most especially it is payback for daring to support, elect, and celebrate an African American man to the position of Commander in Chief; not to mention doing it twice!

    The embracing of Donald Trump and his ideology.  Look how many in the Republican party thrashed him in debates, in public forums, behind closed doors, at dais podiums, and whatever television pundit hour would have them, only to now come forward to support, buoy, and champion him.  There can be only reason.. payback.  They are willing to cast aside and whitewash his boasting about being able to grab the crotch of their wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters and they are okay with this.  If President Obama had broached even an inkling of that, well, I don't have to say how those in the red states would want to respond.  If President Obama had grabbed a bible and used it as a publicity prop, they would have gone after him even more.. and rightly so.  

    It's not so much that women and African Americans have the right to vote that is an issue, it is that they exercise it. It is not so much that women want equal pay, it's that they have dared to think and move beyond their stereotypical setting. Admittedly, and in an effort to not totally bail our the women's movement, but had they not ostracized and conveyed animus towards the homemakers they'd have gotten a lot further and faster.  

     If working stiffs don't pay their bills, these very same supporters want to foreclose, publicly admonish, arrest, convict and imprison. If Donald Trump does it, they want to elect him.  Perhaps they believe his access, power, and presumed wealth will trickle down (trickle down doesn't work, for it is contingent on the benevolence and conscientiousness of others).  If you try to assist the working individuals in any way, it is socialism. If you want to assist the chosen candidates in any way, it is called a donation.  Why can't working folks stand on their own, some may wonder, but that bodes the question of why can't those running for office stand on THEIR own ? 

    Yes, it is payback folks.. It is WASP induced "karma" for daring to remove from the throne, those who feel they are ordained by God to be in that role.  Funny isn't in, the very bible they tout talks of equality, justice, mercy, compassion, respect etc..  Beware of the money changers in the temple they are choosing to elect Herod, because they will be invited to the party where all others will serve them. 

    Let's Have a Dialog.

Failure to Remember - Condemned to Relive

   Do folks honestly choose to NOT remember the man who boasted of being able to grab p***y of anyone he wanted because  he is a "celebrity" ? What if he were bragging about having been able to do this to your mother, wife, sister, daughter, or friends? So many things can be put under his paranoid egocentric narcissism; frankly, making Richard Nixon's own paranoia look almost palatable and acceptable.  Why are the utterings of the latter mentioned individual not being broadcast like seeds on fertile soil? 

   Do we really want someone occupying the oval office who uses Christ as a marketing ploy and the faith and fears of millions as his be all end all road to earthly glory? George Washington who decried anything related to being named King... would be appalled and he had his own set of historical problems and issues. 

    There is so much to abhor here, but we cannot vote on fear. We must hold steadfast to the tenets of our American ideals, aspirations, and liberty.  Do you really want someone to deny liberty to others while we bask in it's glory? Don forget that things of this nature love karma and karma loves it; this is a dish will be served bitterly cold and wholly indigestible. 

  I am a registered independent.  I am not a party platform person; I am a human being who looks for the humanity in others, before I cast my vote.  I look at their history of outreach towards others, the cura personalis, so to speak (Jesuit leaning, here). If I don't see it by example and history ... my check mark by their name is forever lost.  

  Politics is a dirty business; it used to be a worthy avocation (never meant to be a profession). But even this, boasting of being able to physically assault anyone he chooses, is well beyond dirty or at the very least totally redefines 'dirty'.  

Let's Have a Dialog

IMBECILES AND MILLSTONES

    I never ceased to be amazed.  You'd think at nearly six decades on this planet, I'd have proverbially 'seen it all.' But I am amazed.  I am stymied and perplexed and yet, I'm not.   It's a sort of perverse dichotomy to be amazed and surprised and conversely the exact opposite.  Why, you may wonder.  Read on MacDuff, read on. 

    The state of Mississippi, along with a whole host of others, have rejected an upcoming summer food program proposed and set up by the federal administration, a program that WILL FEED MILLIONS of children! Why, are they rejecting this... there is but one reason (albeit with several addendums); it's democrat sponsored.  Never mind that children, brutally hungry children, will be nourished and provided with physical sustenance, which also aids them mentally and helps to keep the bodies functioning.  The fact is, to give the administration a "win" of this magnitude is diametrically in opposition to maintaining party platform and stance.  It does not serve the American people, it does not serve the ideology and tenets of American values.  It serves only one and it isn't the Lord I've been taught to pray to and follow in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, & John.  Tell me, are you so against this because it is from Joe Biden's administration, because he is a democrat, or because he is a Catholic ?  Perhaps all three? 

    How can anyone claim to be a Christian and be against feeding the hungry ??  How can one claim to be Christian and be against helping their fellow man.  How can you go into a church or open the Good Book and breeze past the red letter words of Christ? That's rhetorical, by the way, I know how and why it happens.  We're dealing with selfish self-centered imbeciles. 

    In doing these things, you are teaching children to ignore and turn a blind eye to suffering.  You are teaching children to be devoid of mercy. You are teaching children not to be good Samaritans but rather to be vain proselytizers that walk on by.  Who the heck gives a rat's ass who gets credit?? Do you honestly think God will ask you if you were a republican or democrat?  Won't he simply ask, "and how well did you love and keep my commandments to love me as you love one another, as I have loved you."

    If it walks like a goat, brays like a goat, and shits like a goat....it certainly isn't a sheep.  Line up to be fitted for your millstone.