Category: political

Does one have to believe, talk and walk like all the other minions?  If we want your favor must we only shop where you approve and only think like you.  Since when have left-wing NUTS and right-wing NUTS become the purveyors of truth in this country?

For the record:
I am against racism, prejudice, poverty, abusers of any kind. I believe in lifting people out of poverty by training them for the workforce and feeding and housing them until they can get and hold a job. I do not believe government can solve all of our problems. That’s what creates the giant bureaucracy that devours our hope and dignity. In order to have self-esteem, I must like myself and feel proud of my accomplishments. The example I think of is all of the single parents I know and have worked with who have raised their children well in spite of having to work four jobs to take care of them and put food on the table. In fact, they are often heard righteously bragging about how in spite of how difficult it was, they got it done. They deserve to feel proud of doing something that difficult well.

I don’t like everyone, and those I don’t like it’s because they are mean and black-hearted,- either to me or someone I know and care about. I am pro-choice and I like some people who are pro-life. I don’t HATE them because of their stand. My friends come in all colors, genders, sexual orientations, religions, countries, and cultures. I have traveled to far away places and seen amazing people and some selfish brats. I try to hold my judgments in abeyance and don’t always succeed. My fall-back stance is love and that’s where I start unless you become a hater and then I can’t stay anywhere near you because of the anxiety your hatred provokes in me. Whether it’s Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, or Donald Trump, wild ass hatred is not acceptable and it does trickle down and it does make us sick and it does create violence.  Look around, you can see it. Nothing can take us backward as a nation quicker than hatred. We need to celebrate our differences not hate them.  Medical research has evolved to the point where doctors understand that each person is made up of unique and complicated chemistry and no single treatment fits everyone. We are all incredibly different from ours frontal lobes down to our toenails.

I don’t like the Teacher’s Union but I love great teachers and think we should pay them as much as we pay politicians in Washington or Governors of states. We need to fix the education system so they can teach again instead of being forced to deal with helicopter parents raising a bunch of children who refuse to be accountable for their behavior! Allow teachers to teach. I have known so many teachers who started their careers excited and full of amazing ideas, who eight or nine years later are burned out by the steady erosion of their power and excitement and the encroaching bureaucracy, or disappointed because of the unwillingness of the public to value their profession.

I also think we need term limits, criminal justice reform, and Tort reform! Criminal justice first!

Most of us are compassionate and empathetic…some are just empty bloviators and can do a lot of damage. I understand most of us will not witness evil and look the other way. The triumvirate is not good and evil and Trump. For God’s sake, Trump is not Hitler. There are no ovens waiting to slaughter anyone. Hillary and Elizabeth are not the good witch Glenda., nor are they the evil witch.  A little patience and reality, please. I think we are all susceptible to fake news, and too many get their “news” from Facebook or late night talk shows.

Of course, this is all just my opinion. Unlike ISIS and many fellow Americans, I value your opinion and hope you value mine even if you disagree with me-especially if you disagree.I look at my grandchildren and worry about what kind of world we are leaving them. And lastly, I am lonely and I can’t afford to lose friends over political discourse. And when you respond to these rambling thoughts, if you do, please don’t call me ignorant or stupid. I am not. And don’t lecture me, just tell me how you feel about all these issues, and what you are passionate about.
Thank you if you have read this all the way to the end.

So we lived through the last two years of the nastiest, ugliest, race-baitingest, name callingest, most misogynistic and just plain hateful presidential race of my lifetime! It was brutal and exhausting. We ended up with two candidates most of us did not like nor trust worth a damn. To make matters worse the national press was so biased that little of what they fed us on a daily basis was true… and the pollsters were all wrong.   One of the candidates appeared to be a ridiculous clown who intimidated his way into the finals. Somehow Trump rudely touched a few nerves that left seven candidates lying flat on the floor, flustered and unable to shrug off his accusations. The Republican party had some capable and respectable candidates running for President. Only Trump was left standing

The Democrats had Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She thought it was “her turn” to fill the office of President. After all, she had stepped aside for President Barack Obama to serve his eight years after she had already stood by as her husband served eight years… and endured his cheating and lying because she knew her time would come.  Hillary was magnificent in her arrogance. I could not have expended the kind of endless energy Hillary or Trump spent running for office for two grueling, exhausting years. In the end, the Clinton legacy caught up with her…along with exhaustion…and she limped to the finish line. What she didn’t know is the country had had enough of her and Barack Obama’s arrogance. To some degree this was a battle between the left wing liberals and the right wing conservatives. Those who favor small government and those favoring government involved in all aspects of our lives. I consider myself a fiscally conservative liberal, and some of my friends are socially liberal conservatives. Many polls place the majority of our population somewhere along those lines, and I think that’s how we voted. Hence Donald J. Trump is the President-Elect as of 2:30 this morning.

I am ridiculously praying that Donald J. Trump, up until November 8, 2016, was doing and saying exactly what he believed he had to do and say to win the election. It worked with his competition…and it worked all the way to the finish line. The finish line is also the beginning of his Presidency. Let’s hope some better version of Donald J. Trump shows up to take the reigns of a country that in spite of it’s faults, is already a pretty good place to be born. Let’s hope we  continue on  the path we’ve already started– of inclusion, respect, and support for ALL of the people of the United States of America. I’m going to hope this is true because the President-elect said in his acceptance speech last night,  “It’s time… I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all Americans,  and this is so important to me.”   Let’s hold his feet to the fire!