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Sandbox Politics

October 12, 2023

The more I listen to Vivek, the more qualified he seems as our next president. What do you think? It’s 25 minutes well worth listening.

From Deb,

I watched the entire interview.  Vivek has not been someone I admired when I saw him in the first debate.  But nor are there any other politicians that I believe are qualified to be leaders of anything, never mind my country.  He struck me as being as egotistical as Trump who I believe to be a real danger to democracy.  However, some of his (Vivek’s) comments were noteworthy in this interview.

Money must come out of political campaigns, we must stand by our allies, we must be prepared to defend ourselves.  But when you say these things and you forget to look at the root of conflicts worldwide, you see history repeating itself over and over again.  No one from any nation is willing to give up power, wealth, influence, good times for the benefit of the common citizen.  How do you change the base reality of greed to convince individuals that their wellbeing depends on the wellbeing of their neighbor?

Richard, I am at a loss.  So far I don’t trust any candidates.  Everyone is in the sandbox and it’s just so much fun throwing sand around until someone gets it in their eyes.  And suddenly no one is guilty, not that it matters because everyone was playing.  No one takes responsibility.  And the next day new kids join the same kids and throw sand again.  Repeat.  Repeat.                                        

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Richard’s response:

Ah, sweet lady, I empathize with you. Well expressed. Vivek’s utterances were likely spoken centuries ago, and nothing’s changed. Human nature has at its base, survival instincts that are immutable and persistent.

Your ‘sandbox’ metaphor is perfect. Naught but childish politicians to choose from, no real statesmen or stateswomen. Our inward Counselor tells us it’s futile trying to change the world, or hope someone else will do it. Something says you and I are not the type to go into politics and submit ourselves to sandbox antics. 

I was talking to my brother Bill and told him, he ought to run for president. Jan overheard and shouted, “He does that and I’ll divorce him.” No doubt, he would do a good job, but end up being hated, or maybe assassinated, and her a widow.

It’s the same survival instinct for corporate organisms (organizations) …whether religious or political or scientific. Pfizer is willing to sacrifice millions of innocent victims to make big profits… ethics be damned. This company has a long history of fraudulent practices and big fines, but nobody seems to care…well, because  everyone cheats. It’s the three-monkey meme over and over, every generation.

We should’ve booted Trump and Biden long before they were elected, but money, money, money makes the world go round.

The diligence and vigilance of the citizenry has grown dumb and dull. America deserves the puppet imbeciles it has elected and the ensuing decline and fall of its vast empire. The unchangeable pattern of human history continues. Every major empire eventually fails for the same reason…China, Russia, Assyria, Parthia, Egypt, Italy, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and now the USA.

History repeats itself because human nature never changes. Exceptions do exist in history, usually those individuals dubbed ‘saints’, but not only by the Vatican, which has its own monetary agenda. Most Catholic ‘saints’ embellish the image of the Church, whereas hermit saints of all religions have lived who didn’t  build monasteries or hosptials; who died unknown, uncelebrated by Feast Days.

Lately, Church criteria for sainthood has been diluted, chiefly because so few genuine saints come forth. St Padre Pio (d.1968) was the last who could bilocate, levitate, and work distant miracles to support his preaching of the holy doctrine.

We have traded the old magic lamp for shiny new ones of limited resemblance.

So, the social evils out there compound exponentially, the more science and the wonders of technology enhance pleasureful conveniences, to the detriment of social morality and peace of soul.

The paradox of prosperity is showing in the masses having grown cold, uncharitable, restless, violent, and angry.

“We have plunged down a carataract of progress, which sweeps us on into the future with ever wilder violence the further it takes us….We rush inpetuously into novelty, driven by a mounting sense of insufficiency, dissatisfaction and restlessness.” pg 236, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, by Carl Gustave Jung.

Our job is to perfect ourselves, to light the proverbial candle for our circle of friends and family in our dark corner of the world, and hope we don’t stumble over those who fail to do so. Ours is to become spiritually perfect, and in so doing, become fully aware that we, in holy communion with Life, can never die (John 11:26).

What’s in a Name?

October 3, 2023

Would a candidate smell as sweet or be more

qualified using any other name?

It’s well known incumbent politicians usually win elections, like the late Diane Feinstein, recently deceased at 90, the longest-serving US Senator of CA. If you ran an election now, she’d probably win … that’s how stupified our voters can get … and likely have as much effect speaking from the grave as when alive.

Now we have a US President who has been a professional politician for 50 years with one foot in the grave, easily puppeteered by the eco-idiots on his Cabinet ruining our economy for the New World Order they think can save planet Earth. The White Coats would’ve dragged him offstage by now if he were the CEO of a mega-dominant corporation. But Joe Biden’s name has been sacrosanct … politically untouchable … for a long time. And it still is, despite abundant proof the engine under the hood is misfiring with disturbing gaffs.

Our US democracy has now reached its low point when a high national office is filled by merely the fame of a name. By that standard Pinnochio could be elected to high office and most folks wouldn’t notice the difference.

The American Revolution supposedly swapped aristocracy for meritocracy so that highly qualified people would hold office.

How then did we ever allow those Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Bush dynasties? How about all those pompous stars of stage and screen who voice inanities about complicated politics, to promote their impractical ideologies, so their fan base will vote for them when they run.

Oprah Winfrey and Megan Merkel believed they could replace Senator Diane Feinstein. Both have big name recognition that they think naturally qualifies them for that high office.

Alas, Governor Newsom has appointed another flaming black liberal who doesn’t even reside in CA as his political gofer puppet if he becomes president. The ultimate loser in any case is our glorious American Republic and all that it once stood for. It’s become a mob-rule democracy led by shallow-minded candidates.

https://www.businessinsider.com/californias-newly-appointed-senator-may-not-live-in-california-at-all-2023-10#:~:text=California’s%20own%20summary%20of%20qualifications,her%20ties%20to%20the%20state.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/oprah-winfrey-meghan-markle-reportedly-floated-potential-replacements-dianne-feinstein