Franklin appears in the court of King Louis XVI in 1778
Benjamin Franklin was famous for wearing his simple ‘Ditto Suit’ to the French Court in 1778 after two years of war against the assault of one of the world’s superpowers England. The men of the court mocked his suit cut of the same silk for both coat and pants and unadorned with lace or different colored sashes or waistcoats.
“I am persuaded, a pleasure in reflecting on the generous benevolence of the action in assisting oppressed people” – Benjamin Franklin on Louis XVI
Vice-President Vance who laughed at Real America’s Voice host Brian Glenn’s derision of the Ukrainian President needs to remember the history of the nation he pretends to love.
Ukrainian President Zelensky in Ukrainian ‘Ditto Suit’ with US President Trump
JD Vance then took that cue of mockery to say it was disrespectful for Zelensky to wear the symbols of his nation’s struggle.
Screen capture of One IndiaNews coverage of the attack on Zelensky for his ‘Ditto Suit’
Vance then further attacked the Ukrainian President claiming that Ukraine was sending conscripts to the front. Actually a reversal of criticism of Putin’s need for Russia to send conscripts to attack Ukraine. Vance somehow forgot that US sent conscripts to the front in Vietnam. A full 30 percent of whom died in that US conflict.
It might be understandable for Trump to forget such a lesson in US military history. After all Trump used money to buy his way out of Vietnam service. However, one would think that after actually serving and military veteran, Vance would understand how nations force their citizens into combat during times of war or conflict. Especially a conflict as important as being invaded by a super power. Vance, after all, was a reporter during the US-Iraq invasion. The US called up more than 80,000 reserves to fight that war to protect him while he wrote apparent ‘touchy-feely’ articles about military life in the war.
Luckily for Vance and his three children, Benjamin Franklin was able to obtain understanding help and financing from one of the world’s great superpowers to fight the aggression by one of the world’s other superpowers. Vance’s children live, today, with freedom and liberty. It is the very thing the Ukrainians are fighting and hoping for their children.
Look hard Mr Vance and Mr Trump. The symbol on this map of Ukraine is that of a nation fighting just like 1778 US. The same symbol found on the Ukrainian President’s ‘Ditto Suit.’
The current trend of News organizations requiring a subscription or sign up to read their articles has become an impediment to our Republic’s constitutional requirement of a free press. The world of just a few decades ago only had local newspapers, free radio and free television. It was here that people found their viewpoints and windows into the events that formed their world opinions. But news and opinions now have become the world of YouTube, Twitter (X), Instagram, Bluesky and a multitude of streaming services or podcasts. All of these making it quite easy to discover your own personal news sources. This internet phenomenon has multiplied the voices into a Diverse, Enigmatic and Individual river of opinions from which one develops their viewpoints.
Since the advent of newspapers one had to purchase the paper to read the news. This newspaper could be read over-the-shoulder, discarded, left in a coffee shop or found in a library for the perusal of any number of informed opinions to be had.
Having been a paperboy, as a child, I can say that many of our nation’ s social and political opinions were illuminated from a cold winter’s morning delivery of that newspaper to a snow drift filled porch. Sure a small cost was collected by the paper boy for subscription but I believe that the majority of that fee was to secure the distribution process paying both the distribution delivery truck manager/driver and myself for walking in the snow that morning. Newspapers gathered much of their revenue from the advertisements within the paper along the side of their edited pages of stories/opinions about the days news.
News of current events is essential to the formation of opinions upon the politic of the nation. To understand and read/hear the opinions of others about a subject allows the formation of one’s own opinion. This formation takes time and can change amongst a varied amount of external events.
One of the dangers of the small exchange of information can be learned from the years of the late 19th and early 20th century control of newspapers by small groups of publishers that sought to control the narrative. The so called ‘Yellow Press’ with its sensational news form is blamed for everything from the War with Spain to the sensationalism of crime leading to a feeling of insecurity by American citizens.
I worked with a young colleague that broadcast with pride that he did not get news from the paid media but rather from following Twitter (X). The online aspects have changed the playing field and the necessary reading the free speech of others has become more difficult as the proliferation of opinion writing has opened widely in the internet. The need to subscribe on the internet to read an opinion has actually limited free speech not increased it. It has led to the narrowing of views to a small demographics of followings that have overtaken the wider writings of the professional pay-for-it media.
More now the dissemination of ‘Free Speech’ is found free in a legal voice sense that is not found in the physical world. If you read part of an article online of a major newspaper or news outlet invariably you are suddenly hit with a call to ‘join’ or subscribe. You cannot read the increasing varied opinions without some sort of not-free sign up. As such these outlet authors like the Washington Post’s Catherine Rampell, San Francisco Chronicle’s Joe Garofoli or even NBC’s Alexander Smith have their voices muted to the world without some form of payment. You cannot read an old discarded newspaper because they literally are so small in number now the physical copy is a rarity. You need a subscription to Apple News or to the Washington Post to get a varied opinion. Instead, you read the free opinions of radicals posted on Twitter(X).
This type of selectivity leads to a narrowing of the views one is exposed too. This type of exposure reduces the ability to form a varied opinion. This type of selectivity actually is a form of ‘self censorship.’
A reduced selection of opinions is not Free Press. My suggestion is to change the method of distribution to one that can withstand the winter storms of our politics and land up on your opinions front porch.
Nothing has become more grating on my ears than when I hear the phrase; “Thank you for your service.” This is typically said aloud today, to every military serviceman, every fireman, every policeman, everybody except, well nobody. Yes, people even say it to me when I accidentally alert them of my time holding a US naval commission.
This singular phrase said with such abandon as ‘good morning’ at the first arrival of the day at the office or ‘welcome’ every time you enter a commercial store that it has cheapened the meaning and made everyone a hero for even their ability to drive a truck to the docks delivering goods to be shipped overseas for the military. It has made being a hero so prolific that they can even now be called ‘Losers and Suckers’ by the current President-Elect of the United States without retribution by those that support him.
Republicans of all walks of life look the other way or deflect the questioning of a man who was and will be the commander in chief of our military on this idea. Trump plays this game for his political enrichment but it is the American people that have abandoned the meaning of the terms hero and service. It is the American people who have allowed those wounded and killed in the defense of this great Republic’s objectives and ideals to be ridiculed by this man who himself is a beneficiary of their idyllic sacrifice.
Ever since 9-11 the awarding of participation heroism has become a cornucopia of verbal awards to those that served in any capacity the same status as those decorated. Their efforts cheapened. Their service almost becoming a tissue paper to sneeze the words in.
The 21+ years of seemingly endless Middle East wars has deadened the American people to the heroic acts during combat for their government. It has equalized all efforts to be reward with a single phrase, letting Americans thinking they are showing true gratitude when they are only saying it in a self-satisfying monotone. This relieves their souls of the guilt that the government they voted for creates these conflicts.
It may be better to look to the days of Vietnam or even the World Wars where soldiers knew where they stood. All soldiers enlisted, drafted and commissioned alike were one. They did not find the need to inflate their part but remained part of the whole. They knew they were summoned to be part of their US government’s efforts and felt the most pride in that quiet role.
I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love. – George Washington.
I often spend hours taking notes and collecting ideas for post that I literally have dozens of pages on differing ideas that never make it to the publish button. To make a post very often requires not just inspiration for me but a spiritual feeling that wells up then cannot be stopped. So it is for this reason that I start this post as an apology to any that follow. It should have been sooner.
The use of attacks on the right to liberty without fear for the Trans community has been something of a right wing conservative’s political bonanza in Republican States but most notably in Florida and Texas. Such states have governors and political party legislatures that created movements to attack the LGBTQ citizens of their State to further their political power. It is not a new method. It is a technique used by conservatives that is as ancient as civilization itself.
The United States and its conservative political parties have been one of the most discriminatory political movements in all of civilization. Yet, it is these conservatives that claim they are the sole patriots of liberty. How this dichotomy exists in this self declared, “Land of the Free”, is not such as perplexing as one might think. The United States political system not only allows for such discriminatory activity but actually thrives upon it. Conservative members of US political parties acquire political power through the acts of discrimination.
Conservatives are defined as persons who are averse to change and hold socially traditional values. A bunch of words that in reality lead to a contraposition proof to the existence of the United States in the first place. To clarify the term is more often used in mathematical proofs but is utilized here to provide insight in the fallacy of US conservatism’s claims as being the sole defenders of the Constitution and Liberty.
If the conservative viewpoint prevailed in 1776 then the colonies would remain loyal to King George. An American conservative in 1776 was not for the Declaration of Independence. So if an American was for freedom and liberty then they were not conservative.
No Conservative Americans in this firing line at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse
So we have now a mathematical contraposition establishing by inference and a logical equivalency that only liberal Americans brought forth this nation. We can further claim that liberal points of view have advanced our freedoms that even the conservatives who always oppose changes in liberty, enjoy today.
The political success of conservative attacks on the liberties and freedom of the Trans community in Florida and Texas are an example of discrimination against minority groups that provide political focal points and add to the power of those in government. I use the term conservative because political parties have change of the years on who is the conservative and who is the liberal party. Both Democrats and Republicans over their history have found conservative viewpoints and discrimination as a means to power.
After the Revolution and before the Civil War the ability to maintain political power required the discrimination against Blacks. With nearly 700 thousand Blacks in the US in 1790 almost 18% of the total population the discrimination tactic of using Blacks as political pawns, not to mention white wealth, was found throughout the formation of the Constitution. In fact the revered Constitution as adopted in 1788 protected the importation of slaves until 1808. Article 1 section 9 was written purposefully ambiguous to hide the discriminatory act and it denied congress the power to restrict the importation of slaves until 1808. The clause was a compromise between the liberal Quakers from the North that wanted to abolish slavery and the conservative Southern representatives opposing any such nationwide emancipation.
Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States; Howard Chandler Christy
The Southern representatives had found that discrimination against 18% of the population provided sufficient political power to change the Constitution in their favor. The subsequent banning of the importation of slaves in 1808 did not solve the liberal push for emancipation. Rather the Southern states resorted to a form of ‘breeding farms’ and breaking up of families to increase the supply and sell these new victims for profit.
The success of Southern politicians to protect slavery in the Constitution became so triumphant politically that by 1860 nearly 4 million Blacks were in the US with 89% of those enslaved. The population of the South’s free population was only around 5.5 million. This resulted in discrimination by enslavement against nearly a whopping 39% of the Southern State’s population.
This extreme percentage in a discriminated population provide so much political power to the Southern conservative politicians that the act of treason against the United States became the path of succession by Southern States resulting in the Civil War. Nearly 1.5 million persons, military and civilians, lost their lives to overcome this heinous act of discrimination against a segment of the population by a conservative viewpoint.
The numbers never lie in the result of power to discriminate
While the Civil War was the extremes to which proponents of discrimination in the United States have taken their beliefs and the horrors needed to correct their attacks on men’s liberty. Discrimination has never left the US political scene and use of discrimination as a crusade for political power persist to this day. It may take fewer and fewer numbers of those to be discriminated but political conservatives and radicals in the US have successfully used such practices for political power.
Throughout the 248 year history of the United States there are countless numbers of politicians using discrimination. Discrimination against segments of the population has become the crux of conservative politics even if they have had to rely on smaller and smaller percentages to achieve measurable results.
The reasons for these dwindling population numbers are mostly the result of the general population beginning to believe in the basic ideals of the Constitution and accepting those that are discriminated in the previous power grabs. Conservatives are pushed back from their claims and excuses of failures caused by the dangers presented by these smaller groups seeking to steal there own liberty. The greater US population has shifted and has accepted the rights to liberty protected by the Constitution for these attacked groups.
We want your labor and taxes but not you
During the 1800s Chinese immigrants began to appear amongst the citizenry of America. Many of them came over to provide needed labor for railroad construction that created an explosive growth in this country. But many came just for a vision of liberties promised by the Constitution enjoyed by Americans. They started business to support the communities in which they lived or like so many Americans sought instant riches in the mining for gold.
In the 1880s there were around 110,000 Chinese heritage citizens in America. This was basically 0.22% of the entire US population. However, this represented nearly 12% of the population of California where the majority of Chinese immigrants settled. However, the Chinese people had by that time been targeted by politicians desires for political power for over 50 years. In 1871 in Los Angeles Chinese-Americans lost not just their rights but 18 were murdered in a mass lynching.
A cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in 1869 takes a sympathetic view of the difficult conditions faced by Chinese immigrants. It depicts abuse of a Chinese immigrant at the hands of a white laborer wearing a hat labeled “California.” Anti-Chinese sentiment was widespread in California at the time.
In 1852, California Governor John Bigler asked the California Assembly to pass laws to stop Chinese immigration. Bigler argued that the Chinese could not be assimilated for racial and cultural reasons, and that they were therefore incapable of becoming good citizens. The California Supreme Court in 1853 declared that the testimony of Chinese people could not be used against white defendants, and a white man convicted of robbing and murder of a Chinese-American was released.
Jobs are very often the motive for political discrimination as in 1920’s, Colorado had only 939,629 total Latino population, about 1.2% of population saw a movement to strengthen the State border to prevent further immigration of Latinos into Colorado. The Colorado government arrested Latinos to deport them. The tragic result of this political fervor was that 60% of Latinos deported were actually US citizens.
Today the conservative State of Texas takes in nearly $4.9 billion in tax revenue from undocumented immigrants. Florida takes in nearly $1.9 billion in tax revenue from undocumented immigrants. Since these populations cannot vote the Conservative politicians are free to use them in political attacks and fear mongering. This is not limited to the State political arena. Nearly $100 billion in taxes are paid to the federal funds by undocumented immigrants making for an analogous situation for misrepresentation in federal politics.
The smaller the group the more political power or Good News for Bigots
Growing minorities often gain political power as a counter to the discrimination against them. Modern social media and loud megaphone type television media have enhanced the ability of politically motivated discrimination to find value in small niche minorities.
In 1860, the Black population was listed as 5.5 million free and 3.5 million enslaved, over 40% of population.
In 1880 The Chinese population was 12% (110,000) of Californians and only 0.22% Nationally. However, Senator John Miller and Representative Horace Page, both Republicans from California proposed The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) which was the first major immigration law aimed at a specific nationality or ethnic group. It banned the immigration of Chinese laborers and their families for ten years. Most importantly, it excluded all Chinese immigrants from US citizenship, and any Chinese who temporarily left the United States (for example to marry) had to obtain a certificate of residence to allow re-entry.
Sexual behavior in the 1970s indicated that 7% of males and 3% of females had homosexual experiences. Yet, the religious and conservative politicians found themselves compelled to use discrimination against them to hold and define their quest for power. The Gay population found itself propelled into a movement to protect their civil rights. It took 20 years before the disapproval of Gay life was no longer great enough for the conservatives to use for any meaningful political attack to gain power. By 1980 the public saw tolerance of Gay life was nearly 30%. It took another 20 years and a demographic change in the population before it rise to near 50%. This forced religious conservatives to seek other victims to attack for their political banners. They could no longer attack these freedoms to create a movement.
Only 7.6% of the population identifying as Gay today in the US, the issue of Gay rights being the same as the broader population because the broader population thought they indeed had and were entitled to the same rights. Religious and radical right wing conservatives could not longer use the attack against Gay rights as a political forum to gain votes.
The percentage of those being attacked now has to be even smaller to support the calls for discrimination. So, the population of trans persons which amounted to less than 0.6% of the population was chosen to be singled out and attacks on any rights they had to be themselves was demonized.
Conservative politicians must they have generalized anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder when they attack the liberties of others. Conservatives slowly began to segregate trans persons who identified as the opposite gender, present themselves and act so to provide happiness and a general feeling of being presented as normal. Laws against sharing bathrooms in public began to appear. Prior to this most trans persons used the bathrooms of their identified gender without being notices. However, suddenly it was a politically powerful issue especially since schools began to allow for this because of Federal guidance. Conservatives in States could use a denial trans rights and dignity to attack liberal Federal rights protection guidelines to create their political power.
The smaller the discriminated population the higher is the need for general approval to reduce this discriminatory political power. With only 7.6% of the population identifying as Gay one would think they are still a target for the right wing attacks but today 80% of the US population approves on non-discriminatory laws against the Gay population.
The trans-rights opponents now only face a 64% approval with the smaller percentage of trans-persons it appears that a mere majority is not enough to secure trans-rights. Especially since the attacks across gender lines involves transactional issues that have been created by trans-athlete successes. Conservatives can now attack trans-persons on he basis of a imprecise broad judgement of immediate or unfair physical advantages in competitive sports not just social identity. While these should be left to individual sporting organizations and schools, their use in the political forum have as recently as the 2024 political attack ads used by conservatives against their opponents. Since the beginning of August 2024, Republicans have poured more than $65 million into television ads in more than a dozen states on anti-trans rights. 1 Unfortunately, the Conservatives are not using just ads to win political votes but actually enacting laws to gain political advantages in Republican run States to actively single out and discriminate against this small group of citizens.
Since the beginning of August 2024, Republicans have poured more than $65 million into television ads in more than a dozen states on anti-trans rights. 1 Unfortunately, the Conservatives are not using just advertisements to win political power but enacting laws with the sole purpose of political advantages in Republican run States that single out and actively discriminate against this small of group (1.1% of the US adult population identifies as transgender) of citizens.
The Conservative Century for the Protection of Bigotry
Due to increased immigration and a large rural-to-urban shift in population from 1910 to 1920, the Republican Congress in has refused to reapportion the House of Representatives because such a reapportionment would shift political power away from the Republicans. They have done this since Republican President Herbert Hoover. Signed into law by the Republicans in June 18, 1929 CFR 46 Stat. 21. This law prevents the US people from gaining minimal political power in the US Congress simply by being an increasing population. This law some say rewrote the Constitution and cemented bigotry discrimination into the American political system. It not only allowed conservative bigots to obtain power through the lower rural conservative population but enabled them to freeze the growing power of those that might oppose them.
The law froze the number of house representatives, keeping the existing constitution’s rule that every state gets one house representative. It apportioned the number of voting representatives in the House and fixed by law it to no more than 435, proportionally representing the population of the 50 states. This in effect created the US as the least representative government in the free democratic world.
The founders discussed a different issue of discrimination when they formed this nation. That is why they compromised (some would say cowardly) on the legislative branch to have both a State level politically determined house, the Senate and a citizen voted Representative’s house based on population. The smaller populated States were given the same ability of veto power in the Senate over any of the more populated and higher congressionally representative states.
Today, one representative represents upwards of 786,000 Americans. This cap on representation at 435 congressional representatives was formed because of conservative discriminatory fear of immigrants. This gives in-proportionate power to smaller right wing conservative populations in the Government leading to these discriminatory struggles. A representative in liberal leaning California (752,461 per representative) or New York (752,692 per representative) for example is normalized by Wyoming (580,000 per representative). That becomes nearly 200,000 voters out-voted by a smaller population in congressional House along with an equal vote in each state in the Senate.
A few weeks have passed and another set of contractors came to work at one of my properties. The young man was smiles and a decent hard working craftsman. While working and talking about different subjects, he turned to his buddy and said;
“Hey, did you know my Aunt died?”
In response to empathetic responses he said;
“Ya, she caught the COVID and died. She could not breath and we found her dead at her home”
Then after a few “We are sorry to hear that” I asked him if she was vaccinated. He said No. I asked him if he was vaccinated and he again said, No. He broke into joking about the vaccine.
“My Sister and her family got vaccinated and I tried to put all the magnets on her arm to see if they would stick. You know, it is supposed to make you magnetic or have some sort of chip in it, ” he laughed.
Family Tree with Dead Aunt
This was his Aunt’s death he was joking about. The mother of his cousins, dead of COVID and never vaccinated. The lightness of his comments and jokes exposes the misinformation and insane conspiracy theories has corrupting the natural belief that medical advancements are here to help us. How the political rhetoric to retain power or the claim for individual freedoms has manipulated normal hard working Americans against their own self interest and even preservation.
The dangerous rhetoric, no doubt, made up by some person sitting at their computer and laughing while they are posting or re-posting it. A complete line of conspirators to effectively murder people to make a political point. They have no attachment of this man’s cousins who lost their mother. They would no doubt take pride while smirking at the joke the man made about the magnets. To them, the Aunt was just an unfortunate byproduct or collateral damage in the wider political power struggle over vaccination/masks vs anti-vaccinators/maskers.
Unfortunately for the Virus too, it killed this man’s Aunt and it could no longer use her body to evolutionary engineer its genetic transmutation into another form of itself. COVID’s struggle to evolve into a disease that can last forever in humankind if it does not kill them all. COVID failed to let the host body survive and continue to evolve it babies in order to become dominant over man..
COVID winning the evolutionary battle
Most viruses like influenza (common flue) get out of cells using biosynthetic secretory pathway. The infection path appears to be normal. The virus enters the human cell and releases its genetic code into the cell and body snatches it into producing COVID babies. Human cells evolved protections and our immune system can identify and attack the infected cells.
However, COVID evolved a more secure path out of our cells that have natural protections to prevent the spread of the virus once our human cells are infected. It uses the Lysome function of our cells to turn off the cells acidic protection and exit out of the our cells trash compactor system. The novel COVID virus babies generated in the human cell can then exit past normal human evolutionary protections to infect other cells1.
Worse for humans the COVID has apparently created better mutation to proliferate itself. It has already become a highly evolved virus like the common cold to a more infectious air transmission, the most effective transmission pathway, from host to host with the D-Variant. But further the COVID has apparently created a mutation of our own cells to proliferate itself.
Coronavirus-infected cells can produce more and longer spindly projections called filopodia than normal uninfected cells. Viral particles (colored green in this electron microscopy image of a monkey cell) can bud from these protrusions and possibly infect other cells.2
Basically, the virus is changing human cells into alien monsters cells to infect other cells. This is what the unvaccinated and anti-maskers are allowing to happen in every human infected. Just like in the movie Aliens infected humans are incubators for its babies.
I could go on a tack about how the dis-information and anti-vaccine rhetoric is all but criminal in killing these people. But this will lay on deaf ears that does not believe they are at risk. So I will end with one more comment from the gentleman whose Aunt died of COVID.
When he was done with my project I said, ” I was sorry to hear about his Aunt.” He laughed and said, “Thanks, my Uncle(her husband), died of it two weeks earlier.”
During a recent lunch with some contractors working on a property of mine the conversation was brought up about one of the contractor’s Mother having Covid-19. The conversation moved into a question by me of whether she and/or they had been vaccinated since it was relatively easy now to get a vaccination against Covid-19 but somehow the Republican State of Texas had only 49.5% of the population vaccinated at that time.
I explained that a virus is an alien that is fighting for the survival of its kind inside our bodies like the creature in the movie, Alien. It wants to increase its world population and survive. It uses humans as incubators for its evolving population. The disease invades our cells and uses them as incubators to produce their babies.
Covid has two main objectives in its path to its success and survival:
First, It must evolve. Yes, evolve just like man did.(I am assuming you have this understanding of man). COVID must evolve into a easily spreading disease so it can expand its population. Like the Cold or Flu virus airborne spreading creates the best opportunity to infecting a new host. Surviving on surfaces and hoping for touch on a surface or a drop of bodily fluid to find an opening in the skin is not efficient nor fast. Ebola transmits with direct fluid contact this way and can be successfully isolated reducing the evolution of its form. However, Covid, with the newer variations Delta and Gamma even more so, it spreads more like the flu using droplets expelled from the infected that travel 6 to 8 feet. This gives Covid a near perfect achievement in transmittal capability in its path to dominate the Earth and utilize humans as hosts for its babies.
Birth of the Alien organism in the 1979 movie.
Second, it must not kill its host. At first scientist thought the COVID was a disease like a flu or pneumonia. They thought it was an infection of the lung causing fluids to build. But COVID seems to evolved as a different sort. Instead of infecting the digestive system like its closets animal family. It has evolved as a blood disease that can transmit itself via the air and not need fecal ingestion or fluid entering eyes or cracks in the skin.
In the early days of 2020 little was known of the disease and how to treat it. It was killing up to 5% if those infected in the early infected States like New York and New Jersey. The highly evolved flu kills less than .015% of its infected. The Republican President Trump did not like the stigma of the disease and thought ignoring it would make it go away like the flu. Trump eventually gave in as death numbers rose but remained steadfast in his effort to minimize, his perception of political weakness in the death numbers by continual playing down the severity. Eventually scientists began to understand the virus and start processes to treat and eventually use new technology to create a mechanism for a vaccine. The only thing the minimization of the severity did was allow for more infections and increase the infected population that sped up COVID’s evolution cycle with even more of COVID’s babies being born in human hosts in the US. The same now is true of those that do not get vaccinated. More human unvaccinated hosts for the COVID larva, like an alien, to breed and evolve.
Infectious POTUS Trump taking off anti-transmission mask
Killing its host is low on the evolutionary path for a virus as one can imagine a dead host means the death of all those wonderful COVID baby maker cells. The dead human host no longer breathes out or coughs the virus to spread it to other hosts. EBOLA created a path past this point for itself with bodily fluid or fecal matter still being highly infectious even with dead human hosts. But, it still could be isolated preventing more EBOLA babies.
Ebola victims being buried.
Eventually the evolutionary path is for COVID to become like the highly evolved COLD virus as quickly transmitted to Hosts and not treatable. But it is not there, it is still causing severe sickness and deaths. Each infected human host breeds millions of new virus babies, each with a chance to evolve toward the highest evolved state.
The vaccines prevent this evolution or at least minimizes it. It was developed using new technology that allows it to get our bodies to mimic the disease and set up our immune defense. If we get sick, the virus breeding, is quickly fought by our immune system and reduces the number of newly evolved COVID babies bursting out of our cells. The Anti-Vaxxers and all the rhetoric of personal freedom to not take it is allowing for even more COVID babies to be born increasing COVID’s chances of evolutionary success.
But what if during this evolution it does not reach the path of the COLD to become less lethal but a version of the highly transmittal mutates into an even more deadly form and becomes dominant? The variant might evolve, suddenly, to kill like EBOLA which has a lethality of 50% average an up to 88% in some areas. The Anti-Vaxxers or Hesitant-Vaxxer are saying that they are good with being the breeder for more COVID babies in their bodies as long as it does not kill or harm them. A selfish outlook no doubt. But with only 13.7% of the World population vaccinated. Each new human infection rolls the evolutionary dice. This could lead to a apocalyptic event where just one Anti-Vaxxer could be the breeder of a new variant that could, possibly, kill 2.1 billion people.
I saw this and since it is along the warnings I have written so much since 2014 I decided to include it so that America will remain, first, the beacon of freedom in the world and not just another authoritarian demagoguery.
There was a time when the United States was the beacon to the world. The shining city of democracy on the hill some politicians used to call it. The country was growing and fighting the spectre of totalitarianism referred to as communism. There was upheaval as the United States got itself into a war to stop the spread of communism in Vietnam. The youth of the country rebelled against the established conservatism that was sending it to this seemingly endless war.
Black Americans both young and old were rebelling too. Theirs was a different conflict born from a disproportionate reduction in opportunity and rights compared to their non-Black fellow US American inhabitants.
The two movements simultaneously shifted the American psyche closer to a pure, just democracy. Nurtured by the visions of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, who both pushed the hardened conservative agenda against the foe of totalitarianism and accepted the reasons for the social upheavals, the rebellion’s goals pushed against the blockade against them with seeming success in the 1964 civil rights bill. This was followed by the Voting Rights Act in 1965 which prohibited the implementing of a voting qualification or prerequisite to voting.
Richard M. Nixon readdressed the conservative agenda to pushing Vietnam to a higher and more deadly conflict. Men were drafted to continue the deadly conflict against the Vietnamese struggle for freedom against colonialism and their imperialism past in the name of the American conservative’s visions of world democracy.
During these times women won the right in the decisions about their reproductive organs and control their future. They were saved from the deadly alley coat hanger and won the right for safe and legal abortions Roe v Wade was decided January 22, 1973.
Conservative President Nixon, guilty of prolonging the war for political reasons, found the means to finally end the US involvement.
January 1973 the drafting of men into the U.S. armed services for the continued push of the anti-totalitarian war on communism was no longer needed. Americans would no longer face the economically discriminatory policy designed to send poor young men into conflict for the anti-totalitarian war effort. The Selective Service System was suspended on April 1, 1975. though registration was resumed as mandatory in July 1980 under Republican Ronald Regan.
The United States was going to be different according to the anti-establishment liberal viewpoint. There would be an end to military conflict for the sake of some global anti-totalitarian dream. There would be increased freedoms and civil liberties. There would be equality for Blacks and increased awareness of the importance of women’s equal participation in society as a whole.
Forty five years later under continued Conservative ideological political pressure little of this has come true in the fight for personal and racial freedoms. The establishment that was so rebelled against in the 1960s and 1970s has in fact maintain a stranglehold on liberty and freedoms in the US using the impersonation of a democracy preserved by the conservatives. Totalitarian communism fell in the world governments to totalitarian capitalism but a capitalist regime could not be a threat to the GOP, a long proponent of capitalistic governmental rule. Perplexed, they turned inward and named those that continued to strive for the hard won freedoms of the 1960s as enemies of the people and radical leftist. They must be the enemy all along. They turned the finger pointing and blamed the globalism viewpoint of conservatives used for anti-totalitarian wars since the the 60s as caused by enemy globalist liberals. The assertion of unlimited gun rights and internal control of legislative power through gerrymandering and restrictive voting policies are the new conservative tactics. The GOP’s New Rule: White People Can Shoot, But Black People Can’t Vote.
Their youths squandered in a generation that has spent their entire lives in conservative global wars. Continually praised as good Americans and thanked for their service, they never understood the rejections of conservatism by the movements against racial and social injustice or the unnecessary war of killing in Vietnam of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Hidden from them by a conservative political narrative of praise in securing America’s freedom. This has left Americans aligned with the GOP skewed in the viewpoint and lacking inter-social values found in the ‘love’ movements of the 1960s. This created a conservative GOP that has become the Party of Sociopathism. A new social order on the basis of sociopathic actions and false claims by them being expressions of individual freedom.
We often talk about the violence of the river. Yet, we never mention the violence of the banks that contain it. – Bertolt Brecht.
The violent river of US democracy.
The river of US democracy is contained by the Constitutional Banks; The Courts, The Senate, The Citizen Voters and The House of Representatives. Trump with his personality cult, the Proud Boys, Q-anon and white supremacists make the democratic waters a little rough, nothing more. They are unable to stop democracy from flowing.
In the past years all the focus has been on Trump and his henchman gangs that he told to ‘Stand Back and Stand By.’ He then loosed them in his final bid to reverse the Constitutional processes. It was Trump and his backers that tried with their lies to ‘Steal’ an election to stay in power. It was the Constitutional institutions set forth by the founders that guided the democratic waters safely between their shores.
The Republican party has not learned anything from its recent party led insurrection of the Capital. They have lost the Senate and by it some power. Yet, they cling to the obstructionism, lies and hate speech. Somehow their voters hate for the sake of hate. We all lived with their changes and ignoring the COVID restrictions. Their State Capital insurrections against the proven shut downs and anti-maskers were a direct problem with the spread to their communities. Somehow asking for things at the extreme right is still their agenda. Attempting compromising solutions is not on their agenda. Their Representatives and Senators think that throwing rocks back in the river of democracy is the solution. I guess too many years of their Mystical Medicine Man president distorted their idea of reality. Being rude, telling lies, denying any responsibility for the misdeeds of their party and waving their beloved guns is normal for them.
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