I firmly believe the exclusion of women and disenfranchisement of all people no matter their race, origins, language/accent, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability or any diversion from “the collective us” versus “those buried by what is a visceral response and categorizing as the other” is the basis of the downfall of our democracy.
I firmly believe the exclusion of women and disenfranchisement of all people no matter their race, origins, language/accent, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability or any diversion from “the collective us” versus “those buried by what is a visceral response and categorizing as the other” is the basis of the downfall of our democracy.
For centuries our society’s culture has been burdened by discrimination; and most especially burdened by the exclusion of women from power, and as a result we remained stuck and never matured or changed despite much talk and legislation.
Today we are there. Today is the result of our nation’s inability to mature and reach self-actualization, and today all of us will suffer physically, mentally and financially and literally become impoverished and made vulnerable.
Not simply because the richest amongst us are rising and seizing all power, but because our culture unlike the democracies across the globe is fermented upon the oppression of females and discriminatory visceral response to all the “others” from participating fully in the strengthening and potential of what was in fact a nation from its beginning built on the premise of inclusion.
Save women of course for women fall into a “special” and inescapable role of discrimination deeply baked into our culture over hundreds of years when the first error in judgment was made and that is in the writing or our Constitution which never mentions us.
Remember the words spoken but ignored of Abigail Adam’s in her plea to her husband, one of the authors of our Constitution “Don’t forget the ladies.” We “ladies of today” 250 years later are assigned to a double role which is being allowed to run in and fix immediately all that is complex and broken after which we are once again consigned to our positions under the bus.
Our nation did not listen. Those in power did not listen. No one is listening and we now witness and experience the inevitable fall of our democracy. We will fall because we were weakened by edging out women and all the “others”.
So today, my fellow Americans, we stand together in utter shock upon a landscape that is our reality living under the cruelty of an oligarchy.
But we can watch from our destroyed democracy the glowing landscapes of the more enlightened and self-actualized democracies united and growing stronger while we pine and wish for their assistance, seek their harbor and sanctuary.
We and our children and their children have lost what was once ours and neglected and taken for granted, for we will be the starved and we will be the oppressed and we will be the immigrants seeking escape from what was once a democracy.
We did not listen to the words of Abigail Adams “Don’t forget the ladies” while we assumed the work of her spouse and the founding fathers would continue without any work or concern by us.
We did nothing to grow our democracy. We neglected our civic duties. We turned away and then we were manipulated by those who wanted it all; those who own our media (namely Fox News and The Washington Post and medica outlets and our social media and sell us their goods for which they admit have been programmed to addict us to the blue screens).
We lost to them without even knowing we were at war with them. We lost to them who give not a hoot for democracies or you the people. With Trump’s speech yesterday we have been defeated, and they won. And there was much applause by their well cared for and manicured hands.
All the while across the globe democracies did listen as exemplified by their acceptance of “others” and their embrace of women in power and their recognition of need by providing for their citizens (health, education, day care, housing, elder care).
They will rise and unite launched by their culture of acceptance, and by necessity under threats issued by our leaders, they will defeat us and those governments that once were our “enemies” for we today have more in common with our enemies than we do our allies. In fact, we have over time and sealed by the last election aligned with our enemies and now will be abandoned by our allies.
I firmly believe the exclusion of women and disenfranchisement of all people no matter their race, origins, language/accent, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability or any diversion from “the collective us” versus “those buried by what is a visceral response and categorizing as the other” is the basis of the downfall of our democracy.
For centuries our society’s culture has been burdened by discrimination; and most especially burdened by the exclusion of women from power, and as a result we remained stuck and never matured or changed despite much talk and legislation.
Today we are there. Today is the result of our nation’s inability to mature and reach self-actualization, and today all of us will suffer physically, mentally and financially and literally become impoverished and made vulnerable.
Not simply because the richest amongst us are rising and seizing all power, but because our culture unlike the democracies across the globe is fermented upon the oppression of females and discriminatory visceral response to all the “others” from participating fully in the strengthening and potential of what was in fact a nation from its beginning built on the premise of inclusion.
Save women of course for women fall into a “special” and inescapable role of discrimination deeply baked into our culture over hundreds of years when the first error in judgment was made and that is in the writing or our Constitution which never mentions us.
Remember the words spoken but ignored of Abigail Adam’s in her plea to her husband, one of the authors of our Constitution “Don’t forget the ladies.” We “ladies of today” 250 years later are assigned to a double role which is being allowed to run in and fix immediately all that is complex and broken after which we are once again consigned to our positions under the bus.
Our nation did not listen. Those in power did not listen. No one is listening and we now witness and experience the inevitable fall of our democracy. We will fall because we were weakened by edging out women and all the “others”.
So today, my fellow Americans, we stand together in utter shock upon a landscape that is our reality living under the cruelty of an oligarchy.
But we can watch from our destroyed democracy the glowing landscapes of the more enlightened and self-actualized democracies united and growing stronger while we pine and wish for their assistance, seek their harbor and sanctuary.
We and our children and their children have lost what was once ours and neglected and taken for granted, for we will be the starved and we will be the oppressed and we will be the immigrants seeking escape from what was once a democracy.
We did not listen to the words of Abigail Adams “Don’t forget the ladies” while we assumed the work of her spouse and the founding fathers would continue without any work or concern by us.
We did nothing to grow our democracy. We neglected our civic duties. We turned away and then we were manipulated by those who wanted it all; those who own our media (namely Fox News and The Washington Post and medica outlets and our social media and sell us their goods for which they admit have been programmed to addict us to the blue screens).
We lost to them without even knowing we were at war with them. We lost to them who give not a hoot for democracies or you the people. With Trump’s speech yesterday we have been defeated, and they won. And there was much applause by their well cared for and manicured hands.
All the while across the globe democracies did listen as exemplified by their acceptance of “others” and their embrace of women in power and their recognition of need by providing for their citizens (health, education, day care, housing, elder care).
They will rise and unite launched by their culture of acceptance, and by necessity under threats issued by our leaders, they will defeat us and those governments that once were our “enemies” for we today have more in common with our enemies than we do our allies. In fact, we have over time and sealed by the last election aligned with our enemies and now will be abandoned by our allies.