The usual Wednesday ‘good people’ post is delayed this week, but worry not … it will be here. Meanwhile, I would like to share with you Padre Steve’s latest post, a look back at his predictions from a year ago and some truths we need to ponder about the lessons of history. Thank you, Padre — excellent analysis, as always. I, too, wish you had been wrong way back in December 2019. Sigh.
Friends of Padre Steve’s World,
I wrote this article on 13 December 2019. It was pretty pessimistic even then without the Coronavirus 19 Pandemic which has killed over a quarter of a million Americans and infected over 11 million more, over a million in the past week. Over course that was not included in this article. The title then was “So the Old World Slipped Away Never to Return Again…”: the Coming Disorder of 2020. Damn I hate being right, and we still have 49 days left in the year and President Trump seems intent on destroying the country using a scorched earth policy and attempting to provoke violence as the Proud Boys and other White Supremacist and self-proclaimed “militias” which are nothing more than heavily armed right wing vigilante and terrorist groups unrecognized by any law and operating outside of the Constitutional understanding of militias. Now we are…
View original post 1,981 more words
We are doomed.
Time to post that book I’ve been waiting on?
LikeLiked by 2 people
No, not doomed, but definitely in trouble, my friend. Heck yeah, post that book!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hmm, I was black-listed in DC just for giving talks related to some of the ideas which I have been developing. This book will definitely get my blacklisted further. That’s why I have been waiting. It’s nothing amazing, just a logical progression for helping all of us, but will definitely be labeled socialist, at best, The Four Freedoms Project.
LikeLiked by 1 person
And now I am truly intrigued! I lean toward socialism in many, though not all, areas. So … keep me posted about The Four Freedoms Project … I’m definitely interested!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Here’s the idea in a nutshell, minus some conversation you missed in a post maybe a week ago: will try to find it: https://shiradest.wordpress.com/2020/10/12/moody-mondays-idea-fully-inclusive-equality-via-the-four-freedoms-movement/
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks Shira! I will check it out this evening.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank You, Jill: I’m looking forward to your thoughts!
LikeLiked by 1 person
it suddenly occurred to me while listening to Giuliani’s rant in court, that they are trying to set up an insanity defense for the cheeto and all his little minions. It won’t work, but honestly people really can not be this stupid and live, can they?
LikeLiked by 2 people
Insanity defense … I suppose that could make some sense, but his huge ego would never accept it, I think. Your question is the same one I’ve been scratching my head and asking for a long time now … and the answer appears to be that yes, they really can be that stupid and live. Sigh. Hugs, Suze.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you for sharing!!… Again, for Trump it has always been about him, caring little for anyone or anything else… again, his closed minded minions know how to feed his ego to get what they wish, has nothing to do with loyalty… and at this moment, they are getting the headlines… 🙂
Change is in the winds.. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past and present are certain to miss the future.” (John F. Kennedy) and those “good people” ( and others) that you refer to are working in the background making those changes!… 🙂
I don’t concentrate on Trump, I concentrate on change.. “You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last chapter.” (Author Unknown )… 🙂
Hope all is well in your part of the universe and life is all that you wish for it to be!… 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
You’re quite right that we must look forward, not behind us. But … right now, there is so much potential for damage over the next two months that I think we must remain aware of what is happening each day, too. And the changes to come won’t be without hurdles and roadblocks, but hopefully they will bring a brighter future. This is the perfect song for the day! Thanks, Dutch! Keep well, my friend.
LikeLike
Yes, we cannot turn a blind eye to reality, but “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” ― (Roy T. Bennett)… 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
I like that quote … a lot! I think I’ve forgotten about the dreams in my heart … perhaps it’s time to go in search of them. Thanks, Dutch!
LikeLike
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly.” (Langston Hughes )…. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Wise words that even then didn’t know what depths Trump could plumb.
Cwtch
LikeLiked by 1 person
I don’t think anybody could have predicted how low he could/would go, how many norms he would shatter and be allowed to get away with.
Cwtch
LikeLiked by 1 person