Writer's Block

So far I have been sitting here for an hour, reviewing various websites, playing solitaire, thinking about the issues of the day, and writer’s block has me in its coils.

There is so much to write about: Donald Trump and Der Mitt; Der Mitt and the misspelling of America on his new campaign app (Americia, for those who haven’t seen it), along with the quip that how can Der Mitt lead a country he can’t spell; the call I received just now from Wisconsin (I live in California) to help with the campaign to unseat Governor Scott Walker in the recall election.

Now that is something I can get excited about.  That and the probable recall of Governor Snyder of Michigan.  The reason I can get excited about those recalls in other states is the reasons behind them.  Scott Walker has done his best to use legal means in Wisconsin to disenfranchise voters, destroy the ability of unions to organize and collect campaign funds to offset the corporations, aka Koch Brothers, flooding the state with money to support Walker, his statement to his most affluent Wisconsin supporter that his intent was to divide and conquer the unions, etc., etc.

And Rick Snyder?  This is the so and so who got the Republican Michigan legislature to pass a law giving him the right to dissolve local duly elected Boards and Commissions of towns and cities, and to appoint his own personally selected financial manager, who then sells the assets of the communities to private individuals – all in the name of being fiscally responsible.  The problem with this, of course, is that his policies are what caused the fiscal damage in the state in the first place.  So, go in, wreak havoc, then blame the locals for the problems he caused, do away with them, and allow his buddies to have a field day acquiring public lands and properties at rock-bottom prices.  And this regardless of what the people who were elected by the rest of the people want or would have done.

If this were isolated in only one or two states, one could perhaps ignore it.  But it is happening all over the country.  Get Republicans into office, then use legal means to keep those who would vote for Democrats from voting at all!  Florida is the newest example of that.  These Republicans are using the scare tactic of “voter fraud” as their excuse for doing all of this.  In all of the voting history of the United States, there are few successfully prosecuted  cases of voter fraud. Not too bad, that.  Although the Dept. of Justice has stepped in re: Florida and stopped the voter rolls purge as of yesterday.

This is the year we all have to become involved in whatever way we can – sign up to register voters this fall, if able, walk precincts for liberal local candidates, support state and federal candidates with whatever finances you can afford, and talk, talk, talk to all your neighbors and friends. 

This is the year we must take our country back from those who would turn it into a white, elite, religiously fundamental, and totally controlled non-democratic entity.