Stare Decisis
Stare Decisis's JournalWe Must Be Realistic About Warren's Likability
The press has a playbook on everybody courtesy of the GOP.
"The hair on this Christ guy is a distraction."
"I don't think Ghandi has perspective. How can anyone willing to go hungry relate to farmers?"
"Other than curing polio, what exactly do we know about Salk's character ?"
"Kennedy might have saved one person but true Americans would have put the ship on their backs."
"One would expect this harpie Anthony to get the woman's vote. Feminazi."
"This Sully fellow likes to flout procedure doesn't he?"
"You know this Teddy piece of work was such an insomniac he would walk around the city with a stick?
"What is so special about being a community organizer anyway?"
"So what if this woman turned down high paying work to defend single moms and abused children. So what if she singularly drove the creation of CHIP and kids have health care? So what if she helped destroy Bin Laden, quell the rebellion in the middle east, comported herself with dignity, inspired millions of young women, got the ball rolling towards Obamacare? She used a private email to order wedding cake. Plus this Trump guy knows business!"
You see? We must defend ours. In the battle of snake vs. human this is a human problem. This is an us problem. We know what they will do. Elizabeth is an American story; a waitress from Oklahoma with verve and drive and brilliance who worked her way up with a dedication to public service.
This labeling must stop. And WE must stop it by standing by our people and controlling who defines who.
My Hope For 2019
A great nation recognizes its faults. We have plenty. But our country was built to allow itself to learn, to evolve, and to further its commitment to humanity. We will make mistakes. We will be overzealous. We will be foolish. But it is the heart that matters. It is the idea that progress always wins. America does not regress. Yet as I write this a gay person can be fired from any job without legal recourse.
African Americans all over this country hold their breath their children come home safely from buying a soda. A traffic stop is considered to be some of the most dangerous five minutes of a person of color's life. We have an administration pleased that "only" two immigrant children have died in custody. My Grandma died penniless because it was required of her to be accepted into a nursing home, yet my Mother's inheritance may be imperiled by Medicaid backpay requirements. Yet as we scrape the bottom of Federal coffers a morally bankrupt "President" saw fit to return trillions more of our wealth to the wealthiest.
But my operative word is not bitter. It is better. We will do better. I will take the torch from my ancestors and do my part to advance our people.
Yes it is true the ignorant among us blame welfare for their plight, not realizing their sum total burden is about a pizza a year. Repulsive media constantly wails about what used to be, how millennials are lazy (an ugly inaccurate stereotype) and how if they could just physically abuse children again, perhaps order would be restored.
But all of these paradigms will fail. This is not an if. This is a guarantee. America is unique. You see the right wing knows the one thing that will destroy it is the fact that America is more than a place; it is an ideal. This ideal spans the world, so that we draw from the best and brightest from everywhere. A political ideology bereft of empathy and morality is destined to be rejected like so much bacteria by a nation that is by its very design acts as an antibiotic to tyranny.
My hope, my faith really, is that the world realizes in total that we as a nation are not stricken with an infectious virus-just a cold. A bad cold, one of those chicken soup eating, orange juice drinking, nasty bronchial colds, but still a cold. I hope that our partners in peace and brotherhood will not be afraid to go around us, to shake our hands, to break bread, to hug us. We need their support. America is now in need of a kind of friendship we have so often extended.
These bastards will not destroy my relationships in Mexico, in Nigeria, in Europe, in Canada-no. Lesser than thee can not topple thee.
In 2019 you will see Mueller pull the curtain on the small little man with the megaphone. And Americans and the world will once again see that there is no place like America when it comes to being the home of the brave.
Let us now celebrate the arrival of another year with fervent commitment to our ideals. Let us show our bravery in all of its forms, our allegiance to justice, and our willingness to put others first.
Let's shake this nasty cold. Let's catch up to Denmark in quality of life, let's put to bed our inequalities, let's stop making excuses and start to once again make friends.
Let's Make America-
America again.
Now please pass me some Robitussin. Or should I say-
Muellertussin.
Happy New Year!
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