Are you as tired as I am of smear campaigns?
All trash talk and no substance?
Let;s hold those candidates accountable.
No votes for trash talkers.
Vote on the issues-what the candidate WILL do -
not what he claims his opponent will or will not do.
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Monday, August 01, 2011
My Country? Where are you??
In 1953 President Dwight Eisenhower ,became the 34th President. A Republican, along with running mate, Vice President Richard Nixon, came to office after World War Two, the Korean War, and in a relatively peaceful time.
McCarthy was outed as TV came to play a major role in the Us, He sent troops to uphold the Brown vs the Board of Education in 1954 and desegregation took place in the public schools.
I was born in 1953, desegregated schools were only four years old when I started kindergarten.
My country has reflected citizen's values over the years with significant actions.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964- who would have thought a white southern President by the name of Lyndon Johnson had the cojones to ensure the laws would be respected?
In 1962 President Kennedy granted federal workers the right to bargain.
In 1963 Equal Pay Act banned wage discrimination based on gender.
1964 Civil Rights Act bans institutional forms of racial discrimination
These are just a few of the great decisions, we as a country made during my lifetime. I grew up in a country focused on the quality of life for its citizens.
Over the years The United States was seen as a beacon of hope-although we fought the ugliness of our character-slavery, child labor, sexism, racism, elitism-
we always moved forward to eradicate the injustices human nature constantly oozed-In fact, those injustices were recognized in many ways as our baser side of nature. We had the courage to fight about them in the political arenas. Discourse was mainstay of our political system. The American citizens openly disagreed and debated. It is a part of our United States democracy-until now.
I can hardly write about this country of mine anymore.
I do not recognize it.
The selfishness, the cruelty, the elitism, the punitive nature of our laws and regulations.
I am afraid .
The hatefulness and polarization of our very own nation leads us to a brink of unknown destination.
Banana Republic is the phrase oft repeated.
Many levels of government are yelling poverty, demanding belt tightening, turning government dollars away from those unable to care for themselves-the disabled, the elderly, children who have been placed in a nightmare system of pared down services.
Governments have become punitive and judgmental. Deciding who "deserves" health care, immunizations, what rights a "less entitled" person has for health care.
Religion in the United States has become a fanatical exercise in judgmental terrorism. Nothing related to the ten commandments.
I am not sure where the religious fervor in the US finds its biblical translations which form the basis of hate filled, punitive rhetoric which allows people to make murder threats in the name of christian justice.
I am in the minority and I am very aware of this.
It is frightening. !
Ironically it appears to be the last desperate vestiges of the white minority to control a country fast becoming a melting pot reality.
Unfortunately those who have been discriminated against and now devalued take on the mantle of the powers-buying into the mantra of elitism, as if they identify with it -that reality will become theirs.
It is a scary time in our country's development.
Do we have no leaders with a sense of unity for our United States? Do we have no leader not bought and paid for by a mega corporation, one who speaks for the heart of our nations peoples?
Or, is this really the voice of our people coming out of Washington DC?
Are the elitist politicians owned and manipulated by a few powerful elite also speaking for the mindset of the American public?
When we, American citizens no longer believe our vote has an impact, when we turn over and look the other way, filled with a sense of futility, we have lost our country.
McCarthy was outed as TV came to play a major role in the Us, He sent troops to uphold the Brown vs the Board of Education in 1954 and desegregation took place in the public schools.
I was born in 1953, desegregated schools were only four years old when I started kindergarten.
My country has reflected citizen's values over the years with significant actions.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964- who would have thought a white southern President by the name of Lyndon Johnson had the cojones to ensure the laws would be respected?
In 1962 President Kennedy granted federal workers the right to bargain.
In 1963 Equal Pay Act banned wage discrimination based on gender.
1964 Civil Rights Act bans institutional forms of racial discrimination
These are just a few of the great decisions, we as a country made during my lifetime. I grew up in a country focused on the quality of life for its citizens.
Over the years The United States was seen as a beacon of hope-although we fought the ugliness of our character-slavery, child labor, sexism, racism, elitism-
we always moved forward to eradicate the injustices human nature constantly oozed-In fact, those injustices were recognized in many ways as our baser side of nature. We had the courage to fight about them in the political arenas. Discourse was mainstay of our political system. The American citizens openly disagreed and debated. It is a part of our United States democracy-until now.
I can hardly write about this country of mine anymore.
I do not recognize it.
The selfishness, the cruelty, the elitism, the punitive nature of our laws and regulations.
I am afraid .
The hatefulness and polarization of our very own nation leads us to a brink of unknown destination.
Banana Republic is the phrase oft repeated.
Many levels of government are yelling poverty, demanding belt tightening, turning government dollars away from those unable to care for themselves-the disabled, the elderly, children who have been placed in a nightmare system of pared down services.
Governments have become punitive and judgmental. Deciding who "deserves" health care, immunizations, what rights a "less entitled" person has for health care.
Religion in the United States has become a fanatical exercise in judgmental terrorism. Nothing related to the ten commandments.
I am not sure where the religious fervor in the US finds its biblical translations which form the basis of hate filled, punitive rhetoric which allows people to make murder threats in the name of christian justice.
I am in the minority and I am very aware of this.
It is frightening. !
Ironically it appears to be the last desperate vestiges of the white minority to control a country fast becoming a melting pot reality.
Unfortunately those who have been discriminated against and now devalued take on the mantle of the powers-buying into the mantra of elitism, as if they identify with it -that reality will become theirs.
It is a scary time in our country's development.
Do we have no leaders with a sense of unity for our United States? Do we have no leader not bought and paid for by a mega corporation, one who speaks for the heart of our nations peoples?
Or, is this really the voice of our people coming out of Washington DC?
Are the elitist politicians owned and manipulated by a few powerful elite also speaking for the mindset of the American public?
When we, American citizens no longer believe our vote has an impact, when we turn over and look the other way, filled with a sense of futility, we have lost our country.
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