Premonitions

 

Premonitions: a video  

As a result of the President going around the nation encouraging the spread of COVID by the assembling of mass gatherings I made a video from art I made earlier. We are not suffering only from COVID. We are suffering as well from Trump's anti-human economic and social policies, 

I put together a series of images I created that were impressed on me by the spectacle of the President's behavior. My thoughts were moderated by the thoughts in the Old Testament book of Job.

"Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause" : Job Chapter 5: 1-8.

The book of Job fascinates me.  I'm amazed at the literary quality of the story written long ago during the bronze age. The plot and the theme are worthy of current consideration.  The dramatic work J.B. is an example of such a consideration from the near past.  

The theme of Job presents a story that seeks to come to grips with existence in the face of existence seemingly seeking to exterminate Job. Since Job represents the human condition by that token the story of Job represents the condition of you and me as well.

 You would not want to be in Job's shoes, but in a sense our condition is not much better.  Job was left sitting in a pile of ashes scraping boils that covered his entire body. While he was doing this his 'friends' spent their time trying to convince him that his problems were his own damned fault and that he had better shape up or else! 

On top of that Job had a wife who urged him to kill himself to avoid suffering. 

Job's sentiments in all of this are summed up in the following words. Job 19:25-27

 "For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me."

With the chaos in the U.S caused by Donald Trump's policies, asking "what the hell is going on, why is existence doing this to us?" is a question everyone should find an answer to. 

 Good luck.  Have a nice day.

Reality Check: Comparing the Kennedy / Nixon Debate With The Trump / Biden 'Debate'

 

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Reality Check: 

Presidential Debates Past and Present

When compared with what we've seen so far between Trump and Biden, Presidential debates in the past reveal vast differences in decorum and candidate behavior between then until now.

I took a look back at the Kennedy / Nixon debate and then the current election years Trump / Biden 'debate'. Both debates are complete.  The difference between the two is astonishing isn't it? (Both debates at highlighted links.)

What happened between the time of Kennedy and Trump to transform the Presidential debates from a serious production with serious contestants discussing solutions to world problems into a side show?  We saw something very different in the so called Trump /Biden 'debate' than what we saw in the Kennedy / Nixon debate.  

The Trump / Biden 'debate' resembled an argument between two senile residents in a geriatric community confronting one another over an old dispute from high school. I was sickened at the sight. And then the President and his staff come down with COVID...or so they want you to believe.

What differences did you make note of between the two debates and the four contestants?  Which debate seemed more appropriate to a debate between two men seeking the office of President of the United States? Which one made you ask yourself: "What the hell is going on?" In the Trump / Biden 'debate' I thought the President behaved like an unruly high school student who needed to be sent to the principal's office.

From history we know Kennedy won the election and while President averted nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union and inspired a nation of young people to serve their country.

Kennedy inspired the creation of the Peace Corps and introduced the nation to the space age following the Soviet Union's lead. The Soviet Union was the first in space and the space race was on. History flowing from the Kennedy Administration reminds us of those things.

From Trump's history we know of one business failure after another from Mr. Trump.  If his Administration has inspired anyone it is not the current generation which is facing a collapsing, polluted and unhealthy eco-system in which to reproduce and raise their young. Who has Trump inspired? Oh yeah he inspired the Michigan 13. What kind of a future does that inspiration portend?

Questions for the reader:

1. What do you think America will be like if Trump remains President? 

2. How did we get in this fix?

America Is Waist Deep In It Again

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Note: after posting a group of 13 alleged pro-nazi, pro Trump terrorists were arrested by the FBI for plotting to kidnap the governor of Michigan.  Report here from Democracy Now. 

During the contentious period of the 1960's America was involved in losing a long protracted war with the small nation of Vietnam far away from American shores.  The period was contentious because the war was an illegal war and American teenagers were being forced against their will to fight the war. 

In the end over 58,000 Americans, average age close to 19, died waging this war.  During that period Pete Seeger sang a song the censors didn't like.  "Waist Deep In The Big Muddy" finally made it to TV on a popular socially conscious variety program, The Smothers Brothers. that was subsequently canceled because of its social commentary. 

So now that you've listened to the song you can see Americans in the 21st century are waist deep, neck deep, almost over our head in another 'Big Muddy' and once again the Big Fool is saying "push on."

If all we are being told about the President's health and those around  him is true we're in deep trouble. It means the President, as demonstrated by his behavior and rhetoric, doesn't care if WE THE PEOPLE live or die. He is fully aware of the deadliness of the virus and yet his public behavior is telling people to ignore the proper health precautions. 

The heads of the military are all in quarantine meaning our military response is in one way or another restricted.  The President is responsible for this. The President is denying reality as the second wave of the COVID pandemic sweeps across the states. America is in deep trouble if this trajectory is not altered. Why is the President behaving so dangerously and erratically?  

If the internal threat to domestic welfare and tranquility poised by the virus and the President were not enough there is the threat of White Supremacist violence. The Trump Administration has embraced this ideology and has emboldened his base to accept violence and heavy handedness as the proper way to govern. Trump has done this while denying a White Supremacist threat is real. In doing so he's, in effect, calling the investigators liars or dummies. He's ignoring the warning the way Bush did.

I am reminded of the G.W. Bush Administration which also ignored intelligence about national security issues. By doing so Bush allowed the WTC Buildings to be demolished by Saudi Arabian funded criminals. We still haven't won the war he started over that, but we're still providing him his pension and healthcare. 

My question for you is this.  Will Trump's refusal to acknowledge a national security threat from his White Supremacist base as well as the COVID virus lead to an all out race war and societal devastation in the same way as the willingness of George Bush to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING lead to the demolition of the WTC by foreign nationals and a war still going on in one way or another to this very day?

The reader may have noticed that America has been acting more strangely than ever during the Administration of Donald Trump. I think this is because the Republican Party in partnership with Donald Trump has sold us out to the highest bidders and the Democratic Party has stood there saying 'Yes sir, yes sir,' like a eunuch in the court of the king.

The madcap display of a COVID infected President riding the crest of a steroid high telling the American people to stay strong and beat the virus is about the greatest insult to decency this Administration has committed. SO FAR.

Have a nice day! Be careful who you vote for.

Is it time to turn off the lights?: thoughts on the Trump / Biden debate

 

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By the time the debate had ended 7 beers had been consumed. I was numb, not from the beer. I was numb from thinking about the consequences of the spectacle I had just witnessed. Watch it in full here.

I had seen two adults wishing to be President behaving like a couple of high school punks in a school yard arguing. Sophomores at that. This display was their attempt to win votes. It's experiences like this that turn the American mind into silly putty.

Donald Trump and his White Christian Nationalist agenda has a real chance of being the direction the U.S. chooses. Democracy Now report. If that happens the entire world is imminently imperiled.

The other candidate, Joe Biden is not the solution to the problems of Americans on Main Street. Biden is the solution to the problems facing the Wall Street status quo. Biden, however, can be a 'plug' in the hole Trump has drilled in the Ship of State. Biden can put out the fires Trump has started, but he WILL sell us out in the long term because of his loyalties to corporate profits. For now Biden is America's life boat that we need to get to shore. 

Being allowed to have only these two candidates to choose from is hardly able to be called self-determination when there are so many different points of view which are not included. For instance economic ideas like Socialism and Marxism are anathema in current political discussion.  However the problems of Americans trying to scratch out a living on Main Street are an indication that there needs to be new managers in charge of the economy and we have only thought in Capitalist terms up to the present moment when it comes to managing the economy.

Teachers like Richard Wolff have proven that Americans are ready to re-consider whether or not they want to change how the economy is managed. I'm ready, how about you?

Is it time to turn off the lights.  Is the music over?  Well, as far as I'm concerned it's not time to turn off the lights just yet.

Hollyhock

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This summer I decided to grow hollyhocks.  An entire package of seeds was planted and one plant resulted.

Planted in May it wasn't until July that one plant appeared. When it did I wasn't sure it was a hollyhock but, or so, I let it grow.  Despite the frustration of not knowing what it was that was growing until mid-summer I really enjoyed growing this flower. 

I was utterly dumbfounded at the size, strength and vigor of the plant.  The number of  large, showy, vibrant pink flower blossoms was mind-blowing.

Growing the flower garden this summer was spiritually beneficial in a time of COVID stress.  The genuineness of the law of 'Karma' is evident every day you do or do not weed and water. Gardening is a genuine life lesson, you reap what you sow.  Or as The Buddha said:  

"1. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.

2. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."

I enjoyed growing the hollyhock and was impressed with how big it got.  The plant in the picture is not as big as it had been destined to become. Fate intervened, a wind came up and ripped off 4 large blossom laden stalks leaving only the center stalk which was impressive in it's own right. 

I made a video and for some reason I am unable to display the video with the embed code you can see it click here.  

As a public service with the President racing the length and breadth of the nation hosting disease spreading events there is something you need to remember.  Voting this November is a MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH.  

I'm beginning to wonder. How about you?

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The social unrest in the United States under the supervision of Donald Trump is increasing.  Social conditions involving lack of employment, lack of healthcare, environmental devastation caused by global warming and police reform are foremost in the social discussion which the Trump Administration is seeking to stifle.  In short living conditions are dire for tens of millions of Americans who are concluding they have been, since the revelations of Donald Trump about COVID contagiousness, hung out to dry.  

They are, as a result, raising their voices in dissent.  The electorate is coming to understand that their elected lawmakers have abandoned them and subordinated the requirements of their lives and the lives of their families to the profits of Wall Street Profiteers.

Social justice, both religious and social, comprised  the conditions upon which Jesus of Nazareth applied the principles of the Kingdom Of Heaven.  (Christian pastor condemns evangelical support for Donald Trump)

Social justice can only exist in an environment in which the institutions of society are free from corruption.  Such a condition requires every aspect of society be on the up and up from the king to the bedroom of the shepherd. We know for certain that is not a description of the United States form of government under Donald Trump and AG Barr.

The irony of this is that the US claims to be a Christian Nation.  That may be. But it does not deserve the claim to be a nation that applies the principles of Jesus to it's decision making.  Christians can be cruel and autocratic.  The record of the 4 gospels is that Jesus was never that way.

The principles of the Kingdom Of Heaven will promote social harmony.  Abandoning those principles involves embracing a specific type of decision making. In the U S that type of decision making is characterized by prioritizing Wall Street profiteers over ordinary citizens.  

Now the problem with this is that Jesus anticipated malefactors making laws and provided the following insight at the link to encourage those of us less fortunate than Wall Street profiteers. 

The paragraph below is from a book written by a woman who was acclaimed as a prophet by some and proven to be a plagiarist by others.  Her name was Ellen G. White. The author provides a bleak depiction of a future America.  Read the words below and ask yourself if these words do not reflect reality.

"In the plague that follows, power is given to the sun “to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat.” 1076 The prophets thus describe the condition of the earth at this fearful time: “The land mourneth; ... because the harvest of the field is perished.” “All the trees of the field are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.” “The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate.” “How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture.... The rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.” “The songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.” 1077 The Great Controversy

A question.  If you don't speak up and present the government with your grievances how do you think the trajectory of the present course will end up?

It Just Keeps Getting Crazier And Crazier

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It Just Keeps Getting Crazier And Crazier.  America now has a President who disrespects those who have been unfortunate enough to have suffered for the good of their fellow Americans.  Rachel Maddow  has the down low on this. 

I would think the President's stated opinions of wounded veterans (CBS News at link) would discourage people from serving in the military with him as Commander In Chief.  Who would serve a man who thinks so little of the worth of the life and health of his own soldiers?

Does the President view the soldiers as 'renewable resources'? 

Americans have some soul searching to do. (Poem by Allen Ginsberg at the link) A good number of Americans are doubtful of a positive or desirable outcome from the planning of Trump and the Republican Party for the future of the nation. 

I'm just hoping a majority of Americans can defeat the President's plans to fuck up the election. I hope we as a nation are able to reject this impostor to the Republic.

I've made up my mind that my vote will be for Biden if the President is unsuccessful in his attempts to keep me from voting. The President may yet succeed in corrupting the outcome of the election.  There's nothing I can do about it so I've made lifestyle changes with the intent to lessen the stress produced by the ongoing social unrest caused by Donald Trump's policies.  

I've stopped watching the news more than a few minutes a day because it is non-stop aggravation and unsettling information that is unnecessary since I have made up my mind.  

Since I am certain Trump is as un-American as a man can become  (link to The Damage Report)I do not need to be further angered by hearing the increasingly distressing accounts of the growing madness that is stalking the halls and rooms of the White House and spreading like a pandemic through the hearts and minds of his followers, the TRUE BELIEVERS. The Damage Report reveals more.

Instead,I decided to make my own sanctuary and grow a garden and feed birds and let the madness blow past.  It's all either going to hell or Americans will save themselves from Trump and the Republicans and the Christian Sharia value system of the religious right.

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Hopefully the election will reveal that Trump has been voted from office and the Republican Party has been irrevocably and completely disgraced as a byproduct of it's allegiance to the Trump Presidency.  That would be nice to wake up some morning post election and find out that was true, wouldn't it?

Maybe the day will arrive when a squad of wounded marine veterans and active military in wheel chairs, with crutches and artificial limbs will have the privilege of escorting him from the White House to Leavenworth.

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I am a most unhappy man

Americans are under attack from enemies within.  Much of the President's time recently has been spent insisting WE THE PEOPLE do not know how to hold an election anymore.  Link to NY Times commentary.   The Republican Party supports him all the way.  This is an unhealthy development for democracy lovers in America and around the world.  Noam Chomsky gives his opinion on the COVID-19 epidemic and the response of the American political class to the threat to the nation at the link from The Real News Network.

In the 21 century no word of apology from Donald Trump as he works hand in hand with the "opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."

Click Mario Savio 

A raccoon destroyed the future held in the duck egg in the picture below.   The Ring Of Fire report at the link reveals the Trump Administration's ongoing attempts to deprive the nation's voting class from voting. Like what happened to the raccoon eaten egg below Trump and the Republican Party are eating the heart out of our democracy.

Donald Trump and the Republican Party are attempting to do something similar to the idea of Self Determination.  

Have a nice day.

Have Americans Forgotten How To Hold Elections?

Anyone who has had but a smidgen of interest in daily events in the U.S. recently is aware that Donald Trump, the President of the United States, has gone all out to convince Americans they cannot trust their own ability to hold a fair election.  The Damage Report is confronting the issue head on with its reporting.  The Ring of Fire also adds some needed information.

To top it off he, Trump, is actively making plans to make of no effect the People's right to vote by sabotaging the ability of the USPS to deliver the mail used for voting during the COVID-19 pandemic.  The President is behaving in a way intelligence analysts recognize as the way dictators go about setting up shop. Link to MSNBC report on the danger of the Trump Administration's dictatorial tendencies.

To get right to the point.  The People can employ measures to counteract the intention of the President to deny them their march toward self-determination.

Something simple can be done like not using the mail for anything not essential for as long as necessary leading up to and during the election period.  Don't expect the government to orchestrate this. You'll be old and a veteran laborer in the salt mines if you wait for the government to see to it the election is on the up and up.

So I got to thinking we might save ourselves if we can convince THE PEOPLE, the same people whose future depends on being free in a just society, to make the effort to see to it that the work load of post offices will be reduced to a bare minimum. If that were done it would be difficult or impossible for Trump to make excuses for non-delivery of ballots without raising a lot of suspicion. 

Here's where the corporations that use the mail can be of a great help.  They can switch to another carrier until the votes have been all delivered and counted. It would be like was done during the previous world wars where the corporations were put to work for the public good. Remember, the situation is dire, the last un-elected President, G.W. Bush, in 2000 started a war that is still going on in one way or another and is not expected to end until world domination is complete.  I found an article on how corporations use the USPS.  The article can be read here.  

The article is obviously written from a pro corporate perspective. The point I wish to make is that the corporations who use this service now could and should find another way to deliver their packages during the election period. Another thing consumers can do is reduce all kinds of purchases that involve the USPS until the ballots have been delivered and counted. Do you really need that trinket as much as you think you do?  

Given the animosity of the Trump Administration directed toward the voting class the corporations could play a big part in defending democracy. (CNN report.) If they were to bite the bullet a little and cease to use the USPS during the critical election period for American voters it would relieve the system and remove the ability of the Trump Administration to argue effectively that the post office had failed to deliver the ballots.

The Trump Administration is arguing that since 2016 Americans have become unable to hold elections.  The President is arguing that letting people vote off the digital grid on paper mail in ballots will harm America and it's future.  

The President just might be lying again like he was lying about kids getting sick. (CNN report at link) Only this time he's lying about our democratic republic.  Lies, by the way, which if acted on will destroy the democratic processes that insure liberty and justice for all.  That's how serious the situation is folks!

Mr. President, kids can get sick and die and we THE PEOPLE do know how to hold an election.  It is you are the problem, not WE THE PEOPLE.

Now it is time for WE THE REAL PEOPLE to join with or coerce with boycotts the Corporate People to find a way not to use the Post Office until the votes are cast and counted.  Our democratic republic should be worth more than express overnight delivery. 

Obviously the President doesn't think it is and that is the evidence why this is the most serious time in the history of our nation.  Let it sink in.  We have a President so dead set against the People voting that he is willing to sabotage the means of THE PEOPLE to choose their own leaders. When that is accomplished what are you left with?

The President and the Republican Party have given the signals that their special interests trump the right of the people to direct their own fate. 

This is what we are witnessing now and if WE THE PEOPLE sit idly by watching the sideshow, laughing at the absurdity, instead of taking this seriously we will lose every right implied by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.  

Now is the time to convince everyone, yes you corporate People too, to stop using the mail during this most important period.  By reducing the work load we can give the Postal Employees every opportunity to deliver our ballots and defend the democratic process. 

Trump and the Republicans most likely will still attempt to defraud THE PEOPLE of their right to self determination. THE PEOPLE can counteract his attempts by drastically reducing the use of the mail during the critical time of the voting process.  If we do that we might be able to demonstrate that the President is wrong about Americans not being smart enough to hold an election anymore.

That's all Folks!  Have a nice day!

Ancient Chinese Wisdom

One of my favorite things to do is to read the Tao Te Ching.  I've been pleasantly surprised to see how compatible the notion of the Eternal Tao and the notion of Logos used in the New Testament are with each other. Translators, some of them anyhow, agree that the meaning of the 'Way' in the Tao has the same meaning of the 'Way' as used to apply to Christ by the writers of the New Testament.

I was asked once why the Tao Te Ching which provides instructions for those who govern would be considered a 'Spiritual' text.  I didn't have an answer then.  I had not made the connection that erased the divide between  'Spirituality' and 'Humanity' making the two inseparable.

I returned, after years, to read the New Testament with fresh eyes. This time with 'eyes' washed clean of the traditional explanations given by the traditional Christian institutions. I simply began reading and thinking about the concepts in the Parables of Jesus of Nazareth as well as his teaching.  

I made note of the way it is told that he related to all he met and how a picture began to come to view of Jesus being like one of the Wise Masters referred to by Lao Tzu.  Verse 15 in the link provided below will give an idea. Jesus surely met those standards.


What I understood linked the Mighty Tao, referred to by Lao Tzu and the directions derived from it, with the same purposes of the Christian Kingdom of Heaven (or God) which the parables, deportment and teaching of Jesus reveal. 

Jesus who came some 500 years after both Lao Tzu and Buddha was applying, whether he knew it or not, the fundamental spiritual lessons of both previous traditions with regard to the concept of the Kingdom of Heaven he was promoting in the first century.

By his application of the ultimate 'Truth' to the temporal existential circumstances of human society Jesus, The Son of Man', melded 'Humanity' with 'Spirituality'.  His plain everyday examples and maxims in the Sermon On The Mount radically reinforce the demands and legitimacy of the voices of the people. His response comes in the form of a prescription for governing that will bring an end to social injustices within society. The Kingdom of Heaven Jesus envisioned would be revealed by a society that responded to and provided what those in that society needed.  Jesus lays it out right here in the Parable of the Good Samaritan.

Lao Tzu is the bearer of ancient Chinese Wisdom to Americans today.

He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm; he who stretcheshis legs does not walk (easily).  (So), he who displays himself doesnot shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he whovaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged; he who isself-conceited has no superiority allowed to him.  Such conditions,viewed from the standpoint of the Tao, are like remnants of food, or atumour on the body, which all dislike.  Hence those who pursue (thecourse) of the Tao do not adopt and allow them.

The other morning as I sat in the yard reading the Tao and listening to the chatter of a variety of birds at the feeders I read the passage above, 24, from the Tao Te Ching and was inspired by events in the U.S. today to make the poster about those governing society and thought how nice it would be if governments operated the way Jesus, Buddha and Lao Tzu all said they could and should be.  What a revolutionary thought!

Read the Tao Te Ching and think about the 'Spiritual' principles of governing that come to mind when the benefit of 'Humanity' is placed as the first in the order of societies priorities. Each of the three 'Spiritual' traditions when practiced will produce the benefit society needs.  Societies that do not measure up to these standards will, by virtue of the human spirit, eventually cease to exist.

The churches have taught the people to refer to Jesus as the Son of God and treat him as if he were other worldly. Jesus however spent his life living with 'Humanity' with the intention to serve the needs of the outcasts of society and put on notice those in authority. There is a lot to say on this topic that cannot be said today.  But I suggest stopping and taking another look at Jesus before we do it.  

I encountered the essay "The Scandal Of Joshua Ben Adam" by Robert Brinsmead in 2004 and was stunned by it.  I don't agree with all of it but it opened the door to a larger understanding of the Christ Event and the positive impact the principles of the teaching of Jesus would have in rectifying the results and conditions of the current social paradigm.

Have a nice day.

Considering the Implications Of The Trump Administration

To begin our consideration of the Trump Administration start by listening to the song at the link and watching the music video: "Pepper" by the Butthole Surfers.  You'll see the connection right away.

Now having listened to the song and having watched the video you can see why it seems to be a description of the motivations of Trump and the Republicans.  

The Presidency of Donald Trump is following the plan revealed by Woodrow Wilson when he made the above confession.  Trump has escalated the animosity of the State by attacking the right of THE PEOPLE to vote.  We, as a nation, have known how to hold elections all the way up until the Trump Administration.  Now according to Trump and the Republicans we don't know how to do it anymore.  When it is in the interest of the State to keep voters from voting the social situation is not serious, it is critical approaching dire.  Stop for a moment and think what it means for the State to make voting difficult for those eligible to vote.

What would be the right thing for Americans to do when confronted with information to that effect?

How about, since we are hosting an ever growing deadly PANDEMIC we have a nationwide teachers strike out of an abundance of caution?  Such an act would lessen the probability of a nationwide outbreak just before the election which could be used to halt the election Trump and the Republicans are already attempting to interfere with.  It is hard to imagine either Trump or the Republicans care whether we live or die.  If it looks like they don't care, it is incumbent on ourselves to care.

How many teachers is Trump willing to have get sick while at work and possibly die in order to save the economy?  Maybe a better question to ask is how many teachers are there who are willing to get sick and die for the benefit of the economy and Donald Trump, his Republican enablers and corporate donors?  It seems like the teachers should be the ones making decisions like that, doesn't it? 

Something amounting to a terrible wrong has been apparent in the U.S. since Trump took center stage.  It's like an aneurysm  at the heart of our nation. It remains to be seen if the condition is treatable or if it has progressed too far.   The special interests Woodrow Wilson spoke of are still present in the mind of the resident of the Oval Office and the offices of Wall Street today. The people in those offices are demanding, from their gilded chambers, that the workplaces down at street level be staffed no matter what the cost to human life. 

So what should Americans do?  How about a nationwide teachers strike to kick things off and reset the mood of the people?  Truly this is a do or die moment and such a justified rebellion will wake up the populace to the danger society is in. It is time to encourage and support the teachers in a nationwide strike if they choose to do so. I for one hope the teachers walk out on strike, masks on and determined.

So we started with "Pepper". For inspiration I'll leave you with "Banks Of Marble".