paid in attention

 

I find when feeling poorly it helps to

become calm and distract by sending

my attention outward.

 

 

 

I keep reminding, just because the Dems

get fooled or betrayed into keeping this

unconscionable, anti-democratic 60 vote to

cloture filibuster which allows McConnell to

sneer happily, doesn't mean McConnell won't

kill it the moment it inconveniences him.

 

 

 

I know, death, but skeptics can make all kinds

of excuses about comorbidities, often old and infirm,

not THAT many and on. My huge fear are the chronic

long-term and even lifetime new disabilities, infirmities,

disease and exacerbation of disease that Covid

so often leaves behind in a great

many more people.

 

 

 

 

We all know there is corruption in government.

(What was that saying about corruption and

power; and we all know about the love of

money.)  That does not mean that all politics,

government, is corrupt.  Assuming that is not

only lazy thinking and counterproductive to

better democratic governance, it becomes an

easy excuse for giving up, because they're all

corrupt, even though they are us.  There's nothing

we can do, we decide, but complain on social

media, without bothering to learn what we

could do, if we truly wanted to.

 

 

 

maybe we ought to be at least teaching the bases

 of the economic philosophies, as well as detailed

civic education about how our government is meant

to work and the responsibilities of citizenship even

if we are discouraged from teaching real American history.

 

 

 

How absurd your angry reaction assuming I am

defending whoever you inveigh against, when

I am speaking from outside of polarity.

 

 

 

 

Aren't there pro-democracy people of wealth?

Are they heavily lobbying obstructionist

Senators for democracy's cause?

 

 

 

Leadership does make a huge difference in

how people believe and therefore act.  Tell

people it is honorable, even necessary, to

be assholes, and, well...

 

 

 

1/13-22/22