Time For An Awakening
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Today's Topic: Time for an Awakening
But first, let me credit today's featured music: Living In America, by James Brown.
Thanks for stopping by. I hope you take what I say as food for thought.
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I find it hard to believe, as some news outlets report, that Donald Trump is thriving, politically. Yes, Trump's supporters saturate the news with their antics and outrageous comments almost daily. But are there enough of them to vote him back into the White House?
Personally, I don't think so.
Many, if not most Americans, have tired of Trump's and the GOP's disruptive tactics and want a government that will get things done to ensure America's future viability. Homophobia, denying women the right to abortion, attacking and sabotaging social programs, and trying to return the country to a time that never was, has impeded America's progress for five decades!
We cannot continue as we have. And returning Donald Trump to the presidency ensures the divisive governing that has, for so long, held us hostage while keeping us stagnant as a nation will continue.
Every day, the news media, social influencers, conspiracy theorists, and anyone who wants to do so feed misinformation, disinformation, and outright lies to the inter-verse. Attacking just about anything or anyone. Lately, the target du jour is wokeness. A term most of those attacking it can't even define!
When popular TikTok influencer Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender, posted a video on her Instagram page to promote a Bud Light contest, many on the right seemingly lost their minds. How dare they! How dare Bud Light normalize a transgender!
The definition of wokeness, at least in Bud Light's case, seemed to mean approval: as in Bud Light, signaling approval of a transgender person.
Wow, that can't be right. Oh my God, she's transgender! Why is she doing that? Why is Bud Light letting her do it?
However, the Right's attack on the College Board, a billion-dollar nonprofit that administers the SAT and A.P. courses, gave Woke another definition. Stemming from the Right's opposition to the board's initial offering of its Advanced Placement African American Studies course. Woke, in its case, appears to mean ignoring history. Keeping people ignorant.
Yes, ignorant! As in not knowing. Being uninformed. As in wanting to be uninformed!
If being woke: being considerate and aware of the equality of other people is a bad thing. What is it like not being woke?
Governor Abbott, the Governor of Texas, might have given us a clue.
Last Friday, a man killed five people in Cleveland, Texas, including an eight-year-old boy. In his condolences to their families, while offering a reward for information about the killer, Abbott, a person apparently not woke, saw fit to point out that all involved were illegal immigrants. Hmmm…
It is long past the time for an awakening in America. For America's citizens to accept that this country does not belong to only one race, but to us all! And time to ensure America's laws are fair. That they don't give extra rights based on one's race, religion, culture, or whatever! But apply equally to all its citizens. But we can't just wish it were so. To make it happen, we have work to do!
And we can start by addressing what Donald Trump has shown us is an illusion of checks and balances; by creating an impeachment process for unethical congressional representatives and Supreme Court judges. And for the betterment of our republic, we can stop electing and reelecting representatives whose true loyalty is only to their political party.
We, the people, have the power to change how our government works. To make it work for us. For all of us!
However, as long as we continue to pay attention to the hand distracting us with nonsense, the hand we are not watching will continue to erode our rights and freedoms.
Aren't you tired of the way things are? The way they have been for quite some time? I know I am.
Thanks for listening.
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