Your analogy is spot on! This isn't a sports game, it's America and our lives.
If we want things to change, we need to start reclaiming the fundamentals of how our country works:
Repeal Citizens United.
End corporate influence over politicians.
Establish term limits.
Prohibit elected officials from investing while in office.
Right now, on both sides of the aisle, too many people in power are getting rich, double dipping, while the public loses trust.
We also need to insist on a clear separation between religion and government. Both are stronger when they remain independent of each other.
Meanwhile, many of the systems meant to serve us: media, healthcare, and especially our data, have been bought, consolidated, and monetized.
We are losing our global allies, the rest of the world is saying, “America, you’re drunk, go home.”
None of this happened overnight. These problems have been building for MANY years. Real change won’t start in Washington alone, it starts in our communities.
At the very least, we should be able to agree on this: stop making decisions that harm our fellow citizens.
Once again there's a lot to unpack here, too much for the comments but I'm not going to write that post, neither will I hide or apologize for my reactions. Objectivity is the best I can do in my "recovery".
Epstein is dead, Col., and when his name is no longer invoked, he will cease to be. Justice eternal. As for his deeds and the deeds of others - they are the deeds of others, and squarely within jurisdiction of an obviously broken justice system that turns criminals into victims and victims into criminals. Your thoughts and mine on the matter have only the weight of public opinion; we don't know who's on the list, and more than enough time has elapsed to destroy all evidence, save for the survivors.
Regarding incest, pedophilia and child abuse any serious discussion starts and ends with the survivors like any other form of tragedy. The survivors are the only ones qualified to take us places we don't want to go, and many will live in silence because they're places we don't want to go.
Dare raise the issue of incest, pedophilia and child abuse to any of my siblings and they will react violently toward you. It's a life sentence survivors deal with in many ways. My way was to stop the gene pool and break the wheel of abuse, so I fathered no children to abuse, nor take any into my custody. Right or wrong, it was effective.
If you have a sincere desire to understand these behaviors, you'll have to speak directly with people like me. Please don't be angered, but it's a place you're not going to want to be.
Your warrior spirit is acknowledged, now you enter the psychic war in our midst, my war. Welcome brother, it's a good fight.
In the end, when confronted by the righteous to accuse me of deeds I do not commit, I resort to natural law which is objective and favors no one, and close with a prayer, "Christ is within me, since Christ is the son of God, where He goes God will surely be".
Your analogy is spot on! This isn't a sports game, it's America and our lives.
If we want things to change, we need to start reclaiming the fundamentals of how our country works:
Repeal Citizens United.
End corporate influence over politicians.
Establish term limits.
Prohibit elected officials from investing while in office.
Right now, on both sides of the aisle, too many people in power are getting rich, double dipping, while the public loses trust.
We also need to insist on a clear separation between religion and government. Both are stronger when they remain independent of each other.
Meanwhile, many of the systems meant to serve us: media, healthcare, and especially our data, have been bought, consolidated, and monetized.
We are losing our global allies, the rest of the world is saying, “America, you’re drunk, go home.”
None of this happened overnight. These problems have been building for MANY years. Real change won’t start in Washington alone, it starts in our communities.
At the very least, we should be able to agree on this: stop making decisions that harm our fellow citizens.
Once again there's a lot to unpack here, too much for the comments but I'm not going to write that post, neither will I hide or apologize for my reactions. Objectivity is the best I can do in my "recovery".
Epstein is dead, Col., and when his name is no longer invoked, he will cease to be. Justice eternal. As for his deeds and the deeds of others - they are the deeds of others, and squarely within jurisdiction of an obviously broken justice system that turns criminals into victims and victims into criminals. Your thoughts and mine on the matter have only the weight of public opinion; we don't know who's on the list, and more than enough time has elapsed to destroy all evidence, save for the survivors.
Regarding incest, pedophilia and child abuse any serious discussion starts and ends with the survivors like any other form of tragedy. The survivors are the only ones qualified to take us places we don't want to go, and many will live in silence because they're places we don't want to go.
Dare raise the issue of incest, pedophilia and child abuse to any of my siblings and they will react violently toward you. It's a life sentence survivors deal with in many ways. My way was to stop the gene pool and break the wheel of abuse, so I fathered no children to abuse, nor take any into my custody. Right or wrong, it was effective.
If you have a sincere desire to understand these behaviors, you'll have to speak directly with people like me. Please don't be angered, but it's a place you're not going to want to be.
Your warrior spirit is acknowledged, now you enter the psychic war in our midst, my war. Welcome brother, it's a good fight.
In the end, when confronted by the righteous to accuse me of deeds I do not commit, I resort to natural law which is objective and favors no one, and close with a prayer, "Christ is within me, since Christ is the son of God, where He goes God will surely be".
And nothing is lost by fighting back.
As a centrist, I can only say... bravo!