I watch very little news on the national level any more. When Trump was elected I made up my mind that I would give the man a chance and let a business man handle the finances of my country. I do still call it "my" country although my fore fathers came here only 119 years ago. I still have pictures of the Haas family clearing land to farm. They are very grainy pictures and were not taken on a cell phone, but they show the progress.
I am proud of my roots. My grandfather was 9 years old then. My great grandfather brought the whole family a little at a time. They settled in the Reno County area, but have since spread out across the country. They cleared river bottom land and began farming. Back then, there were no King Soopers, or Walmart and mostly people depended on each other. My great, great grandmother was a person who took care of people when they were sick. Great, great grandfather raised turkeys and geese and did custom farming. I forget what they grew, but it seems like it was sorghum and they made molasses out of it.
I diverse. Back to the subject at hand, which is the environment. For years steel mills belched black smoke and there was no concern for the air we breathed, but then the powers that be woke up to the fact that we were killing each other by not protecting the air we breathe. Thus was born the EPA and it became a world wide concern that we were polluting our environment and we only have one world. So we passed laws and then we held summits and passed rules for protecting our earth. It became a global concern.
And then someone elected Donald Trump and his ilk. He does not believe in Global Warming. He sets in his air conditioned office, rides in an air conditioned car from one place to another. And or storms get more violent and more frequent. We keep cutting down our rain forests and not replacing the trees that clean our air. We pull out of the global community that is trying to save our world and hide our heads in the sand.
I do not profess to being an intelligent woman. I hide from things that scare me, like global warming, genocide and anything that upsets my little apple cart. I do not watch the national news because I am standing over here with my head in the sand. I can not abide with racism and ignorance. There are no gun laws. We just settle our differences with an AK-47. For God's sake, people, we are sending our children to "active shooter training" in our schools. Where are the day's of sand and shovels?
Last night I talked to a friend in New Zealand. Telephones are our link to any where in the world. But now cell phones have replaced communication in person. Send me a text. What happened to coffee klatches? What happened to a walk in the park? What happened to a moonlight stroll? What happened to honesty? Integrity? What happened to helping an old lady across the street? Where is our common decency when we could carry on a conversation with someone and not tell them to go back where they came from?
We play follow the leader here in America. It is now right and just to lock people in cages because they want to escape genocide in their country. We build walls when we should be building bridges. I never dreamed two short years ago that our country could be so divided and that Republican and Democrat could be dirty words. But here we are.
I am going to church in a few hours and pray for my country. It is my country too, you know. I will first post this and then read the comments to my thoughts on facebook. My friends will be supportive, but there will also be the negative comments calling me "an effin liberal." Such is life. I am proud to be who I am and where I came from, but then God made us all and he made us in his image.....or did he?
I am proud of my roots. My grandfather was 9 years old then. My great grandfather brought the whole family a little at a time. They settled in the Reno County area, but have since spread out across the country. They cleared river bottom land and began farming. Back then, there were no King Soopers, or Walmart and mostly people depended on each other. My great, great grandmother was a person who took care of people when they were sick. Great, great grandfather raised turkeys and geese and did custom farming. I forget what they grew, but it seems like it was sorghum and they made molasses out of it.
I diverse. Back to the subject at hand, which is the environment. For years steel mills belched black smoke and there was no concern for the air we breathed, but then the powers that be woke up to the fact that we were killing each other by not protecting the air we breathe. Thus was born the EPA and it became a world wide concern that we were polluting our environment and we only have one world. So we passed laws and then we held summits and passed rules for protecting our earth. It became a global concern.
And then someone elected Donald Trump and his ilk. He does not believe in Global Warming. He sets in his air conditioned office, rides in an air conditioned car from one place to another. And or storms get more violent and more frequent. We keep cutting down our rain forests and not replacing the trees that clean our air. We pull out of the global community that is trying to save our world and hide our heads in the sand.
I do not profess to being an intelligent woman. I hide from things that scare me, like global warming, genocide and anything that upsets my little apple cart. I do not watch the national news because I am standing over here with my head in the sand. I can not abide with racism and ignorance. There are no gun laws. We just settle our differences with an AK-47. For God's sake, people, we are sending our children to "active shooter training" in our schools. Where are the day's of sand and shovels?
Last night I talked to a friend in New Zealand. Telephones are our link to any where in the world. But now cell phones have replaced communication in person. Send me a text. What happened to coffee klatches? What happened to a walk in the park? What happened to a moonlight stroll? What happened to honesty? Integrity? What happened to helping an old lady across the street? Where is our common decency when we could carry on a conversation with someone and not tell them to go back where they came from?
We play follow the leader here in America. It is now right and just to lock people in cages because they want to escape genocide in their country. We build walls when we should be building bridges. I never dreamed two short years ago that our country could be so divided and that Republican and Democrat could be dirty words. But here we are.
I am going to church in a few hours and pray for my country. It is my country too, you know. I will first post this and then read the comments to my thoughts on facebook. My friends will be supportive, but there will also be the negative comments calling me "an effin liberal." Such is life. I am proud to be who I am and where I came from, but then God made us all and he made us in his image.....or did he?
1 comment:
Democrat is a dirty word only in the minds of those who forget or ignore that Woodrow Wilson won the war for Democracy and brought universal suffrage, FDR saved the economic system and created the social safety net, Truman defended minorities and the unions, Kennedy made civil rights mainstream, Johnson finished Kennedy's work and gave us Medicare, Carter worked for good government and World Peace, Bill Clinton defended environment, balanced the budget, and paved the way for Obama, and Barack championed universal healthcare and the Dreamers, while showing us all what a careful, caring POTUS looks like.
Thanks for sharing the perspective of a hard working, kind and decent Christian woman.
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