Mitch McConnell
HOPE & ENCOURAGEMENT vs. PUTIN & CPAC
I can still feel that deep gut helplessness every time the sky snatches away what we need most, loved ones, hope and the courage to go on: it was twenty-five years ago, yet as recent as Malaysia Airlines flight 370.
Mom’s flight was over an hour late. Front desk poker faced people, emulating nurses doctor forbidden to divulge patient medicals, as cryptic as Spy Lie, Feinstein’s CIA reality show, propelled me follow the loud clanking of the arrivals and departure board, hoping for answers. Arriving, Mom’s flight number and arrival time changed to, delayed – then disappeared altogether.
For me, there’s nothing mysterious about what the friends and families of those on flight 370 are going through. Like Titanic, the Boeing 777 is too big to fail, too much “Breaking News” for media to pass up ratings, too knowledge is power, for officials to give those waiting for the encouragement to hope. Even the horrible possibility that the passengers of flight 370 and their Boeing have been hijacked and landed somewhere for nefarious demands, for hope can be encouraged by the least likely or likable options.
There is little doubt that the world is changed when people who profit by the pain and suffering of others, play on our fears, challenge our political egos, advancing from Palin’s front porch view to military land grab of smaller less militarily powerful neighbors.
He’s got the whole world in His hands, but only as foundation for the good people of earth to support, encourage and lift up all souls, even while
- Oil and Gas Putin people seek profit in war to recapture the past
- General Motors people make cars with ignitions that kill passengers for a decade
- Murder convicted BP people are welcomed back with open drill baby drill arms
- Joining their Coal Ash producing cousins, standing atop the people’s ignorance of climate change producing weather extremes, destroying people’s lives with drinking water
- Koch heads: opportunistic 50’s throw back Cruz, poverty accuracy challenged Paul Ryan, fire-arm awkward Mitch McConnell, bridge bully Chris Christie, education killing Rick Perry and dog without a bone Issa make Rand Paul look like a rebased half Alaska Governor as running mate for the Donald.
Yet aren’t most people proof of the miraculous promise of America:
- Still encouraged by the American Dream of equal Justice for All
- Still instilling hope for full equality with Three State Strategy
- Still believing at least three more States in our union will unite against keeping female people in their place
- Still encouraging unity between all shades of Americans
- Still working for equality of opportunity, equal pay and at least $10.10 minimum wage
- Still standing their ground giving government people the courage to pass the Equal Rights Amendment giving women the Constitutional umbrella they deserve as people
We are the world that We the People have made and continue pro-recreating
- For every Nazi invasion of Poland and Bush pre-emptive Iraqi strike, America’s Greatest Generation were America’s greatest baby makers
- For every Putin grabbed Crimea and Khrushchev’s nuclear Cuba, there’s the Best and Brightest of JFK’s American University speech for World Peace
This is why American people can be filled with genuine hope, not because we’re better than the other people in the world, but because
- We’ve been given more reasons to hope
- Given the power to destroy yes, but
- Given the strength to demonstrate courage by encouraging
- Given the wisdom to know the difference between CPAC and truth
America’s hope is in our education of every child and encouraged equal opportunity for every adult.
Mom’s plane landed safely. Let us hope flight 370 did as well.
Peace – Hope – Encouragement = Justice for All.
Action Time
We know we cannot live on bread alone, but surely we can do better than what comes from the mouth of Wayne LaPierre, McCarthy rerun Ted Cruz, saved by the Judd Mitch, figure head Boehner or MIAs Cantor and Rubio. Time out: no holy city can stand on foundation pillars of Citizens’ United Supremes, stashed white supremists munitions or bought and paid for politicians
Time to put gangs of extremists on notice, regardless of color, political persuasion or Wall Street castles in the sky: do not put the patience of parents and patriots to the corporate induced recession and gun violence test any longer, for the splendor of all the kingdoms of the world will not hide you come Election Day.
Time to applaud and encourage what is good, recognize what is bad and eradicate or Recall the who and what of ugly.
National equal voting rights and background checks for all gun purchases is good and just; The NRA leadership and those who punish whistle blowers protecting us from the poison food corporations feed us, are bad.
A President seeking balance in justice for all is good; a GOP tap dancing to the corporate tune of “The Rich Get Rich and the Poor get Poorer,” is bad.
Believing Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher saved the world from communism is misinformed, but canonizing them as saints is self-servingly bad.
Time for rebirth of freedom, giving, and harvest sharing, before time to die. Time for a triumphant triage of corporations, government and voting consumers working together free of rose-colored glasses and eyes wide shut to necessary fixes.
Time for living longer selfishness: all need work to improve peaceful retirement chances with ‘Medicare for All,’ salvaged Social Security & Medicaid. Time for cures: HIV AIDS, Muscular Sclerosis, Cancer and greatest time thief: Alzheimer’s.
As humankind, we are charged with global responsibilities, yet allow ourselves and our planet to corrode, the former from overconsumption, the latter, overindulgence.
Time to stop claiming we’re the best and greatest ever in all things forever, or that we’re even alright, because we’re not, and I’m not talking about the economy or even the new post Reagan GOP that abuses Filibuster to avoid fulfilling its primary duty: voting for what’s best for all Americans and when possible, for what’s needed for their constituents — without climbing “the Hill” only to succumb to the allure of their corporate puppeteers whispering promises of power and grandeur.
For the mountain top has seen greater than these “House” fettered on ‘The Hill,’ feasting on backs of those forced to fast. Time to recapture our essence of discovery. Are we sugar and spice and everything nice, or frogs leaping over the immorality of tortured farm animals, corporate slithering snakes coiled around taxpayer bailouts and puppy dog tails, wagging the dog of war profiteering.
Time we peek at what our corporate corrupt Congress and Supreme Court is willing to nose dive us in, on their crusade to Capitol peak. Time is always giving, but how we make memories with it, is either wisdom or folly.
Time was, I’d sit so close to the family black and white TV set and dream Annette Funicello. We met most week days between homework and dinner. At twelve, she was my first older woman and transforming even Disney speak into smiling melodic beauty; my favorite mouseketeer, even when forced to share her with Spin and Marty. Time was even horses couldn’t edge Annette out of my favorite memories.
Time, years later, an actress hired me to prepare her for her first Broadway audition. She was a triple hitter with a sad look in her eye. We worked hard for weeks and she was cast. Time over grateful and congratulatory coffee, she confessed our hard pursuit of the role was her race against M. S.
Time gives us all we have, so never miss the opportunity to say, I really loved those afternoon dates we had, in a time gone by, just a moment ago.
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