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RE: Trump's words are making racism seem OK
I read a lot of War is a Racket, just in the form of excerpts, during my libertarian phase, but I have never actually read the entire book. It's on my list, and your mentioning it may actually bump it up to where I will get to it in the next year or so. Right now, my reading is mostly focused on economic inequality. I keep trying to finish The Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner, but I keep coming back to steemit. The book doesn't listen when I want to talk back, and it definitely doesn't let me give myself a nickel for each comment.
See, that made me laugh too. I think we would get along very well if we could sit down and have a beer and chat about the shit we agree on. There is, no doubt, a LOT we agree on.
And that is the thing... those comic book "white supremacists" with the Kmart tiki torches may be real humans, but they are pretty rare... I never met one, and I live in Idaho. People with bad information are a dime a dozen... finding a way to seek truth together, and stop letting the governmedia play "divide and conquer" on us all the time is getting to be critical to our survival as a species. My vote is worth nothing but you got upvoted anyway... thanks for the laugh.
I grew up in Emmett, Idaho. The place is like a bad episode of The Twilight Zone. I once saw some KKK in full regalia on my paper route. White supremacists are a lot more common than you would think.
The government is not a single living entity. It is made up of the people sent there by millions of votes. If you vote, you are a part of that government. When you don't like something the government does, you should note which of your elected officials sponsored and voted for the legislation, and place blame appropriately. The animosity we see is not the government trying to divide and conquer us, but the result of political parties fighting desperately to win hearts, minds, and votes.
I have been a Republican, a Green, a Libertarian, an Independent, and a Democrat. I understand where all sides are coming from, and what they represent. I would guess that I have made a more informed decision about who I support than most people. Please read this blog entry for the whole story.
https://steemit.com/politics/@chalidore/a-relatively-brief-recollection-of-events-and-experiences-responsible-for-shaping-my-current-political-affiliation
Read it and replied. Now seriously, we HAVE to have beers some time. Check out these 2 videos...
They moved to Mexico. They are on steemit!
This is why I left Idaho and now live in a state where weed is legal. Their constitutional rights were definitely violated. I hope they win.
Oh, they never even got a day in court. They were organic farmers, they were both injured badly enough that they could not harvest their crops. They could not get an attorney to take their case. They liquidated and left the country.
That sucks. Leaving the country was probably a bit extreme. They should have just done what I did and got the hell out of Idaho. Seriously, fuck that place.
Fuck the government here. I presume you know about Jack Yantis? One of his killers is my neighbor. :)
But the fuckers have run me all over the country, trying to make a living while I raised a family. I am DONE running. I am queen of my little hill and as long as I don't leave the hill no one argues with my royalness... lol! But I love Idaho. My neighbors are awesome people for the most part. Hard working Christians who really are NOT homophobic or racist or Nazi, they just want to live and let live. They ARE guilty of the same thing I accuse you of... They see some asshat Anti-Fa thug picking fights and think all liberals are violent. I give them as much crap as I gave you. :)
It was a little extreme to leave the country, except that she had American / Mexican dual citizenship already, her parents were legal immigrants who were fore-sighted enough to see a day when their kids might want to go back.