Populist Advocates want to return to the past; Progressives want to stand ready for change

These past 4 years of President Trump in the White House have been instructive.  While the President fondly remembers the good old days in planning for our future, the Progressive Wing of the Democratic Party and the Lincoln organization in the Republican Party both have outlined their commitment to respond to ever-present signs of serious change confronting mankind in the offing.

Specifically, Progressives have argued the US should not have abandoned Europe's desire to make country-by-country commitment to end large-scale use of fossil fuels; and opened an invitation to the US to join with them.  

While political populists turn to the past as justification of the right of corporations to pollute as always-- should they want to do so, it is the auto industry itself that has come forth with their several earnest declarations of intent to manufacture electric cars--transportation not dependent on the popular fuel of cars in the past.  Indeed, in general, the business world has taken a lead in responding to the dangers to the environment of naive reliance upon past ways, when government has become immune to legal injunctions against big-time corporation polluters.

Another point: Republican response to the pandemic was initially to give money to corporations--mostly, the very large corporations, only lesser amounts to mid-size companies--and to the citizenry who have directly been hit by its effects in their pocket; and to the local and state governments for use to increase the medical apparatus and personnel necessary in tackling the virus, they are impervious to the crying need for continued monetary support at the level to maintain maintenance of the wherewithal involved.  "Let them do what they can with what the federal government has supplied them all," the Congress has seemed to say through their inaction to pass any more in relief.         

Georgia hand recount ordered by Trump people in line with Democrats' push for 2 Senate Seats

 

Gee, I couldn't believe it.  The Georgia recount for President is to be done by laborious hand labor.

You may know that there's a Democratic team appointed to live in Georgia till the run-off in January for the two Senate seats from Georgia.  I think this is a golden opportunity for the Democrats to learn first-hand what's on the minds of voters in Georgia right now.  The meticulous procedures to be followed in the hand recount should let analysts know the Georgian psyche pretty well, i.e., what the voter is wanting at this moment in history!

And, with that insider information, the Democrats should be able to put together the two campaigns for the January elections designed just to meet Georgian requirements for motivating to vote Democratic!

That the Democrats have gotten this far as to force a run-off for both Senate seats from Georgia indicates the Black caucus in Georgia is doing a phenomenal job to date.

My WHACK-O Theory!. 

         

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A health aide? Those over 80's best friend!

 I've had a health aide program in the DC area for under 3 months, but I can already verify positive results!

After talking with one of my doctors, who's on the medical faculty of George Washington University, I will paraphrase her words to me as a summary of my enthusiastic endorsement of this program:  "It's ended the isolation for you that older people feel once no longer in the thick of life's busy things to achieve." 

God bless!  

P.S.  I also find that I've returned to habits I developed during the more productive time in my life--with the addition of a health aide to keep me in active fit.

 

President Trump pushing for a fight with Iran?

Surely, this is a hoax and not an ounce of truth to it!

But I hear through friends in the military that there were even planes in the air on their way to where Iran is located, when a brave general insisted the fighter planes turn around and come back!  This can't be true. 

It's just a rumor--HUSH, HUSH, WINK--Trump would never want to pick a fight with Iran or any other country he admittedly hates! 

It's WHACK-O!

What was President Trump's Reason for the Trade War?

After following the Administration's rationale for not joining the TPP, I can only conclude that Trump had in mind to establish a competitive trade organization in Asia of his own founding.

That China had done the legwork among Asian countries during years of trading in the region added weight to my surmise.

But the key to verifying this theory is when the Secretary of the Army claimed at a Brookings Institution meeting recently (as I understood him to say) that he would be visiting Asian countries to encourage them to establish trading relations with the US on some on-going basis--a sort of TPP thing.

But this only underscores the basic problem the US has been having in dealing in trade among world leaders the past four years of Trump's Presidency:  he doesn't work with other countries, but tells them his proposals, if they are to work with him, instead.  The relationship of the US to our Asian friends he has set as leader to follower, not the US as one of trading partners among Asian traders--no matter through WTO or TPP or any organization that Trump may want to form with Asian countries who are willing to accept his offer of becoming a 'partner.'

Indeed, I think he is trying to make his administration an obstacle to trade with China, preferring not to iron out a trade agreement (except in agriculture where our farmers are hurting), so as to strengthen an argument that US companies should stay at home.  Yet, just because China has an already thriving trade with other Asian countries, many large American companies are still working with the Chinese government so as take advantage of  China's connections for establishing a sound footing in Asia and retaining their Chinese manufacturing operations.