The Beat Goes On

 The Beat Goes On

Dan Rather’s email newsletter asked this morning: “Are you Angry?” https://steady.substack.com/p/are-you-angry?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share

Hell, yes, I am.

I am beyond frustrated and feel totally unheard.  I’ve been trying to sound the alarm on Facebook and Twitter with articles about all the evil goings-on that have been transpiring but either (a) everyone is ignoring my stuff or (b) they don’t care enough to comment or (c) they don’t care at all, period.  Maybe they feel helpless.  Maybe they feel hopeless.  Maybe losing our democracy isn’t that important to them.  They are too busy with their own lives.

The Democratic leadership seems to be asleep at the wheel for the most part except for The Squad in the House and candidates running for seats in 2022.  I see numerous posts that it’s time to end the filibuster (so actual work in Congress can get done), time to codify Roe v. Wade and other fundamental rights, time for justice for the uppity up tRump & fellow traitors.  It’s all talk.  Blah blah blah.  Why don’t the Dems try to introduce the legislation they’re yapping about?  Even if it’s a lost cause, let the American people see who the real traitors are: the GQP.

The message is SOSDD: vote vote vote.  I’m sure many Democratic voters will turn out (or I still have hope they will) but will that save us from the downward slide we’re headed on?  Media doesn’t help.  Instead of praising President Biden for all he’s accomplished, the Beltway Press trashes him for gasoline prices and inflation.  Neither of those are even his fault.  The media trumpets whoever is in the White House always loses bigly in the first midterm.  Yeah, thanks.

I am frustrated with the voters who either don’t see a point in voting in the midterms or are too wrapped up in the economy to consider what the evil GQP is up too.  I get it that times are hard right now.  TB and I struggle to stay afloat but this inflation and issue with gas prices is worldwide, not just a U.S. issue.  The biggest issue, for me, is a choice between democracy (voting blue) or autocracy/theocracy (voting red).

Look at what rogue SCOTUS is up to.  It comes out that right wing Christian nationalists have been going INTO the Supreme Court to pray with some of the justices (guess who) and then exhorted them to overturn Roe v. Wade. https://www.nationalmemo.com/far-right-christian-boasts-of-praying-with-justices-inside-supreme-court-building Um, is this not a conflict of interest?  These clown justices are supposed to be impartial, are they not?  Well, they are not impartial and they’re flaunting it.

In a recent newsletter from Robert Reich, https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-republican-party-god-guns-forced?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share, he describes how the GQP and SCOTUS is attempting to kill our democracy.  He mentioned the term Dominionism and provided a link to go with it.  I wasn’t sure what it meant so, of course, I had to go follow the link and see for myself.  https://politicalresearch.org/2016/08/18/dominionism-rising-a-theocratic-movement-hiding-in-plain-sight  You know, I knew that right wing evangelical “Christians” were extreme but reading this reinforced the belief these people are dangerous and not in their right minds.  They believe God wants them to set up a theocracy by taking over government, schools, libraries and other cultural institutions.  Where did they get this bug juice idea?  I’ll need to read further.  One thing I know: these people are NOT Christians.  Christians follow Jesus’ teachings which are all about love and inclusion, not hatred and cruelty.

Here's examples of cruel anti-Christian behavior: voting against feeding, caring for, and educating children (GQP does this all the time).  The GQP and fundamentalists are so hot about restricting abortion and maybe all kinds of contraception but have absolutely NO interest in what happens to the babies once they’re born.  They’re totally unconcerned about the mothers, too, pregnant or not.  They’d like to cut WIC and childcare assistance.  If a mother’s life is in danger and needs an abortion, well, let the mom die.  If the baby will die upon birth, tough.  If the baby will be stillborn, no early delivery.  Cruel.

The GQP has made no secret of wanting to do away with Social Security and Medicare.  These are programs that most of us have paid into throughout our working careers.  Why are they always so up in arms about it?  It’s not their money, after all, it’s OURS.  Yet, they’d like to see seniors as poorly off as they were before President Roosevelt brought about social security.  And what’s frustrating is that although the GQP is trumpeting their plans, a lot of seniors don’t seem to get it.  They think it won’t happen.  https://dailysoundandfury.com/we-should-be-scaring-the-crap-out-of-everyone-starting-with-seniors/

How are they doing this?  Slowly, slowly over the years these believers have been placing allies in positions of power.  They are everywhere now: SCOTUS, local, state & federal governments, school boards, on the police force and, no doubt, the military.  Lord knows the police and military are filled with white supremacists as well.

Yes, they are.  Just look at how police treat black and white suspects.  In Akron, Ohio a young man named Jayden Walker was shot and killed by a bunch of cops who claim Walker was armed.  They say he was running from a traffic stop and turned as if to fire.  The coroner said the Young had 60 bullet wounds in him.  Sixty.  Maybe Walker was armed, maybe not.  Hopefully there will be an investigation here as there was in Minneapolis when George Floyd was murdered in 2020.

By comparison, a white supremacist young man took a sniper’s position and mowed people down during a 4^th of July parade.  He ran, too, but was caught and arrested without incident.

Why is that so many times cops kill black people, many of them doing nothing wrong, but they handle white mass killers and criminals with kid gloves?

I’m reading a book called 1619 which is one the GQP absolutely despises because it threatens the ideals of white supremacy.  Why do police kill so many black people?  It all goes back to the very beginnings of this country when blacks were slaves.  There were so many slaves, they outnumbered the whites that owned them.  The whites were always afraid of uprisings and reprisals and enacted the most brutal, cruel rules and laws you can or cannot possibly imagine.  And apparently that fear is still there.  There is also some nonsense about a fear of whites being replaced as the majority.

Well, they should be.  We’re a melting pot after all.  Too worn out to continue.  Tomorrow is another day.