As Bill the Cat was known to exclaim: "pFBBBTT" as Opus would look on and Milo walked to the next frame. I haven't the foggiest idea how to restore something of a moral fiber to politics. The GOP stole it from under our noses with the "Moral Majority", religious liberty, patriotism and a dozen other buzzwords that grabbed more attention than Trumps right hand, (apologies for the image). In July of last year, Julie Gammack asked who is the next Harold Hughes?
My Dad followed Hughes as the State Chairman of AA after his departure, in 1962 maybe? I was 4, memory is a little tough. Dad opined at the time that he might just follow Hughes into the Statehouse, but alcohol won that next round and Dad was gone by '76.
Marjorie Fuller; former Director of The Center for Black Culture and Research at the University of West Virginia wrote about Newton's cradle, or the pendulum effect. How every action has an equal and separate reaction as it pertained to race relations after the 2016 election. Prior to the election, and rightfully so, she was fearful that Obama's term would be over corrected by the Right. Only someone with a 9-year-olds ethos has taken the ball of the right side of the cradle and slammed it back into the balls. Biden was effective early but ran out of gas after the mid-terms in 2022, he was on fumes by then and should have taken the initiative at that time to work with the Party to find a leader and a path forward.
But here between the Missouri and Mississippi we haven't seen such swings; its as though there is a block on the left side of the cradle. Can you imagine if Jim Leach were up against the likes of Miller-Meeks today? "Liberal", "RINO" or worse would be tossed at him in expletive form. The Governor is so emboldened in her stance that she doubles down on her bent to kill education and the environment in Iowa.
Were someone to come to the front of the room and be heard, would they be a Jim Leach, or would Hunter S. Thompson be the better way to go? Both long gone, I just hope that pendulum can swing free again. If not, Newton's other law may come into play and gravity will set in.
Fudd's first law of opposition ' if you push something hard enough, i will fall over ' and then there's the testicles deviant to Fudd's law ' what goes in, must come out ' sarcastically saying....
As I was being moved from Iowa in the mid sixties, I was going to farm sales. Items cost pennies on the Dollar. These were 160 to 240 acre farms like I grew up on. When Petroleum Producers like Atlantic Richfield stated to control the fertilizer and later the seed corn producers, they could determine the fate of the farmer through pricing of vital components of farming. Consolidation spread this to machinery producers it became impossible to farm as my Grandfather farmed.
He held on until his mid eighties farming the old ways, but the continuation was not attractive to younger farmers. Had I been allowed to remain and take over the farm, I probably would have been bankrupt. I have just inherited this farm and am tasked with making sense of a situation that would not have been to Granpa’s liking. It got my attention when the first thing the attorney said was” Under Iowa Law, tenants can only be changed in September
"How did this happen?," the people ask. It happened slowly, methoidically, intentionally. The elected Dems put the last nail in the coffin. Now we're scraping the satin with butter knives and wondering why we can't breathe.
Possibly there will be a rebellion against the money changers. Possibly there could be acrimonious protest by the body citizen. Possibly people will wake up and vote these authoritarian thugs out of office. But, possibly we are just screwed.
As Bill the Cat was known to exclaim: "pFBBBTT" as Opus would look on and Milo walked to the next frame. I haven't the foggiest idea how to restore something of a moral fiber to politics. The GOP stole it from under our noses with the "Moral Majority", religious liberty, patriotism and a dozen other buzzwords that grabbed more attention than Trumps right hand, (apologies for the image). In July of last year, Julie Gammack asked who is the next Harold Hughes?
My Dad followed Hughes as the State Chairman of AA after his departure, in 1962 maybe? I was 4, memory is a little tough. Dad opined at the time that he might just follow Hughes into the Statehouse, but alcohol won that next round and Dad was gone by '76.
Marjorie Fuller; former Director of The Center for Black Culture and Research at the University of West Virginia wrote about Newton's cradle, or the pendulum effect. How every action has an equal and separate reaction as it pertained to race relations after the 2016 election. Prior to the election, and rightfully so, she was fearful that Obama's term would be over corrected by the Right. Only someone with a 9-year-olds ethos has taken the ball of the right side of the cradle and slammed it back into the balls. Biden was effective early but ran out of gas after the mid-terms in 2022, he was on fumes by then and should have taken the initiative at that time to work with the Party to find a leader and a path forward.
But here between the Missouri and Mississippi we haven't seen such swings; its as though there is a block on the left side of the cradle. Can you imagine if Jim Leach were up against the likes of Miller-Meeks today? "Liberal", "RINO" or worse would be tossed at him in expletive form. The Governor is so emboldened in her stance that she doubles down on her bent to kill education and the environment in Iowa.
Were someone to come to the front of the room and be heard, would they be a Jim Leach, or would Hunter S. Thompson be the better way to go? Both long gone, I just hope that pendulum can swing free again. If not, Newton's other law may come into play and gravity will set in.
Thank you so much!
https://www.100daysinappalachia.com/2017/02/pendulum-effect-science-took-us-obama-trump/
Fudd's first law of opposition ' if you push something hard enough, i will fall over ' and then there's the testicles deviant to Fudd's law ' what goes in, must come out ' sarcastically saying....
As I was being moved from Iowa in the mid sixties, I was going to farm sales. Items cost pennies on the Dollar. These were 160 to 240 acre farms like I grew up on. When Petroleum Producers like Atlantic Richfield stated to control the fertilizer and later the seed corn producers, they could determine the fate of the farmer through pricing of vital components of farming. Consolidation spread this to machinery producers it became impossible to farm as my Grandfather farmed.
He held on until his mid eighties farming the old ways, but the continuation was not attractive to younger farmers. Had I been allowed to remain and take over the farm, I probably would have been bankrupt. I have just inherited this farm and am tasked with making sense of a situation that would not have been to Granpa’s liking. It got my attention when the first thing the attorney said was” Under Iowa Law, tenants can only be changed in September
"How did this happen?," the people ask. It happened slowly, methoidically, intentionally. The elected Dems put the last nail in the coffin. Now we're scraping the satin with butter knives and wondering why we can't breathe.
I think Citizens United was the beginning of the end of democracy. Dark money is controlling the country. Dark money is ruining Iowa.
Preach, sister!
Possibly there will be a rebellion against the money changers. Possibly there could be acrimonious protest by the body citizen. Possibly people will wake up and vote these authoritarian thugs out of office. But, possibly we are just screwed.