Day 841 Saturday April 28, 2019
555 Days to the 2020 election and 633 Days to Inauguration Day
It’s been a week since my last screed and it seems like forever. I’ve been busy with a Mayan workshop and then symposium. It’s been refreshing to be away from the maddening madness. I started my re-entry last night where I scrolled through Facebook posts for longer than I’d like to admit. Then I got an email from one of my right wing friends’ buddies who asked the question, “Isn’t there someone better than Trump to represent the right’s values?”
I have to ask, “What are those values?”
I see none. Whatever “they” have claimed to stand for they have proved in the face of Trumpism that they don’t. Tax cuts? Only for the wealthy, we have to pay the rest. Fiscal responsibility? Please. Steve Mnuchin just had to borrow another $1,000,000,000,000.00 to make ends meet for this year, and that goes on top of the $1,000,000,000,000.00 he borrowed last year.
Conservatism as in “conserving out resources”? Once again Trump is letting every oil and gas man drill wherever they want and to throw their sludge in our rivers. Chemicals? Dump in the river, cover them up. Forget about it.
So what are these right’s values?
In a stunning display of the right’s values the courts in Kansas held up a woman’s right to say what goes on with her body. For them individual rights trump some religious nonsense, which has been getting foisted off on the general public under the name of pro-life, which should really be called pro-death and personal destruction, but somehow pro-life sounds better.
The right is really good at putting labels on things, like “right to work.” This little goodie means “We have the right to fire anyone for any reason and there ain’t stink you can do about it.”
Then there’s the old “socialism” yell. As far as I can figure out if there’s a suggestion to help the public it’s socialism. This isn’t my idea. It’s Harry Truman’s.
Well, that’s all for this week. I’ve got to get ready for a workshop on the glyphs of Ek Balam. After four or more years of looking and studying this stuff it’s starting to make sense. Which means I will be able to go on and on and on about them if you ask me.
555 Days to the 2020 election and 633 Days to Inauguration Day
PS Maya at the Lago glyph
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