This is what a FRIEND sent me:
This is where I stand. The 47th President, his power-hungry cronies taking positions of authority in his Cabinet and administration, and the majority of Republicans in Congress are a real and active threat to me, my way of Life, and all or most of the people I love.
Some people are saying that we should give Trump a chance, that we should “work together” with him because he won the election and he is “everyone’s president.” This is my response:
•I will not forget how badly he and many others treated former President Obama for 8 years…Lies about his legitimacy and hatred for his principles.
•I will not “work together” to privatize Medicare and cut Social Security and Medicaid.
•I will not “work together” to subvert the Constitution by illegitimately pushing unfit Cabinet nominees through on recess appointments without the advice and consent of the Senate.
•I will not “work together” to build a wall.
•I will not “work together” to persecute Muslims.
•I will not “work together” to shut out refugees from other countries.
•I will not “work together” to lower taxes on the 1% and increase taxes on the middle class and poor.
•I will not “work together” to help Trump use the Presidency to line his pockets and those of his family and cronies.
•I will not “work together” to weaken and demolish environmental protection.
•I will not “work together” to sell American lands, especially National Parks, to companies that then despoil those lands.
•I will not “work together” to enable the killing of whole species of animals just because they are predators, inconvenient for a few, or because some people want to get their thrills killing them.
•I will not “work together” to remove civil rights from anyone.
•I will not “work together” to alienate countries that have been our allies for as long as I have been alive.
•I will not “work together” to slash funding for education.
•I will not “work together” to take essential assistance from people at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.
•I will not “work together” to get rid of common sense regulations on guns.
•I will not “work together” to eliminate the minimum wage.
•I will not “work together” to support so-called “Right To Work” laws, or undermine, weaken or destroy Unions in any way.
•I will not “work together” to suppress scientific research, be it on climate change, fracking, or any other issue where a majority of scientists agree that Trump and his supporters are wrong on the facts.
•I will not “work together” to criminalize abortion or restrict health care for women.
•I will not “work together” to increase the number of nations that have nuclear weapons.
•I will not “work together” to put even more “big money” into politics.
•I will not “work together” to violate the Geneva Convention.
•I will not “work together” to give the Ku Klux Klan, the Nazi Party, and white supremacists a seat at the table or to normalize their hatred.
•I will not “work together” to deny health care to people who need it.
•I will not “work together” to deny medical coverage to people based on a “pre-existing condition.”
•I will not “work together” to increase voter suppression.
•I will not “work together” to normalize tyranny.
•I will not “work together” to eliminate or reduce ethical oversight at any level of government.
•I will not “work together” with anyone who is, or admires, tyrants and dictators.
•I will not support anyone who thinks it’s OK to put a pipeline to transport oil on Sacred Ground for Native Americans. It would run under the Missouri River, providing millions of people with drinking water. An accident waiting to happen.
•I will not “work together” to legitimize racism, sexism, and authoritarianism.
This is my line, and I am drawing it.
•I WILL stand for honesty, love, respect for all living beings, and the beating heart that is the center of Life
•I WILL use my voice and my hands to reach out to the uninformed and to anyone who will LISTEN:
That “winning,” “being great again,” “rich,” or even “beautiful” is nothing… when others are sacrificed to glorify its existence.
“LETTER: WORKING TOGETHER IS NOT AN OPTION WITH WHATEVER THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS BECOME”
What has the Republican Party become? WINNERS
Winning won’t help you, even if it hurts everyone else. You can pour all the political power in the world into the place where your heart should be and it won’t make you any happier.
Okay Val, thanks for the advice.
But if it comes down to choices I’d rather be winning than losing.
But what if in gaining the world, you lose your soul?
From what I see from the reactions of many on the left they appear to have lost their souls since Trump won the election.
In other words, did you consider the possibility that the cost of winning was too high?
What are you even trying to say?
I do know that some of the Trump haters appear to have sold their souls to the devil.
Trump is living rent free in their heads.
Yeah I suppose the thought never even crossed your mind
TDS is a real thing.
Yes. Winners in the sense of not giving a damn about the average citizen. They let their constituents have guns because they get a lot of donations from the gun industry, and their constituents love their guns, and the school, church, temple, and mall shootings keep happening because we don’t vet buyers. This is just one issue where people do not understand that having an assault weapon makes no sense. It’s not a good hunting weapon. It’s not a good, suitable defense weapon. It’s designed to kill as many people as possible.
I would say the Republicans have become blatantly Oligarchy and Tyranny Friendly.
American politics is not some football game where one side takes all. That zero-sum-gain mentality will destroy us. The Former Republic of Yugoslavia’s President, Milosevic, did the same thing Trump is doing — dividing and hating and running roughshod over minorities that couldn’t protect themselves. Yugoslavia is no more because a leader singled out one group over many and let them do whatever they wanted to do to the others. I saw that Civil War firsthand in 1995. That region is still recovering.
“American politics is not some football game where one side takes all. That zero-sum-game mentality will destroy us.”
I agree, so you might consider coming onboard and show a little respect for your current President. 🙂
Trump is using the Milosevic playbook. Trump is using the Putin playbook. Trump is using the Hitler playbook.
What do these playbooks have in common? Answer: They are strategies to elevate one person to a dictatorship. One person gets to be the legislature, the judiciary, and the executor because he has surrounded himself with YES men and women. Whatever he wants, they will deliver. This is no longer a government of the people, for the people, and by the people. This a government that does what Trump wants. He’s not a servant of the people.
One little detail tells me all I want to know about Trump. He thinks Bishop Budde is woke. If woke means caring about others and treating them with respect, then I am also woke, or at least I try to be. The “woman at the well” was someone the disciples didn’t think the Messiah should be talking to. She’s a woman and a Samaritan. Both were seen as sub-human by most Jewish men at the time. Yet, Jesus spoke to her — the most extended diatribe of Jesus and another person in the Bible, making the point that she was a child of God and deserved respect. Yes, some don’t deserve to be in society, like child rapists or abusers or murderers. However, some semblance of respect should be shown to them in prison.
MB say “Yes, some don’t deserve to be in society, like child rapists or abusers or murderers.
How about people who steal Woodstock Pizza’s propane tanks . . . do they deserve to “be in society” ? Not a joke, that is meant as a serious question.
No. I don’t think crime should be overlooked. It should be addressed. The criminal should be made to be accountable.