The golden rule to me: is the one from the Torah. Not the due unto others version – it really is simple: That which is hurtful to you, don’t do to others. So I get that’s negative and such but we seem to have shifted so much to defining what is good for others lets just focus on what isn’t good. And bullying, focusing on things that restrict, scare, hurt and subdue seems to be the way. We have defined what is the will of the lord as the law of the land, despite that being the opposite of what we started this country with. We have defined the Republican Party as fear and focus on economic fantasies – pulling in people who have no idea how this all works. So this is another year where I just don’t love my options. Ever since 2016 where I had no choice but to vote for Hillary Clinton and yet we still had a nightmare of a situation where a president who I didn’t trust or consider to be a good human. And that matters.
So I won’t say who I voted for this year but I will say that I didn’t like my choices. The fear of congress going to the crazies that now represent the Republican Party is real. Gone are the days of John McCaine and Mitt Romney – where the focus was on fiscal conservative policy and real definition of what could be libertarian social issues to downright fundamentalist Christian conservative policy. It alarms me how these people demonize Islam because of the fundamentalists there but ignore what is going on it our country with white supremacy and demonizing all others (including Jews, Black People, Asians and others). It’s in code – but lately it is our right there. I’ve seen political ads that express concern that there is an attack on white america – omg
Anyway perhaps some day there will again be a place for me in the GOP but for now I hold my nose and vote – hoping that we don’t spend our way into oblivion. It hurts me the most to lose people close to me with these views – on both sides. I cannot believe how the ends justifies the means – with the means being pulling in truly terrible people. The means being suppressing the weak and focusing on cowboy tactics – with the Wild West in vogue and the way to happiness in broken liberalism that isn’t liberal or libertarian at all. The best choice is a wonderful old man who is trying to bridge the gap at the helm but stuck in the past. The big looming threat is the leader of the GOP who most people just don’t see him putting in place ways to consolidate power in the federal government while all the time saying he isn’t. It is crazy really – all focus on one thing, with one to one marketing – the one thing that matters to you but accumulates to one bad man in charge. Breaks my heart.
I’ll stop now – perhaps I shouldn’t share these thoughts and they really are vague for that reason. But I guess the days of the economic fiscal conservative and liberal free science based thinking are gone. With an understanding that Capitalism is king but not perfect and at times we need to build from the middle without hindering the top. To offer programs for the people who need it that give them the power and dignity to get out from under. It is possible.