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by Chef Sharon Davies-Tight

‘The Biggest Threat to Our Democracy Is Indifference.’ Barack Obama Kicks off Midterm Campaigning

HWH COMMENT:

Re:“The biggest threat to our democracy is indifference” said by Obama gearing up for campaigning for mid-term elections on his quest to save American democracy.

One thing to be sure about the world today, especially in America, there is no indifference – not from anyone nor any sector.

People from all walks hold strong views about everything.

Protests are more common throughout the land than ever. Social media is lit with power hungry reactionaries, wanting to change your thought process into theirs – again from all walks.

Americans are not standing still – no matter their agendas.

Words used in the past to stir a nation (such as ‘indifference’) are no longer useful.

Obama acts desperate to be president again, like Bill Clinton did. Once you have that power you never want to let it go. So hey, use it in a new, better way, not a way that didn’t work. Nobody is indifferent. Not now.

The biggest threat to democracy is people in authority using fear tactics to tell the populace how to vote. How about we hold those who campaign for an agenda to the same standards we demand of Donald Trump? It looks to me like nobody is playing by their own rules.

Politicians want Trump to solve all the problems they didn’t solve or currently can’t solve. So, they lay all the blame at his doorstep instead of their own. Rather than work with him, to change what they couldn’t or won’t, they attack and resist for the sake of resisting, till they get into office and everybody elected forgets what they promised to do to get that vote. The democrats are playing the same resist and wait till the next elections game that the republicans did.

What’s new and better about that strategy? Nothing. It’s more of the same. That’s why voter turnout is low, and has been for a long time. It’s not because of apathy on the part of the voters, it’s because of slow moving politicians who delay making decisions that will provoke change.

Tactical Abuse is the new strategy to produce that change. Hit them over their heads till they cave to your way is the lazy person’s game plan to change the world. That methodology used to be called the end justifies the means, or ‘whatever it takes’ as long as it gets done is worth the price of life and limb.

Whoa.

Has planet earth been invaded by a silent war organism that strips the brain of all logic and common sense and decency, so it can occupy the minds of humans for the purpose of taking over the planet?

It sure looks, walks and sounds it to me.

Not all democrats are worthy of the office they seek. Not all republicans are worthy of the office they seek. Yet each side pushes all their candidates down your throats till you choke and end up voting for no one.

Everybody knows that no matter who you vote for, not much is going to change, regardless of the party that lands the coveted seats.

Why did Obama promise Israel that he would move the American embassy to Jerusalem? To get the Jew vote he lied.

Source: ‘The Biggest Threat to Our Democracy Is Indifference.’ Barack Obama Kicks off Midterm Campaigning

 

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by Chef Sharon Davies-Tight

THE RESISTANCE – a joke or a tragedy

Why is there a resistance movement in the United States? Resistance to what? Donald Trump? Republicans? Anybody who wants to work with Donald Trump, anybody who supports Donald Trump? Resistance to all white people, crackers, the white man, racists? Old white people? All men? All rich white people? How about rich brown or black people? Resistance to them too?

Probably because there are so many people who immigrated to the USA from countries where there was a resistance movement already in play – where they lived either under a dictatorship or in poverty, this whole notion of resistance gained traction. When they immigrated to the United States, they brought their political movements with them – immigrants largely do that – that’s all they know. There was a void in democratic leadership after Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election to Donald Trump, and other democratic leaders were too incapacitated by the loss to fill that void.

Who would believe that the very people who were a part of exporting the USA system of democracy to other nations would be attempting to overthrow the legally and democratically elected leader of the United States? I guess we’ve been overthrowing dictators for so long around the world, that we caught that ‘overthrow the dictator’ bug.

We did it to others – many others – now we’re doing it to ourselves. The world is laughing. Maybe they’ll be crying before long. Destabilize the USA and the world economy collapses. This won’t be a World War III. It will be much worse.

Efforts to derail, undermine, take down a sitting president who was legally elected through the democratic process destabilizes a nation, making that nation vulnerable to corruption and attack from within and from outside its borders.

So you’ll stop the coup attempt if President Trump does what you want him to do? If he gets on board with your personal agenda, throws away all the laws, all the history, all the white culture (whatever that is), start all over and let you (the black and brown people) take charge? And you’ll let him go to some obscure country in South America to live out the remainder of his days?

That’s extortion, blackmail, terrorism and treason.

So this is a take over? A coup. In the United States? See what happens when you bring your ‘resistance to everything’ culture with you to a new country? You turn it into the same country that you ran from.

 

by Chef Sharon Davies-Tight

BIG ON COMPLAINTS SHORT ON SOLUTIONS

‘The majority rules’ doesn’t mean the majority is right. All systems are flawed. Democracy can satisfy fifty-one percent of the people, which leaves forty-nine percent disgruntled. Out of that fifty-one percent, people still may not be satisfied within that group, since the final choice between two candidates often results in choosing the lesser of two unsuitable candidates.

That’s the price of democracy.  A raise of hands. The yeas and nays. How many for? How many against? That’s our system.

Democracy is the best system to date that we as American Missionaries work hard to export to other countries many times at the cost of life, limb and peace of mind. Democracy is the reason many immigrants risk, life, limb and peace of mind to come to America to take part in the democratic way of life, even when the outcome is not always right, and not always in their favor.

We have term limits, which is designed to fix the mistakes we as voters make. Vote them in, we don’t like their performance, vote them out.

Instead of debunking the system that is not always right, develop a better system. It’s easy to complain absent a solution.

The world is big on complaints and short on solutions.

Be big on solutions.

Our best solutions in our minds always end up in destruction mode. We think the destruction method is expedient. We’re loud, violent, won’t let up till the so and so elected official is gone, we get louder and more forceful, all-consuming of our time and energy, inviting others to the fight, then threaten if they don’t join, all the while sure, absolutely sure, that this is the only way, by legal or any other means, to destroy this elected official, make stuff up, make the populace angry as hell, shout over everybody else, put on the best all-out psycho performance to show how crazy you can really get if you don’t have your way and get this person booted out of office, you will literally blow up the planet and everything on it, knowing full well that just before you push the button or pull the switch this person will leave on their own volition and you can claim victory over running somebody out of office, the one you didn’t want, rather than wait the customary amount of time to vote out this elected official and vote in the one everybody supposedly really wants.

Who might that be? Remember Bashar Hafez al-Assad of Syria. A half million people dead, a country in ruin, a global catastrophe and he’s still standing.

Find a better way by working with what you have, until such time you can vote the people you don’t like out, or change the system requiring a larger majority than fifty-one percent, which would satisfy, at least theoretically, a greater number of voters.

America is always split fifty-fifty or thereabouts. If the bar is raised, the people will fall into line with the new requirement. The country will become sixty-one to fifty-nine. That sounds like too much of a dictatorship. Maybe we’ll all get stuck in our little box and nothing will ever get solved. That’s where we are now – stuck in our little box.

Our political system may as well be a flip of the coin with a fifty-fifty, one point over the line wins, way of deciding who rules. We’re always hearing on the news that the country is equally divided. Then change the divide and see what happens. Or not. If we can never reach more than just over the line of fifty percent in agreement or against, then we must accept our fate of always being pretty much equally divided – meaning always at odds with whatever the outcome is.

Perhaps we need to stop treating our politics like a sport, whereby there are two teams with fans on either side cheering for their team to win.

We need to find a way to satisfy more people, and stop being disgruntled just because you relish the devilish role, the feeling of adrenaline pumping blood faster than need be through your over-stretched veins, the power to spew whatever comes out must be right, cause it’s coming from you, mentality that being disgruntled provides you. It’s no fun being satisfied. You like to fight and as long as it isn’t you getting hurt, then you’ll work your mouth off to destroy the target of the day.

Develop another system, find a different way, work on a new solution to an old problem. “If you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the problem” is not a solution. It’s a lazy person’s way of passing the responsibility onto anybody they say it to. You don’t need any more bumper sticker sayings. You need real thinking, problem-solving people.

Raise the bar to sixty-one percent majority across the board. Redefine majority within a political context. That way you won’t always have half the people disgruntled. At least sixty-one percent will be satisfied.

But oh no, the minority wants to rule. Then make a better case for your plan being the plan that works for everyone – and it will become the majority. Just telling people it will work for everyone isn’t enough. Why should anyone believe you?

Too much work. I’d rather roll the dice.

Then you gambled and won, or you gambled and lost.

Don’t cry to me.