The USA and the World in general should be in support of the Ukraine. The World in relation to Russia reminds me of Wilson dealing with Hitler. His compromises and tip toe around Hitler did no good and war was the end result anyway. If Russia is threatening enhanced war or extended war, then he has already decided to do so and just wants to blame others instead of himself. He will do it eventually.
Category: In My Opinion
Although Biden has not gotten through all of his polices he is trying to get passed, at least he is trying. Although I do not consider myself a Democrat, I would like to thank him for trying, acting Presidential, calm, stable, mature, grown up, and as a sane human being.
- People need to help people get Federal/State — id/license with proof of citizenship and identity so citizens can vote if they desire to do so.
- People need to help people get registered at their local registration office [getting proofs, filling out paperwork, transportation to/from sites, encouragement to endure process].
- People need to get people either to the polling location or help with properly and complete filling out o mail-in voting paperwork [and submission of such in proper location/method].
- People need to help people who are in long lines to vote [place holding for bathroom breaks, sitting capability, water on a hot day, warmth on a cold day].
- There needs to be MORE VOTING LOCATIONS that are safe for workers and voters. The drop boxes could be placed in more secure and monitored areas instead of removal of such.
- People need encouragement to vote not discouragement, threats, or more inconvenience or blockage to vote.
Whether you are democratic, independent, republican, or some other group, you should have the right to vote if you are a citizen of the USA [born or naturalized]. You should have the right to be heard and considered, but not in violence, extreme aggressiveness, threats, or destruction.
The USA should improve regarding voting, not regress or continue to do those things of the past where protests are too aggressive, violent, or destructive.
Democratic, independent, republican, and other groups should be active in getting ALL groups out to vote in our next elections either local, mid-term, or Federal elections!
Let us ALL get out to vote [or mail-in] for all our upcoming elections and help others to do the same. Let us have some sane, calm, and stable people running our country whether they are democratic, republican, or some other group. The right or left of any party should not be in control of our country, but do deserve to be heard and considered.
9/11 was worse in death and destruction both at the time and long-term afterwards [health-wise], but it was an attack from outside sources. Jan 6 was an attach from our own people on our government. Most countries who are destroyed through history are destroyed from within. Jan 6 was much worse for our country than 9/11. 9/11 we came together, Jan 6 we were pulled in two. We are now conceptually and potentially physically in a civil war which was enhanced by Jan 6 and long-term internal concepts and actions.
Trumpians are Trumpians even without Trump — It is a discriptive term of behaviour!
Link to listing of traits of a Trumpian even without Trump — Traits of a Trumpain
If Trump were to be removed from the head of the GOP and leading Americans who follow him, there would still be Trumpians and Trump Wantabes who would STILL have the same behavior, concepts, and aggression. The result of their actions would still be the same destruction and danger to democracy as we know it.
This fact does not remove responsibility from Trump for his actions and creation/pushing of lies which enhance the aggression of his followers.
Even if not convicted, or even if he goes to a club-med prison for rich people, Trump should be put on trial for Sedition and Insurrection regarding Jan 6 and his actions throughout 2021 to cause trouble for America and its people. He has done everything he can to disrupt the following of laws and functioning of not only the government of the USA but the functioning of everyday living of its people including economic, governmental, and health issues.
Some of Congress and White House staff, etc should also be put on trial for Sedition and Insurrection as well.
U.S. Government: While often categorized as a democracy, the United States is more accurately defined as a constitutional federal republic. What does this mean? “Constitutional” refers to the fact that government in the United States is based on a Constitution which is the supreme law of the United States.
Extended Article on “What is a Republic”
Fascism is a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.
I don’t think that the people backing Trump or the Radicals [not Conservatives] realize what government they will have or their life style that will be reality if they follow through with electing Trump or some other Trumpian Wannabe. They will no longer be in a Democracy or Republic, but in a Fascist country run by radicals who are supporting white supremacist groups and out-of-control extremists. No one, including those who voted for it, will have any rights.
Although there are some Conservatives in the Republican Party, they are not the ones leading the Republican Party or its actions. There is a huge difference between Conservative and Right Wing Radicals. The Republican Party in 2022 is mostly Right Wing Radical leaning toward Fascist. The Republican Party is behind a current CIVIL WAR [currently in concepts, beliefs, and desired actions].
Right now in 2022 the Republican Party should be referred to as Radical or Fascist NOT Conservative. I wish the news, media, and newspapers would refer to them as such and not as Conservative.
Both parties seem to have liberal, conservative, and right/left wing radicals, but the Republican Party seems consumed with Right Wing Crazy Radical. I am unsure if the Party is leading the people in their leanings or if the people are leading the Party, but either way, only the middle Conservative group should be in control of the Party to be called a Conservative Party.
The Right Wing Radicals should form their own party and call it Radicals or Fascist, but not Patriotic or American, or anything that reflects that as they are extreme.
Liz Cheney serves as Wyoming’s lone member of Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives. Although she is a woman and not likely to win an election in 2024, she seems to be the best Conservative possible candidate. Too bad she is not a man and then maybe people would back her more often.
The current problems of the USA are not Biden’s fault in any way. Fault can be placed at the hands of unmasked, not vaccinated Americans, Trump for his hinderance of many things related to health, economy, and his just causing unnecessary chaos and it can also be placed at the fault at Congress for their inaction, inefficiency, and non-functioning behaviors. At least Biden is trying, whereas these others are not even trying to do their jobs as lawmakers or citizens.
I do not say this as affiliated with any party as the Republican Party is a mess these days and I am very disappointed in them as they have let me down.
The fact that the guilty republicans are not being or going to be punished for their part in Jan 6 and beyond behavior to destroy the American way of life and trying to prohibit people who have a right to vote from voting is a great threat to every American and America itself. The American System is capable of working for America. However, the people who run it are not using the system as it was intended and thus it is not working well. America has a three part system: Congress, President, and Supreme Court. However, it seems that these groups are not separate and being manipulated by the other groups to a non-functioning status. There is a three part system for a reason: they are to keep each in check.
America does not need a dictatorship by a person or a group.
Evangelical Christianity is a worldwide trans-denominational movement within Protestant Christianity that maintains the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace alone, solely through faith in Jesus’s atonement. Evangelicals believe in the centrality of the conversion or “born again” experience in receiving salvation, in the authority of the Bible as God‘s revelation to humanity, and in spreading the Christian message.
The Senate, House of Representatives, and Supreme Court are not capable of doing their jobs let alone investigating themselves and bring charges, hearing charges, running a court on such charges, or determining punishment for such charges. If they [which they are not exhibiting such capabilities] cannot follow laws, how can they be trusted to make them. By them [I am sure there may be some who are capable], I am referring to those who break the laws of the land and prefer to play politics instead of doing their jobs.
There should be an outside investigation [no party affiliation] by some established group that can competently do so and bring charges to a non-party group to judge and handle the task including punishment. This refers to the Senate and House members who are playing politics instead of doing their job and actively causing trouble in America.
It has already been proven that an impeachment cannot be completed on a bases of right or wrong [legal/non-legal] behaviors, but are completed on politics only.
If everyday people have to follow the laws, then the Senate, House, and Supreme Court should do so as well and be punished if they do not do so.
The Supreme Court is suppose to process cases based on laws and not political concepts of the party that appointed them. If they cannot do so, they should step down and someone else do the task. It should not matter how many Republican, Democrat, or Independent Judges there are on the Court, they should ALL be doing their job based on the law only!
Some GOP candidates are not following or advocating the American System of Voting and thus against the American System. No GOP candidate should be elected from now on if they are in the group who advocates anti-American policies for the American Voter! No matter how good or bad in political issues they may be, they are not advocating the American way.
[By the way I am a disenchanted Republican who left the party affiliation due to their shenanigans.]
Voting is suppose to be a secrete vote. We use to vote in booths with levers and then it cleared when we left the booth so it was counted but not associated with a voter name. Validation was done when one registered initially and at the voting location by signing in and our signature matching the one on file on the book they used to do so. No one has the right to come to someones door and ask questions about their vote [even officials] and no one should b combining a vote with name after the vote is finished let alone go their house and ask them about it. Going to someones house to ask who they voted for or associating any particular vote with a name should be illegal and if not should be made as such.
Voters should be able to vote in America without intimidation or anyone’s knowledge as to who they voted for [not even a close relative] if the voter does not want to disclose it. In any case, a voter should not be approached as to who they voted for after the vote is done, counted, and official.
Any mail-in votes should be validated upon receipt and separated [before determining who was vote for] and then separately counted for who was voted for without being associated with any particular voter.
THIS IS THE AMERICAN VOTING SYSTEM….. so….. If a person comes to your door to check your vote, slam the door in their face and DO NOT answer !
Trumpism and Trumpianistic:
Trumpism is a term for the political ideologies, social emotions, style of governance, political movement and set of mechanisms for acquiring
and keeping power that are associated with Donald Trump, and his political base. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpism
- Lies [not even based on any tiny part of truth]
- Threats
- Instigation of Violence [in the public’s face no less]
- Illegal Behaviors
- Mean and hurtful verbal interactions with others especially women
- Non-respectful of women [He thinks they liked to be groped and sexually assaulted as he think it is a pass because he dose not know the difference.]
- Telling others what to think through threats and false influence
- Radical and Insurrectionist Beliefs and Concepts
- Anti-Democracy where everyone has a right to easily vote and speak their own point of view. [“Trumpism is greatest threat to American democracy since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor” per Philip S. Gorski]
- Inappropriate strong arming officials, agencies, and the general public in a detrimental result
- Childish, erratic, temperamental, authoritarian, angry-resentful-vengeful, berserk, insulting, and emotional in a damaging manner
- No caring or advocating the rights of anyone but one’s self while walking over or destroying anyone else’s rights [Claiming amendment rights but keeping others from having the same rights]
- Supporting fringe behavior such as white supremacist and other extreme groups
- Haveing a World War II Hitler like relationship with Trump and blindly following such a Nazi type leader [following such behaviour instead of decent behavior or God, himself] [According to civil rights lawyer Burt Neuborne and political theorist William E. Connolly, Trumpist rhetoric employs tropes similar to those used by fascists in Germany to persuade citizens (at first a minority) to give up democracy, by using a barrage of falsehoods, half-truths, personal invective, threats, xenophobia, national-security scares, religious bigotry, white racism, exploitation of economic insecurity, and a never-ending search for scapegoats. Neuborne found twenty parallel practices,[137] such as creating what amounts to an “alternate reality” in adherents’ minds, through direct communications, by nurturing a fawning mass media and by deriding scientists to erode the notion of objective truth;[138] organizing carefully orchestrated mass rallies;[139] bitterly attacking judges when legal cases are lost or rejected;[140] using an uninterrupted stream of lies, half-truths, insults, vituperation and innuendo designed to marginalize, demonize and eventually destroy opponents;[139] making jingoistic appeals to ultranationalist fervor;[139] and promising to slow, stop and even reverse the flow of “undesirable” ethnic groups who are cast as scapegoats for the nation’s ills ]
- Lack of knowing good from bad [and teaching others and children such lack of knowledge including advocating that bad IS good and good IS bad]
- Dark Corrupting Influence of others [keeping people from doing their jobs that they were elected to do ]
- Discriminating on economic level, race, or where one lives
- Transforming anxiety into anger and directing it at particular targets [dominance by reminding everybody of wrath AND force and others into submission thereby]
- Creating barbaric, if not sub-human levels of consciousness with mindless anarchic goals [anarchic = with no controlling rules or principles to give order]
- Creating a situation or atmosphere that is more combative and less ideological
- Having and supporting narcissism [Narcissism is extreme self-involvement to the degree that it makes a person ignore the needs of those around them. While everyone may show occasional narcissistic behavior, true narcissists frequently disregard others or their feelings. They also do not understand the effect that their behavior has on other people.]
- Not complying with the rights of business owners to make rules for their establishments, business, media, etc. for the safety of other shoppers, users, or the safety of their business. [Thinking your rights are more significant that anyone else’s rights to shop, eat, fly, post a message, etc.] [Obviously, businesses must follow legal laws for their businesses, but otherwise, they have the right to serve those whom they choose to serve: like refusing those who do not wear shoes, not bringing animals into a restaurant, not wearing a mask, not behaving in an appropriate manner, etc]
- Destruction of property that is not yours or interfering with the operation of any system. [access to property or business, access to intersections or locations, vandalism, interference with normal operation of established functions]
- Taking away other peoples rights and/or disregard for others rights.
By supporting Trump and his cohorts, you are aiding and abetting him/them in the above behavior
and are therefore active participants in such behaviors.
You are supporting and following Trump and NOT God or family values !
NOTE:
{Trump is clearly stating that Christian groups are supporting him and extensively within his “base”. I am clearly stating that you cannot be a practicing Christian and be in his “base” supporting and abetting him and his cohorts in this behavior. At least other governmental groups do not flaunt their “shadowed” bad behavior publicly [on purpose] as good and appropriate behavior. I know all governmental groups lie to the public on many occasions, but Trump and his cohorts are way over the line and flaunting such in our faces as good. [I am a Christian and find this offensive.]
SUCH SO CALLED CHRISTIAN GROUPS MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN GOD OR TRUMP as God and Trump are not compatible.
A Christian Group should have righteous indignation regarding this kind of behavior and not aid and support.
It should be harder to get party membership Democratic or Republican or Other. Anyone can have a party membership without screening. To join a party, a person should at least agree with most of the party’s positions on issues and policies. A person will never agree with all such positions on issues and policies, but the GOP membership right now is mostly [it seems] not conservative or near right/left of conservative. Extreme right or left members should join a party more in line with their concepts and not destroy an existing party that is not extreme or radical. Such extremists or radicals should not be allowed to infiltrate [evenly slowly over years] a party and destroy its basic stance on issues and policies or their methods.
The Republicans are wrong is wanting to limit voting by early voting and mail-in voting as well as drop boxes and such. Voting should be made as easy as possible for registered voters. Voters should be screened when they register as well as when they show up to vote [id or drivers license]. If voting by mail in or drop box, then their signature should be all that is required on the pre-mailed to them ballot system.
There should not be lines down the blocks of the entrance to voting places and especially in a pandemic period of time. Again voting is our right and we should not have to go through so much to vote. WE WANT PEOPLE TO VOTE and as many as possible of registered voters should be able to vote. WE WANT MINORITIES TO VOTE TOO! No one should be looking for ways to stop registered people from voting! Just because they do not vote or you does not mean they should not vote.
There is a Trumpian Party or a Radical Party or an Extremist Party, but there is no Republican Party at this point of time or in the for see-able future especially with Trump involved. Maybe someone could create a new CONSERVATIVE party.
Also, seeking Revenge is childish particularly for such reasons as Trump plans to do so. It conflicts with Christian required behavior. It is just wrong in any context.
If Trump creates a new party [which I do not believe he would], it should NOT be called Patriots or any derivative but be called something more appropriately in line with what it would be …. like: Radical, Extremist, Erratic, Irrational, Manic, Corybantic. In no definition is his based party patriotic. Even if some of the so called Republican party supported policies are worth considering, his party has lost any functional policy concepts as they are buried in bad behavior.