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August 24, 2025

UTOPIA DEFINITION

This is an excerpt from a Google AI.

"A place, state, or condition that is ideally perfect in respect of politics, laws, customs, and conditions.

Utopian Characteristics
Ideal Perfection: A utopia is a place of ideal perfection in its laws, government, and social conditions.

Harmony and Peace: Citizens live together in a state of peace and harmony.

Equality and Freedom: All members of society are treated equally, with freedom of thought and action.

Abundance and Fulfillment: Individual needs for food, healthcare, and fulfilling work are met.

Environmental Harmony: The natural world is embraced, clean, and abundant.

Social and Moral Ideals: The society is built on strong social and moral principles."

July 21, 2025

Beware of SHOCK EXHAUSTION

Sadly, the US doesn't seem to be making much progress in saving our democracy and way of life. Humans have a great gift for resilience, which helps us go through some very tough times and come out stronger. The flip side of that is we can get used to anything if it goes on long enough. 


America is being subjected to a tsunami of grievance and fraud visited upon us by a very troubled man who, driven by his deep well of insecurity and need for control, has seeped into every corner of our lives.


Masha Gessen, Russian-American journalist warns us of Shock Exhaustion. It is based on Masha's experience of living, working and being tried in absentia in Russia, where Putin made changes in such rapid succession that people accepted his policies as routine, and thus acceptable. Many believe that Putin's influence on our president has resulted in our rapid rise to authoritarianism.


Are we letting ourselves fall into complacency and a normalization of cruelty and fear?


Hitler was named Chancellor on Jan 30, 1933. Dachau, his first concentration work/death camp, opened on March 22, 1933 about two months later. (We are nearing our 6th month of autocracy). It started out as a forced work facility, but many died of starvation, disease, "medical experiments" and execution. Are our new immigration camps modeled after Hitler's (who built more than one thousand in total)? In the Big Billionaires Budget $45 billion was allocated for new camps which could add space for 100,000 detainees.


The administration promised they would only be jailing and deporting dangerous criminals, but soon expanded by white supremacist Stephen Miller to include immigrants who were working towards becoming American citizens and even law-abiding citizens. This cruel policy is due to hatred of difference and works as permanent voter suppression.


Thanks to all who are gathering together, protesting, writing, speaking out and learning to moderate the stress he puts us through. We all need to up our game and not be lulled into complacency. We are at a very perilous place.

December 10, 2024

YESYESYESYES!!!!

I love Leticia James and Fani Willis!!
Why is it that the two female black prosecutors bringing charges against the new Criminal-in-Chief
are the 2 SERIOUS defenders of justice in our country.

I love this country and I AM NOT GOING BACK. I am fighting hard against the right wing cartel who have taken over and are bent on making us a Putin subordinate state.

I filled out a poll sent by The Democratic Party begging for money, claiming they will fight against the Right Wing Coup. Here is my answer to their poll, in short:

When the Democratic Party quits bringing a pen to a gunfight I will start contributing to you again.

Until then I am donating to private activist groups like ACLU, Pro Publica, Meidas Touch and Southern Poverty Law Center who are getting things done. As well as to Leticia James and Fani Willis, two REAL FIGHTERS!

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