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Just the other day, I saw several cars with bumper stickers advertising that the owner of the car is supporting Libertarian Gary Johnson. Most all of those I saw were on very expensive vehicles.....on the surface , it appears to me that affluent people are supporting this type of mindset? I know that appearances can often be misleading, but that's what came to mind when I happened to see bumper stickers on various cars I've seen. Also, I haven't seen the usual jingoistic rhetoric in support of either Clinton or Trump in bumper stickers on cars either. Or in yards. It's a rather odd thing, this year, because in years past, when there's been tons of open support for any presidential candidate, you didn't have to look too hard to find bumper stickers or yard signs. My role at work takes me all over the metro area I live in, so it's kind of weird, if not creepy (to me), to notice hardly any physical sign of support for those who are competing for the presidential seat of power. Although, when Senator Sanders was actively holding rallies for his own campaign, it was at fever pitch to see support for his presidential run for office. |
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I also just saw a beat up truck with a bumper sticker that in big letters said: Hillary and in smaller ones: For prison. John Birch still lives here. Also, not long ago, I posted about a KKK gathering in an Anaheim park. *Sigh*
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The group, AAFL, in Florida is obtaining or has obtained enough signatures to put abortion on the ballot once again.
This proposal would classify abortion as first degree murder and eligible for the death penalty. Although the law, even if passed, would be illegal due to Roe V. Wade, it may go the way to the SCOTUS, essentially giving the high Court an opportunity to reverse Roe. If Hillary wins the election, that's a non-issue. If Trump wins the election, it is safe to say that it would be cause for concern. Another personhood issue. SMH
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But it's not just reduced to something simple as the KKK, when dealing with White privilege and it's other driving counterparts of hate, racially motivated hate, etc. Having lived the better part of life, wirh raising my biracial sons in what used to be considered a safe social segment of society, has not always been easy for my son's or myself. 30+ years of fielding racially motivated behaviors of others has impacted my son's and I for what seems to be an eternity. I'm not surprised at all that white privilege and racialized hate is still an driving factor in American present day society. |
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To 'steer' the conversation back to your post about Catholic hospitals not being challenged for their pious bedside directives, I agree that the medical empire community needs to take up that issue and develop policy to take back their profession of medical care credo.... to help all who need medical intervention, and not just serve people with tenets of religiosity. Biased medical care is life threatening, just as unchecked bias (prejudicial treatment) is, and can be, in any profession or social station in society. |
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By far the most demoralizing fact in the light of all this war, is the number of passive young women, unaware, uninterested and not willing to lift a finger in an effort to uphold the slightest level of rights stolen by the generations before them.
I called these rights "stolen", as they might have been gently borrowed by a generation or two, who cared enough to rally around these issues. Women's reproductive rights in America were not g-d given legislative charity, nor were they ever fully and completely "won". What has been won cannot be taken away without another war, without the counter-acttack. The struggle is real, the battle continues every day, every little bit we do not hold on to tightly may just slip away rapidly and for good. Call me nuts but I feel personally responsible to carry on the torch. I feel compelled to do everything in my power to uphold the existing rights and fight for further amelioration. Social justice is in my blood, I owe it to my mother and my grandmothers. For this reason I do not understand carless young women of today who are so eager to simply lay down and let the sprit of this new war transport them back a century without knowledge, tools or means of hope.
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