When America was Great

When America was Great

Do’t get me wrong.  I believe our nation is great. Maybe not wonderful. Definitely not close to perfect. But it is great.  But when were things the best.  Many say back in the 50s.

I think this may be the truth, but not for the reasons that people that say it is great think.

Not socially.  There was some good parts to it.  Sure. But why were we so secure.  Why did we do so great.  

I think the 50s were the penultimate time because of the ecomic environment.  We were growing as a nation. That helped.  We were also helped by the rights and protections tha unions and the laws gave us.  

The employees were not taken advantage of, treated fairly.  The owners of companies did well, some were extremely rich, but it was not at the expense of the common man.  

We have slowly doing worse.  It is harder for people to make a living and have finacial security. I believe this has a correlation with the rise of corporations. Corporations are, in a way, a union, for people to get together and gain more share of the wealth created by the economy.  We went from a family owned business environment to corporations that act like the Terminator.  They have one goal and that is to dominate. Not feed the employees family or create a secure nation.

So it is not welfare that is dragging us down. Charity and helping hand. It is not the lack of an intact family (Not saying this is not a problem).

The Truth

English: Barack Obama speech "Fighting for Health Insurance Reform" delivered 8 March 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The truth of the matter is that Obama did not require health insurance because he wanted your freedom or to turn us into socialists.  It was because of the coverage of preexisting illnesses.  Otherwse people would not pay for the insurance until they got sick and then sign up for insurance.  That is not a sustainable plan.

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Lizziefiles

English: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Resized, renamed, and cropped version of File:Mazlow's Hierarchy of Needs.svg. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

People want to believe there’s an easy answer to thing.  People on welfare, well they should be made to work.  Pay their own way. Not actually a bad theory. In a perfect world.  However, in this response, is racism.  Okay, I'm sort of kidding. However, I don’t think people that are hard line conservatives can truly put themselves in someone else’s shoes (and many are just racist). In other words, they think that they would bring their values and work ethics and life skills with them.

I see correlations with governmental programs with my teaching.  I work with children that use illegal substances and have done bad things.  They have hurt people and they continue to hurt people when I work with them.

You cannot just come down on them. Yes you have rules and consequences and you enforce them. Yet you cannot be punitive. It only leads to be more punitive. You also have to identify the cause of the acting out. You have to give them skills to work through troubles. A kid that does not know how to calm down, is not going to calm down no matter how much you take privileges away.

You also have to cut break and reward their goodness.  You have to strengthen the positive so that the negative is replaced.

I am not saying take away prisons and laws.  I am merely saying that for everyone, change often does not succeed.  The figure I have heard is that it takes ten tries to change something you want to change.

We are all in our cycles of behaviors.  Thanks to luck, parents, and security ours are less dangerous. Those on welfare ares stuck.  Our only hope is to provide the children on welfar with the needs on the maslow hierarchy of needs and give them the skills and support that they need.

The Last Gasp

Official Portrait of President Ronald Reagan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Republicans elected trump because they are desparate.  Things are changing.  Our culture is more tolerant and more open and more peaceful.

The people that run this company, the rich, are staying greedy and getting desperate. But when Trump passes and limps out of the white house as a failure, they will have lost their power.

Oh there will still be pockets of right wingers getting their rocks off on being angry and teaching their children hate, but we will finally become a great nation.

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We need to make sure that we treat Mr. Trump's wife with the respect he does of wives.  In other words, let's call her names-  fat pig.  a house keeper.

Let's try to grab her in the pussy!

Are conservatives like a trailer Park Home schooler

There are people that homeschool their children that are motivated to expose their children to learning that they can tailor to their kids.  Then there is the trailer park mom who homes schools their kids because they don't want to have to get up in the morning.  They believe that they can throw a few textbooks at them and then let them surf Youtube (aka Ron Johnson). That homes schooler thinks that they are smarter than everyone else when in fact the opposite is true.

Donald trump is like that.  He has blundered his way until he has come to believe his ignorance is actually an asset.

Now you may say, but he is so rich.  Well he started out rich and money makes money when you are willing to screw everyone over.  If Trump is elected, like a bad homeschooler, it will be the children that suffer, along with everyone within the court.

According to Bullock, Hitler was an opportunistic adventurer devoid of principles, beliefs or scruples. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Trump is Hitler, are we post-war Germany.

My first thought is that America is not. We are not in dire straits and feeling defeated. Then I wondered if maybe the threshold from a Hitler might have happened even if things were not so bad. Maybe the threshold for evil is lower.

What if the mindset of a nation could be set in motion and then snowball until it is out of control. Plus as a nation, we might be dumber than post-war Germany. In fact, I am pretty sure that is true.

There is an inequality in America. It is simply harder to identify because technology allows there to be a big discrepancy without the hardships that it caused in the past. People can be poor and have hardships. Yet few do not have resources for food and shelter. Most have a refrigerator, fast food, and a cell phone. So the urgent need for change is not there- fix this or change. Yet the anger is there. We look for someone to blame.  Liberalism look to blame the rich and corporations. Yet we love our corporations. Pepsi and Nike. We believe someday we will be rich.

Conservatives blame the immigrants and minorities and the no religious. For many people, this hits on something they believe anyway.  And even if deep down, they disagree, if you hear something long enough, you will begin to believe it.

I believe that trump will not get elected.  If a rich moderate like the last guy could not get elected, then how will an angry Trump. His rhetoric will change, but (and he may not believe this) his previous comments have been filmed and will be brought up.