Showing posts with label Presidential candidates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Presidential candidates. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Trump does in 24 hours what Obama could not do in Seven years - Unite Washington in a Kumbaya moment and prove the News Media and Political Parties have the same Agenda!

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The agenda - To protect and to preserve the existing political establishment that controls both Parties at all costs!

There has been no more obvious a move to annihilate a single politician who challenges the status quo than the incredible reaction Donald Trump has generated from his so-called anti-Muslim position.


Within 24 hours the strangest sight in modern politics materialized -
when the Republican and Democratic party agreed
when the presidential candidates in both parties agreed
when the Obama White House agreed
when there was bi-partisan agreement in Congress
when Dick Cheney and Hillary Clinton agreed
when the conservatives and liberals agreed
when the conservative and liberal media agreed

that Donald Trump was wrong to question the immigration of Muslims to America!  Not even President Obama has ever come close to Kumbaya moment Trump generated with his remarks, bringing together all those disparate and partisan forces.


Of course, much of the agreement was because the news media conveniently twisted and re-interpreted his comments to imply many things he did not say.  Such media manipulation allowed all these diverse enemies to have their wonderful Kumbaya moment of non-partisan bliss.



Well for the record and in the interest of preserving history and truth, a Kumbaya moment is nothing more than a musical metaphor for corny camaraderie, which is exactly what we got.


As a former newspaper reporter, I remember the quote, "when (where) all think alike no one thinks very much."  Walter Lippmann or Albert Einstein have been credited as the source, and even Mark Twain had quite similar quotes.


I have watched the English language get mauled, mutilated, and massacred over the years so it is not surprising even the word "Kumbaya" has been redefined over the years.  The origins are in Black folk songs, most likely from the slave era, and united people against persecution and racial discrimination.


The more traditional meaning of today is more appropriate, the sense of crony camaraderie that stunned the nation after Trump's remarks brought together THE REAL AMERICAN ESTABLISHMENT!


What if all those politicians, pundits, news people, and Wall Street protectors are wrong and Trump is right?           

Better yet, let us examine what the people of America think.  First of all over half of the eligible voters refuse to participate in the political process.  For the first time in our history, less than half of the eligible voters voted in the 2014 election.


Among those who register, 43% are registered Independents, 30% are Democrats, and 26% are Republicans.  By my math, that means 43% of the voters registered today have already rejected both parties and the political establishment.


Here is the catch when it comes to knowing the public and why the polls are wrong.  With over 50% of the public refusing to vote, we cannot assume it means the majority of people do not, or cannot affect public policy trends.


Get real news media, the silent majority in America is the majority.  If half the eligible voters refuse to vote, and 42% of those registered and voting refuse to join either major party, then the total vote cast by Democrats and Republicans in 2014 was 28.1% of the eligible voters.  Even Harvard would agree that is about one quarter of eligible voters.


Alternatively, that means THREE quarters of the eligible voters feel disenfranchised from the political parties and over half do not even participate in the vote.  Of course, under our Constitution, these people still have all rights granted to Americans.

Here are the latest voting facts and the numbers from the last election.


Pythagoras Analysis of Voter reality in America

Total USA Population Today          325,332,205
Total Population under 18                 78,000,000
Total Population 18 and over           247,322,000

Total Eligible Voters 18+                  247,322,000

Total Registered Voters                    142,200,000
Percent                                                           57%

Total Voter Turnout 2014                121,757,000
Percent of Registered Voters                       85.6%
Percent of Eligible Voters                             49.2%

Total Obama Votes 2014                    62,615,406
Percent of Registered Voters                       44%
Percent of Eligible Voters                             25.3%                                                                        

Total Romney Voters 2014                 59,100,000
Percent of Registered Voters                       41.5%
Percent of Eligible Voters                             23.9%                                    

Total Eligible Voters not Voting      125,565,000
Percent of Eligible Voters                             50.8%                                                

Total Leaning Independent                          43%
Total Leaning Democrat                              30%
Total Leaning Republican                            26%
                           

What is the Real Agenda of the new non-partisan political machine in Washington, DC?

Think about it, why did Democrats, Republicans, Presidential Candidates, The Obama White House, a non-partisan group of House and Senate members, Dick Cheney and Hillary Clinton, conservatives and liberals, and the conservative and liberal media all agree?


They unite in the underlying mission of this wholly unlikely coalition, to destroy Trump as a viable candidate for president before there is a chance he might become president.


Trump is not wrong in worrying about Muslim refugees nor did he say ban members of the Muslim religion forever.  Perhaps he knows something the experts seem to have forgotten, how to tell the truth to the public.


No one can really believe all Muslims are bad any more than we can believe all Catholics, Protestants, or Jews are bad but that certainly does not mean there are not zealots among each group who decided to ignore the warnings of Jesus and become judges of other's on Earth.

Regardless of which way the winds blow Obama's policies this week, there are still radical, apocalyptic, Islamic terrorists who want to destroy us, mostly because we back Israel.  Thus, they formed a caliphate, an Islamic version of a nation, and are committed to destroy anyone who does not pledge loyalty to them or agree with them.


Since we have botched up our Middle East policy and our standing with both the Arabs and Israel during the Obama Administration, not only do the terrorists not like us.  Now they believe America is weak and lacks the will to stop ISIS ever since Obama caved in to terrorists when he declared the Red Line in Syria that became the laughing stock of Europe.

Our inept policies in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Yemen, and who knows where else have proven our weakness.  The result is ISIS now attacks Europe at will, and caused more deaths in a terrorist attack in the United States, than anytime since the destruction of the World Trade Center fourteen years ago.


The attack in San Bernardino included a homegrown terrorist, and one who used a flawed Visa process to gain access to America.  Both parties were radicalized several years ago and while one grew up in terrorist strongholds in the Middle East, the other not only grew up in America, he traveled to Middle East nations where he met and married his co-conspirator.

So Trump thinks we should temporarily stop immigrants from those Middle East nations where ISIS has a significant presence, and stop Syrian refugees temporarily while we review the mistakes and flaws in our immigration process, which clearly failed, and fix it.


God what an un-American idea, to stop making mistakes and take time to re-evaluate what we are doing, and then fix the problems.  Most policies need periodic review because of changes in technology, finances, even culture.

The Silent Majority have found a vehicle for expression not available before, Donald Trump.  They also have become far more obvious in their expectations because of the flawed voting registration and political party abuses.  Just look at the collapsing favorable ratings for the president and congress.


Same, is true for the news media, people no longer trust them.

This current Kumbaya moment of all those disparate characters might be another in their long list of misreading the silent majority.


Perhaps the Silent Majority knows everyone wants to destroy Trump's candidacy, not because of the refugee statement, but because there is a far more sinister motive.  Trump's independence from the establishment, the political, party, Wall Street, and News Media establishment that really does control all that happens in America.


The very conspiracies that drove them to seek out Trump, showed the people no longer are controlled by the establishment.  The American public is far smarter than politicians, the media, the bankers, the drug companies, and the media believe.

People are suspicious when the most powerful special interests in America unite to destroy a person exercising his right to run for president, and his right to free speech when he is running.  Make no mistake the uniting of the most privileged special of special interests is for the malicious purpose of destroying Trump so he no longer can bring together the Silent Majority.


Have the politicians and abusers not learned what Lincoln knew, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, but not all of the people all of the time."

People should ask why the unholy alliance of special interests is afraid of Trump.  Is it because he is not one of them?  Is it because he is not afraid of them?  Why is it so important to get rid of him now!



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Friday, June 26, 2015

Supreme Court does what our elected officials cannot do - Stop the cycle of hate and polarization in America

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Thank God for our Constitution and the foresight of our Founding Fathers

Two sweeping decisions by the United State Supreme Court this week may do more to heal the hatred and polarization in America than any action by our elected officials.  With the final rulings by the Supreme Court announced this week, the door is open to a far more peaceful and compassionate United States in the days to come.


By ruling that Americans receiving Obamacare subsidies are protected by our Constitution, and following that up with recognizing that Gays and their right to marriage are protected by the Constitution, the genius of our Founding Fathers once again has withstood the test of time.

The US Constitution was adopted by convention of States on September 17, 1787; and the ratification process was completed, on June 21, 1788.  Nearly 227 years to the day since our Constitution was ratified America proved again to the world that our Founding Fathers envisioned a far more perfect union than the one we started out with and then put in motion laws that would protect us centuries later.


Two of the most incendiary issues of our time have polarized America for most of the past decade and resulted in total stagnation in our federal government.  Health care and Gay rights have been the lightning rod issues of the past few campaigns in terms of social issues and in terms of government responsibilities.

However, after several election cycles it was becoming clear that our federally elected officials did not have the ability to solve them on behalf of the people, and the consequence was a failure of the federal government to solve other unrelated issues in need of immediate resolution.


As debate drug out on both issues, the government ignored many other key concerns like war strategy, terrorism, budgets, infrastructure, fixing health care, cleaning up the banking and finance community, and many others.

Since our elected officials took an oath to uphold the Constitution, now is the time to start doing it.  The Obama health care reform program is not going to go away.  Yes it has flaws, but tell us how you are going to fix it, not just destroy it because it is protected by the Constitution.


The same is true with the Gay ruling on marriage.  Stop trying to deny people Constitutional protection and uphold your oath and the Constitution.  It is a travesty, our elected officials could not sit down and work things out between them, but it is times like this when our Founding Fathers expected politics and politicians to be a roadblock and gave us a Supreme Court to decide on the Constitutionality of issues.

The last time I checked, once elected to the House, Senate, and Presidency, our elected officials are obligated to serve all the people, not just the ones agreeing with them.  We forgot that in the heat of the never-ending political polarization of the Bush and Obama years.


Now responsible leaders and all those candidates for the presidency need to step back, take note of the Constitutional safeguards in place, and start working together to solve our problems rather than be our problems.

Perhaps we should all listen to the words of Jesus Christ in this matter.

King James Bible - Matthew 22:21
They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.


Well it is clear that the marriage license from the government is Caesar's and all citizens still have the right to marry in their church where the rules may be different, so how about we drop the screaming and respect all our rights and everyone's rights under the Constitution.

When will the people who care for everyone, respect everyone's rights, and show compassion and empathy for all get a chance to lead us.  It seems we have lost sight of everything America stands for and we need to get over it.
 

Over 200 years ago, a whole lot of people risked their lives, their fortunes, and their families to take on the greatest empire in the world and fight for freedom.  They won and we are the beneficiaries.  You know, the Constitutional Bill of Rights should have been named the Bill of Rights and Responsibilities because we must do our part to guarantee the freedom of all people in America, not just those with whom we agree.

As for the candidates running for the presidency, instead of tearing down all that is why not tell us how they intend to fix things.  America is a melting pot, the only nation on Earth where 99% of the people are not from America but are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants.


We represent all cultures, all people, all races, and all religions and guarantee freedom and equality to all who respect the rights, freedoms, and equality of all others.  It was 239 years ago when the citizens of the American colonies said a new nation and new form of government were required to protect all the people.

We should honor those people, our Founding Fathers, whose foresight is living proof that such an idealistic and unique nation can exist.  Following are the names of those colonists who risked everything for us by signing the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution.
     

US Constitution

Connecticut
1. William Samuel Johnson
2. Roger Sherman

Delaware
3. George Read
4. Gunning Bedford Jr.
5. John Dickinson
6. Richard Bassett
7. Jacob Broom

Georgia
8. William Few
9. Abraham Baldwin

Maryland
10. James McHenry
11. Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
12. Daniel Carroll

Massachusetts
13. Nathaniel Gorham
14. Rufus King

New Hampshire
15. John Langdon
16. Nicholas Gilman

New Jersey
17. William Livingston
18. David Brearley
19. William Paterson
20. Jonathan Dayton

New York
21. Alexander Hamilton

North Carolina
22. William Blount
23. Richard Dobbs Spaight
24. Hugh Williamson


Pennsylvania
25. Benjamin Franklin
26. Thomas Mifflin
27. Robert Morris
28. George Clymer
29. Thomas FitzSimons
30. Jared Ingersoll
31. James Wilson
32. Gouverneur Morris

South Carolina
33. John Rutledge
34. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
35. Pierce Butler

Virginia
36. George Washington (President and deputy)
37. John Blair
38. James Madison, Jr.


Declaration of Independence

Five delegates were absent:
Generals George Washington
John Sullivan
James Clinton
Christopher Gadsden
Virginia Governor Patrick Henry.

1. John Hancock (Massachusetts)














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