Carolee MerrilltoThe Shift - Being the Change
Julian is one of the most important heros of our time.
"I have seen madness, dear, sweet Americans. I have looked into the eyes of men who have ripped off their clothes, rolled around in mud and shit, and then howled at the sky. I have wrestled with a drunk who was trying to set me on fire because he thought my legs were too hairy (they're not). I have confronted religious zealots who screamed and spit in my face and threatened me with hellfire for the crime of keeping a path clear so women could get into a completely legal family planning clinic. I have visited institutions for the mentally ill, and I have stayed at music festival campgrounds. Oh, yes, I have seen insanity in individual and mass forms.
So when I watched Republican presidential candidate and overfed orangutan Donald Trump delivering his long-awaited address on immigration, I knew that I was watching the kind of frothing madness that generally gets street preachers arrested before they assault someone or enrage passersby into punching them in their goddamn faces."
We unfortunately will have to go this route to change it
Only Orthodox Jews as a group favored Trump over Clinton, by a margin of 3-1.
How is it that the group that spends vast resources on Torah education, favors a racist, amazingly misogynist, ally of the KKK, and a crook? Answer: they are not teaching Torah but ethnocentric drivel, corrupted by an ultranationalist set of donors like Adelson. Folks, this is not the community of Torah Jews we once knew. AS in the other Abrahamic faiths, the ones dressed up in the most ritual and modest dress are covering up serious emotional and ethical damage. Time to rid Judaism of ultranationalism and get back to the sources of piety and ethics. Same for Islam and Christianity. And btw, God help us, Protestants, the majority, and non-hispanic catholics favor Trump also. I would like to see stats for how Trump fares among agnostics and atheists. I think we all know the answer, and it is why organized religion is not necessarily the space to find piety, faith and ethics in today's world. But I still believe that someday religion will be liberated from imposters.
Sharon Horton
Bernie enlightened us all of a better way ; At first , I agreed with Chris Hedges " Bernie should have taken his movement right over to the awaiting Green Party "
Now, that I know for a fact , elections are controlled , There is no democracy in A'murica , Bernie never had a chance , yet , He did Not Fall on his Sword . He lives to fight for us still , this x as a more powerful Senator than he ever was before . The Senator from Vermont could never have reached as many people if he'd ran in the Green Party , by the same token , he is now bound by bureaucratic paper to toe the line for $Hitlery , Don't you realize he would be dead right now or , at the very least forced into and early retirement if he'd done anything but what he's doing now ? He is the Father of our 2nd Revolution/Constitution and he will forever be . I'm glad for his judgement , He is working for us in Congress and I love him . Bernie's Campaign resulted in our awakening to a corporate Coup d'état . instead of our presumed Democracy. '2016 is going down as the year we definitively witnessed the theft of our Democracy .It's a Beginning ,In Fact ,
There is a mass awakening happening on the planet right now , and when enough people become immune to the pandering and lies of politicians , when we are no longer susceptible to their manipulations and deceit. We will Vote for the Greater Good instead of Evil (the perceived Lesser or otherwise ) This Movement started off with the movements of the 60s, morphed into the Occupy Movement and has spilled over into Bernie’s Campaign, and will go on with new Progressive Berniecrats , Lets take names & kick ass ~ Never Give Up ~
Bernie enlightened us all of a better way ; At first , I agreed with Chris Hedges " Bernie should have taken his movement right over to the awaiting Green Party "
Now, that I know for a fact , elections are controlled , There is no democracy in A'murica , Bernie never had a chance , yet , He did Not Fall on his Sword . He lives to fight for us still , this x as a more powerful Senator than he ever was before . The Senator from Vermont could never have reached as many people if he'd ran in the Green Party , by the same token , he is now bound by bureaucratic paper to toe the line for $Hitlery , Don't you realize he would be dead right now or , at the very least forced into and early retirement if he'd done anything but what he's doing now ? He is the Father of our 2nd Revolution/Constitution and he will forever be . I'm glad for his judgement , He is working for us in Congress and I love him . Bernie's Campaign resulted in our awakening to a corporate Coup d'état . instead of our presumed Democracy. '2016 is going down as the year we definitively witnessed the theft of our Democracy .It's a Beginning ,In Fact ,
There is a mass awakening happening on the planet right now , and when enough people become immune to the pandering and lies of politicians , when we are no longer susceptible to their manipulations and deceit. We will Vote for the Greater Good instead of Evil (the perceived Lesser or otherwise ) This Movement started off with the movements of the 60s, morphed into the Occupy Movement and has spilled over into Bernie’s Campaign, and will go on with new Progressive Berniecrats , Lets take names & kick ass ~ Never Give Up ~
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