Politics
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
ME: Hello.
MUSE: Hi, sorry I haven’t checked in lately.
ME: Yeah, I was wondering why you were not sending me copy.. Where are you?
MUSE: I’m in my bomb shelter.
We allowed ourselves to be divided and the enemy won. Time to learn from that mistake and start to take democracy back.
It began innocently enough... We had primaries as we do every four years. There were two main contenders; Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Clinton represented the traditional Democrats and Bernie expressed a perspective that brought socialist ideas into the mix. It should have been a healthy ‘win / win’ contest. It should have been a time of people exercising their right to be heard and express confidence that whoever won, the support of the Party would be the outcome. It should have... but it wasn’t. The campaigns turned vicious... The only acceptable outcome to either side was winner take all, consequences be damned. Pejorative nick-names stuck... “Bernie or bust” became a mantra, even though Bernie disavowed it. Never Hillary became a trending hashtag... it was not looking good, but because the Republicans had bypassed the usual suspects in favor of Donald Trump, confidence was high that we would still win.
If my country believes torture is ok, I would question my country’s legitimacy to exist.
If someone thinks torture works, when all evidence is to the contrary, they are deluded.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
Abigail Adams, in
ladylike tones
Implored them to give
her a break.
- Written by: Deborah Baron
- Category: Politics
Sacramento, Women's March January 21, 2017
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
As newly minted POTUS Trump got into the meat cleaver portion of his post-oath-taking peroration, it occurred to me that it would take a brash, insensitive oaf, ignorant of protocol and inter-related world history seriously to tackle head-on the issues he intended to dispose of forthwith.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
U.S. Congressional Representative from Atlanta, Georgia John Lewis is a Civil Rights legend. He marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, whose birthday currently is in celebration. Lewis was almost murdered on Alabama’s Edmund Pettis Bridge, and in 1964 was one of the speakers at the Lincoln Memorial ceremony that culminated with King’s, “I Have a Dream” speech.
Read more: MLK’S AUBURN AVENUE STILL SWEET DESPITE TRUMP’S IGNORANT TWEET
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
Attesting to the perniciousness of the infected DNA carried by this nation, although he was not born at the time, Sen Jefferson Beauregard Sessions duplicates the same oily, vehement, skin-crawling southern drawl that I recall emanating from the lips of arch segregationist-racist Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi, back in the 1930s. Among the “Colored” community and as a fixture in the prolific Negro press, “Bilbo” was the watchword and dean of the southern legislators in Washington who made it their personal business to suppress any attempt by FDR or any of his predecessors to exert any federal control over the widespread, at-will, broad daylight lynching of Black folk all over the South. Although Senator Sessions’ southern drawl carries a 20th century patina, devoid of the “Nigras” and other de rigueur racial derogations in those same halls of congress, it still evokes that same, skin-crawling sensation.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
Twenty Sixteen, what hath thou wrought?
A year of surprising turmoil.
The discourse was brisk and savagely fought –
Calculated good taste to despoil.
Who knew, when he threw down his gauntlet of hate,
So full of his ersatz pride;
Who knew it endangered this great nation’s fate;
After a peacock, escalator ride?
- Written by: Bonnie Bertelson
- Category: Politics
How many Tweets can Trump the Twitter Twit Tweet
Before the Transition Team Tweaks the Twit’s Tweets?
