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No Representation


During past 6 months of this Presidents tenure we have seen a big uptick of Racism, anti-immigration protests and “executive” orders banning immigrants and religious bans. The TOTUS is governing via social media rather than from informed sources. We have Congressional members willing to sacrifice the health of millions by repealing and replacing the current ACA rather than repairing it as they should have done years ago. For some reason these folks think the oft cited “American people” are either dumb or ignorant. The representation of their respective areas is Negligible at best. The promises made when campaigning for the job are all broken and continue to be through lies and innuendo but unfortunately too many of us “Americans” do not realize that what happens to one affects us all. The current Congress has become ( or has been for years) self serving and of no use to the “American people” whom they cite regularly. As a reminder: the second world war and its ensuing atrocities were pushed by an orchestrated agenda of lies and blame (similar to todays news (tweets) placed on a particular population of people. This is the same methodology used to legitimize slavery here and abroad during the early years of the last 2 centuries. The 2 world wars were more about  blaming someone (or a group of people) than even the simple idea of taking territory. It is within our power (as voters) to reverse this by voting the current administration and Congress out or “repeal and replace” them. The “radicals” on all sides are possibly too far “gone” to understand that the enemy is not other people but the people that were elected to represent us all. Until the voters start thinking as a nation (even with our opinion differences) we will continue to have poor representation. If you (we) do pay attention to the people who represent us then we are destined to have poor governance from top to bottom.

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The Trump Agenda


Each day there are new statements regarding the ACA or “Obamacare” repeal and replacement. The current Majority party decided early on that the former President would get nothing passed and Health care was one issue that was never supported. What occurred was a campaign of lies and innuendo about the bills content even though it seems that no one in the Dupublican party read it. It would have been more statesman like to actually read the bill and make or suggest changes  for improvement however that never happened and the bill was forced into law . During its time it has been improved and changed unilaterally with decent results yet the anti’s continued defaming it. Now the Congress is proposing their own  “replacement and repeal” that again has not been read by its members but has had excerpts put out that show its lacks. The Majority party has so-so support within it’s own ranks but it is still being pushed because they Promised. With the political factions within the White house and Congress fighting one another, throwing one another under the proverbial bus, not much is being accomplished. Recently the TOTUS held a fund raiser at one of his hotels and swears  to taxpayers that funds are not going into his personal coffers. My question is: ” why are we putting up with this type of Governance without a fight”. We all know or should know that our Congress is ineffective (except in deception), however they have adopted the well used method of repeating the same tale over and over until it appears to be true. Now with the advent of mass media, many of us are still stuck in the “believe mode” reinforced by the power of the office holders we put in place. There are no term limits on Congress unless we as voters impose them and we have not done it often enough. Looking at the current political scene, one can easily see that our Congress has no good intentions for us. There are Congressional members who actually are doing some good but not enough to over come the massive lie factory that has been in place for many years. We need to forget the party line BS and look at the people we have and will elect. The color of a persons  skin, their sex  (or preference of) has nothing to do with ability. If we as voters do not start paying attention and forget our smaller personal roadblocks we  will never have good government. We currently have a small minded, shortsighted, adoration seeker in the oval office whose sole purpose is to be loved and to that end is pushing to act on promises that were and still are outrageous no matter what the price and resulting harm can be caused.  Trump’s agenda is “no agenda” and the Congress is trying make it happen.

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The Damnation of America


The Damnation of America is in the hands of the Majority party and a small minded despot. It is of no import that Washington is broken but what is important are your personal beliefs and politics if they are based in facts. Neither major party can be perfect for anyone but the key to understanding is to look closely at the individual members and their personal agendas. The key people are the reason for nothing being accomplished during the Obama years. The Majority party pushed the agenda of Obamacare being bad but it is only bad due to the legislators not doing their jobs instead of obstructing progress. Many of us have benefitted from The ACA (aka Obamacare) yet the Congress is busily touting repealing and replacing but with a law that takes, limits and eliminates benefits. All the while many have jumped on this bandwagon without realizing it has faulty wheels. Just today I read that one less than illustrious member of Congress who earns 174,000.00 annually wants 30,000 more as a housing allowance. This is just one of many whose health benefits may not be changed by this new Health care bill. If as a voter you are not disturbed then it is possible that you have not kept up with the daily news output from almost everywhere. If you are a devotee of Fox (FAUX) news then you are definitely under or uninformed. This is one of many ways the political world is coercing support with bogus information. It is time to get woke!

Modern Day Lethal Combo


Political Science

Political science is a social science discipline that deals with systems of government and the analysis of political activity and political behavior. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics which is commonly thought of as the determining of the distribution of power and resources.

Advertising

Advertising (or advertizing) is a form of marketing communication used to promote or sell something, usually a business’s product or service. In Latin, ad vertere means “to turn toward”. The purpose of advertising may also be to reassure employees or shareholders that a company is viable or successful.

These two areas appear to have merged into a combination that rivals the Hitler like verbal barrage of pre World War 2 days. The modern day slickness of advertising has allowed for seemingly credible campaign slogans, photos and out of context sound bites to reach the masses via all media sources. This spread of information does not allow for discourse or discussion until after airing or printing. This short circuit makes for  an under or uninformed public. It is unfortunate that too many of us do not or will not gather as much information as possible on what our elected officials tell us and what is in the media. There are exceptions in both areas but in order to determine that one must look a several sources. An elected office does not make a person truthful and honest. Looking at the ongoing attempts to repeal and replace “Obamacare” aka  “ACA” which many people are receiving Health care under is now under threat but not many Trump supports are rising up against it. The same idiots who have for years laid a path of lies up to the last election and after. What we are seeing now is that our “representatives” are feathering their own nests while tearing ours down. It is within the power of the people to correct this by merely ignoring the rhetoric and reading more. The least trustworthy (and leaders) of our Congress are the prime movers of this harmful bill and will continue to stick it to us unless we get “woke”.

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The American Dream (Nightmare?)


Apparently we Americans are so used to “BS” in the news and from our elected officials that we cannot see the truth even when it affects our day-to-day lives. We elected a scammer based on BS much like we elected members of Congress on the same basis. Now we have another “Watergate” situation brewing. While all of this is happening our Congress is busily working to impose more burdens on the least of us by altering or eliminating current Health care (ACA) and financial protections (Dodd-Frank). I cannot personally speak for everyone but I can offer my opinion based on what I have read, remember and read daily. Our political system was designed to offer a method of  having all citizens represented along with their views. What we have come to is 535 seta fillers whose views are not always ours and who make every attempt to insure us that they are looking out for us. According to history, if you tell a lie long enough and often enough it becomes the “truth”, then we had a world war with the murder of millions of  people based on ethnicity and birth. Now we have a similar scenario in several countries producing millions of murdered and displaced individuals based on the same standards. The difference is now we have instant communication where the truth is often misread or obscured by true sounding lies. Our current local and national administrations at not good for us much like overeating or smoking.

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Internment?


A recent Fox news show had contributor Nigel Farage calling for internment camps for Muslims was met with pushback from fellow host Clayton Morris. Internment camps have been touted as a solution against “other” groups for centuries , these “camps”  were used in many countries disguised as “communities”  but in reality were ghettos that contained certain races and religious groups. These ghettos were created by force or through quasi legal means. The Nazi internment camps were in essence “ghettos”  of death. The Native American “reservations” were and still are ghettos. African Americans were redlined into ghettos in many major cities. Some ethnic groups are still  ghettoized in some areas. To be clear: this is the defined meaning of Ghetto as it applies in  this  case:

Ghetto: “Any section of  a city in which many members of a minority group live, or to which  they are restricted as by social discrimination”. 

Reservation: Public land set aside for a special use, as for American Indians.

Internment: Internment is the imprisonment or confinement[1] of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. The term is especially used for the confinement “of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects”.[2] Thus, while it can simply mean imprisonment, it tends to refer to preventive confinement, rather than confinement after having been convicted of some crime. Use of these terms is subject to debate and political sensitivities.

The amassing  of certain groups to deflect, defer or defuse the power of people by confining them in particular areas is Racism and in many cases denial of religious freedom. This activity has not changed a lot in hundreds of years yet we as human beings still allow it by action or lack of action. There will always be Racists, religious bigots and anti anyone who is different type people but we do not have to elect them to office because of a few “buzz words and sound bites” or because we are upset with the Government. These outspoken “leaders?” usually have real solutions for any of us and will stunt the growth of us all  financially and personally. We will always have people who have different opinions even to extremes but we do not have to elect them to office or allow them to hijack our democracy. The real tragedy is that we all are looking for the same things but have not found a way to accept the non-essential differences between us and embrace the sameness to work towards a common goal.

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Why!!!


Why would a liar be concerned about being truthful about campaign promises? The current and administration has a proven track record of stretching and subverting the truth on a regular basis. We have heard and seen a steady stream of untruths coming from our White House. The campaign promises that are being acted upon appeases a small group of people and are just another set of lies as those promises in reality cannot be kept or accomplished. There will be no return of lost jobs in coal and many other industries. The future of this country is in renewable energy and other related technologies, some of which require retraining. It would appear to me that the rational line to follow is education but we have Betsy De Vos instead. Trump has selected some of the worst people to serve in his cabinet. These people on the surface are not bad  people however they are ill-informed or under informed as to the issues their respective posts are facing. Mr. Trump for all of his rhetoric is no more than a child with too much power and cannot stay on topic long enough to understand or reason out a proper solution especially if it takes more than 140 characters. He is depending on the more radical ideas of his staff and that affects all of us now and in the future. The recent incidents in England caused him to push for his “muslin ban” with no information as to who committed these crimes. His withdrawal from the Paris climate accord again with no understanding of the effects of that action. These two examples are just indicative of the President’s inability or lack of desire to understand his  position (United States)  will be our burden for many years to came. He is doing what he has done in business, make thing happen because he promised and not taking the long range effects into consideration. Mr. Trump is setting us on a path of long time recovery from his administration. His base will suffer along with the rest of us but could conceivably not understand that their vote is why we are in this situation now and in the future. What we have at this time is a Presidency that cannot  succeed due to a lack of information related to the real world. This Presidency will put us more at risk than we have ever been, Why?, because it is built on lies!

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Failure To Thrive


100 plus days into his term the President is looking more like someone who is looking to be impeached or someone who is clueless about governing. Our neer do well Congress appears to be unable to do anything about it unless they just want a cover for their personal agendas. The anti Trump messages from radicals like Ann Coulter is a sure clue that we are heading for a potential disaster at home and abroad. The President has the idea it seems that he is the smartest person in the room however when you  ignore the counsel of seasoned diplomats, you are not the smartest and are bound to board the mistake train which does not have many stops. It is a sure sign of distress when the neediest of us all vote for whoever can promise the most and crow the loudest while ignoring the underlying character flaws that could surely bring the government to a stop at home and abroad. Our allies are in a state of awe after the recent Presidential visit as they have not figured out what his agenda is (perhaps Trump hasn’t either). If we look at the current administration as a medical condition we would consider it as being  in Hospice care, just being made comfortable with no medical treatment. Many times this results in a cause of death as “failure to thrive”, along with any other medical causes leading up to the demise. The “aftershock” will be years of unraveling the mess locally and abroad while the country’s progress slows to a snails pace. The opportunity we have now is to pay close attention to our current elected officials especially the long serving ones as they have ridden to victory on promises (not kept) and innuendo.

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How To Push Back


The current and administration is depending on the public to be upset but to take no action. The appointed cabinet members and their boss have nothing good in mind for us. Trump appointed people who he thinks will do a good job based on what he is told and not always on what he knows. Where we stand as a country is hotly debated due to the many and varied opinions of reliable or unreliable sources. So many of us rely on sources that grab our attention with headlines that are not always backed up by facts. This shading of the facts is what has led us to the current administration and the “tweet storm”. We currently have a group of cabinet members whose legacy will undo years of progress and lower the health and education standards we have achieved over the years. What can we do about it? The first thing as voters that we can do is to examine the track record of the people we have voted for regularly and see how they have represented us. Keep in mind that what they say is not always what they actually do. To roll back what has been done previously sounds and looks good in print but in reality can be devastating. If your circumstances are not as good as someone else’s, do not blame that person look at what caused the difference and you will usually find that it’s the existing laws and the people who passed them (the people we voted for on a regular basis). The pushback is simple: Listen to what the candidates say then research their records. Listen and view several news sources. You will find that there are differences and somewhere among those differences lies the truth and that is what you are seeking. Finally politics is no more than theater, entertaining but not serious enough  base an opinion on.

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Sally Yates


Sally Yates has had her day in court and she shone like a star! The panel of neer do wells attempted several times to impugn her testimony however it appears that she is smarter than they expected (probably because She’s a woman). Several members of this panel were on the panel when she was vetted as “acting Attorney General” and asked questions which she answered yet these members brought those questions up again and were rewarded with a nice “shut up” as their reward. Then to cover up more FBI director James Comey was fired after his testimony, this firing was at the behest of Jeff Sessions (supposedly) whose sole purpose appears to be returning us to the pre civil rights era. This administration is determined to do it wrong without conscience just because the CIC is an entertainer who believes he is immune to any questions about his actions. The Trump method of operating is to spit out  orders and have them carried out without question. This is not how it works in Government! It is apparent that we have a child in the Oval office who wants to take his ball and go home but can’t so he rants on social media. He has spent valuable time and energy trying to complete his campaign promises in the first 100 days (his stated time line) and has become frustrated when he couldn’t. This lack progress in his eyes is someone else’s fault thus the campaign style meetings outside of the White House. In his haste to undo all things Obama, he has created a fear and an anger among us all that will not be abated until he is out of office. TOTUS’s actions are reminiscent of the “Tammany Hall” era of New York and I wonder what will his downfall leave in its wake. The free press and media have been locked out of press conferences so all news sources are suspect and possibly contrived. Our Allies are looking at all of this and wondering if we as a country will recover from this witch hunt. As voters we have one solution-become informed and vote, show the power of the people to effect change. If we don’t no one else will.

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