Since the inauguration I've watched as hysteria spews forth about the incoming administration with zero reflection as to their own "side" and its sins. It's nothing more than the same divide and conquer, partisan bs. We dealt with four years of constant panic last time Trump was in office, and it's already at a fever pitch once again.
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Category: Rant
Treating the Symptom
I'm reminded of the Thoreau quote, "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root," because all I see around me are efforts to treat the symptoms of a problem while hardly anyone is trying to find the reason for the problem so it can be stopped at it's source.
It's everywhere; in politics, medicine, ec…
Fear and Political Power
What are you afraid of?
It doesn't really matter. Not that I'm callous and don't care about your fears, it's just that in a normal world I can't do anything about them, only you can. Because fear exists only in the mind of the person experiencing it. But here's where politics comes in and messes it all up; using the coercive power of government…
No Accountability, Part 1
I don't like our political system. Its popular description as "the best system we've yet devised" seems like a cop out. It reminds me of a supremely bad manager I once had whose favorite phrase was "it is what it is". As an acknowledgement that a situation is beyond one's control I can't fault it; however, she used it synonymously with "I'm too la…