Yes, I've been "radicalized"

Little doubt about that.

I've honestly come to believe that. Last night, while browsing Amazon videos, I came upon with done by what appeared to be evangelicals.

"Don't want to listen to those damn Christians," I uttered, to my shock and amazement.

I hate it. I do. Never believed I could be pushed this far.

"Religion" used to be the very center of my life.  Now...

"religion" has become anathema to me.

How did this ever happen?



Still working on my next major work My Country Tis of Thee and the more research I do, the more radicalized I become.  The people calling the shots right now are evil and selfish.  Judgmental? Yes. But regrettably, it's true.  I cannot help but believe that anymore.

CEOs of Pharma and insurance companies make tens of millions a year.  Who pays for those exorbitant salaries?  People who get denied health care.  And some of those people die when that happens.  It matters not to the oligarchs.  Those people are just stats, nothing more.  Their god is profit.

Trump and his people are now seeking to slash both medicare and social security, saying they cause the federal deficit to rise.  Those things are not and never have been part of the budget. They are funded by a operate tax that all working people pay.  What they are doing is stealing money from the working people to pay for their unfunded wars and their tax cuts for the billionaires. Harsh?  Reality is often harsh.

Never put much stock into the notion that republicans were just for the rich, but I do now.

A more serious issue is that I feel that too many corporate funded democrats are too.

Trump is in office today because Hillary Clinton represented that corporate wing of the Democratic Party.  Too many working people knew it. I did.

Bernie Sanders got the muddy end of the stick because the party regulars felt that Hillary was heiress apparent and rigged things in her favor.  Had the playing field been at all level, Bernie Sanders would have won and likely would be our president today.

I voted for Hillary Clinton, most reluctantly because I knew that Donald Trump was no more than a corporate thug.  Some of my fellow Sandernistas either voted for the Green Party or stayed home. That and some foreign intervention " elected" Donald Trump.  Don't think the playing field was level then either, at least, not in the electoral college.  Hillary outpolled Trump by 3 million votes.  We elect senators and governors by direct, popular vote.  Why not presidents?

I get ridiculed on the editorial blog on the News and record site when I liken trump to hitler, but I am certainly not the only one to do that.  Increasingly more people see parallels.  They're there, like them or not.