Peace to President Trump

In the midst of the fear and tumult of the change of direction of our country I ask you all to reflect on the violence and war that we have become sadly acclimated to over time. I ask every man or woman who believes that things have reached such a state, that you wish, and even boldly state …’ I hope someone takes him out’ to think again about what you are saying.

You might reflect on Iraq, where we ‘took someone out’  we had agreed upon was evil, you might think of Libya and how that worked for us as we went about our business to relieve the world of a leader who seemed a just target of our sense of justice.  What is the power of your thoughts? Who is filling the world with fear and violence? What capacity do you have to create the world you fear through your fear? Are you so certain of the future? A friend reminded me a week or so after the election. ‘the only thing we know, is we don’t know’. How many lessons of violence bringing more violence do you need to experience in your lifetime? Pause and reflect on how many easy steps of violence reaped massive 'blowback'.

Get that thought out of your minds. Start looking at the positive, a challenge is a good thing.

I ask my friends who proudly belong to the ‘Left Coast’ to ponder our direction for the next century and right now. You might pause to think about Conservative, what does that term mean? Is there a place in our lives where Conservative behavior is of value? Is there a place in our Country’s life where a Conservative approach might bring some stability to the world? Well define Conservative you say.
You define it I say, and test yourself if you dare to think about the spectrum of thought that the world represents. Maybe start with Indigenous peoples of the world. What manifestations of Conservative thought brought them sustainability over centuries in their relationship to their environment?

 Perhaps these issues played a role in bringing about the results of the recent election:

Immigration:  11.4 Million Illegal Immigrants in the US as of 2012, maybe that number has continued to decrease from it’s estimated peak of 12 Million in 2007. Whether there is much wisdom in building a wall or not (and I think it is a waste, ugly, unnecessary, destructive to the environment, harmful to wildlife) the current attitudes of our ‘Progressive’ leadership here in California seems to believe there is no cost to our kind generosity in welcoming those from afar. With a wink wink, well you made it congratulations, here’s your drivers license, your medical care we will work it out further down the road. We need your hard work and willingness to accept low wages. Unfortunately when you build up such a long period of ignoring the law you undermine your own people and the law. It is terribly cruel to think that President Elect Trump might begin to enforce the law now after so many years when we have ignored it. The good thing about laws is that it let’s everyone be treated on the same basis, according to law. Without laws the forces of authority, our government might just enforce their sense of justice based on whether they liked you or not. It might become a very cruel world. What about the Haitians ? what about the Cubans? What about the poor Venezuelans? How about the millions in a devastated Middle East? Come on over … equal access outside of the law.. that should be fair.

  Is that just racism? Xenophobia? How many people do we welcome from afar? To me these are legitimate questions that might wish to be addressed by all Americans.. Left, Right and in the Middle. Something is going to be done. (Gulp) Well let’s see... and yes by all means protest all illegitimate attempts to enforce the law.


The National Debt: outside of the TParty fringe there doesn’t seem to be still a voice of heeding the problem. From maybe 11 Trillion debt when Bush Jr. left to what has mushroomed to 19.9 Trillion debt under Obama, apparently only Red State Americans seem to recognize the dangerous course we are embarked on. So far it appears that President Trump may ignore ‘the fringe’ voices of warning and expand our debt to new levels, something which the Democrats have been very good at, heeding the advice of Nobel Prize winning Paul Krugman, that the government is the engine of our economic strength and no debt is too much, putting us into the ‘too big to fail’ zone and consigning future generations to consumer capitalism in a wishful thinking mode. Already under Krugman’s urging, Obama and Jerry Brown’s policies .. the ‘Liberalization’ of building restraints to overcome community resistance
is seen as the path to prosperity.  Included necessarily with that an ever expanding population growth, ‘more bodies mean more consumers means more wealth’ that seems to be the theory. Somewhere a Conservative approach needs to gain ground.

 America’s divide. Don’t even say Abortion. Don’t even bring up the subject. What do you say? Can it even be discussed without producing such a rage of anger and moral certainty of Male and Female supporters in Blue State land that you risk .. getting your ears burned and having someone go off on a tirade of indignation. People are entitled to their opinions … The fetal heartbeat starts at 6 weeks. When does ‘the soul’ of a human come into being if you were to believe in such a notion? Some say that the moment of birth with the babies first breath the entire Cosmic imprint is placed in us.. you know all that Astrological hokum.  What Conservative approach might be good for us in our life and our notions of ‘Respect for All Life’. People have the right to their opinions, our minds and other peoples are filters of existence,

 Is it all breaking bad? Do we play a role in how it breaks or maybe even gets mended? If we do have a role then hopefully we step back from hysteria and fear trust in the Constitution and the resiliency and worthiness of our system.