Filosophical Phriday or maybe Phucked Up Filosophy
Note: No pictures or eye candy. This is just the force of my words standing on their own solid feet.
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I am not sure why I seem compelled
yet again to discuss, defend, explain or share my political stance in this
sadly divided county that is my home. But here I am.
First, I grew to majority as
basically a Liberal Libertarian, which might be called an oxymoron. I have
always held for independence, responsibility and basically a patriotic feeling
for my homeland and its emblems and classic documents. With age I grew slowly
more Conservative but that can clash with Libertarianism also. Second I have
not called myself a “Christian” nor now a “Cristyun’ Nationalist” at any
point. I was a rather conservative Pagan,
another oxymoron. A Pagan I still am and always will be. In the last two
decades or so I have shifted from
quasi-conservative activism (I still believe in property rights,
minimalizing government control, ownership and ‘rules’ of anything and most of
the ‘nanny state’ policies allegedly created to take care of everyone) but the nuvo-conservatism
has lost me totally. I cannot go there.
Period!
To elaborate, I was raised by
what I would term a flawed prototype for the Orange Man. For one thing he was
not born rich to assume that level of entitlement but he was a narcissist and a
‘control freak’, fond of coining nasty nicknames for all but a very small circle of those he admired, and
demanded absolute loyalty and
obedience with dire consequences if you strayed an iota. He also sired and
reared three kids, one girl and two boys.
However, he did not grab kitties; he said he loathed cats, and he was
wed only once for life and was very much a prude in many ways.
That brings me to this day. I
simply cannot understand how any sane person could truly support and revere DJT
in ANY way. He is foulness personified and as near a total opposite of “Jesus”
or any other Divine personage as a human could be. He is a whiny, bratty three
year old in his behavior and mentality, with no traits and abilities required
to be a leader. The only rationale for
this adulation that I can imagine is these people have hidden--or even obvious --leanings
toward bigotry, prejudice, discrimination, and a streak of vicious meanness and
bullyism. His absolute personification and example thus validates them. I see them as equally despicable and cannot
get past that even for former friends.
Now I go to those who say they
dislike or despise him and yet will vote for him in November because 1) they
simply cannot accept ‘Liberalism’ even on a temporary basis, 2) they still see him as strong, a ‘true’
patriot and the only way for the USA to ‘be all it can be’. These folks I feel have
become literally poisoned by the ‘Orange Koolaid’ of lies and fictions so
widely spread by the new Republicans and the Christian Nationalists that they
are blinded to reality.(*list of examples available on request) I can barely accept this but
still must try to convince one-time friends and folks I have respected to set aside
the blinders briefly and see the light! If there were only a Narcan (Nalaxone) type
antidote for this lethal drug!
What do I then advocate? I go to
the analogy I’ve been using: suppose you have a wolf just outside the screen
door, clawing and about to break in where your kids or grands are playing,
unaware. Meanwhile you also have an infestation of cockroaches in the kitchen.
What do you try to nullify first? My
answer is to deal with the most immediate and serious danger at once. That
means defeating the MAGA machine, thwarting it in every way I can. Then I’ll deal
with any troublesome ‘leftist’ roaches. Operative rule is Lethal vs nuisance!!
I see the Republican Regime with
Project 2025--which is absolutely NOT a creation and fiction of the
Democrats/Leftists--as a very real threat with serious intent to totally erase
and recreate this country as a Dictatorship
and ultimately a “Christian” Theocracy. Their doctrine and laws will match or
exceed those of the Taliban and Imams in abusive restrictions on every aspect
of your life. It will also enthrone a system described by Elon Musk where
government is absolutely controlled and limited to the “upper strata” of males--the
White Uber-Wealthy Oligarchs. People of color and the ‘poor’ uneducated common folks
are deemed worthless except to be beasts of burden for the Elite. And of course
the inferior female half of humanity are also not ‘real’ humans for they are so
stupid, flawed and lacking in skill or ability as to be useless except to bear
children and perform menial tasks for the pleasure and comfort of the Elite.
Feudalism was called “the Dark Ages’. What would we label this horror??
I admire Kamala Harris for her
determination and her willingness to tackle some of the toughest opposition a
politician has ever faced. She has some valid ideas and at least serves to
balance this opposite plan. I do NOT
agree with many of her long-term plans and ideas nor those of her running mate
but I do not fear that or condemn them so strongly that any other alternative is
better! Once they are in office, I can do a smooth switch and begin to write
letters, even perhaps organize protests or publicize all that I feel is going
in the wrong direction but for now, I am going to axe that damn wolf. Do you, gentle reader, dare to do the same?
I challenge all who stand in
fierce opposition to the ‘horrendous’ Liberal threat. Do you really
deep down fear that their policies and programs will endanger and damage you
so badly or are you secretly, maybe not
even admitting to yourself, actually appalled and scared shitless that a
woman, actually a woman of color could be in charge of your government?
Ha, I hear so much silence! “Next question, please.” You really do not want to answer that one!
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