The Funeral I Could Not Miss
March 17, 2016
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I have to say that your essay is really two essays. I enjoyed the first. Not the second. I take issue with two things. First, from your second essay, "The truth is that sometimes politicians are powerless to bring about the whole package they promised." This notion that politicians are powerless. Could we say it another way, Government is powerless? Let's look at one issue to keep it simple. Illegal immigration, arguably the issue that launched Trump. For the last thirty years, Americans have wanted border control, a fence, a wall; we payed for it. They never built it, perhaps using the money instead on Well Baby Care for the children of Illegals (while putting American veterans on waiting lists and forgetting them to death.) This 'powerlessness' of politicians happened during republican and democrat administrations. So, we have politicians (government) that are unable to enforce our borders. And we have The People, who elected those politicians... that are unable to enforce our border. So my question is, if the People and their government DO NOT have the power to enforce our border (something that is supposed to make us a sovereign nation), WHO HAS THAT POWER? WHO HAS THE POWER TO ENFORCE OUR BORDER, BUT IS NOT? That's my first nit, with your second essay. My second nit is this. I've seen so many posts on FB like your second essay, nuking Trump and his 'Trumpites.' Many of these seem to be written by conservative republicans, not Democrats. The democrats will weigh in later, I'm sure. In 99% of these rants about how much of a demagogue Trump is, and how stupid and lemming-like his followers are, there is NO MENTION of the author's candidate. But hanging over the whole piece is CRUZ. The man I like to call Mister Constitution. Yes, he knows it chapter and verse. And like an old time preacher he even seems to pound on it when he preaches. I call these people the Smarty Pants Conservatives; they know more than we Trumpites do. But I think the fact that they usually fail to mention who their choice of candidate is says much about them. Too much of this bar room brawl that we call a republican primary is about how awful Trump is or isn't, but Saint Ted floats above it all, unscathed. I'll just close with this. I used the example of illegal immigration because that is probably the one thing that most Americans agree on; they don't want anymore of it. They see their country being reduced in wealth and stature, culture, right before their eyes, and yes, their elected leaders just can't seem to do a damn thing about it. This is Treason, in my opinion. Just as someone with a press in their basement printing greenbacks debases our currency, allowing people to flood in illegally and then slowly giving them most of the rights of citizenship, and eventually all (yeah, we know that's coming)... debases the citizenship of the legals. This terrible betrayal of the American people is why Trump is winning most of the delegates and most of the votes. And it is why ALL the guns are trained on him. And if they destroy him and his family, Cruz will more likely be next. If instead the RNC ruling party princes embrace Cruz, we will know the fix is in.
So you think Trump is the devil, but you don't reveal who your champion is. Why is that? You don't want Mister Constitution to get the scrutiny that Trump is getting?
Well, I'll leave it at that.
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But you normally have 2 or more essays! And I usually appreciate them all. In fact, I liked these 2 as well.
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Then you added the politics. Please separate the posts. I can meet with you on common ground on the most important things. I just don't want to share the memory I now have of Margaret Brown lumped with Trump vs Clinton and each of them devils from your perspective.
You gave me a wondrous and personal (and realistic and relatable) epistle about a woman who walked in the light. I'm not a Christian, but you gave The Word by a real-life tale. The politics then shoved it down my throat.
Please, I listen better by the tales you tell. Hyperlink if you must. But don't smudge that lovely voice with politics.
Spread the good news. We already know the bad. We can choose ourselves on that end.