Who are the
functional anarchists?
People exercising
their Constitutional Rights and Duties to protest against government policies
that do harm,
or Office Holders
with an attitude and practice of doing as they please with no regard for
established law?
Republicans ought
to be doing all they can to get money into the pockets of the suddenly
unemployed to counter the clear Anti-Trump sentiment growing from his abysmal
Covid response.
Trump (and
friends) is truly brainless -- we don't need the PO to "vote by mail" but plenty
of Republican owned businesses (especially during pandemic restrictions but
generally as well) need to mail products and bills, and many Republican old
rural folks desperately need to get life-maintaining medications by mail. Why
does the GOP want to destroy its constituents?
of course if we do
the same nothing but complain the same indifference will happen
people seem to
think that talking about politics, taking umbrage, being outraged or even coming
up with their precious intricate theories will somehow become the national
cause
if we want a
government we can depend on to be by, for and about us, we have to do the work,
the organization, the outreach, the million little details of day by day
difference making, as if our lives depended on it and as if we are actually
citizens in a citizen run country
the point of free
expression is not that we get to make our speech and leave, but that everyone
gets to comment, make our points, have a conversation about our common
concerns
it all comes back
to education -- did you learn to think, carefully, critically, and to know how
to locate reputable resources for information?
let's stop and
think instead of rah! rah! for our side: police are not one person or one small
group; there are huge numbers of police of a great variety of abilities and
attitudes
some police are
wonderful people who want to help wherever they can
some police are
horrid, brutal people who want to feel powerful by harming others
some police are
sometimes more to one of these positions, sometimes more of the
other
police are people
with all of our foibles, irrationalities, decency and demons
and like the rest
of us, need to be made responsible for their bad behaviors under rule of
law.
I have been
thinking about this human subset that seems to be intent on destroying our
common planet, our common humanity, our health and lives and possibilities --
how have they been allowed to thrive and even be elevated to our highest offices
to destroy us all?
media does not
control anything -- we choose what we take in and how we manage our
information. Stop denying responsibility for your own mind.
beyond modern
economic theories, isn't the fundamental question what an economy is meant to
be, a system for the useful interchange of goods and services that all are well
served?
People, you can,
you know, develop better/more honest and interactive relationships with your
kids. They don't have to be dependent on the greater world to feel loved,
valued, a part of something meaningful.
Kids are doing so
poorly in schools because schools are doing so poorly for them. We need a better
way to educate, and in the 21st Century that way will probably be online (unless
we go post-Apocalyptic back to scribing on sand with sticks).
If we need kids
occupied while their parents work, we could devise neighborhood “study cells”
with paid volunteers supervising groups of kids taking their classes
online.
The need to get
appropriate resources for online access is about much more than kids' education,
but the economy in general.
we must remember
that Governor Kemp outrageously stole his election through professional voter
fraud (fraudulently denying voters their votes) to get to destroy the people of
Georgia
