The red-winged blackbirds generally arrive in a swarm numbering between 50 and 100, give or take a few, individual birds. Unless there is food already in the feeder after arriving they wait in the high branches of the surrounding trees. Their voices repeating 'Purple-dee, Purple-dee', in a stereophonic chorus make an upbeat soundtrack to accompany the morning's coffee.
It seems as if they expect me because within a few seconds of entering the house the flock is usually swarming around the feeding tree. Perhaps they have a circuit they follow and I'm merely one place on the route. They can eat a lot, I'll say that much.
2020
has become the focal point that has fixated the American electorate. Sometimes
I feel sympathy for the American people because they have been jerked around
and lied to for their entire lives. But it boggles my mind when I try to figure
out why it is the American voters are so gullible until I remember I was
gullible once myself. This article written by Charles Austin published
September 22,2017 in the web only issue of In These Times exposes the problems
the American voter faces.
Money
in politics encourages corruption. If you'd like to examine the breakdown of
the study from those who collected and analyzed the data leading to that
conclusion you can do so. The investigation was done by The Roosevelt Institute. It's here at the highlighted link.
Another book
written by a corrupt American politician explains that corruption is the way
politics in America works. George Washington Plunkitt a well respected Senator
from the State of New York praises what he calls 'graft'. There's good 'graft'
and bad 'graft' and Plunkitt makes plain how to go after and get the good
'graft'."Plunkitt of Tammany
Hall" is the name of the book.
Finding
oneself at the mercy of politicians who are working for the non voting donor
class of artificially created 'corporate non-human people' is not a good place for a voter to find
oneself. Especially if you are part of a human family with ordinary everyday
needs that are dismissed by the elite ruling class of corporately biased
politicians.
Under the
Trump Administration the Republicans and Democrats have by all appearances agreed to consider the
ordinary everyday needs of the voter to be of negligible concern to them. This
horrendous spectacle of government shutdown produced by the Republican and
Democratic lawmakers demonstrates how completely out of touch the Republican
and Democrats are with the fundamental needs wishes and desires of the voting class of human beings. Their actions
indicate they simply do not have a clue. Or maybe they just don't care.
So we have
the voting class looking for new ideas and it has come upon the old time remedy
for these problems. Socialism is once again being considered in several formats in an
attempt to find ideas that will amend the problems created by the malfeasance
of the Republican and Democratic lawmakers over the last 40 years or so.
Life
on Main Street America has gone rapidly down hill ever since the Reagan
Administration. The problems we are encountering today in the U.S. are the
direct result of Republican and Democratic lawmakers deciding to consider the
wishes of 'corporate people' who are unable to vote as the basis for making laws. You didn't make the laws of this diseased society, I
didn't do it, they did do it. Republican and Democratic lawmakers have
demonstrated they cannot be counted on to respond to the voters wishes even for things as fundamental as their most basic human needs such as employment, housing, healthcare and
education. It's time to show them the door.
So 2020 is a
real big deal. America, and Americans themselves are on the verge of
disappearing into an unregulated corporate wasteland. They are desperate for
new faces in the legislative bodies and above all new ideas about the purpose
of having a government. It is dawning on many that up to now they have been
used to enrich the Wall Street elite donor class. You can imagine how the
people must feel realizing they've been treated like dogs. Some not that good,
even the master takes the dog to the vet, but many Americans go begging when
they get sick.
I'm happy to
see the alternative voices that have begun to speak out. It's a good sign.Many of the voices are young and they are
going to have to live in the world. Their input is necessary and expected. God
bless them.
New ideas of
any value to human beings cannot be expected to arise from
Republican or Democratic planners. The reason is because all they do is done
within the constraints of the relationship between the politician and the
corporate donor class. If this is not completely accurate it is mostly accurate and it is a good way to
describe the need to breach this partnership of politicians who take money from
those who cannot vote and make laws on behalf of those who cannot vote. There
is something fundamentally wrong with that scenario. You can readily see why
it's not good to have those kind of relationships continuing in a society which
is supposed to be run democratically. It's the antithesis of the democratic
process!
That seems
to be the reason many Americans are now willing to look to the Left and
consider the previouslyculturally
forbidden ideas that have always come to the forefront when the effects of the
elite donor class have made life on Main Street undesirable.
The poem below came to me while watching the report (at the highlighted link) by Democracy Now of the latest anti-human atrocities committed by the Trump Administration at the southern border. It's difficult to imagine understanding this is the right way to treat people who need help. But it is the way the United States has decided to treat these people. As I think about the lack of response from the American People it almost seems as if a spell has been cast keeping them from demanding an end to this anti-human behavior in their name. We the American People are better than this, at least I think so...I hope so. This institutionalized inhumanity denies any claim to Christianity. I've written a number of poems on the topic. Here's a couple of them "The Oasis Is Off Limits"and "The Death Of Love". Enjoy the poem I wrote this morning. Pass it on if you so desire.
Merry Christmas
From Uncle Sam and Aunt Kirstjen
The lines of so
many people, a ragamuffin bunch,
rags are all they
have to their name except their faces,
fearful eyes, empty
stomachs, weary legs and their hope that tomorrow they will have food to eat
The summer of 1968 in the U.S. is a reminder that Americans also have a history of social protest and street demonstrations. Some wish to see the same kind of activity in American streets again. I'm not sure it is a good idea. The American Establishment has vast resources of tools to distribute violence against protesters and some are just itching to use them. Violence intimidation and force are go to tools for almost any situation the Establishment feels itself threatened in.
While Americans are surely feeling the fist of the economic oppressor at the hands of the Establishment, allowing themselves to become red paint on the street isn't going to solve the problems the people have. In fact it may make those in charge even more brazen, if indeed that is possible. I was thinking something should be done that will have an immediate, attention getting effect. How about a targeted, nationwide, as long as it takes mass boycotting of selected corporations and or products?
Boycotts have a history of working. Demonstrations even for good things have a history of demonstrators having their blood spilled at the hands of the Establishment. A targeted mass boycott if enough people, say 30 million people, would participate could be effective if the boycott only amounted to those 30 million reducing their consumption by half. That would have an impact on the producer of the product and it would be a sure fire non-violent attention grabber that gives the demonstrator a good vantage point to get their ideas across. It's the kind of protest that has the possibility of attracting people who might not take it to the streets. Imagine the impact if sales dropped by 30 percent or more! It could be done if enough people made a game of it and participated every time they went to the store and decided NOT to buy something that is usually purchased if it's on the target list. How would this work? Imagine the impact on a company accustomed to selling 100,000,000,000 of something that is the target of a mass targeted boycott and that boycott effectively reduces the sales by 30%. That's gonna hurt. I bet when the people see the effects of their non-violent protest they can have fun and make a game of the process. The purpose of this is to notify the Establishment that you are awake and are not taking it anymore. The way to show it is by not buying, or drastically reducing purchases of the crap they sell. That is really all these corporate people understand. Protesting in the streets is as American as the first Tea Party, and it's just as dangerous today as it was then. That's why I think targeted selected mass boycotts are an important way and safe effective way to protest civil injustices. It might become another way of voting.
It was dark, not very cold and while looking out the window I spied the moon and the clouds involved in a relationship with the wind. So I went out with my camera and tripod. I selected a couple screenshots (the photos included) from the results and you can see what the camera saw. I was happy with the way the video came out.
I came across this news report on RT news after making the image above. It's difficult to project a positive outcome from societies present trajectory. Peace and well being are not the result of wars and all our laws cannot bring about the love for our fellowman which will bring about peace. Unfortunately what we do have is a multitude of laws and wars and a paupers pouch of peace and love. If a good portion of us don't wise up soon this earth is not going to be worth living on. Then what are we going to do? Have you thought about what is being done right before our eyes? Can you come up with a good reason to do this to our children and the future?
Wall Street can come up with a reason, that reason is named 'profit'. It's not a good reason but it's the only reason that has been put forth that passes the 'bullshit' test. But that is not the story you're told.
A reasonable approach to this problem would include the recognition that 17 years of war have not brought peace and that continuing the wars we've started will not bring peace and that we must stop fighting these unjust and undeclared wars for profit. Why haven't the war-makers given a thought to making a living from peace rather than war? We might want to consider the idea of giving peace a chance.
The highlighted texts are links to articles about the topic mentioned.
"The Death Of Love" and "Faces" are two poems I wrote about what I saw happening. I was distraught over the program of exporting endless war and endless misery. The horror of this policy goes beyond reason. Years ago I wrote a poem titled "The Warlords" This video on the topic of the attempted coup against FDR appears to answer the question asked in the The Warlords. It may also explain the Trump Administrations fear of immigrants. I find myself thinking: "Can Trump's malicious, divisive nationalism cause the kind of behavior seen in the video"?
The Warlords
After reading Du Fu, “Advent of Spring”
The warriors have ruled
from time immemorial.
They have come and gone and come again
time after time:
nations, princes, and kings one after another
building on the pile of corpses
stacked beneath their feet.
None have served the people honestly.
Who has given them control?
Where have they come from?
Will they ever leave us alone
to raise our families
and die in our own beds
with our children by our side?
Their grip is on our neck
and they force us
to our grave
in their search for
others to plunder.
They cannot live without war;
it is their meat and drink
as ours is the hearth
and the embrace of our lovers.
They declare those who cry for
peace and complain of war
‘enemies of the state’
and seek to silence them
while we the people are victims
of their lust
and made to pay for their
desires to be satisfied.
Will they ever leave us alone
to raise our families
and die in our own beds
with our children by our side?
Enjoy the poems in the videos below
It only takes a generation
for politicians with eyes for war
to bring forgetfulness upon the people
who wanted war no more.
I made the poster, below, yesterday about what I see happening presently. Denying immigration, especially, at this time a year is a slap in the face to American history by this Administration. Instead of sending troops, what should have been done was to have sent personnel to process the refugees and give then a Thanksgiving welcome. With that in mind it only makes sense that Thanksgiving be cancelled this year.
Rights are meant to be used the way you use muscles.
You need to use your rights everyday or run the risk of losing them.
