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Knowledge Conquers Fear

Dear Editors:

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

People are being persuaded to vote for Republicans due to lies which create fear. If they don’t vote for Republicans, the grip of fear makes them uncomfortable to vote at all, so the Republicans win. The Republicans. The ones who gave us a SCOTUS which did not do justice, but dictated Citizens United upon us so Republicans can line their pockets with corporate PAC money. Democrats who don’t take such money are defeated by the fear factor of lies and slander of those opposed to Republicans. Republicans who lead the charge as “sheep in wolves clothing” and making everyone believe the government is at fault. The government is NOT at fault because, today, it is controlled by corporate PAC money emanating from lovers of money, the leaders of the “wolves in sheep’s clothing.” The Republicans calling themselves conservative do not agree with what this 18th-Century conservative said. They are not conservatives because true conservatives don’t want to invoke what existed in the past with regard to bigotry against race, religion, sexual identity. A true conservative looks at history and wants to LEARN from history because knowledge is more power than money because it also helps to eliminate the fear factor caused by liars and slanderers.

A bumper sticker incorrectly identifies with what Reagan said in 1981.  That government is the problem.  Wrong.  And I have evidence, proof and facts which demonstrate it is wrong.  Today, government is not the problem. For us “sheep-like” ones, too many are being mesmerized as it is. The corporate oligarchy created by supply-side Reaganomics and Alito and Scalia on the SCOTUS are the real problems.  They have destroyed capitalist competition, especially that from small businesses which built this nation. They line the pockets of Republicans with corporate PAC money, while Democrats attempt to win without such money.  The problem is NOT a government full of wolves, but a government controlled by corporate PAC money and people who are wolves in sheep’s clothing who put like type people – wolves in sheep’s clothing – into Congress.  Lovers of money, an evil aspect, have too much control. 

A bumper sticker identifying “wolves” with government is wrong.  With all due respect to those who are mesmerized by such a thing.  The bumper sticker should read, “the sheep are being controlled with false information by the corporate/business oligarchy consisting of sheep in wolves clothing.” 

Such wolves are handing out corporate PAC money to support their pitiful personal interests only.  They do this while taking money from the “sheep-like” who have invested for long-term capitalist investments in the form of pooled resources such as pensions, Social Security and Medicare. 

The bumper sticker about wolves and government is created by the lovers of money who mesmerize sheep-like ones into thinking the wrong people are eating their lunch and perhaps eating the sheep, too. 

Note the quote from Edmund Burke, a conservative from about two centuries ago. Here is a quote from an 18th-Century CONSERVATIVE.

Knowledge conquers fear.

Professor Douglas Willet Cornwell (Retired)

Newark Valley, NY

bibsinger@gmail.com

———————————“Love your neighbor as yourself.” “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” “The problems of the world are not that some people love in a different way. The problems are that so many people don’t know how to love at all (CGA, 1970).” A Puritan is someone in fear that someone, somewhere, is having a good time. “Liberty and justice for all [not priorities on individual and selfish rights].” “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”  “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union [and overall wealth of American society]…” 
​Benjamin Franklin: “​Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are ​affected.” Stacey Abrams: “Compromise about actions, but not about values.”  Oscar Wilde: “​​​I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”  Oscar Wilde: “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Benjamin Franklin: “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”  Whoopi Goldberg: “To handle this COVID-19 pandemic effectively, we all need to get on the same page.”  Note: To be clear, I do not like being patronized. I do not express my disdain over what happens to my fellow humans just for my own sake and to pursue favors and handouts. I do it in order to gain R – E – S – P – E – C – T for me and for millions of other Americans of any race, ethnicity, religious belief, or sex and sexual identity who try to walk in integrity as they attempt to achieve, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  PERIOD.  One nation under God [our Creator] with liberty and justice for all.

Common folk just accepting what things are and sitting on butted to not do or say anything to make things better. Upset the apple cart, but do it without making the good apples rotten. Like lousy Republicans and Fo white racists,  posing falsely as if they are knowledgeable Republicans, are  slandering and smearing good Democrats as if all Democrats are bad. 

Fact. Capitalist competition helps keep prices down. 

President Joe Biden and the Democrats are not responsible for higher prices and inflation. Supply-side Reaganomics with manure ideas about trickle-down money based on principles from the Asian-indian caste system to create a class of “untouchables” … Such principles pushed to create a lousy oligarchic dictatorship consisting of big corporations and their PACs, are responsible.

With this being said, it was Reagan and then the Alito-Scalia lousy justice which created a Mafia-style centralized Machiavellian-style corporate environment which pushes life upon society based only on their ideas of an ancient Roman Empire which was brutal and barbaric and making stupid claims that those at the top have divine rights. They base these divine rights on the worship the money god. 

They put forth money to elect bad people like Republican Molinaro and others who make commercials of lies and slander of good Democrats who don’t take money from corporate PACs. Furthermore, if such Democrats STOLE political signs of their opponents, they would make such loud noises about it. But if Republican Mafia goons take signs of opponents, then, oh, well… too bad, too bad. Such lousy Republicans might stalk their opponents and put cameras near signs and then think their opponents are too wimpy by not doing the same. But. If lousy Repugnicans get caught, they hide it, as did Rick the Prick Scott of Florida did when stealing from Medicare. Or when Rick the Prick claimed there was not enough money to pay for the train system approved by voters, but somehow was able to find money to build additional super highways and stadiums for millionaire players. 

Now back to the lousy lies being told about good people in the Democratic Party, while Reagan and his friends at companies like GE, pushed for the oligarchy dictatorship with supply-side economics. When there was inflation under Reagan, perhaps things were better, but unemployment was worse than now. 

Why might things have been better, so as to make it easier to live with? It was due to the fact that CEOS like Jack if GE pulled in lower salaries and common folk had more liveable wages. Facts are there.

In those years when inflation happened, there were more small businesses to provide the capitalist competition, thus keeping prices lower or the business would fail. More small farmers. More small businesses. Today, large corporations make false claims about how much lower prices are, if products are sold in high volume, but abandoning the service once provided by small businesses at a lower cost. These corporate giants are nothing but snake-oil salespeople.

Biden works to get the economy going, but faces supply-side economics people and thieves of privatization efforts like Rick the Prick, who are merely trying to hide the ones like Reaganomics advocates who are the ones responsible for our problems today. They become offensive, trying to push in the media all things which will tarnish Democrats and smearing good people with dirt. This way, they can continue to fill their coffers, moaning and complaining about “profits”  and getting people upset about a false sense of what capitalism truly is.

Thank you, President Biden, for having the proactive foresight to attempt to build industries such as the semiconductor producers and thus protect America from a potential future threat which might develop if we don’t build them up and stimulate the overall economy. This is called economic stimulus. 

And if someone can only choose to shoot holes in what I say, I truly pity you for being like a Repugnican. White supremacists, to feel better about their lack of confidence, chose to call Democrats, “democrats.” The real stupid ones are such bigots. For they lack so much self-esteem, all they know how to do us point fingers. My Republican mom said, if you din’t have anything good to say about a stupid person, then don’t say anything at all. Interesting. Because of a recent experience and someone claiming negative things, in a false way, about Democrats, I said nothing.  

Yes indeed. And this describes Republicans who think they are above the law will slander and smear others, Democrats, particularly, but also those in their own political party who don’t go along with their favorite corporate PACs (I.e., big pharma) and dig up dirt on such people and expand the dirt beyond belief (I.e., making a mountain out of a mole hill). For example. A Republican who supported efforts to regulate pricing of prescriptions suddenly is brought forth with accusations beyond belief and resigns. Fear created by Mafioso style Republicans and people like Tucker Carlson.

Tucker Carlson should resign and/or be fired from Fox because he is nothing but a LGBTQ bigot hiding his bigotry behind a smoke screen. Usually people like that are repressed gay and need to have their heads examined for being sicko. Expose people like Lindsay Graham, too, for who he really is. Wake up America and speak out against such nasty vicious people like Tucker Carlson. Wake up America and speak out for ALL human beings, not just for the fascist bigots who use corporate PACs to work to control this nation, as Hitler and the Nazis did in Germany. Wake up America and stop being frightened by these lousy sickos like Tucker Carlson. 🙂

The GD rat vandal on my computer sabotaged all my work on Excel last night, making the formulas unable to recognize numeric digits when a statement like D17<=0. The saboteurs also rid me of all my formats. I have tried putting them back, but it disrupts my work during this day. Does anybody care? Nah! Just put up. How am I supposed to put up with this. If someone wishes I back down and shut my mouth in complaints of the GD bastard vicious Republicans who took over the House of Representatives with lies, slamming of opponents with slander and libel, lies, lies, lies, unwilling to discuss the issues with opponents, then pocketing money from corporate PACs who wish to take away what the common folk have – and boy have the GD Republicans of Florida already done that to me. How many times do I have to put up with the evil king of Republicans who is putting this forth, as was done with Job. GOD DOES NOT PUT US TO THE TEST. It is proven by what happened to Job. It was proven by what happened to Jesus in the dessert before his baptism by John the Baptist. It is the evil greedy, vicious, selfish lovers and worshipers of money who put us to a test, so we back down. I will not back down from such evil vicious worshipers of money – claiming they the divine righteousness reserved only for the GOD / Deity who cares for all his children. I will not back down from the fools who are hypocrites in the common folk then go and vote like a bunch of bull manure artists for Republicans, ruining the gains the common folk have made.

Someone ruined my files this morning. Someone removed the PIN I use to sign into my computer. That was done days ago. Someone ruined my all-in-1 printer settings so I cannot reset them. When I checked with HP, I got treated like I was manure – by people from Asia – India and the Philippines. Treated like I was manure while they were the manure. Those common folk who gave away our rights to freaking lousy Republicans are stupid and unwilling to listen and learn. Instead, the freaking manure idiots are more willing to just look the other way while good people get tarnished with, and vote AGAINST their own needs.

I will not shut up. I want these things fixed in our lives. There are only so many times I am able to keep overcoming obstacles. But these BASTARD SOBs doing this, while using corporate PAC money to put Republicans into Congress while defeating good folk who DON’T TAKE MONEY FROM THE CORPORATE PACs. What a bunch of idiots perhaps I am living with these days.

Fact. My computer has been sabotaged. Perhaps it is someone posing as Microsoft who did the monthly update of my Windows? If so, WHO IS IT? SHOW YOUR LOUSY FREAKING FACE TO THE WORLD AND STOP HIDING YOUR HYPOCRISY AND DEFENSE OF VIOLENCE< MURDER, GUNS – while censoring information about LGBTQ, racial history, and the beauty in this world, whether it be nudity, sex, or porn. With your lousy egomaniac greed and Machiavellian quest for accumulating all the money so as to put down those of us who might see nothing wrong with puritanical anti-prurient ways – and enforce guns and violence on us – dictate to us what YOU want by attempting to destroy good people. Be put in h-e-double-hockey-sticks and never come out – locked there forever. You don’t deserve life, you smiling anti-Christs.

This is terrible to be made to feel helpless by ruining a Microsoft program and my data, what I pay for to Microsoft and expect something better. Nickel and dime us you bastards and you will receive what is coming to you – put in h-e-double-hockey-sticks forever, as with some in-laws I once had – from New Jersey.

The GD rat vandal on my computer sabotaged all my work on Excel last night, making the formulas unable to recognize numeric digits when a statement like D17<=0. The saboteurs also rid me of all my formats. I have tried putting them back, but it disrupts my work during this day. Does anybody care? Nah! Just put up. How am I supposed to put up with this. If someone wishes I back down and shut my mouth in complaints of the GD bastard vicious Republicans who took over the House of Representatives with lies, slamming of opponents with slander and libel, lies, lies, lies, unwilling to discuss the issues with opponents, then pocketing money from corporate PACs who wish to take away what the common folk have – and boy have the GD Republicans of Florida already done that to me. How many times do I have to put up with the evil king of Republicans who is putting this forth, as was done with Job. GOD DOES NOT PUT US TO THE TEST. It is proven by what happened to Job. It was proven by what happened to Jesus in the dessert before his baptism by John the Baptist. It is the evil greedy, vicious, selfish lovers and worshipers of money who put us to a test, so we back down. I will not back down from such evil vicious worshipers of money – claiming they the divine righteousness reserved only for the GOD / Deity who cares for all his children. I will not back down from the fools who are hypocrites in the common folk then go and vote like a bunch of bull manure artists for Republicans, ruining the gains the common folk have made.

Someone ruined my files this morning. Someone removed the PIN I use to sign into my computer. That was done days ago. Someone ruined my all-in-1 printer settings so I cannot reset them. When I checked with HP, I got treated like I was manure – by people from Asia – India and the Philippines. Treated like I was manure while they were the manure. Those common folk who gave away our rights to freaking lousy Republicans are stupid and unwilling to listen and learn. Instead, the freaking manure idiots are more willing to just look the other way while good people get tarnished with, and vote AGAINST their own needs.

I will not shut up. I want these things fixed in our lives. There are only so many times I am able to keep overcoming obstacles. But these BASTARD SOBs doing this, while using corporate PAC money to put Republicans into Congress while defeating good folk who DON’T TAKE MONEY FROM THE CORPORATE PACs. What a bunch of idiots perhaps I am living with these days.

Fact. My computer has been sabotaged. Perhaps it is someone posing as Microsoft who did the monthly update of my Windows? If so, WHO IS IT? SHOW YOUR LOUSY FREAKING FACE TO THE WORLD AND STOP HIDING YOUR HYPOCRISY AND DEFENSE OF VIOLENCE< MURDER, GUNS – while censoring information about LGBTQ, racial history, and the beauty in this world, whether it be nudity, sex, or porn. With your lousy egomaniac greed and Machiavellian quest for accumulating all the money so as to put down those of us who might see nothing wrong with puritanical anti-prurient ways – and enforce guns and violence on us – dictate to us what YOU want by attempting to destroy good people. Be put in h-e-double-hockey-sticks and never come out – locked there forever. You don’t deserve life, you smiling anti-Christs.

This is terrible to be made to feel helpless by ruining a Microsoft program and my data, what I pay for to Microsoft and expect something better. Nickel and dime us you bastards and you will receive what is coming to you – put in h-e-double-hockey-sticks forever, as with some in-laws I once had – from New Jersey.

Libertarians are anarchists. Anarchists tried to murder Teddy Roosevelt because he proposed true capitalism of supply and demand by using the government as the third party.

A recent speech by libertarian Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky revealed something. He quoted Davey Crockett in order to validate the stupid ways of libertarians and anarchists. Interesting because I recall a TV series about Davey Crockett in the 1950s. Boys wore coonskin hats to mimic Davey Crockett.

Lyrics of the theme song:

Born on a mountain top in Tennessee,
Greenest state in the land of the free.
Raised in the woods so’s he knew every tree,
Killed him a bear when he was only three.

source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/davycrockettlyrics.html

Is this true that Crockett shot a bear at age three? I have no idea.

Continuing, the song goes like this:

Davy, Davy Crockett King of the Wild Frontier.

source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/davycrockettlyrics.html

“King of the Wild Frontier.” Perhaps Crockett was an important part of the Wild Frontier. In the early 19th Century. Libertarians and anarchists are still living in a fantasy world that the “frontier” still exists today. I have news for them. In the 21st Century, most of the Frontier known to people like Davey Crockett is gone. Rand Paul lives in a fantasy world.

First of all, it is appropriate for a young boy living in the wild frontier to shoot a bear. They are dangerous to human beings. But what if Davey Crockett had a NRA-validated automatic weapon to kill the bear? I know hunters today who think such a thing is ridiculous. But people like fantasy-world Rand Paul thinks it’s ok. Joe Biden does not and I support Joe Biden.

Survival of the fittest means human survival in the midst of ferocious animals like bears. It does not mean we act like selfish individuals and shoot other human beings, especially with domestic terrorism. We should not have a stupid Jeb Bush promoted law in Florida called, “stand your ground.” Stand your ground is for cowards.

Then there is the Ukraine with a leader and people who don’t want a vicious man named Putin attacking their people. Rand Paul does not want to support Ukraine monetarily, but sure does not mind when members of Congress pocket money from big corporate PACs so as to remain seated in the U.S. Senate (or House of Representatives).

I think we need to look at the realities of today’s life, not live in the fantasy world with wishful thinking that we can live like Davey Crockett, as Rand Paul suggests. Oh, I see! The word “community of people” is associated with communism,, perhaps to Rand Paul and the libertarians? The libertarians remove our freedom of small business COMMUNITIES with destructive big Monopoly players who get their strength for a centralized supply-side Reaganomics from Reagan’s deregulation / privatization efforts. These vicious ones of business pocket the money they take after removing benefits to employees and we have watched an astronomical high growth of salary to the top stockholders and CEOs of companies, since the days of Reagan. With mergers and acquisitions, they remove small stockholders who are employees of a company. You don’t believe me? I have evidence from my own experiences and books like Eileen Schultz’s Retirement Heist. Plus there is more evidence. This is not just my opinion. It is commentary designed to bring to action those who will make changes and put us back to normal business with small businesses which were once the backbone of this nation.

And Rand Paul and others sure do know how to manipulate things so that the least densely populated states can have more control and can un-do what the more densely populated states have accomplished in the USA. In other words, they are living in their fantasy world about the “wild frontier” as being the main part of this nation. And then, Donald Trump tries to bring down the national park system which helps CONSERVE wildlands in the USA.

What a shame people like me cannot be given a huge amount of time to speak to the U.S. Senate. Instead, we are told to shorten what we write.

Libertarians are anarchists. Anarchists tried to murder Teddy Roosevelt because he proposed true capitalism of supply and demand by using the government as the third party.

A recent speech by libertarian Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky revealed something. He quoted Davey Crockett in order to validate the stupid ways of libertarians and anarchists. Interesting because I recall a TV series about Davey Crockett in the 1950s. Boys wore coonskin hats to mimic Davey Crockett.

Lyrics of the theme song:

Born on a mountain top in Tennessee,
Greenest state in the land of the free.
Raised in the woods so’s he knew every tree,
Killed him a bear when he was only three.

source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/davycrockettlyrics.html

Is this true that Crockett shot a bear at age three? I have no idea.

Continuing, the song goes like this:

Davy, Davy Crockett King of the Wild Frontier.

source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/davycrockettlyrics.html

“King of the Wild Frontier.” Perhaps Crockett was an important part of the Wild Frontier. In the early 19th Century. Libertarians and anarchists are still living in a fantasy world that the “frontier” still exists today. I have news for them. In the 21st Century, most of the Frontier known to people like Davey Crockett is gone. Rand Paul lives in a fantasy world.

First of all, it is appropriate for a young boy living in the wild frontier to shoot a bear. They are dangerous to human beings. But what if Davey Crockett had a NRA-validated automatic weapon to kill the bear? I know hunters today who think such a thing is ridiculous. But people like fantasy-world Rand Paul thinks it’s ok. Joe Biden does not and I support Joe Biden.

Survival of the fittest means human survival in the midst of ferocious animals like bears. It does not mean we act like selfish individuals and shoot other human beings, especially with domestic terrorism. We should not have a stupid Jeb Bush promoted law in Florida called, “stand your ground.” Stand your ground is for cowards.

Then there is the Ukraine with a leader and people who don’t want a vicious man named Putin attacking their people. Rand Paul does not want to support Ukraine monetarily, but sure does not mind when members of Congress pocket money from big corporate PACs so as to remain seated in the U.S. Senate (or House of Representatives).

I think we need to look at the realities of today’s life, not live in the fantasy world with wishful thinking that we can live like Davey Crockett, as Rand Paul suggests. Oh, I see! The word “community of people” is associated with communism,, perhaps to Rand Paul and the libertarians? The libertarians remove our freedom of small business COMMUNITIES with destructive big Monopoly players who get their strength for a centralized supply-side Reaganomics from Reagan’s deregulation / privatization efforts. These vicious ones of business pocket the money they take after removing benefits to employees and we have watched an astronomical high growth of salary to the top stockholders and CEOs of companies, since the days of Reagan. With mergers and acquisitions, they remove small stockholders who are employees of a company. You don’t believe me? I have evidence from my own experiences and books like Eileen Schultz’s Retirement Heist. Plus there is more evidence. This is not just my opinion. It is commentary designed to bring to action those who will make changes and put us back to normal business with small businesses which were once the backbone of this nation.

And Rand Paul and others sure do know how to manipulate things so that the least densely populated states can have more control and can un-do what the more densely populated states have accomplished in the USA. In other words, they are living in their fantasy world about the “wild frontier” as being the main part of this nation. And then, Donald Trump tries to bring down the national park system which helps CONSERVE wildlands in the USA.

What a shame people like me cannot be given a huge amount of time to speak to the U.S. Senate. Instead, we are told to shorten what we write.

Religion into Science?

Dear Editors:

One problem with religion and creationism becoming a science.  Those who do so think they are god with divine rights to shoot anyone who disagrees.  From the time of the Roman Catholics executing Huguenots, Jews, and Cathars, to the 20th Century fascist attitudes of Hitler, Mussolini, and others, we have witnessed such events from those who think they are god. Even the Romans did so, thinking that men were gods.  And the communists?  Thinking that “religion” was atheism and making humans divine because of the belief there is no god. 

In more recent years, what about those who are vigilante mobs, validated by some religious beliefs, thinking they can lynch people of color?  Or what about people who believe they should act like “god” and kill abortion doctors or gay folk, in the name of some god – a god of evil and vicious attitudes. 

Religion and science can coexist.  There are many beliefs, from creationism to intelligent design, and so forth.  No one should force their own belief upon others because we live in a nation with freedom of religion and religious beliefs.  Such freedoms and a secular nation with various religious beliefs has made this nation great. 

Dear Editors:

While your assessment of a movement by rural folks to the right wing is a good assessment, I have to ask what people are going to do to stop this?Just sit by and let it fly?

People in Tioga County have been controlled by the Republican Party.  They complain and try to put the blame on Democrats.  Why?

One person thought he was being really smooth by calling Democrats “dumocrats.” 

Yet, if one asks people why the blame on Democrats, there is no real reason and one finds out people are finding a strong and pervasive groupthink.  A groupthink which needs to be stopped.

When pessimism strikes about this area being impoverished, I have to ask why? After all, the responsibility lies with the local Republican Party and only fools would reach out to blame others in Albany.  Let me tell you about the complaints many of us had in a Democrat-majority county in Florida about the Republicans in Tallahassee which have controlled that state with one party, like a communist state, for 20 years or more.  Was that all this Republican-turned-Democrat did but to only do the blame game on the Repugnicans in Tallahassee?  No.  We came together at the local level to do what was needed to be done to solve our problems. 

Ask someone why they don’t like Nancy Pelosi and they usually don’t have an answer because they are like a bunch of lemmings being led off a cliff. 

To continue to vote for Republicans and not be able to differentiate right from wrong is horrific.  Slander by Molinaro as he tried to use scare tactics to get people to vote against Josh Riley or else be so scared they don’t go in and vote at all.  I observed that same thing happening in Florida, over and over and over again. 

When people complain and then go and vote Republican, they are mentally ill.  For they don’t get it.  They don’t realize that to do the same thing over and over and over again, expecting different results, is a mental illness. 

For me, I judge the candidates according to telling the truth and not just slandering opponents.  I see this more in the Democratic Party.  In fact, Josh Riley’s commercials merely told of his accomplishments.  Molinaro refused to debate issues with Riley and put commercials forth with slandering of Riley.  But when I see what is being put forth by a lousy leadership in the Republican Party, I cringe and look for something better.  That ain’t the Republican Party with fools who are mentally ill voting for the same thing over and over again.

I was once a Republican.  My family line was Republican, back to the years following the Civil War.  But in Florida, I had the rug pulled out from beneath me, several times, by greedy, snotty, vicious Republicans.  Note I call them Repugnicans.  It was the Democrats who helped give me opportunities to move on.  So when people stupidly put down Pelosi or call Democrats, “dumocrats,” I am insulted.  Why?  Because I have an appreciation for those who helped provide opportunities, not handouts, for me.  In the cases when the rug was pulled out from beneath me, I often thought about how, when times are tough, the tough get going. 

I see too many people in rural America who have no idea as to how to meet the challenges when the rugs get pulled out from beneath them. They don’t know how to be tough  and get going in order to solve our problems by considering the best proven practices. And being tough does not mean a proclamation of being “god” and using a gun or violence.  They just sit with a mindset for “that was how we always have done it.” 

That mindset does not work, so get tough and find something else.  Being reactionaries means just let the chips fall where they may, rather than being proactive for the future. 

Examples of local people who were more proactive are two very fine gentlemen:  George F. Johnson and Thomas J. Watson. These two plus many others, too.

A white racist bigot said to me, in opposition to what I write to light fires to get people moving to move forward, said to me:  “get a grip.”  I have a “grip.” That “grip” is on standing firm in my humanity convictions (i.e., human justice, human equality, human communities, etc.) and finding the best practices, not ideology, to solve our problems.    

My writing is more important than a letter to the editor and restricted to a certain length.  My writing falls in the op-ed or commentary “My Turn” category.  My writings have been curtailed since Trump took over the Republican – no REPUGNICAN – Party.  An example of fascism in America for which voters should be turning away from such turmoil and differentiate right from wrong.