so far

 

 

 

After all my choices,

this is where I’ve landed,

so far.

 

 

 

Not voting for people we don’t want

is not what gets us bad government.

The problem is that too many of us

seem to think voting is our only voice

or obligation as citizens (when we do

even vote).

Self-governance does not mean letting

some private organization with their

own agenda give you someone to vote

for and then let them run things, while

we stew and complain.  It means, at a

minimum, we help discover and then

support people who have the background,

experience, skills, intentions and ability

to be the representatives who do the work

we want and need to create and maintain

the country we are proud to be part of.

 

 

 

 

Before the break to leave tradition

 

warriors of transition hold wise council,

 

create with care and deep respect of awe

 

a new platform, structure, stretched canvas,

 

laden with paints, brushware, glitter shapes,

 

cornucopia of artists' delight,

 

laid in wait of free fall into our world as we

 

create it.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who told you to hate “the News”?

Competing sources?

Politicians?

People trying to sell you their opinions

and fears or frauds?

Have you even seen those reports

you’ve been told are fake, to see

if they make sense regardless of whether

they agree with what everyone knows?

Maybe if we take in a greater range of

views, we would better understand and

get on with

a greater range of “you”s.

 

 

 

 

 

 

it is our duty (really, our fundamental

duty as citizens of a democratic republic)

to VOTE the bastards out, to VOTE

people who actually represent us in

 

 

 

 

 

 the REAL threat (as long ago noted

by Pogo: “We have met the enemy and

he is us”) is our penchant for dividing against

ourselves (which Lincoln noted long ago

results in a nation that can’t stand.)

 

 

 

It's not even about abortion, or life --

it's a ploy to take over either by co-opting

the Court to deny rights of personhood

to those designated by these now in power,

or by delegitimizing the Court and our

system of government so they can take over

in the resulting chaos.

 

 

 

 

Our human world is being destroyed by

desperate mass suicide,

trying to numb from the cruel outcome

of our madness.

 

 

 

the people who want this have been

working for decades while the people

who don't have been busy with their

lives and immediate issues, and dividing

over whatevers

and the point is not about abortions

or marriage or babies or life -- it's about

delegitimizing democratic institutions

and taking over our lives

 

 

 

So defeated we lose the fight

while they chortle.

The flaw is there is no such

thing as perfect people, perfect

government -- the point of democracy

(instead of just giving in to dictators)

is to keep trying, especially when it seems

overwhelming, learning to do better

and find the very real people who are

willing and able to do better

with and for us

 

 

 

 

oh, you are so smart.  You have it

sussed.  Every Dem. rep. or hopeful

is only out there to do you in.  It's

not that the GOP with all their organizing

and loyalty and propaganda don't

actually have the legitimate power they

got voted in to obstruct and lie and destroy

liberal democracy.  It's not that actually

organizing and finding and supporting and

voting in more progressive and experienced

and thoughtful Dems. would give them/us

the necessary power to do what you are

so good at complaining they haven't

while all you do is add to the obstruction

that keeps them from having that power. 

Feel so good, do you?

 

As a party, no, but there are very many

individuals who run as Dems because there

are only the two viable choices to win and

work for change -- the point is not to loyally

vote Dem, but to do the work to get the

good candidates, who would never be able to

get GOP votes.

Right Now, in these horribly divided,

horribly violent days, we need to find

ways to unite for our common values and find

the people who will do the work, and

give them the support to do it.

Or do you have a better plan?

  

 

 

 

Thomas, who is currently seen by many

as illegitimately opining due to his wife's

anti-American activities, doing his own

nation destroying -- why (how) do we

honor such decisions, such a Court?

 

 

 

I suspect part of the point of these

rulings is to erode confidence in the Court

on the way to overturning

democracy generally in a long game coup

 

 

 

do you think we can organize wrongful

death suits against the majority Supremes

and any Congress folk who vote against

codifying Roe for every woman who dies

in pregnancy/childbirth?

 

 

 

when I heard about the ruling an image came

into my mind of a large rally of sad-eyed little girls

following the Supremes everywhere they go,

carrying signs:  "I'm too young to be a mother. 

Protect the child who is me." and

"Not until you end rape"

 

 

 

 

Fraught images, feelings

smack behind my eyes, deeply

within me

triggered by random sights, smells, sounds,

bleeding freely as if no longer past.

Can I be her again, now?

 

 

 

6/28-30/22