“All men are created equal”

 I believe that the Electoral College is a direct violation of America’s founding principle that “All men are created equal”. If all “men” (all men and women) are created equal why aren’t all votes created equal”?

California has 40 million people and has 55 electoral college votes.  That calculates to one electoral college vote for every 727 thousand Californians. 

Wyoming has 586 thousand people and has 3 electoral college votes. That’s one electoral college vote for every 195 thousand Wyomingans. 

So a Wyoming voter is 727K/198K = 3.7 times more unequal than a California voter. That’s ridiculous. 

I know, it’s the Constitution.  But slavery was the Constitution. Men only voting was the Constitution. The Constitution had problems, this is one of them. 

I know, a Constitutional Amendment will never pass because the unfairly powerful low population states will vote their interests and block it. But shouldn’t the Basic American Principle that All Men and Women are created equal be enough to change that?  The idea that All Men are Created Equal ended slavery.  The idea that All Men are Created Equal ended men only voting.  The idea that All Men and Women are created equal can end the unfair Electoral College too.  

We are in an era of greed and domination. But I believe America is getting sick of this paradigm, and that an era of goodness and honor is waiting to be freed. 

Amend the Constitution. 

Finally

 The House of Representatives finally overwhelmingly passed aid to Ukraine over the fierce objections of the ridiculously misnamed “Freedom Caucus Republicans - best understood as the Putin Wing Republicans. It was then overwhelmingly passed by the Senate. Wednesday it will likely be signed by President Biden. 

This should have happened in November. It is a disgusting stain on America that elected American Representatives are working for a hostile foreign power - Putin’s Russia. 

Everyone in Ukraine was following the House vote in real time, and they cheered in relief and gratitude when the Putin Wing Republicans were defeated.  They will finally be able to shoot back again. And they will. 

Republicans have many stains on their character since the orange nitwit took over the Party.  This particular stain needlessly murdered many Ukrainian fighters for lack of ammunition. 

I, for one, will never forget.

Why authoritarianism? fascism?

  There is a real desire of many Americans to turn the country over to fascists – strong, authoritarian, intolerant, cruel men (with some women vying to be included and be leaders).  Why? 

One thought is the feeling that the hierarchy of manly leadership has been destroyed by women and their surrogates, touchy feely idealistic socialists who are impractical and disastrously incompetent. In other words, the strong men have been pushed aside and made fun of and it is time for manly, hardheaded, morally upright men to come back to take charge.

Another thought is the disgust reflex that is much stronger in right-wingers than in left-wingers.  I can relate my own experience of having taken a wrong turn in Vancouver BC and ended up driving through the hard section of town along the drug streets and saw shocking and truly disgusting people who were not only homeless but destroyed by drugs and living in their subsequent filth.  I think many right-wingers think cruel intolerance and punishment and getting them out of sight is what is needed.

Another disgust reflex of some right-wingers seems to be an obsession about homosexuals.  Normal people, or at least normal liberals, don’t pay much attention at all to gay men and women other than to treat them the same way they treat anyone – with no concern at all about their sexuality.  But the homophobic seem to be plagued with images of genitals and anuses and are likely fighting the rise of personal sexual energies in themselves at these images.  And they have been trained to feel shame about these feelings and they abreact with cruelty and oppression.

Compassion seems to be abhorrent to some on the right wing.  It is not manly, to them, I suppose.  Too girly.  A failure of manhood.  Sad.

Maybe the core of it all is a terrible mistaken idea of what it is to be a man.  The feminine manifestations of compassion, empathy, tolerance, softness, caring seem to be a violation of the mistaken notion of manhood which are manifest in hardness, cruelty, intolerance, demanding, bullying, instilling fear, dominating.  They think to be a man is to dominate with cruel strength. And to be caring and cooperative is a failing of manhood.  

I think we need to see the whole picture of what it is to be a man. Jesus gave us his image through his life and teachings.  Budha did the same.  Not insignificantly, Mr. Rogers on children's TV did much the same for decades and was portrayed beautifully by Tom Hanks in a recent movie.  Manhood certainly includes tenderness, empathy, caring, nurturing and protecting, as well as the will to do difficult and courageous things. 

Why is fascism attractive?  A mistaken notion of manliness, might be the heart of it.

That person has a "Lot of Pussy!"

In our out of balance world a common rude phrase for someone who shows courage is to say "That person has a Lot of Balls" - referencing male genitals, of course, as if testicles were connected to courage.  But what the Trump atrocities have shown us is that most of those who have shown '"balls" are actually women:

• Cassidy Hutchinson, White House aid - witness against Trump
• Liz Cheney, former Republican Congressperson - co-chair of House Select Committee on the January 6 attack to overthrow the government
• Leticia James, Attorney General of New York - Prosecutor of Trump many years of fraud in New York
• Fanni Willis, Attorney General of Georgia - Prosecutor of Trump attempt to find fake votes in the 2020 Georgia count for president
• E Jean Carroll, successfully sued Trump for $83 Billion for rape and defamation of character
• Stormy Daniels, porn star who Trump paid $130,000 hush money to hide having sex with him

Wow.  These women are exhibiting real courage in standing up to Trump, and a vast majority of men in the House and the Senate all know that Trump is guilty as charged, and know he is batshit crazy and unfit for any position of responsibility,  but they are cowards and keep SILENT.

I don't mean to deny the courage being shown by the male judges and prosecutor in his criminal cases:

• Arthur Engoron in the conviction of New York financial fraud case
• Scott McAffee in the Fanni Willis Georgia trial on the fake votes case
• Lewis Kaplan in the E Jean Carroll guilty of rape and defamation verdict
• Juan Merchan in the financial fraud covering up the hush money in violation of finance laws case
• Jack Smith, Special Prosecutor for two indictments, attempt to overthrow the government put and violating espionage laws by stealing classified secrets

And a special honoring of Adam Kinzinger, former Republican Congressman also on the House Select Committee. 

The judges were assigned to their cases and are showing courage as well, but it is a bit different than stepping forward and volunteering to take on this demented and dangerous and pitiful little person.

I give a very big congratulations to the women who stepped forward to say the puffy orange Humpty Dumpty has no clothes. 

I suggest that we stop equating courage with men - look at these women!

They've got a "Lot of Pussy"!!

Whatever you are guilty of, accuse the other of the same thing

 One of the many horrible lessons on authoritarian/autocratic/fascist tyranny that we are being taught by the noxious Former Guy is a fundamental propaganda deceit that seems to stem from the Nazi propagandist, Goebbels - accuse the other of what you are guilty of.

• Is Trump guilty of trying to overthrow the government?  Accuse Biden of the same;
• Was Trump impeached? Have his House supplicants impeach Biden;
• Is Trump guilty of graft and corruption feeding millions and billions of dollars  to his children? Accuse Biden of the same;
• Is Trump fading into Alzheimer's dementia (like his father before him)? Accuse Biden of the same;
• Is Trump threatening to destroy the Justice System and use it to crush his opponents?  Accuse Biden of the same;
• Is Trump promising to end presidential elections?  Accuse Biden of the same;
• Is Trump guilty of violating the Espionage Act by stealing, hoarding, and possibly selling top secret military secrets?  Accuse Biden of the same;
• Is Trump the greatest threat to Democracy in the world?  Accuse Biden of the same;
• Is Trump guilty of etc. etc. etc. etc? Accuse Biden of the same.

A good rule of thumb is that Trump's accusations are actually public confessions.  It's nice of him to keep us up to date on his crimes and planned crimes.

The idea of the propaganda accusation lies is not to convince us on the other side that the lies are true - we know the propaganda is lies.  And it is not to convince the cult to believe the propaganda lies - they either don't care or they already believe the lies.  

The point of the lies is to confuse those who don't pay that much attention - who never follow politics and news - or who can't take it anymore and turn away from the endless, persistent, overwhelming flood of shit being sprayed on them every day - or who don't trust that they know enough to make good decisions.  So they say "What the Heck, this side says this and that side says the that, who knows?  Just a pox on both sides - there's probably something to it..."

Viola! you end up with a successful tyrannical overthrow of American democracy and the rule of law.  

But it will fail.  He and his avid cult are just too disgusting, I believe, to appeal to any other than themselves.

Make them submit

Sadly, what has Trump taught us about authoritarianism/fascism?

Lesson one - make each person submit. 

What is the latest example? In the falsifying business records criminal case in the Manhattan Court, he has blatantly violated the Judge’s gag order by attacking the judge and the judge’s daughter - daring the judge to put him in jail.  

The Former Guy has one trick that he knows well and has been doing since he was a small child - make others submit to his will. He’s good at it. As soon as you give in on one thing he has you on his game board, and he will push on to the next, more meaningful submission. Until - he becomes your master and all resistance has been voluntarily given up. 

He violated the gag order. 

First, hit him with a massive fine.  Then, when he violates the gag order again -

Prison please.

Why isn’t Trump in prison?

 

Why isn’t Trump in prison for threatening violence against the sitting President of the United States of America?  He re-posted this photo of a hog-tied Biden in the back of a pickup truck.  One, or many, of his violent cult could well be taking this as an instruction, just like they took his instruction to storm the Capital, try to find and hang his Vice President, and overthrow the government. 

This is a sick, and terrified little person, descending ever lower into the fetid swamps of his sick little mind. 

Prison please.