If you lie...

If you lie-- about Trump and his motives; you are as evil as he is. If you lie-- to yourself because your economic situation is better under Trump; you are as venal and selfish as he is. If you lie-- about Trump because he is your Dad, Husband, or business partner; you are complicit in all the chaos and pain he causes.

If you defend or attack: lies as truth, or wrong as right, or truth as lies, or dark as light, light as dark -- then you have joined the devil's side. You are a Trump supporter, an enabler of chaos, confusion, and not-so-clever subterfuge.

If you support Trump because you are afraid of black, brown, yellow or red people then you are a racist. If you back Trump because you hate Hilary Clinton , Elizabeth Warren, a Bill Clinton, and Stormy Daniels then you are a hypocrite and a misogynist.
If you proclaim your love for America but absolutely hate or fear immigrants -- then you may not be redeemable as a human being.

Violent Donald Trump

Donald Trump has been and is -- a bully. He now is telling his sycophantic supporters (Evangelical ministers, white supremacists, anyone who will listen) that if his party loses -- there will be violence. ANTIFA will rise up and undo all the "progressz" made in 2016. Donald Trump is threatening all of us and (wink, wink) giving his own "people" permission to "fight back, first." 

So, at the same time as he is playing the race/anarchy card, he is appealing to the lowest levels of racial and ethnic fear in everyone in America. Donald Trump is playing a dunbed-down Iago to both America's Othello  and her Desdemona. (Trump will not understand this reference.)

The above is just one more reason to RESIST and "vote out" Trump!

Scorecard for America

On the Bad Side
      Donald Trump
      Republicans complicit to Trump's plans to " tear down" just about everything
      Evangelical immoral hypocrites
      Trump's family:  wife, daughter, and others
      Trump's staff desperate to hold on to their pitiable positions
      Catholic right wingers
      Trump voters who refuse to see what is really happening
      White supremacists, racists, anti-gay people
      Uninvolved Americans who are "tired of all the fuss"
      Voters who still respect and would vote for Trump
   
On the Good Side
      Authentic human beings
      People with honest human values
      All those who oppose the devil, and Trump


     

God Is Alive: The Catholic Church is Dead

I left the Church several years ago; I now follow the value principles of Ko-Shinto Buddhism, some of which are interchangeable with Christian values. Why switch, and why announce it? The Catholic Church is corrupt -- it does not adhere to its own morality. It persecutes women, belittling and controlling them like any "good" medieval institution. It supports causes and people who do actual harm to life, love, and the best parts of humanity. These are people like Trump, hyper-capitalists, recidivist racists, zealots of all kinds.

I have moved from inspired altar boy to troubled doubter to ... finally, reluctant emigrant.  I gave seen the evil of predatory clergy, and warned others of its existence. I have seen the hypocrisy if Catholic zealotry and the prevarication of self-forgiving hierarchy. 

My morality is mine alone: it is not for everyone. It descries institutions in favor of individual souls. Mine is the heart of "homo viator" -- man the traveler, searching for truth!

Coming and Going

This upcoming week is an unusual one. I have friends leaving for Poland on thursday, more friends off to Italy on the weekend, and even I am planning a trip for Kentucky/Ohio/Wisconsin very soon after. A great American, John McCain, will be interred very soon. A lesser American, Donald Trump, will continue to embarrass himself and the nation by everything he does or doesn't do.

There is another mass shooting in the news, this time 4 dead and multiple injuries. And the Republicans in power will still do nothing but offer their worthless prayers to compensate for their cowardly lack of political and moral will.

Enemies of America take note: we are not all as worthless as Trump (and his cohort)., or the crass members of the NRA, or the morally bereft churchgoers who believe in Trump more than God! Don't mistake notoriety or celebrity-status for the real American values. We will fight all odds to protect our values, our beliefs, ourselves.

No Bail For Trump

Due to an internal regulation of the Justice Department Trump is not likely to be indicted, though he may eventually be impeached (perhaps after the midterm elections). But he is the "junior mob-boss" of the most corrupt American presidency of the modern era. Trump is "criminal-in-chief" of Trumpland!

Karma alone would condemn Trump. He is a bad and corrupt soul. But America is a country of laws, not necessarily of morality. So, in legal terms alone -- Trump deserves jail time. It would not cbange the evil person that he is, but it would end his ability to diminish and harm the rest of us. Let him proceed with his "deals," swapping cigarettes for extra Big Macs -- until he finds his way to Hell.

Long-term Elections in November, 2018

Crucial; these upcoming elections are crucial! This is the chance we all have to "take the house back," to slow the backward momentum of the Trump "changes;" and restore the movement to real American values. The venal self-serving autocracy known as Trumpland must be quashed.

We must remember and rectify all the errors that have been bulldozed into place: in BUD, in Education, in the  Justice department, in the FDA, the EPA,  and everwhere else. America cannot be the solipsistic duchy of Trumpland!  We sre much, much better than that.