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.
Women must take the lead in building a democratic society on service, diversity, workers rights, voting rights, opportunity, equality, justice, and fairness.
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.
I intend to do more sharing from the news and information that I regularly digest. These are reliable, trustworthy sources of news and information, as well as authoritative analyses of the stories that corporate news agencies pass over.
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.
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.
Our nation is at the Reckoning that I experienced one day in a teacher conference. Our embedded beliefs about race, culture, rights, privileges, and abilities are flawed. We must challenge the beliefs, acknowledge the flaws, confess to the harm, and create new ideas...new ideas that will grow a better stronger democracy.
In USA history, our history, people have willingly believed absurdities and willingly committed, or at least approved, atrocities. Extremisms in US religion, politics, and in the divisions created by a capitalist society make this cycle difficult to break.
Women were united in their ambitious search for freedom and justice prior to the Reagan. This is what happened. The division was purposeful; the Republican party and Christian Nationalists benefited. No group or agenda poses more danger to our democracy than the Christian Nationalists.