It never occurred to me I'd live long enough to see even the inadequate 2 party system crash and burn. Between the current gop crowd (whoever they are and wherever they are - the ones in Michigan may as well have been at the Alabama rally booing) gerrymandered so effectively into office, we also have a democratic party that adheres to ce…
It never occurred to me I'd live long enough to see even the inadequate 2 party system crash and burn. Between the current gop crowd (whoever they are and wherever they are - the ones in Michigan may as well have been at the Alabama rally booing) gerrymandered so effectively into office, we also have a democratic party that adheres to certain "unityspeek" which just drives me around the bend. I hate to say it but gerrymanders everywhere have given democrats permission to hide most of the time and gopers an excuse for NEVER listening to constituents UNLESS they've paid their way into the rep or senator's office inner sanctum. 2022 cannot come soon enough for me. There will be new districts in Michigan drawn by 13 citizens and not directly by political parties. Everyone will have a chance to comment. But the usual suspects are loading up their bank accounts with donations from the "white wing" - aka DeVos, Koch, the Heritage Foundation and all their little statewide 'heritages', the state and national Chamber of Commerce - that bastion of middle class support - to mount huge judicial attacks in Michigan. AND we have our own version of terrorist organizations who don't even begin to hide behind religion like the guys in Afghanistan and Pakistan (who is by the way reaping the reward of all their back room dealing) but who will use right/white wing religious money making enterprises to curtail everyone's access to the ballot. Of course when you're gerrymandered what does your vote mean anyway? It's like voting in Belarus or in Russia or Turkey for that matter. Too bad Americans, so long under-educated, do not know what the **** is going on.
I continue to have hope for us in Michigan, Linda. I say this, though, as our County Commission just passed a proposal (5-1) prohibiting vaccine mandates (even over entities not under their control) and requiring our public health nurses to tell folks coming in for COVID vaccines to ask their doctors about "risks and benefits" of the shot which sets up a false narrative that the risks outweigh benefits. And further, the Commission is on a mission to have every county in the country pass the same deadly proposal. But, I still have hope: We in Michigan did vote in the nonpartisan redistricting commission (and it is hard at work), along with Governor Whitmer, AG Nessel and Secretary of State Benson. We have to start from the ground up rebuilding American democracy - at PTAs, Library Boards, Township Boards, City Councils. A lot of work, but doable. In the meantime I keep an eye on my Proud Boy neighbor, which is difficult these days since he's taken to walking around his yard naked. Is this a new order from above?
It never occurred to me I'd live long enough to see even the inadequate 2 party system crash and burn. Between the current gop crowd (whoever they are and wherever they are - the ones in Michigan may as well have been at the Alabama rally booing) gerrymandered so effectively into office, we also have a democratic party that adheres to certain "unityspeek" which just drives me around the bend. I hate to say it but gerrymanders everywhere have given democrats permission to hide most of the time and gopers an excuse for NEVER listening to constituents UNLESS they've paid their way into the rep or senator's office inner sanctum. 2022 cannot come soon enough for me. There will be new districts in Michigan drawn by 13 citizens and not directly by political parties. Everyone will have a chance to comment. But the usual suspects are loading up their bank accounts with donations from the "white wing" - aka DeVos, Koch, the Heritage Foundation and all their little statewide 'heritages', the state and national Chamber of Commerce - that bastion of middle class support - to mount huge judicial attacks in Michigan. AND we have our own version of terrorist organizations who don't even begin to hide behind religion like the guys in Afghanistan and Pakistan (who is by the way reaping the reward of all their back room dealing) but who will use right/white wing religious money making enterprises to curtail everyone's access to the ballot. Of course when you're gerrymandered what does your vote mean anyway? It's like voting in Belarus or in Russia or Turkey for that matter. Too bad Americans, so long under-educated, do not know what the **** is going on.
I continue to have hope for us in Michigan, Linda. I say this, though, as our County Commission just passed a proposal (5-1) prohibiting vaccine mandates (even over entities not under their control) and requiring our public health nurses to tell folks coming in for COVID vaccines to ask their doctors about "risks and benefits" of the shot which sets up a false narrative that the risks outweigh benefits. And further, the Commission is on a mission to have every county in the country pass the same deadly proposal. But, I still have hope: We in Michigan did vote in the nonpartisan redistricting commission (and it is hard at work), along with Governor Whitmer, AG Nessel and Secretary of State Benson. We have to start from the ground up rebuilding American democracy - at PTAs, Library Boards, Township Boards, City Councils. A lot of work, but doable. In the meantime I keep an eye on my Proud Boy neighbor, which is difficult these days since he's taken to walking around his yard naked. Is this a new order from above?