Marthe48
Marthe48's JournalThere was great societal upheaval in the 60s and 70s
The antiwar protests, supreme court decisions on things like pornography, Miranda rights, legalizing abortion, Civil Rights Act, and so many other actions that really rocked the U.S.
But compared to what is being imposed now, which upheaval harmed more people?
I think it's an easy answer. I lived through the changes the 1960s brought. Most of the people I know had better lives. It still took personal strength and determination to prevail in some choices, but the changes from the top down made it easier to find a way to have personal success and satisfaction.
What is happening now is removing the social and legal structures that benefited so many Americans and will harm the U.S. overall.
In the past the U.S. moved in fits and starts toward a better union that attempted to share human rights with all. If something was allowed, if it helped you fine, use it. if it didn't help you, move on. We are going from a benign atmosphere to one that is being stripped of hope and flogged back to despair.
Here's my idea of why felon is targeting large swaths of people
Keep in mind, he pardoned all the J6 felons, because he didn't want to go case by case.
So there are specific people or entities who stood up to him, criticized him, belittled him, disagreed with him, sued him, refused him, took him to court, made him answer for crimes, and all of the endless reasons for his endless vitriol. So, maybe here is how it works:
President Biden=equals defeat
VP Harris= women of color
Pete Buttigieg=LGBQT
CDC=failure to comply with his murderous handing of Covid
Illinois=Gov. Pritzger's defiance
Dept. of Ed.=equals every person who is smarter than he is and can't help showing him up
California=Gov. Newsom
Coast Guard Adm. Linda Fagan=strong women
FEMA=California
DEI=all POC and women
WHO=another entity that carried on with lifesaving health policies in spite of felon's murderous handling of Covid
Canada=melania has the hots for Trudeau
Judicial=all the lawsuits brought against him
You can add to the list, easily.
Way back, there was a popular tee shirt and hat motto: "Kill 'em all and let God sort them out" Felon updated it to: "Kill 'em all"
I think you're right
Imposing tariffs, pausing them, will be such an attention getter. I expect lunatic threats the rest of the time felon traitor is the figurehead. Not just everyone in America, but everyone in the world will have to watch him smear shit on the wall.
Will there be incremental damage? I read that China made a deal with another country to buy soy beans. I read that Doug Ford in Canada will not allow companies in Ontario to make new deals with U.S. companies. (I might not be entirely accurate on the details of the stories) Will actions like these be reversible? Are the tariffs on China and Venezuala still in place? Will traitor felon use tariffs as a cudgel on other countries? Will the EU ally itself with more relaiable and stable trading partners, such as BRICS? Do other countries really want to bob and weave as traitor felon flails his way around the ecomonic arena?
As for the rest of us, try to stock up when the felon is eying other ways to create havoc. I feel little less threatened knowing I have a store of dried goods is a good anti-anxiety remedy.
This is a ridiculous situation.
about DEI and economy
I don't know if rwnj jobs are aiming for total exclusion of POC and other minorities, or a return to separate but equal.
The US can't defend itself with an all white army, not enough recruits-not the age, not the fitness, not the committment. The lowlifes in private militias won't meet the standard. If there is a return to separate but equal, there will have to be 2 of each arm of the military. That is not cost effective and I have suspected for a long time that phasing out that kind of separation because of cost was a driving force in combining the forces we had in WWII, WWII and probably the Civil War.
If separate but equal is the plan, POC and other minorities will have to create medical facilities, schools, public fixtures, and again, anything that is paid for by taxes, will have the white one and the one for everyone else. That is not cost effective.
If total exclusion is the plan, whites can say goodbye to all of the pleasures diversity brings. Whites can say goodbye to a robust military, lower taxes, and more inconvience as POC and other minorities withdraw their support from the employment base, withhold their knowledge, and move on with lives full of shared resources, and even joy.
I think DEI wasn't just about hiring policies. I think it was a learning tool to help complete idiots understand how to get along with other people. Because it is cheaper for a company to run one store for all people, and to have a diverse workforce, it is cost effective. But we're dealing with rwnj who fuel their plans with hate and racism, so I shouldn't expect that there is any vision or intelligence driving the plunge over the cliff.
a 1974 movie called Conrack
A true story based on the experiences of Pat Conroy, a white man who taught black children on an isolated island off the s.e. coast of the U.S. Starred jon voight. My husband and I saw the movie at a drive-in and it was probably one of the first meaningful influences on my outlook. I don't understand how jon voight, or anyone else could be in a movie like that and not be profoundly changed by the story. I checked before I posted, and voight indeed used to be considered a liberal. Something changed him, and now he is a rwnj, favored by traitor felon rapist.
Was voight just fooling himself and us all those years? I feel like he changed his outlook after the movie Coming Home. I tried to watch that movie, but it was so grim, and I didn't finish it. Maybe whatever message was in that movie was a greater influence than the message in Conrack. It is extremely disappointing to see people turn their backs on personal, social and cultural growth and undermine any progress being made toward better understanding among people.
If traitor felon wasn't in the oval office he would be impotent
A lot of of his hissy fit orgasm is illegal and while it's scary to see and to endure, in the end, he is a weak, unfit man who either has to buy what he wants, steal it or cheat to get it, and no matter what he does as he abuses the power of the office, he will never attain to greatness. If he starts WWIII, no one will survive to remember who destroyed the world. Not a single one of the people at the controls, not a single puppet entertaining the magat brigade will be part of any legends written in the future.
Is this a Christian schism?
Lots of jumbled thoughts about this waking nightmare. I was thinking that rwnj think they own God. But they don't. I thought of how different religions have fractured because of profound differences in outlook. Is American christianity at that point? One group of christians are following actual christian teachings. The other group has lost its way, as it stubbornly twists a religion of love into a justification for hate. I heard long ago that Jesus said the new testament replaced the old testament, and if you are familiar with both, you can see that the messages are different. Christians who sincerely follow the message of Christ live a different way than christians who are creating a belief in hate.
There are many places in the world where religious schisms cause war, death, destruction. It's come to America and I don't think it'll end well. In reality, true Christians will have to set aside their belief in love, peace, brotherhood and fight to save the temporal world.
I watched the events unfolding on January 6th 2021
Watched traitor felon incite the crowd, watched hours of television and saw all that MSNBC aired. I didn't need a J6 committee to verify that traitor felon tried to overthrow the country.
I needed the strongest response from law and governance to stop the overthrow of our government, to prevent the overthrow of my country. I didn't get that. As long as the unhuman candidate is supported by a venal party and abetted by rwnj lawyers, politicians and quasi religious fringe humans, our country is not ours.
The people who support the traitor felon because they fear being exposed for illegal or perverted acts, know they did something wrong, or want to keep doing something wrong. So all of us who walk the straight and narrow get no reward for upholding the law. We get the punishment of criminals in charge of our country.
Remember when bush was installed in 2002?
Day one, he leaped this same kind of giant leap backward, and each time rwjn get in power, they take our country another giant leap backward. It is like watching our country fall over the cliff and bounce over and over on the way down.
I was never worried for myself. I worry about every group that is vulnerable, all of the rights that were recognized and are now denied, the erosion of safety and security. I wanted freedom from that worry, but I won't get it.
I might not lose any freedoms myself. I have friends who might lose their rights - rights to a family life, rights to living and working in this country, raising their families here. I'm cynical enough to assume that even if they married when the Marriage Equality Act or Respect for Marriage Act became laws of the land, my LGBTQ+ friends may lose their spouses and children, my friends of different nationalities will be caught in roundups, my friend of color will be slaughtered with no care about their humanity. I can wear a safety pin and donate, and smile at anyone who might appreciate a friendly face. I don't know what I can do to make the U.S. once again identifiable as my country.
Having the person sitting in the oval office releasing 1500 felons is overwhelming and if any one thing males me fear what is in store, it is that.
Listening to radio with ads today
In the 2 hours I've been up, I've heard 2 or 3 times, the same ad for treating ED, claiming a confidential phone or online consultation, and appropriate medicine shipped to your home.
I bet I'm never in my lifetime going to hear the same kind of advertising for women's sexual/reproductive health and well-being. And nothing about appropriate meds shipped to your home.
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