Today I find myself veering into writing about topics I hadn’t wanted to cover.
The stakes are higher for one thing. To remain silent on things that matter is something I cannot do for another.
I installed on my iPad The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from a Forgotten America by Sarah Kendzior.
I recommend that everyone reads this book whether in print or electronic form. You can check it out of the library should you not be able to buy it.
It’s sad that I’ve given up on our government officials as being agents of change.
Now I only hope that others will join me in reading books like Flyover Country.
I hope that readers will write to your elected representatives on issues that matter to you.
In my own life I won’t take part in a protest in the streets. This is because I have a medical condition. Sent to jail I wouldn’t have access to medication that would keep me healthy.
Instead throughout the years I have used this blog on and off to talk about what goes on. A couple of years ago I stole from a newspaper and listed here the names of over 30 people cops have killed.
Here too I also wrote that when one of our rights is taken away (like access to birth control) the dominoes of other rights will fall down one after the other.
How I wish I didn’t have psychic ability.
Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled against unions, thus weakening their power to advocate for the rights of their workers. Now employees will not have to pay union dues even though they’re members of a union.
Recently Mr. Toupee has also said that migrants shouldn’t be given due process under the law. In case you don’t remember the U.S. constitution guarantees due process to all people within the U.S.
For the life of me I don’t understand how the rights of so-called “unborn babies” are deemed greater than the rights of those already living. Thus causing people to vote into power a person who is taking away the rights of you and me every day.
The View from Flyover Country tells the unvarnished truth.
I’ve decided to write in here about these topics because I’m interested in getting the word out to people who might not ordinarily think about these things.
I had predicted that Mr. Toupee would win the election and nobody believed me. How could they not see what I saw?
Sarah Kendzior in Flyover Country predicted his rise long before I did in the book essays that were originally written from 2012-2014.
As ordinary citizens, we cannot blame each other for our misfortunes. The root cause is the decades-long deprivation of rights by our elected officials.
At a time when adjunct professors as well as service workers are sinking into poverty–as documented in Flyover no one is immune from earning cheap wages–it’s time to get real and take action.
I’ll end here with this: you know something’s not right when Kendzior writes in her book that U.S. veterans aren’t paid living salaries when they return from war.
They wind up on food stamps.
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