Wednesday, January 31, 2018

It is wrong to call it a failure of politics, it is far more than that.

It is a matter of competency and priorities set to unite the country. It is far more than simply political divisions.

There is a huge cultural divide the Republicans are trying to instil in the country and to be honest it started with "W" and his "Holy Society." I consider this a very dangerous time for the country and it is very worrisome. I see the gap between the rich and the poor widening and with that comes a "so-called morality" that victimizes the Poor and the Working Poor. It was most readily seen with the reference to the adoption that was supposed to be a humanitarian effort by the cop and his wife.

The politics is hideous. It is carried by a media enterprise that would like to own the world, namely Murdoch and his idea of what is APPROPRIATE for a society. It segments the country into areas that are hideous to the facts we have surrounding us and creates a faux world of information that victimizes people as "good people" and "bad people." In other words, the cop culture.

It is not about religion, it is about the abusive use of religion to form a society outside of it's government.

The speech last night opened with a description of racism I could not believe. It came right out of the Murdoch Hate Speech Book and it was based in complete myth, yet Republicans thought it was spot on. That is propaganda and an unwillingness to act to FIX THE WRONGS OF OUR LAWS when it victimizes citizens. As PROOF is the continued realization that the USA has been incarcerating minorities is far larger numbers than the majority Caucasians. It has been incarcerating them for issues that do not belong in prison, yet alone jail. The USA has been looking seriously at society and the way it impacts individual lives and it is a good path to be on, but, to segregate races of people into lazy and ambitious is not going to get the job done.

Racism is not politics, it is hatred and Trump practices it every day; with the idea of lazy African Americans, pregnant druggies too hopeless to rehab, a border wall that may as well say "Welcome to the United States of Hatred," and religious bigotry toward Muslims. The references are there is different words every day in Tweets that are meant to haunt the conscious of Americans that are entertained by his imagines.

This country is divided in very real ways that is about the lives we live and not about politics. To simply assign the division found in our country to politics is to bury the real problems, the real hatred below the surface. It isn't politics, it is hatred and victimization of the helpless in our society.

Wall Street stroked Trump today with a start that was hundreds of dollars above close and it is notable it didn't stay there. This is the USA where "The American Dream" is dying. It is absolutely dying and it is due to the wealthy and the greedy with Murdoch at the top of the list.

January 31, 2018
By Karen Tumulty, Philip Rucker and Elisa Viebeck

President Trump’s call (click here) for unity met the cacophony of Washington politics Wednesday, as Democrats redoubled criticism of his policies and Republicans acknowledged differences of opinion within their party on immigration.

Trump, in his first State of the Union address Tuesday, called for the two parties to come together — remarks sharply at odds with the combative manner in which Trump has conducted his presidency so far.

The president also outlined an ambitious agenda for his second year in office, from a $1.5 trillion plan to rebuild the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, to a four-pronged immigration package, to a pledge to reduce prescription drug prices.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Tex.) called Trump’s infrastructure spending request “a big number” that he expects to be discussed when Republicans gather for a party retreat Wednesday and Thursday in West Virginia.....