General Discussion

I know because I am one.

So if I field the question, 'What would Jesus do?', he told us.

When asked what the greatest commandment was, the first thing out of his mouth was LOVE. He said love God, love your neighbor as you love yourself. Later he said treat others the way we wish to be treated, and then he elaborated on this even more in the dialog where he said, "For if ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."

That flies in the face of EVERYTHING Trump is doing, from the irresponsible tax cuts for billionaires and corporations, to the resulting massive cuts to programs that actually help Americans at their kitchen tables, the war in Iran, the Epstein files, deregulation, gutting the federal government, gutting the Voting Rights Act so Jim Crow 2.0 can happen across the South.

It will take decades to recover from the damage these people have done, and they must be held accountable. We do NOT want to hear lip noises about 'looking forward' when we finally take back power. We need accountability. Indictments. Trials. Convictions.

I think the people behind the beltway in DC - even the sane ones - are not aware of the white-hot rage building among Americans. I am seeing 1789 and guillotine memes. I am seeing short videos by young people lamenting how they can't even pay their bills even though the work really hard.

My mortgage has gone up $110 due to increased escrow requirements because of both property insurance and taxes. It is costing more to drive, groceries have gone up out of this world, my power bill is up, my water bill is up, I have healthcare debt and I'm getting nickel and dimed every which way but loose.

Last year I paid in ~$18K to the federal government in taxes and I'm getting NOTHING in return. I would suggest the last time Congress did anything that materially benefitted me and my family on a permanent basis was FMLA back in the Clinton era. Before that it was the passage of Medicare in 1965. I was 7.

Instead, Congress has gone the focus group and slick PR route because they stopped worrying about what the people actually want back in the 1990s. The big donors are happy, so we have congresspeople pounding their chests and talking about their bipartisan bills, but nothing at my kitchen table ever seems to change. Our national government has become so corrupt it cannot even function, and that is by careful design. The people in power now genuinely believe the only thing our government should be doing is war (formerly 'defense'). They want to gut the New Deal, privatize everything in sight including Social Security and Medicare, and in the meantime Trump unleased Elon and 64 billionaire robber barons on the treasury and they are busy stripping it of everything they can steal and leaving us flapping in the wind.

If we do not want a revolution, then when we take power, we must hold these people accountable while at the same time looking forward.