The stock markets swing one way, then another. They jump and
then slump. Thousands of points up and down in the pasts few months. This is
volatility. This is not calm.
Immigrants are surging over our borders. But they are not.
Crimes are committed by immigrants. But they are not. We are under attack at
our borders. But we are not.
Call the troops to the borders. You can do it, but
shouldn’t. There is no border attack. There is no need for calling up the
National Guard. Yet the white house occupant says we must. He is wrong.
Build the wall. Test the wall. Pay for the wall. No one
wants to do this but one and he has power. But others have power to check this
impulse. Will they use it? Will they counteract the one in the white house?
Facts. Fiction. Tall tales. Lies. What is news. What is not
news?
We are at a crossroads in America. Those who know the facts
must stand up and be counted. Those of us who support those folks with
researched knowledge confirming the facts, must also stand up. Not just at
elections. But also in print, in local conversations and discussions, as well
as the voting booth.
Our nation is in crisis. We have confused checks and
balances guaranteed by the Constitution. We have leaders who don’t lead. We
have leaders who pretend to lead and do damage to our system. Our free press is
compromised by unwarranted attacks. Our economy is under attack from within by
a barrage of lies and misinformation. Propaganda!
We the people still have power and we must use it. Find ways
to do something to restore order and calm.
Amazon is not the problem. Amazon has revolutionized
business – both retail and commercial. Amazon has created new jobs and new
careers. Amazon has provided life-saving work for the United States Postal
Service. Amazon pays taxes nationally, locally and statewide. And they report
their taxes as they are supposed to. The one who attacks them does not report
his taxes, shrouds his every move and business background in secrecy, and
provided the largest tax breaks for all companies. Then he whines about one or
two specific companies. Why?
Does the ‘why’ have anything to do with the fact – that is
FACT – that Amazon’s primary owner and founder also owns the Washington Post
newspaper? And the complainer in chief does not agree with the newspaper? Is
that why pressure on Amazon has been waged?
We the people don’t have to believe the complainer in chief.
We can buy from Amazon. We can hold Amazon stock, and we can buy even more
Amazon stock. This should reverse the effects of the cowardly attacks by the
one in the white house.
Why do I keep getting images of Voldemort in my mind each
time the complainer in chief appears on the TV screen? He Who Shall Not Be Named
is behind both of them? Hmmmm.
Calm people. Deep breaths. There is no border problem. There
is no immigration problem. There is no Amazon problem. There is no leader in
the white house.
Deep breaths. Calm. Move forward with your lives. Turn off
the TV and radio when the new Valdemort appears. Do your jobs well. Teach your
kids well. The future is ours to do and to live.
Let the professionals do their jobs, too. Let them teach,
research and doctor us all back to health. They have facts on their side. Trust
the facts. Leave fiction in the entertainment section. And then, let’s get back
to serious, adult business of living life.
If England survived Nazi Germany, America can survive
Voldemort and white supremacists and the NRA. Just ponder that!
Madeline Albright is right: Beware the Facists.
April 9, 2018
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