si se puede

 

It's not about those lauded

policies

It's about entertainment and

revenge

How about devising systems

for people adversely affected

by businesses or government

groups, to easily report their

issues with verifiable assurance

that these reports are consideredd

an important service of information

for the employees of that system

to figure out appropriate and

effective responses that do

clearly improve these situations.

The trend to concentrate Wealth

and Power leaving very little for

the great bulk of us --

We are so very many, if we could

but find our way to get together,

we could, if we would, make that

real change that trends toward

everyone having our fair share

I can't do it.

People more likely dismiss me

as weird than respect me for

my outsider observations.

I can't convince or persuade 

people to accept citizen

responsibilities, do the work

-- yes, on top of all the brutal

work of daily living --

even knowing it takes so long,

and is never all you wanted,

hoped for.

I can't convince you to give that

monumental effort, to learn and

discover ever more that can be

done, and how.  After all, my failing,

aging mind and muscles are ever

less able to continue what I once

could do --

I am no role model.

I offer this confession of inability

as a plea.

I can't.

Please, do what you can to

give us all a better change.

We love them

because they are them

or it doesn't count

What characteristics do you want

to see in a political candidate you

would be glad to vote for?

These nonconforming people you

fear, treat as enemy, merely see our

world differently.  They are not

seeking violence against you.

Because they see differently they

can sometimes solve problems you

can't, do work you don't understand.

Not competitors, but complementary.

Instead of wasting all that energy and

treasure in hating, defending against those

who offer no harm, use those resources

effectively that we all have more and

better.

I see Biden as a basically decent man,

who wants to do what is best for the US.

Yet, there are so many countervailing

powers, needs and desires, making it

quite difficult to know what will be the

best poliies that can be implemented.

For Trump, it's so much easier.

Without moral compunctions or any

interest in others' benefits, he can merely

impose his own best interests on all of us.

1/23-26/24

when everything changes

 

As the ever increasing devastation

from Climate Change overwhelms

regular issues due to its greater

impact on social norms, the danger

of allowing a raging megalomaniac

like Trump to  take over the 

American Way far outweighs

problems with Democrats -- any

benefit you hope to gain from a

Trump Presidency will crumble

under the oppression of his actual

reign.

The concept of differing human races

was created so people who made their

wealth by oppressing groups of others

could explain that they had a right to

do so because those people were less

than human due to being of an inferior

-- what do we call it -- race.

You can tell, they look different from

us, when we concentrate our gaze

on seeing them that way.

It is self-defeating to take slurs

personally -- they're not about you.

They are about those so threatened

by you that they feel a need to put

you down.

Those commercials to send money

to aid poor tortured children in

foreign places, do they act as

reminder to pay attention to those

in your own community who are

hungry, homeless, being beaten or

otherwise abused?  What can you

do for them?

All this hype about Trump's

inevitability to regain the

Presidency after confirming the polls

to win the caucus in an (some might

say pathologically) evangelical state

on a super cold night when MAGA

cult pressure brought the most loyal

out to show their neighbors.  And yet,

a healthy percentage of Iowa Republican

Caucus goers on that cold winter work

night, got themselves out to vote

against the designated fuhrer.

1/14-20/24

just thinking

 

An issue with our government is that 

there are a strong percentage of voters 

who are not interested in leaders with 

good work ethics who do their best for 

us, but rather demand entertainment 

from those who fill their media screens, 

to be made to feel good about being the 

shitty folks they know themselves to be.

Just because bad people

cynically impose themselves

into public leadership for their

own private benefit, does not

negate the possibility of public

benefits from common rule.

It's not governance that

mistreats us, but those who

misuse it.  Use that revolutionary

zeal to replace those who do

ill with truly public spirited,

perhaps younger so not as attached

to the status quo.

Whatever I needed to do to

get me through what I was

then going through, I obviously

did.

Cocaine fueled '80s

The perfect drug for that 

high-blown lifestyle

Clearly, insisting pregnant women

die rather than get normal medical

care to save their lives, cannot be

about a right to life, cannot be pro-life.

It seems more likely to be a long,

malicious campaign to make women

terrified of pregnancy, to ultimately

prevent not abortion, but continuation

of life.  Is this evangelical fervor stemming

from Malthusian philosophy?  or just

a deep-seated hatred of life?

If about population pressure, you

silly people, it's been shown the best

way to lower population is to educate

women, annd give them opportunities.

Oh, right, what was I thinking --

it's not just Malthus, but even more,

misogyny.

The thing is (though strangely, I hardly

hear it said), that Presidential Immunity

is not a thing in the US.  It is not a law,

a rule, in the Constitution.  In fact, the

Founders were fearful of too powerful

an Executive.

There is merely a Justice Department

policy of not indicting a sitting POTUS

due to the perceived chaos that could cause.

Even so, the SCOTUS found that Bill

Clinton, while a sitting President, was

required to participate in the Paula Jones

sexual harassment suit against him.

1/8-13/24

this VAST anthology

 

An epic tale may be imagined

Gods and Sorcerors

Demonic evil, Heroic deeds

Saintly dedication

Marching, firing, binding with 

Loving Kindness to righteously

heal

Millennia embroidered in dark

and light, eternal tapestry

upon a field of stars

Is this who we truly are?

Working through our stories

that collectively create this vast

anthology, dramatic history

to amaze and entertain, perhaps

to learn in service more vibrancy,

more joy, exuberant connecting.

Government by politicians who

represent angry minorities

What are the regular people

to do?

All this loneliness

Each in our bubble

screaming silently of blame

So sad -- isolate seas of tears

Less love, less sensory input,

Less ease into bonding

human touch, affirming hugs,

reasons for hanging on.

Do you have an answer

to the bleeding out?

Is it about creating a world

of meaning we can join?

Most of us just want

to live our lives

though sometimes we may abhor

what we are going through

We realize it's the cost of living.

Most of us have no desire to

endure disruptions of war.

12/31/23-1/8/24

"Regulations allow citizens to inject

their values into the business world."

Mitchell Baker, Mozilla