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.
Where children grow up seeing pedophiles and rapists protected because they are the wealthy and powerful adults in political, business, and religious circles, the society raises another generation of powerful pedophiles and rapists. Where children know they lack healthcare, food, and shelter because their government funds billionaires and the military industry, society bears the fruit of its angriest citizens.
Americans must hear the Democrats and Independents speak honestly to them -- Donald J Trump will not; Americans must hear Democrats and Independents speak with boldness, authority, integrity, and wisdom – Donald J Trump will not. Americans must hear the Democrats and Independents defend the Constitution and the Rule of Law, defend the voices and civil rights of all people who reside in the U.S.A. – Donald J Trump will not.
2026 is the year that Christian Believers and American Nonbelievers must take a side. The same side if they believe in justice, empathy, goodness, the Constitution, and liberty.
The energy we need to stand up to bullies, to the cruel MAGA agenda, to fearful situations, and to the dark unknowns will come from the courage we have used before now and the courage we must share with each other. We cannot destroy the evil; we can and we must destroy its powers over us.