Incredible testimony. Heroic endurance through it all. And the injustice of it - against election workers, officials, and all the rest. The former president sees everything through a "lens of hate" as per Bob Woodward in an interview of how 45 and Nixon are in many ways alike. If hate is at your core, that means anyone in your orbit, who…
Incredible testimony. Heroic endurance through it all. And the injustice of it - against election workers, officials, and all the rest. The former president sees everything through a "lens of hate" as per Bob Woodward in an interview of how 45 and Nixon are in many ways alike. If hate is at your core, that means anyone in your orbit, whoever it is, will get it. Hitler too saw the world through paranoia and hate. Stalin as well. Putin today is another. It is kind of like the "dark side". It is always present. How you deal with it becomes the measuring stick of your morality and ethics. I think Mr. Bowers certainly proved his capacity to resist the dark side. Not so others - from lawyers, to elected representatives at the federal and state level ready to engage in and promote violence to overturn an American election. The 2022 elections are going to set the stage for 2024. If, God forbid, or God help us, the gop should take over both houses or either house of congress, just imagine what that could mean. We in the US are being called to fight as strongly for the values of democracy as are the Ukrainians doing all they can to stop Putin and his plans for resurrecting the USSR of the bad old days - days he worships. 45 worships himself. So did Stalin. So does Putin. Just a reminder there were "German Christians" - protestants and catholics - who supported Hitler. Then there were pastors and priests who resisted. Many of them ended up in concentration camps and were executed just before the end of the war. But Hitler lost. Stalin, lost, then won for a while. Putin has danced with the west to make money and now he is pulling the edges of his trap together. It will take everyone to resist what 45 and his crowd are doing. And that means NOT voting for gop candidates. Why? Because the majority of them are NOT Rusty Bowers.
Replying to myself here - the thing about Rusty Bowers, however is this: if you know who were to run in 2024, he would vote for him!!!!!! Now I ask you, how in the world does that make any sense at all? It makes no sense. What this approach PROVES is that the lure, the addiction, to a party first (and policies that are at their core deeply detrimental to democracy in the United States let alone the world) and to citizenship and commitment to the project of a humane world that SEES others as part of the community and not as enemies to be overcome, that SEES that the capacity to earn or even make money is SECOND to ethics and morality. Unfortunately the current situation with the gop (not to mention that there are only 2 political party choices and those choices contain many streams fighting against each other most of the time) means voting gop means voting for Fascism/autocracy. There was a time voting dem meant the same. Then that all flipped - thanks to Nixon, primarily and the "southern strategy" which focused on white supremacy and race. Talk about schizoid personality!
Incredible testimony. Heroic endurance through it all. And the injustice of it - against election workers, officials, and all the rest. The former president sees everything through a "lens of hate" as per Bob Woodward in an interview of how 45 and Nixon are in many ways alike. If hate is at your core, that means anyone in your orbit, whoever it is, will get it. Hitler too saw the world through paranoia and hate. Stalin as well. Putin today is another. It is kind of like the "dark side". It is always present. How you deal with it becomes the measuring stick of your morality and ethics. I think Mr. Bowers certainly proved his capacity to resist the dark side. Not so others - from lawyers, to elected representatives at the federal and state level ready to engage in and promote violence to overturn an American election. The 2022 elections are going to set the stage for 2024. If, God forbid, or God help us, the gop should take over both houses or either house of congress, just imagine what that could mean. We in the US are being called to fight as strongly for the values of democracy as are the Ukrainians doing all they can to stop Putin and his plans for resurrecting the USSR of the bad old days - days he worships. 45 worships himself. So did Stalin. So does Putin. Just a reminder there were "German Christians" - protestants and catholics - who supported Hitler. Then there were pastors and priests who resisted. Many of them ended up in concentration camps and were executed just before the end of the war. But Hitler lost. Stalin, lost, then won for a while. Putin has danced with the west to make money and now he is pulling the edges of his trap together. It will take everyone to resist what 45 and his crowd are doing. And that means NOT voting for gop candidates. Why? Because the majority of them are NOT Rusty Bowers.
Replying to myself here - the thing about Rusty Bowers, however is this: if you know who were to run in 2024, he would vote for him!!!!!! Now I ask you, how in the world does that make any sense at all? It makes no sense. What this approach PROVES is that the lure, the addiction, to a party first (and policies that are at their core deeply detrimental to democracy in the United States let alone the world) and to citizenship and commitment to the project of a humane world that SEES others as part of the community and not as enemies to be overcome, that SEES that the capacity to earn or even make money is SECOND to ethics and morality. Unfortunately the current situation with the gop (not to mention that there are only 2 political party choices and those choices contain many streams fighting against each other most of the time) means voting gop means voting for Fascism/autocracy. There was a time voting dem meant the same. Then that all flipped - thanks to Nixon, primarily and the "southern strategy" which focused on white supremacy and race. Talk about schizoid personality!