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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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…
An “I told you so”
There are witnesses to every single statement I made in this video, but I suspect they just heard "crazy conspiracy" and dismissed the details of what I actually said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmq-q6-5KP8
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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…
Big-Small-Government Spending
Today I'm going to start talking about hypocrites.
Hypocrites are everywhere. I see them. I hear them. I live in a town with an extremely large military presence as well as a nearby hippie enclave so I get both main varieties of government spending hypocrites, especially from the right. At least the left is honest enough to say that they want …