Every election feels like it is the 'most important of our life time' and it typical is. Along with the victories for democracy, the Constitution, diversity and a progressive agenda, are cautions about forces like White Christian Male Supremacy that were not vanquished per our votes.
As the factions, schisms, betrayals, firings, infighting, and cult behaviors of MAGA show themselves more starkly and widely in American media, it is important to consider the Who, How, and Why that dissent happens within cults.
What we are experiencing across our nation was not conceived by this one man, nor has he fulfilled it. This regression, degeneration, retreat from the rule of law, cruelty on immigrants and LGBTQ people, administrative incompetency, corruption…it is all on the Republican party, its powerful leaders, its policy writers, its media owners, its religious devotees, its Christian Nationalists, and its wealthy donors.
As a full-time caregiver, my eyes and heart are open to the needs of millions who are today being systematically isolated and harmed by Republican party policies. Who are these policy makers and the voters that award them power?
We want to help our children and grandchildren and money is an important way to help them especially in their young adult lives. However, the most important assets which our heirs can use are empathy, self-respect, appreciation, understanding, and critical thinking.
Following a national backlash from white supremacists to the Civil Rights and Voting Rights laws of the 1960s and 70s, white fundamentalists finally began to organize. They left the Democratic party throughout the Southern and Middle states and joined with the Republican party to eradicate the feminist-liberal-Black-atheist-Democratic-nonconformist-communist-Nothern elitist-hippie Californian-Hollywood-nontraditionalist threats to the American way of life. Americans bought into it. The enemy was no longer simply a communist sympathizer. The enemy was someone you already disliked and distrusted.
Right wing policies rely on people's fears. When I was out hiking with my father, I sometimes thought I was afraid because we seemed lost. But he taught me that I was afraid because I had not identified the sound or odor. Today, I want my audience to identify the sounds and odors. We’re lost when we’re willingly distracted or misinformed or afraid. We’re able to help ourselves and others when we understand how we got here and where we’re going.
Turning Point Summit: The Summit was not about conservatism, “one nation under god”, traditional values, revival, destiny, or Making America Great Again. The Summit, as with all Republican outreach programs for women and minorities, was about White Christian Male Supremacy. There can be no Supremacy unless The Others are less important, less worthy. There can be no Male Supremacy unless Women are in servitude to Men.
Today is another post about the news and information that arrives via my email box every day. I share some of the headlines, writers, reporters, and the links to sites. STAY INFORMED!
We are fortunate to live into old age. But our fortune is not about comfortable retirement, rest, good health, routine, protection, independence, forgiveness, or our family’s respect. Our fortune is about Awakening, aspiring to be better learners, replacing old beliefs with new ones, hoping for reconciliation, helping others because we have fewer distractions and wider opportunities, seeking new challenges because challenges fuel appetites and whet energy.
The U.S.A. cannot recover quickly from the chaos and damage done in the last ten years. The Republican party owns the chaos and damage. They own it, they profit from it, they do not want to fix it.
Many are finally saying aloud what has been noticeable and true since the 1980s: Donald J Trump has below average intelligence, is willfully ignorant, and uses school-boy arrogance to deflect. Many are finally saying aloud what has been noticeable and true since 2024: Donald J Trump’s mental health is deteriorating to such an extent that he should not chair his own businesses much less a nation. He is irrational, erratic, and unreliable.