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But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
2 Timothy 3:1-5

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Tuesday, October 2, 2018

America's Investigate-Gate.

While the Democratic and the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee play out a Kramer vs. Kramer battle for the title of the King of Morality, and while Trump was working on a new NAFTA agreement, another battle ensued among the American people. Should the FBI investigate the claims made by both Dr. Ford and Justice Kavanaugh?

The side that claims to have a monopoly on morality said 'NO!' Justice Kavanaugh had suffered enough injustices from the "fake" allegations being made according to them. Thus, they saw, and still see, no need for the FBI to look into the matter.

Of course there was another reason why conservatives didn't want the FBI involved. It is because their leader, President Trump, has convinced them that, like the Fake News media, the FBI cannot be trusted in this matter. But then again, outside of Trump and his lackeys, who can be trusted?

Certainly, there were other reasons why conservative supporters of Kavanaugh didn't want the FBI to investigate. The reasons center on Ford's inadequate credentials. She's a liberal, she has a go fund me page, she can't remember everything and she didn't present any corroborating evidence--with the exception of passing a polygraph. But most of their objections have nothing to do with the facts and logic that were in her allegations.

In the reality, Republican opponents of Dr Ford object to any further investigation because for a long time, they have felt besieged and persecuted by their nonconservative counterparts. By blocking Trump's nominee, these Republicans feel like they have become the Rodney Dangerfield of political parties--oh how they so quickly forget how they treated President Obama. 


They hear the persecution in the late night monologues. They hear the persecution in the federal court decisions that strike down Trump's executive orders. And then there is the fake new media whenever they report something negative on their orange knight in tarnished armor.

With all of the bad press, they feel alienated. And yet, they don't recognize that the worst of the treatment they receive now is simply a partial payback for how their media darlings, like Rush, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin, have been talking about nonconservatives for decades. 


In other words, before Trump came to power, he had a more than ready audience who would follow him even, according to Trump, if he was to shoot someone on the streets of NYC. Trump bragged about that loyalty and his followers never seemed to have bat an eye. The election of Trump was to be paybacks for all of the infringement that nonconservatives had forced on them while Obama was President.

On the other hand, we have the liberal elite. Their comedians make a living off of the foibles of President Trump and the alienation of conservatives in their audiences. We have other liberals and leftists who can only see the Anti-Christ when they look at conservatives. And we have a Democratic Party that rightly complains about Republican authoritarianism but employs its own authoritarianism in order to keep their own flock in line so that the "right" nominee is coronated the Party's nominee for President. Thus the election came down to the only person Trump could defeat vs the only person Hillary could defeat and it didn't end in a tie.

And the current divide we have in our nation is even more magnified in the blogs. For there are blog participants from all ideologies who want a real discussion vs those from all ideologies who say anything to either persuade people or piss them off. And that just doesn't exist in the debate regarding whether the FBI should investigate Ford and Kavanaugh, it is present in many other discussions.

In the end, why should the nation's parent figures, the elected officials, want to stay together when their kids can't stand each other? And the reason why the kids are so angrily pointing fingers at each other is because they have forgotten what they look like in a non-magic mirror.

In the end, we are hurting, with 'hurting' not being my first choice of words, ourselves by blindly following our two-party system. This political and ideological tribalism is causing us to devour each other and ourselves. And then there is the authoritarianism from all sides. While trying to convince their followers that they, our two major political parties, are vanguards for all that is good and honorable, they are merely acting as proxies for those with wealth and power. And we don't have enough independence of thought to even see what they are doing let alone to leave both political parties. 


Our democratic ship has struck too many icebergs of our own making and is sinking. So it isn't our ship that has failed us, we have failed it; we have failed democracy. But we have always failed it, it is that more of the chickens are coming home to roost. And our past and present treatment of the marginalized, such as people of color, the LGBT community, the poor, and others should have been our first and convincing clue that we are the ones who have failed ourselves. We are sinking and because of our disregard for outsiders, there is no one there to listen to our cries for help.









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