Oct 11, 2019
Great Thoughts Make a Great Country
What is it that makes a country great? Is it the color of the people? Is it the money in the pockets of those people? Is it the fancy houses they live in or the cars they drive?
Your color isn’t a reflection of your outlook on life, or how you treat people. Neither is the amount of wealth that you own, or the number of assets. None of those things will create a nation of happy, healthy people.
But poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti said it best, and Mark Dixon knew it:
Happy Birthday to poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti who turns 100 today. Pity the nation whose breath is money . . .
Kevin Hile knows it too:
Here is what I mean when I say I am a liberal. I believe the following:
1) All humans should be treated equally
2) Mom and Dad were right; we should learn to share and not hoard our toys
3) The environment is important; we are dependent upon it, and we cannot destroy it and hope to survive
4) Religion is fine, but it doesn’t give you the right to tell me how to live my life. There must be a separation of Church and State (churches need to stay out of politics and not influence how their members vote; government should not favor one religion over others)
5) Corporations are not people; money (bribery) is not free speech, it’s corruption
6) Unregulated capitalism creates a soulless society that loves only money and things, not people. Democratic socialism is not communism
7) No one needs to be a billionaire
8 Medical care should not be for profit
9) Prisons should not be for profit
10) Weed is no worse than alcohol and was only made illegal as an excuse to jail minorities. It is not a gateway drug, but Big Pharma is
11) The Second Amendment was not written so you could have guns that can slaughter dozens or hundreds of people with the squeeze of a trigger. A “well-regulated militia” means exactly what it says despite what has been ruled by SCOTUS, which is not an infallable body
12) The country is stronger if it has an educated populace. State universities and colleges should be free
13) Immigration is a good thing. We are a nation of immigrants. That includes you, whities.
History knows it.
We don’t read the names of nobodies, in our text books at school. It is the daring, the inventors and innovators that get the honorable mention:
The Wright Brothers. Marie Curie. Rosa Parks. Ben Franklin. Phineas Bogg. Carl Benz. Edison, Galileo, and Columbus. Charles Schwab, Tesla and Pasteur.
Those are just a few. Here are some names of women that will interest you, if you like to drive or ride in comfort, in your car:
And, love her or hate her, you have to admit that she’s taking a risk, and garnering attention. Her name is Greta Thunburg, and she’s making history, too.
The ever dwindling population of rich people of our society may have a strangle hold on the stock market, and food industry, right now, and most of the rest of our resources, but history won’t remember the names of the big players, as much as it will remember the names of their companies:
Bayer, Monsanto, Nestle, Pfizer, Amazon and Whole Foods, and the rest of these that laid off workers as soon as the CEOs of the companies got their tRump born tax breaks:
History will remember these big players as the murdering monsters they are. It will say of them, that they turned their backs on the people that made them what they are. Those same former employees are already turning their backs on the companies that laid them off, and taking their time and talents to other employers. Some of those employers are overseas, in countries that compete with the US.
The US has lost by allowing a “president” to interfere in the job market in such a short sighted manner. She had seen that short sightedness was always his modus operandi:
Tariffs on solar panels and Chinese imports. Pulling out of the Paris Accords. Rolling back environmental protections and affordable healthcare policies. Pulling our troops out of Syria. Trying to build a wall against the influx of asylum seekers who we bombed out of their homes. Insulting California and Puerto Rico in lieu of sending needed FEMA aid. Mass deportations that are offensive to our one time allies. ……..I could go on in this vein, but then again, you could just read one or two of my previous blog posts.
My point is, that this “president” of the US has had about three years, now, to “Make America Great Again” and all we’ve seen for it is lay-offs, increased violence in the streets and at schools, churches, and bars. We’ve seen other nations’ leaders laugh at this “president” and we’ve seen our own people laugh at him, and then try to impeach him. We’ve seen him bully and insult people that dare to disagree with him or criticize him. We’ve seen him actually endanger the lives of congress people, by speaking out of turn, and we’ve seen evidence that he has no love of his country.
https://medium.com/@suehirsch/the-cost-of-trump-ii-a12b4a7d3cc4
Three years is quite long enough for the White House to oust a sitting president that has repeatedly proved to be a threat to the nation. Since they have proved unequal to the task, lacking either the courage or the integrity to wrest what’s left of our once great nation from his criminal clutches, we must look to our own needs and VERY SURVIVAL!
WE MUST BECOME A NATION OF CALIFORNIA.
This will be life as usual, for us as California has ever been a nation…… in all but name.
We are a proud nation of innovators, and have been for a long time. We have welcomed and will continue to welcome immigrants, because they boost our economy, and help us to take care of our own.
We will not only survive, after liberating ourselves from the rule of the US kleptocratic kakistocracy. We will thrive on the freedom from having to pay Federal taxes to the US, and on their restriction on immigration, and on the new environmental protections that we will be able to enact, on what is currently called Federal land, and is being decimated and stolen by the Federal government, under the “leadership” of a short sighted and greedy Toddler- King.
Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti was right, that the US is to be pitied, for all the reasons, he enumerated in his poem, but we mustn’t make the deadly mistake of pitying Her so much that we allow ourselves to drown with Her, as we try to save Her from the seas of contempt that are already crashing over Her from all around.
We can’t save a nation that doesn’t want to be saved and it is not our job to do so. Most of that nation wouldn’t even agree with us, yet, that there is a problem that is too big to handle without completely remaking the government, and our monetary system. (#Capitalism Kills). They still believe that they can repair the damage with a simple regime change.
Even if the greed and short sightedness of the current regime were not just a symptom and the tip of the ice-berg, the damage already done to the reputation of the US, to her economy, and to the sense of trust that once flowed between the people and the media and the government is almost irreparable and has paved a short route to an instability that will make America an easy target for take over if not by hostile countries around us, then by expanding corporate rule, both from US companies, and internationally based ones.
Trying to save America, would be fighting an uphill battle against those who still believe that there will be a happy ending, somehow, in 2020, with the election of a new president. Others are happy to see their government ripping health care away from women going to Planned Parenthood, because they think that Planned Parenthood ONLY does abortions. Still others are happy to see their government separating families at the border and putting babies in cages with no beds, and only emergency blankets for warmth, and rarely an adult to change their soiled diapers.
These are NOT CALIFORNIA VALUES, so why are we endorsing them, by our inaction?! Why are we PAYING FOR THEM, with our tax dollars?!
Every moment that goes by, that we continue to do nothing to liberate ourselves, makes it harder to do so in the future, because our land will only become more ruined by the current US regime. Our people will only become more divided by that same government that is supposed to care about the needs of its people, and bring us together to help us create solutions to meet those needs.
I haven’t seen that happen in the 3 years, since the latest inauguration.
Have you?
