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Politics — Table of Contents (TOC)

A brief synopsis & links to my stories about government and society

Synopsis

• General Basis: Good programs work, bad ones don’t.
• Approach: Specific issues & bad programs. They criticize social customs, The Supreme Court, The House, both parties, and Trump personally for incompetency.
• Picture: Justice is frequently in the eye of the beholder.

TOC Methodology

• Medium has made it extremely difficult for a new reader to see your entire portfolio. Even a TOC with all of my articles is long. This post is a sub-category with descriptions and links to my articles.
• Sections: Abortion, Miscellaneous, Local, Trump, COVID
• Example:

Bad Laws

• 40 Billion to construct.
• 20% tax increase.

• Social Security is running out of money.
• Control of Congress will determine who gets taxed for it
• The rich CEO or the low-income seniors.

• Student loans differ greatly from regular loans
• Fix it without forgiving any loans

• Good programs work, bad ones don’t.
• The student loan program was a great idea
• It was set up in the worst possible way.

• This abortion bill may have opened a huge Pandora’s box
• It’s worst provisions, unrelated to abortion, may be written into other laws

GOP

• Not the same party that I registered for in 1970

• Republicans voted against 15 bills to help average citizen

• No longer for Law & Order
• Why Trump passed Lyndon Johnson as the worst president I voted for

• Introduction of “phantom” bills

• Posting misleading numbers makes me wonder if anything else is accurate

Abortion

• People have no idea what labels accurately apply to them

• The Supreme Court’s new conservative majority goes back 200 years to support their decision on Roe-v-Wade.
• Using that logic, there is no constitutional right to own automatic weapons.

• They searched solely for cases that supported their preconceived ideas

• Texas abortion law — sections can be expanded to other areas
• It has already happened to guns, schools — link to Jan 26 article included

• By instituting chaos and legalizing extortion, torture, and vigilantism

• If upheld, the state would become the new overseer

• The abortion bill may have opened a huge Pandora’s box
• The worst provisions, unrelated to abortion, may be written into every other law

• Someone said, “Anti-abortionists are so worried about the fetus, but don’t care about the baby after it is born.”
• The Supreme Court made one big mistake with Roe-v-Wade when addressing the first half of that statement.
• Also, the Court, Congress, religions, nobody, seriously mentions the other half of the abortion problem. This article identifies both parts and proposes a workable solution.

• How abortion, slavery, gun control, church taxation, and the Bible relate to each other.

Miscellaneous

Misc. — voting

• March, 2019. I have not read the current bill (2021) but expect that they are clones.
• There is a lot of false hype surrounding the bill.
• The bill would cause many cultural changes and is not technologically feasible as written.
• A similar article entitled Why the “Voter Empowerment Act” is actually the “Voter Fraud Act” in Reality with a slightly different perspective was published the previous day, but is not included in the TOC.
• It’s basically a good idea, but not with today’s technology and data.

Misc. — abortion

• The sex act itself would set up the 18-year obligation and a pregnancy would exercise that option.
• Men can’t do all things for the child, but they can work for 18 years to provide financial support.

• Currently, women take all the risks with sex. Men take none.
• DNA at birth immediately identifies the sperm provider.
• Other things, like the voting process, criminals and law enforcement, insurance, medicine, international travel, abortion, child support, credit verification, and who knows what else, will change.
• Physical credit cards may disappear and cash could become almost obsolete.

• What would happen if women in the U.S. didn’t?
• Currently, it’s a huge burden to change her business cards, passport, driver’s license, credit cards, bank accounts, health record links, Facebook account, and maybe a hundred other things.
• Logically, it makes no sense except to show ownership by the man.
• Women in many other countries don’t change their last name. This article examines some of those customs and some strange ramifications here in the States.

Misc. — general topics

• Here is how some get their hate-filled, ignorant comments past the censor
• Most such comments are political

• The general method of manufacturing

• No longer for Law & Order
• Why Trump passed Lyndon Johnson as the worst president I voted for

• February, 2021. Racism, sexism, and other prejudices are built into the language and culture.
• It takes years, decades and centuries to change a culture significantly. Constant attention and effort.

• June, 2020. You can’t believe the News critters with their filters. Here is a first-hand account.

• December, 2019. Another executive order promising savings with smoke and mirrors.

Local — The Villages, FL

• How do you fight the giant
• Going back on its agreements, threatening to devalue your homes, endangering your physical wellbeing,
• And asking the county to help with a blank check?

• The fix was already in, but they still had to have public hearings.
• If the local government is about to do something detrimental to your neighborhood or an agency has misbehaved, you may need to testify. Here are some tips.
• Testimony Text — Sumter County Board Text that was reviewed at the writers club meeting.

• The developer in The Villages, FL has proposed building apartments inside a gated retirement community of single-family housing.
• One apartment, if built properly to blend in, may not cause much damage — maybe- but the residents feel it is the first of many.
• This article covers the impact of changing traffic patterns caused by many people living in such a small space.

Trump

He became a sub-category when he, personally, became an issue beyond being President.

Trump — general subjects

• If you support Trump, what does that make you?

• Every political leader has to give news conferences.
• The President, correctly, gave status reports every day during the COVID crisis.
• His performance was terrible.
• Pro athletes give better interviews. Even his supporters on my Facebook page say they cringe.

• The elite in historical fiction treated the common people and their workers like children. They even referred to them as children at times.
• I never thought I would see it in real life!

• Jan 21, 2020. First impeachment, the Democrats appeared just as dumb as the Republicans did when they impeached Bill Clinton for his sexual practices in the Oval Office.

• August, 2020. Another attempt by Trump to fix the election.
• According to TV news, post office boxes are being picked up, postal worker hours are being cut back.
• And the Post Office would not have enough money to operate effectively enough to guarantee delivery of mail-in ballots.

Trump — Jan 6 & beyond

• 7 direct calls to overthrow the constitution
• 44 incitements to a frenzy

• Jan 7, 2021. Insanity. n. mental illness of such a severe nature that a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality… (www.psychologytoday.com)
• Trump told his brainwashed fanatics that the election was stolen by a vast nationwide conspiracy and he won by a landslide.

• Feb 12, 2021. The United States has been attacked three times during the lifetime of some Senators sitting in judgment. Two attacks were external and one was domestic.
• Unfortunately, the GOP is still perpetuating the lie that this did not happen.

• Jan 28, 2021. If you don’t hold people accountable, their behavior gets worse.
• This set the example. My senators, Scott & Rubio, voted to condone any action a future President might take between the election and Jan 20th.

• Jan 12, 2021. He got away with his antics and the attempted overthrow of the Constitution, the world saw that the United States is not based on its own laws.
• The President, and any future president, can flout them without consequences.

• Jan 10, 2021. Why it was a coup attempt.
• The mob was chanting “Kill Pelosi” and “Hang Pence.” Had they succeeded and Mitch McConnell been killed, there would be no elected official remaining in the Presidential Succession.
• The GOP is now claiming that nothing happened and blocked all attempts to investigate the event.

COVID

• How to lie with statistics

• My other articles are based on philosophy, easy to argue, hard to apply

• You don’t trust the FDA — your actions speak otherwise
• Don’t want government control — you submit every day

• Both Antivaxxers & Taliban have been emotionalized in the current news
• Deaths were caused directly or indirectly by intentional actions of others

• If you don’t like to sing Happy Birthday while you wash your hands, try this song.

• July, 2020. Some people are frustrated that the government is telling them what to do and get upset to the point of public brawls.
• Is that really the example that people want to give to small children — throwing tantrums in public?

• June, 2020. India, with its spike this spring, demonstrates this point magnificently! Important to remember for future epidemics.

• March, 2020. When a fire is raging, the firefighters should not debate what flowers to plant at the fire station before going to fight the fire.

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