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guillaumeb's JournalAmid Islamophobia and travel bans, one mosque offers a lesson in caring
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When you walk into the mosques offices, you see a large mural with Arabic writing translated into English: Peace Be Upon You, it says.................
The ADAMS Compassionate Healthcare Network has been open for nearly three years and has treated hundreds of patients, including refugees, day laborers and military veterans.
America is a land of hundreds of hospitals and clinics named for sisters and Christ and crosses and mercy. Now joining them are about 25 free clinics nationwide run primarily by Muslim volunteers, according to the American Muslim Health Professionals task force on health affordability.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/amid-trumps-islamophobia-one-mosque-offers-a-lesson-in-caring/2017/03/06/1d61c370-0276-11e7-ad5b-d22680e18d10_story.html?utm_term=.ebd69b248606
Caring for people, doing good works no matter the beliefs of those served. Believers trying to live the message.
A recent post asked if GOP voters were having second thoughts.
The premise was, given all of the craziness Trump has demonstrated in the past few weeks, are a certain number of GOP voters having second thoughts?
My view is simple:
None of Trumps' actions will cause GOP voters to have second thoughts. If they had demonstrated any first thoughts they would not have voted for Trump in the first place.
I will tie all the threads together in one coherent narrative:
First, Barack Obama, in his secret role as mastermind of ISIS, approved the wiretap on Citizen Trump because Trump finally found Obama's birth certificate. A certificate that actually shows that Obama and Osama bin Laden were brothers. A certificate that was found with other papers in a lockbox belonging to Vince Foster.
Second, Obama and Clinton are running the anti-Trump conspiracy out of the basement of a pizza restaurant in Washington DC. As well, Clinton was running a child sex ring out of that same basement until she was stopped by certain patriotic Americans.
Third, as well as documentation about the birth certificate, Foster had passed information about the future conspiracy to certain other relatives. By coincidence, these relatives were living in.......................................Bowling Green. And the massacre of innocent Americans at Bowling Green was arranged by the Clintons for the sole purpose of killing all of these Foster relatives who had evidence of the future conspiracy.
Fourth, Putin is actually working with Obama to undermine Trump so Obama can take over as dictator and confiscate all of the guns.
And institute Sharia law.
Did I miss anything?
March 25th MAGA marches in planning stages:
Below is a link to an organization planning March 25 MAGA marches. I cannot copy the text but it reads like typical Limbaugh inspired nastiness.
https://nextrepublicans.com/2017/01/23/continuing-support-for-president-trump-the-make-america-great-again-march/
Edited to add: If, as some have suggested, Trump is out of office, the organizers can simply rename the march the Grand March commemorating the Trump Presidency.
If Trump is controlled by Putin, who is Trump's controlling agent?
Could it be someone like Steve Bannon? Or is he too much of a fascist to be trustworthy to Putin?
Could it be Mike Pence? Or does he receive his orders directly from God?
Could it be Melanija Knavs? Or Melania Trump, as she is now known?
The KGB has been known to use women to trap men before. She is from a country that was under Russian control. Is it possible that she is part of a KGB long game? Or did Putin merely see an opportunity to use her as the contact after he had financial information and blackmail on Trump?
How much will Americans accept before they start acting?
Many Americans will happily accept restrictions on free speech. The vast majority of Americans do not demonstrate anyway, and do not write letters to the editor. Free speech is a theory, a concept to them, something they might have briefly read about in school, and then promptly forgot after the test.
Many Americans will accept that the press is mainly corporate owned. These Americans get their information from FOX. They are far more interested in their reality television, or sports news, than in reality.
Many Americans will accept that the war machine consumes 60% of discretionary spending. They unquestioningly accept the myth that the US war budget is actually defensive in nature. They do not know that the US has thousands of military bases all over the planet, and if they did know, they would rationalize this also as defensive in nature because America is the good guy.
Many Americans will accept that the oil industry is ruining the planet. As long as their gas is relatively cheap they do not care about ruined rivers, ruined landscapes in coal country, and the other ruined land in the many national sacrifice zones. They care about their daily commute, and their ability to go places quickly.
Many Americans accept without question that capitalism is the best economic system in the world. They call themselves capitalists even if they have no savings to rely on. They accept that capitalism is of course better than socialism because they have been taught, or rather indoctrinated, that capitalism=freedom and socialism=rationing. And this indoctrination is not questioned even as income inequality grows every year.
So what will it take? Is it the frog in a pot of water syndrome, where the frog does not jump as long as the heat under the pot is slowly increased?
Is the (D) behind the name more important than the voting record?
We all know that Bernie Sanders is registered as an Independent. We also know that he caucuses with the Democrats. But in the grand scheme of things, is the label more important than the voting record?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/06/11/here-are-the-members-of-congress-who-vote-against-their-party-the-most/?utm_term=.b0faee03cf6d
So does this make Manchin 75% Democrat and 25% GOP?
By contrast:
http://www.mintpressnews.com/bernie-sanders-voting-record-antithetical-to-his-purported-anti-war-stance/208066/
So does this make Sanders 98% a Democrat and 2% GOP? If so, by the measure of voting record, Sanders is more of a Democrat than a few with the (D) behind their names.
Personally, I think politicians should be judged by how they vote, a clear reflection of supporting a Party's positions, rather than by how they label themselves.
Beyond Protest: What Are We in Favor Of?
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Why.....because, to paraphrase George Costanza, Democrats were trying to put on a show about nothing. Why? Because theyd abandoned the New Deal and adopted the raw deal. And you cant run on a platform that says, "We still love you and all, but we kinda support the Oligarchy too."
Democrats have steadily lost power on the state level. Every non-Presidential election shows a low turnout of voters among those who should be natural Democratic voters.
And it also tells us why theyre losing.
Some of this is framing. The GOP is terrible at governing, but they are great at framing issues. Witness the large number of voters who think that the ACA and Obamacare are different programs.
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/22/beyond-protest-what-are-we-favor
To Survive, the Democratic Party Needs to Stand Up to Wall Street and Global Corporations
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Yes, voter suppression helped, as did media collusion by failing to really examine Trump.
So what to do now?
If the Democratic Party is to retake government, it will need to do more than be the party that isnt as bad as Trump. It will need to find the courage to stand up for ordinary people, which means standing up to Wall Street and global corporations
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/22/survive-democratic-party-needs-stand-wall-street-and-global-corporations
I think progressives need to understand Trump voters. No, really.
Progressives need to understand that not all Trump voters are racists.
But they voted for one.
Progressives need to understand that not all Trump voters are Islamophobes.
But they voted for one.
Progressives need to understand that not all Trump voters are rapists.
But they voted for one.
Progressives need to understand that not all Trump voters are serial adulterers.
But they voted for one.
Progressives need to understand that not all Trump voters use bankruptcy as a weapon.
But they voted for one who does.
I know some Trump voters. The ones that I know do not behave like Trump, but in voting for him they rewarded and validated his behavior. So they are equally as guilty.
Feel free to add your own thoughts.
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