I am southern. It’s in my blood which runs hot when I get
excited and in my mouth when I’m not thinking and let my accent go completely
cornpone. I’m southern from the way I feel the Alabama humidity in the summer
to the way I drink sweet tea and remember my aunt’s cornbread from my youth. I’m
Christian the same way I’m southern. My people are Irish descent and I remember
my aunt’s on my mother’s side with all that red hair and my Great Grandma Couey
and the stories of her and her little tambourine on the streets of New Orleans
preaching to the people in the bars about the love of Jesus. She wore her hair
in a bun and once when I was a child I saw her let it down and all this white
hair hung to the floor and dragged on the ground. My maternal Granddaddy was Dutch and Cherokee
and my Paternal grandparents were Irish descent. Both sides are southern. They
come from Blount County in Snead, Alabama and Etowah County in Gadsden and
Altoona, Alabama. My Granddaddy came from Huntsville, Alabama. He worked the
coal mines in Blount and Etowah County and that’s where he got “Black Lung.” My mother tells the story of my grandparents
getting two eggs from a doctor’s farm during the depression. They went back
home and locked the door so they could eat
the eggs without anybody knocking then in the head for them. My
grandmother would put water in the bottom of the ketchup bottle instead of
throwing away the empty just to make it go farther. Even years later when the
depression was long over and she had plenty of ketchup she kept that habit.
Understand that I have Zero in common with Donald Trump. He
wouldn’t have given my family the time of day unless the bastard had a property
he could foreclose on them for. But, they couldn’t have afforded a single room
he owned so that’s a moot point. I heard a dear friend who I will always love say that
Donald Trump was a “good man.” That hurt my heart. She comes from the same
background I do. But, somehow she has fallen for the might makes right myth of
the conservative tea party. I am sure that if you put Donald Trump or Bill
Clinton or poor oppressed (sarcasm here) Barrack Obama in my granddaddy’s shoes they wouldn’t have lasted
a day. So, no they are not “strong men” in my opinion.
Abortion? I hate abortion. But, I also hate seeing children
born into poverty and the conservatives then calling them thugs and drains on
society. Make up your damn mind. Either you think all life is sacred and you
feel people should have access to food, clothing, clean water and shelter or
you don’t. What the conservatives are is pro birth. Pro life? Not so much.
Anyway, these are some of the thoughts I’ve had today and I
just wanted to get them out there. I have been so disappointed at my
conservative friends. Back when Obama was president they vilified, they cussed,
they brought judgement on that Muslim loving, Kenyan born, American Hating
traitor. They judged every time he or Michelle Obama went out in public.
Michelle didn’t dress right or act right. Then along came Donny Trump. His wife posed as a naked model but she is still "all class" to hear the frozen few of the republican tea party church talk. Michelle Obama showed her shoulders and you would have thought the world was ending.
First Trump calls POW’s losers and he likes people that don’t
get caught. Then he insults a former POW who has done more for his nation than
Creep Trump will ever do. Then he takes a Purple Heart and smirks that ugly
smirk of his and puts it in his pocket. Now, the folks who love the country and
the military are really going to let him have it. I waited, I waited. I waited
and waited. CRICKETS! Just crickets.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t like Hillary and there is much
about the democrats and especially the safe spaces and the identity politics
that I deplore. But, right now Hillary isn’t in power and Democrats are not in
the presidency. So, right now I’m trying to speak truth to power. Sounds more
noble than it is. I mainly despise Donald Trump and the hypocrites that speak
up when it’s Obama but don’t speak up when it’s Trump. That’s the other thing.
The democrats used to say to the republicans that they should respect the
president. Now the shoe is on the other food and the republicans are saying it
to the democrats. Both are hypocrites. But, right now the most powerful man in
the world has a personality disorder and maybe even early stage dementia. I don’t
know I’m just going by some stuff I’ve seen during my working career as a
social worker. I’m not a psychologist and even if I were it wouldn’t be
professional to make a diagnosis from a TV clip or soundbite. But, anyway that’s
my 2 cents.
Peace.
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