So my husband and I decided on a whim to "join" a Trump sign waving party in a ruby red county.

[PatrickforB]

36. This is a wonderful, thoughtful post! I do not think it was too long at all, but then...it's me...

I appreciate point 4 at the end. In a sense what you did is put yourselves out there in the hope that you can uplift consciousness levels.

I don't want to sound esoteric here, but that really is the mission. I do not know if you have heard of him, but there was a fellow named David Hawkins. He was a psychiatrist who developed a logarithmic scale of human consciousness and published Power vs Force clear back in 1991.

Anyway, the MAGA propaganda bubble works to generate fear, desire and anger, all low on the scale. One of the best definitions of fascism I have heard is that it essentially promises people they will get what they want without specifying what that is, and without actually ever giving it to them.

Ultimately, I believe that this election is this MAGA movement hitting bottom and whoever can seems to be waking up. It is always ironic to me that they express such scorn for what they call 'wokeness.' I wonder sometimes if some of the saner people toward the edges of that bubble reflect at times that the opposite of being awake is being asleep. And, following that train of thought, who might be benefitting from this group being asleep?

No, I will spare you the rant about shareholder primacy, Wall Street and billionaires calling the shots and so on, but look at what Elon Musk is now doing with changes to privacy policies on X. And my wife this morning texted me a story about a county in Texas that has re-labeled a nonfiction book for kids titled, "Colonization and the Wampanoag Story" as fiction because they do not apparently like their kids (presumably white kids) to feel uncomfortable when reading about what their ancestors did to the indigenous peoples in this country.

People are getting tired of this. I'm watching Velshi now, and he just spoke to a bunch of AZ voters who are voting for Harris in spite of being conservative, just to save the nation.

In this election we may well witness our people saving the republic for another 50 years!