Strongman Trump Returns

 

Democrats lose Senate. Harris wins in VA, MD, Del., NY, NJ, Conn, RI, Mass, NH, Vermont, Ill, Minn, Colo, NM, Wash,Ore, Calif.- 

Reading a book seems a good idea in the wake of the election. My great friend Dave is reading one about Gettysburg. We need to take time to think, tho maybe mediation too. It's challenging. A book I love is The Personal Memoirs of US Grant. He was working in a hardware store when the Civil War began. The North paid dearly to end slavery. Wisconsin was a great contributor to the dead soldier count.

Many historians profess the South fought for more than just slavery. As always - a lot of factors. But it is a facade over a shit pie. Nice icing on a stale cake. As soon as the invading army left, they [the elite, the clerks and the grunts [ white poor]] started to rebuild imaginative new versions of slavery/suppression.

When we grew up, the Civil War was having its 100-year anniversary - the line between a relatively prosperous North and South was drawn by George Wallace. I saw him get a haircut in a barbershop on Racine's Main St. with Secret Service all about.

Wallace went away. Shot by a crazy cat from Milwaukee. No matter the means, we were glad with the end result of Wallace in decline, but his ideas did not go away, and we have been called on to contest the Civil War legacy over and over.

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IMO

the rich right never sleeps

their media became an efficient propaganda machine

people's skills of analysis have ebbed - maybe their thinking energies too - 

as education declines

and as their american dreams stumble

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The Christian conviction is that no human being comes from bad seed — no one is genetically programmed to evil. Neither is any of us lacking a capacity for evil. As Solzhenitsyn wrote:

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart — and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of hearts, there remains… an un-uprooted small corner of evil.

[Gulag Archipelago, vol. 2, “The Ascent”]

Continues.... https://jimandnancyforest.com/2005/04/we-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us/