Yes, it's wonderful that Democrats won the presidency in 2020. (I voted for every name that had a [D] after it.) But I think it's rather sad that those who are are happy a stellar political candidate like Kamala Harris is the VP would be horrified if Harris was the President-elect. I just hope Biden gets out of her way and lets Harris work her reformative magick. (And the idea of Kamala Harris presiding over Congress gives me a warm feeling.)
Sunday, November 22, 2020
Monday, November 9, 2020
Sunday, November 8, 2020
Wellsprings of Hope
- It may not seem like a Blue Tsunami.
- Perhaps without the GOP sabotage of the electoral process,
- combined with conservatives coordinating their sabotage with foreign state agents,
- the votes would have been tallied much faster to create a huge wave of voter response.
- Yet we have so much to be thankful for:
- The use of paper ballots thwarted efforts both internal and external to hijack the electoral process.
- The forces of white patriarchy in all their violence have been exposed; the warnings of Liberalism have been validated.
- Everyone now sees what we are really fighting for: freedom and equality.
- Rivers of dark money did not win the election.
- The 1% coup has failed.
- Marijuana legalization is trending across the country.
- For-profit prisons will lose much of their revenue.
- More senate seats will come into play in two years.
- The benefits of liberalism will help elect more Democrats.
- Mitch McConnell will face his reckoning.
- Biden and Harris can still do much to improve the USA's international standing and relationships.
- So dance and celebrate--carry this energy into the work that must be done to heal, repair, and restore.
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
The more things change...
- We've been through this before.
- It's the 1960's all over again.
- The corrupt President Richard Nixon was in power.
- The GOP fomented endless wars everywhere,
- using Russia as their excuse;
- rattling sabers to loot small nations.
- Crony capitalism exploited the American people.
- Vicious racism concealed beneath a veneer of "law and order."
- But we know what to do this time.
- Educate.
- Resist.
- Expose.
- Envision a better world.
- Just like then, facing the juggernaut of a crushing economy,
- practice patience, one step at a time,
- small victories here and there.
Autonomy versus liberty
- I am slowly coming to realize a minor but crucial distinction in the struggle for human rights,
- especially for civil rights in the United States.
- There are those who believe that all races are equal and
- must be free to live their lives where they will
- contribute to our nation how they will choose
- without obstacles or constraints.
- Then there those who believe it is immoral to subjugate other races for social, economic, or legal gain,
- and so the white race must do a better job of governing our nation.
- This (for me) explains so many of the weird discrepancies we find in the struggle for human rights,
- where thousands and thousands of people take to the streets in support of Black Lives Matter,
- and yet conservative politicians continue to be re-elected time after time
- (and outside interference can't fully explain the disparity).
- The sad conclusion to this chain of premises is
- well-intentioned people will march side-by-side with fellow activists in public civil rights protests,
- but will privately vote for conservatives so the white race remains in power.
- Our decades-long fight for liberty and equality for all
- was crippled from the beginning
- not from greed nor lust,
- but from fear;
- fear of non-whites in control.
- One lesson I learned from the struggle for women's rights,
- is women must have autonomy,
- over and above rights and liberties of their own.
- So now I will always ask, "Should non-whites have autonomy?"
- For me, the answer is, "Damn straight they should."
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