Anti-establishment

Do you really think that our president is anti-establishment? How many  of the elite do you think are? All of their friends are establishment and they grew up in the establishment and made their money and their power and their fame in the establishment.

So how do they ascribe to themselves the moniker anti-establishment? Are they anti-one side of the establishment or the other? That doesn’t count. Are they like you and me? Are they poor working slobs or at least tired of the BS that happens at the top?

They’re not like you and me. They’re not your friends and they don’t care about you. Wake up.

Most are animals and apex predators trying to scratch out as much as they can for themselves for their effort.  Maybe in that way they are like many of us.  Just better at it. But humans have the ability to think beyond that.  To work together and create something better without killing each other and taking from each other. It’s way past time for us to make the effort to do so.

Hiring the right people

A somewhat conservative acquaintance of mine and I were talking the other day. He voted for Donnie but didn’t care that much. He said “they’re all the same. I hate them all equally.” Not the first time I heard that.  Can’t say I feel differently. I don’t think many wanted either Donnie or Hill to win. Anybody else would do. Obviously that’s not everybody’s opinion, but how did so many get that way?  My acquaintance said “do you think that DJ or Hill even know the price of a gallon of gas?”

I had to agree. Why is it that so many of our leaders are so far removed from reality? There are the obvious answers: they’re born into it; they’ve long since passed the point where they had to think about such things; they’re thinking about higher level questions and solutions. But I wonder, do they really care about every day people’s issues or do they just care about pulling strings and power and money and glory? Are these the people that we want as leaders? Shouldn’t our leaders be leading us in the right direction instead of fighting amongst themselves and getting themselves ahead? Isn’t this part of the issue? The elites moving further ahead and the rest of the animals being left behind?

And why is it that there are only two sides? Is it divide and conquer? Each has its favorite issues and oppose each other on those issues. And that’s all we have to vote for is two sides. When I talk to people, they have specific issues. Yet they can’t vote on those issues. They have to settle for a candidate who most fits their belief system and values.  It’s become totally partisan.

So therefore none of these people seem to work for us, we the people. They work for themselves and a set of values that they feel will drive them forward. Maybe they even believe in those values. What if we had a choice that would do what we the people actually want? What if we could vote for specific issues instead? We have the technology. We could literally put the issues out to vote and each one of those issues could be decided separately. Seems to me that would bring more efficiency to the governmental system.

I propose that we put people in leadership positions who promise to do what we say based on how we vote on specific issues. Then we hold them to it and if they try to push through what they think should happen instead of what we the people want, we fire them.

Nobody cares

They’re on both sides you know. Left and right and all in between. We are all part of the problem.  We just don’t care a whole lot. Not about the right things anyway. Sure, some of us actually care about our family and friends. But in the right way? Do we care about their health and their environment? Or do we care about what they think of us and our stuff?  And do we care about others outside of our circle and the world in general or do we care about whether we get a new TV for another room?

Don’t get me wrong. Some of us care a whole lot. There are some who put their whole lives into caring. I’m sorry, I’m not one of them. But a lot of us don’t care much at all. I’m not one of them either.  I’m just saying the average isn’t good.

See, animals don’t have this problem. They don’t have a choice. They care about what they need to care about to survive and to propagate and to thrive. Somewhere along monkey or later we developed this big brain  with the ability to care about other things.  But when we were in the tribe if we cared about the wrong things for too long we either became ruler and ruined the tribe or the rest of the tribe would beat us. To correct our thinking so to speak.

Segregation of duties and separation of families and people have in part created a situation where we don’t have to care. Or at least we think we don’t.  So has plentifulness and the feeling that we need more of what we already have.  My guess is all this is going to come bite us.

Many don’t even care to think much at all.

Think. Care. Survive. Thrive.

 

Flawed

I guess no more serious djt-russia questions.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39866645

Still think you’re living in a democracy?

How about ‘flawed’?

There are a whole bunch of very insatiable animals fighting each other to try to win and control everything.  ‘We the people’ of the world better start caring and using our heads before ‘they’ destroy everything trying. Make no mistake, have no illusions – there are way too many ways for the apex human predators that we are to screw it up at this point.

Short list:

Nuclear War
Cyberwarfare
Germ/superbug/virus
Genetic research/mutation
Severe pollution
Artificial intelligence
Terrorist state
Economic collapse
Food chain collapse
Energy chain collapse

Trust your leaders to guide us through the quagmire?

Have a wonderful day! 🙂

Autocracy

This is one of the things you see in an autocracy.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-whistleblower-idUSKBN15A2L1

But don’t believe any of this media until it can no longer be ignored and encompasses all… See how that works out. True – media is manipulation, but what if it wasn’t around at all?

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-resist-idUSKBN15A0DI

You know that when governments start shooting people for saying too much it’s too late to do anything about it, right? Think I’m being hysterical? How about his comment about standing in the middle of some street and shooting someone without losing votes? Just a joke? Not so funny when an apex predator with that much power says it.

First ‘alternative facts’ and the gag of government employees and science, then massive money to military, national guard and police, then the slow decimation of constitutional rights and whatever free speech is left. Happens again and again through history. Think it can’t happen here? We’re too smart for that? Now that’s audacious.

The man wants what Putin’s got. Putin’s countrymen gave it to him. I hope we don’t. We the people MUST work to protect our democracy. We have the responsibility and right now we still have the authority to think! Feelings of guilt for not doing the right thing after the fact are useless or worse.

 

You remember this guy, right?

“These are not normal times. These are extraordinary times. And extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.

“When you have a spokesperson for the president of the United States wrap up a lie in the Orwellian phrase ‘alternative facts’…

“When you have a press secretary in his first appearance before the White House reporters threaten, bully, lie, and then walk out of the briefing room without the cajones to answer a single question…

“When you have a President stand before the stars of the fallen CIA agents and boast about the size of his crowds (lies) and how great his authoritarian inaugural speech was….

“These are not normal times.

“The press has never seen anything like this before. The public has never seen anything like this before. And the political leaders of both parties have never seen anything like this before.

“What can we do? We can all step up and say simply and without equivocation. “A lie, is a lie, is a lie!” And if someone won’t say it, those of us who know that there is such a thing as the truth must do whatever is in our power to diminish the liar’s malignant reach into our society.

“There is one group of people who can do a lot – very quickly. And that is Republicans in Congress. Without their support, Donald Trump’s presidency will falter. So here is what I think everyone in the press must do. If you are interviewing a Paul Ryan, a Mitch McConnell, or any other GOP elected official, the first question must be “what will you do to combat the lying from the White House?” If they dodge and weave, keep with the follow ups. And if they refuse to give a satisfactory answer, end the interview.

“Facts and the truth are not partisan. They are the bedrock of our democracy. And you are either with them, with us, with our Constitution, our history, and the future of our nation, or you are against it. Everyone must answer that question.”

-Dan Rather

In remembrance….

In remembrance this December 7, a day that will live in infamy. Like many other days.

Remember this day not by just a thought or a small prayer, but by thinking instead of what it would be like to be one of those unfortunate souls dying on the back of a sinking ship, knowing you will never see your loved ones again.  Sinking while you’re watching the flames and hearing the screams of those around you.  Drowning as an 18 year old German in a U-boat hit by a mine – put yourself there for just a moment. Dying and watching your friends die on the beaches of Normandy or being a part of any one of the other numerous and horrendous atrocities committed during that war or any other.  See if you can feel the pain and the longing to live.  Some of the living know the feeling personally.

Maybe if more humans could use their brains to think beforehand of the horror, we would stop doing this senseless shit. Maybe those optimistic alpha dogs pulling all the strings at high levels would stop thinking about manipulation of the masses for their own animalistic needs and start thinking about all the good they can do with all of the talent and resources they have been given.

Stop the evil.