"Now it is your turn..."
                               Now it is 'our' turn.
                     'We can never go back!'

 "...          When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something...." -John Lewis   
                                            Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope.  -John Lewis                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
      In an op-ed authored shortly before his death and published on the day of his funeral by The New York Times, the Georgia Democrat reflected upon his own calling to join the civil rights movement following the lynching of Emmett Till.

                                                        The man was a living, walking every day  definition of courage

  "..John Lewis: ..When I was growing up in rural Alabama, 50 miles from Montgomery, outside of a little town called Troy, I would see those signs that said 'white waiting,' 'colored waiting,' 'white men,' 'colored men,' 'white women,' 'colored women.' I asked my mother, my father, my grandparents, my great-grandparents, 'Why?' And they said, 'That’s the way it is. Don’t get in the way. Don’t get in trouble.' ......But I was inspired to get in the way, to get in trouble..


             "Emmet Till,..He was 'my' George Floyd"'....                    ..Here, his lynching by a southern white mob....remembered.                

Do grown men cry? Some do. This one did, his wife, Florita, she cried too.

'Walking with the Wind'......“I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful.” ― John Robert Lewis.

Ken Humphrey

                              THE OTHER SIDE OF COVID -19
            What will our country, what will our world look like?

Stephen King reflects:  He has a vision, a frightening vision.  He puts it out there in:            THE STAND....and it is 'coming out'.. ............(Last, Dr. Tony Fauci, John Lewis.).

    King: He  has put it all out there in an exclusive preview, a new limited video series, a 9-episode run.. It was already already in progress BEFORE the word 'COVID-19' virus was known to anyone.
      Filming was not quite complete when the Corona virus hit us. They had to rush, to hurry production to get it done!             It is based, of all things, his 1978 book, called 'The Stand'. A global Pandemic takes all but a fraction of human life..When there are no rules. What track do survivors take? 
  
      Does it indulge dark, selfish instincts - becoming a dystopian, cold society, one run and controlled by a diabolical few: "We know what is right now for us all. We will make the world right again...for you.' Or, do we do what is right, right for the sake of all others?   In the last 100 years, we have seen both models:'The Thousand Year Reich'..... for one example was one model...We have seen the US as the World Leader for decades.

     CBS will air it later this year in the shadow.of...the real thing, a global Pandemic. King said: "I want to write about bravery."...... At some point (and this writer 'loved this line': .."At some point, we people do 'have to take a stand'!... To me, Ol' KH,  in the twilight of my life, the 'crepesculo de vida', ......that meant that we cannot just sit by and become victims.

     Yep. This is a dark story... ('surprise'!).....However...(good news)...King has layered in reassuring themes along with some very terrifying ones. He says: "It is all about the fundamental questions of what society owes the individual and what we owe to each other."

     Parallels will be drawn to today, but what happens in The Stand is catastrophically worse than anything we have seen in this COVID time now, killing more than 99% of the population.

      Aha! Survivors are drawn to the 108 year old Mother Abigail  (Whoopi Goldberg),  for she has endured the worse the world has to offer and has kept her strength and empathy intact. She has a dark and sinister counterpart, a demon named Randall Flagg. With warring tribes arising out of the ashes, it looks like the prophecy of Armageddon will be fulfilled. There is the young pregnant, 20 year old, Fran, pregnant during the time of the Pandemic. Fran is immune to the virus - but what about her baby? King, first, scares the hell out of us...sooo successfully..

     Director Benjamin Cavell, said, "It is hard to know what our world will feel like when The Stand begins its 9-episode run....... Over the years, we have sort of taken for granted the structure of Democracy..... Now, so much has been ripped 'down to the studs' - It is interesting to see a story about people who are rebuilding it ...from the ground up."

                OPTIMIST HERE!  ...(I admit, it very hard at times) - but then, we have role models, Ummm, Like John Lewis and Tony Fauci..)..
                        Today...a 'near' out of body experience:
       I have never written or posted two blogging-Articles 2-3 days apart ....However.....it was an incident early this afternoon that was the 'sudden motivator! ....I was doing pretty good this weekend ....until
    IMAGINE!, someone in your extended family, coming for short hour visit, someone you particularly like. A cordial visit: someone we have not seen for almost a year....(no political talk..),..but this peson does mention . 'The COVID 'THING' ...and then says..."I have a mask, but I don't wear it. I have it,..IF someone absolutely requires it..But so much of this is really a hoax, an 'unjustified hysteria'. (Next):.."I honestly believe the hospitals 'are lying' about how many virus cases they have...for example,..'We now 'now know' 'they are counting every hospital admission, cuts, broken arms, whatever,... 'in the COVID totals."...Florita and I just glanced at each other...(....not done!): ..."I think, ....and almost all my friends agree,... these 'so called scientists 'have so twisted and so greatly exaggerated the virus danger, it makes me sick..I never put much faith in  science anyway.".....Ta-dah!...We changed the subject. The person 'took note?'.The words 'president' or 'Trump' were never uttered once.

     I believe in Dr. Tony Fauci and, that one day there will be more 'golden sunrises', but first, in this 2020 ending, and in 2021 early...there  will be very painful memories....The 'new day' it is coming .. one of hope and aspiration, one where Black Lives finally do matter - (much more) , and the same for our Hispanic friends, an all immigrants and nationalities who buy into and respect the history of America and what it can be and will be for ALL. Prejudices... like we are seeing..never die...seems they will be here forever- We are not going to 'change them'....We just have been better than 'them'..and in control of our government, protect it always and also all of our hallowed traditional institutions: The LAW, above all.

.........I yearn for the return of law where law is respected, our institutions are respected. Where everyone is treated equally. As  country, we have our warts, our flaws - as Winston Churchill noted so famously: "..Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time..."..been tried from time.".............Winston S Churchill, 11 November 1947 

          With it all, I know we will not only come out of this, (too painfully, at first..) before our US world gets much better......To quote a favorite line from a  movie: One that I sincerely hope is not the case in our world, but in 'some cases':  What was broken in there, can never be put back together!"

The Rise of Fascism in the US.

                                  The Rise of Fascism in the US
July 24, 2020

                   
          IN THIS POST...Powerful statements: These two writers:.I 'lean' on the George Will and also the Atlantic magazine....  (My view):Donald Trump is desperate.  He is developing the same tactics Fascist governments use, 'goon squads'..........Now, that the election approaching, he will stop at nothing.   All quotes, opinions from the Atlantic are stated as such.                                       Question: "Is Trump turning the US into a police state?                                                                These are members Trump 'Goon Squad' ..Trump's 'Personal, Private army, not regular Army - They have no ID. So far, NO ONE has determined exactly 'where' they all came from??? Who are they? This is America not NAZI GERMANY, 1935.

Below: "The Jews will not replace us!...Charlottesville, Va.

     George will Quote: When Reagan died in 2004, the conservative columnist George Will wrote a moving tribute to his friend, saying of America’s 40th president, “He traveled far, had a grand time all the way, and his cheerfulness was contagious.” Reagan had a “talent for happiness,” according to Will. And he added this: “Reagan in his presidential role made vivid the values, particularly hopefulness and friendliness, that give cohesion and dynamism to this continental nation.”                                      Leon Neale, Getty image below

        Increasingly, as one looks into Trump's eyes....there is a sense of his 'feeling lost', .desperate. Consistently the polls (all 8 of the 8 major polls, including FOX NEWS poll - show him losing to Joe Biden..

  (Peter Wenger, Atlantic, writer.)  ......... "Donald Trump is a sad, sick, and pathetic individual. He is psychologically broken, embittered, and a deeply unhappy man..."  

         Re: Ronald Reagan, ...on Reagan;s death in 2004: "He has since been replaced by the crudest and cruelest man ever to be president. But not just that....One senses in Donald Trump no joy, no delight, no laughter.    All the emotions that drive him are negative. ."There is something repugnant about Trump."........  yes, but there is also something quite sad about the man. He is a damaged soul."      

         When faced with almost certain defeat, ...Ken Humphrey fears Trump will turn to influencing,  or disrupting, or even CANCELLING the electon..........'Due to Anarchists! Endangering Americans citizens lives!"...Last week the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency confirmed: Russia has been heaving  working, 24/7 to compromise individual states election servers, registration files, etc.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Former Secretary of State, Brian Kemp of Ga.now 'elected governor'..essentially 'ran his own state election - As Sec'y of State, just before the election, he closed 275 voting sites in minority areas of many towns and cities. He 'ordered' purged, anywhere from 300,00 to 450,000 'questionable names' off of the voter registrations of the statee............."STACEY ABRAMS lost by far less than 2% of the vote.,,,1.70%..... due directly to Brian Kemo's FASCIST ACTIONS. She is actually the real elected governor.

     He is working with several Trump-loyal state governors to 'pare the polls down'....Void even the slightest registration anomalies, ect.       

      

             HOW CAN WE STOP TRUMP AND HIS FASCIST CRONIES FROM DIRECTLY AFFECTING, INTERFERING WITH THE 2020 ELECTION?                                                  

          I would entertain 'SUGGESTED TOPICS' for discussion...I have made my 'newSpaper' accessible so that comments can now be made - and seen by others                                         

     

                        You are invited to make a comment....BELOW.

     

          

                         The Dystopian... New World of Trump

                             July 21, 2020                  

 Definition of dystopia.: an imagined world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized, ...fearful lives.   

"...Miss Offred,..listen carefully. we cannot have anarchists ruining our country You see, dear, the president will not allow that to happen. So. I think it is in your best interests to change your way of  thinking .....perhaps re-direct your sympathies..... You must yield to authority. Your job is to reproduce..for your commander, his children, Offred.        ('The Handmaid's Tale' )                                                                                                                                                           

"Never mistake a woman’s meekness for weakness.

"Every love story is a tragedy if you wait long enough."

"It's lack of love we die from."

“......In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.”.

                                                                             "The simple-minded, the unread..they want to led, to be told what to think, what to believe. Those who know no history, they're the ones we can most easily manipulate."                                                       Authoritarianism, religious fundamentalism and militarism are inherently patriarchal and hierarchical. Mona Eltahawy   

 "God is love. God loves order... I am the law, love, and the order........"                                                                           ......Plus, Our agents in Portland are doing an outstanding job!" 

 

   "....There is only 'the State' now, Offred, that of our Father,... our Father Trump, our leader, and our saviour ...You must learn to accept this new order Offred, or you will  have to go to 'The Farm'.."

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