“People Have the Power” is my favorite Patti Smith song.
Yes I believe it’s true people in America have the power to change the the direction our country has been going in.
This starts when we challenge the hateful rhetoric in the media. It continues when we speak out against the drastic policies being enacted. The dialog can’t end it can only change its focus.
Why just fight for our rights? Why not figure out new rights we haven’t had that we can champion for everyone?
Instead of merely reacting to what goes on. We can be proactive in helping each other. We can treat each other with dignity.
Responding to hate with hate solves nothing. To love bomb the haters is the solution.
I read somewhere that if America wanted to convert other nations to our democratic ideals we shouldn’t bomb them. We should drop TVs on them.
I doubt anyone who needs to read what I’m writing will chance upon this blog. Yet here goes for those of you aren’t loyal readers. Here goes too for the ones who tune in every week. Here goes for everyone:
See who a person is not who you think they are. Labeling other people and judging them and stereotyping them is not the way to go.
I’ve listed in here the names of the over 30 people cops killed as well as written about Kate Spade.
Having been bullied early in life and having a diagnosis I’m no stranger to being viewed as the Other.
Yet it seems that before a person meets me or you or someone else that person sees fit to judge us and stereotype us and label us with a name.
Those of us with this kind of psychic ability to figure out a person’s life story just by looking at them: should set up a table on Venice Beach telling fortunes.
This aim might not be accurate so then again that would be a lousy way to make money.
Only our elected officials are making hundreds of thousands of dollars by daring to judge the needs of ordinary Americans as subservient to corporate greed.
Our elected officials are daring to think that the lives of ordinary Americans–lost to poverty, disability, lack of education, imprisonment, etc.–aren’t worth saving.
Sadly, I have given up on our government as being an agent of change.
The latest measure I’ve heard coming from Mr. Toupee is to stop funding public libraries.
No kidding.
Bombs away? I think not.
Let’s band together to treat each other with the respect, dignity, and compassion that seems to be lacking in media editorials and congressional fiats.
This blog will always be a hate-free and stigma-free forum.
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