I see you as rude not informative. Maybe I have missed your less rude, harsh posts. But no matter we are Americans with freedom of opinion at least at this point.
It just isn’t the country I once thought. I am sadden to have my last years be with that knowledge. I actually believed that there were two parties in politics and this election has opened my eyes to the collusion of the uniparty. I won’t support or aid the sell out however.
Cruz is part of the establishment and I contributed frequently when he ran for senator because I did not think he was. We can agree to disagree or not. Nothing will change my mind about him.
No one paid any attention to them.
Not a bit.
Someone would be standing, facing the sign, dumping paper trash in the metal scrap bin--partly forbidden because of the potential to start a fire if hot bits were tossed in.
January in North Dakota, and the bay door to the outside would be wide open.
In frustration, he put up a new set of signs which said "Close this F****ng Door" and No F*****g trash in this container, for metal scrap only.
Oddly enough, people paid attention to those.
Sometimes you have to be rude to get people to listen.
Believe it or not, I started out calmly warning of why I find a particular candidate unacceptable. In the 'real' world, I prefer to speak softly, but there I also get to use the 'big stick'. Here, it's all 'verbal'.
Because of the response around here, predominantly ranging from hostility to gibberish, I just cut to the chase and start with the second set of signs. Sorry if that offended you.
Enough of all that.
What opened my eyes to the uniparty (new name, same thing) was seeing the constant progression of abuses conducted against the citizenry by our government, from local politics: Where I grew up I knew quite a few principled people well, who fought the good fight, but could never seem to make progress because they were often undermined by the supposedly forthright Republicans in their political fights against the Corruption of the local Democrats.
Then there were national news abuses involving egregious and open displays of murderous force against the citizenry, often over gun control. The ink was barely dry on the 1968 Gun Control Act when the ATF kicked down the door of Kenyon Ballew in the middle of the night and shot the man in the head when he grabbed his pistol not knowing what was going but ready to defend himself and his family (all over a dummy grenade on the mantel some 'informant' had called in). Ruby Ridge and Waco were far in the future yet when I saw the abuse going on, and those are just a few of many instances that made the national news. Many more can't even be linked, because there was no story done on them--no one who knew anything would talk to any press--they had a job, they had kids, anyone asks, they don't know what you are talking about.
It is amazing how 300 people in a dance club can NOT see a stabbing take place in the middle of the dance floor, and how many of those people can fit in a couple of two-stall bathrooms ('officially' that is).
Even then, well before Ford and Rockefeller in POTUS and VEEP, the stink was present.
Every election since, the serious Conservatives have been marginalized, some have been smeared as kooks or 'crazies' or 'extremists' (and some are), some, behind the scenes, woke up dead in the morning, victims of 'accidents' or "suicide" or seemingly unconnected tragic events.
(How likely is it that a man would commit suicide: "repeatedly slashed his own wrists and throat". Put your RN anatomy and physiology classes (and experience) to work on that.)
Others would go to meetings and be sick for days afterwards...until they started bringing their own coffee. Bottled water was a boon, too.
So, I moved to a different state, mostly for educational, and then employment reasons, thinking this was a local thing.
It is local--everywhere you go.
I'm down to the fact that there are two basic forces in the universe. They may have different brands on the label, they may sing different school songs, but the main forces, good and evil, cross all the other lines.
Corruption, for fun and profit, is dominant in our political landscape. Why else would so much catering to such a small and sinful fraction of the population against the will of much of the rest come out of DC and statehouses and even courthouses around the country?
It is everywhere.
Its best weapon is to either compromise the good (in which case they aren't so perfect) or, when that fails, to smear them.
Smear them hard and often, distort their words if there is nothing else, and to publish such a volume of material that Jesus Himself would be thought a sneakthief --after all, He said He would "come as a thief in the night", didn't he?
In today's media climate, My Saviour would be derided as a cat burglar. He would be blamed for having solidarity with every crowbar and jimmy wielding procurer of stolen goods across the country. Bloggers would blog on what other bloggers said that other bloggers said and pack the internet, and eventually news cycles (who would have stories on what the bloggers were saying) and the Deceiver would howl with laughter.
The thing that brought Cruz to my attention was that he was in the trenches, fighting this stuff, this pervasive evil. Of all the Congress, he was rating best at doing what he had promised to do.
The people who try to say he is becoming establishment or is establishment are saying this is out of everything from original intent to an epiphany to being 'just a po'boy' and needing the money so desperately he'd sell out the principles he has fought for in the Congress (and his mother, too). Others say he is a Republican, incumbent, and as such needs to be purged from office! (funny they don't mention any of the Democrats).
Oh the po'boy thing plays really well against the 'classy' Billionaire who would never sell out for a profit, but donated to Hillary and Schumer and DeBlasio, because it was "business" not because he supported them or anything.
I have trouble resisting pointing out the Gordian convolutions in logic. Sorry about that.
I think we agree, that something needs to be done. We just don't agree on who would be the best person to have doing it.
Have a pleasant Sunday.