Bernie Sanders Supporters Pepper Sprayed at Trump Rally: Hate-v-Love

Here is a video that moved me in two ways. First I was moved into sadness, then into joy. I like the feelings of joy much better. It feels better inside when there is joy and love. So why all the people who feel bad inside with hate?

Bernie Sanders Supporters Pepper Sprayed at Trump Rally

The worst thing about it is that one primary motivation for the hate is the acquisition of material wealth. Trump uses that primitive Human quality most effectively in his bid to acquire more wealth.

I feel sorry for them all. I pity them. Look at them. Their sickness is of spirit. Inside their thoughts, there must be turmoil. I think I can use logic to see the emotion, maybe. I have felt love, joy, sadness and hate. The love and joy I felt has always made me feel good. The sadness and hate has always made me feel bad. I resent it that the haters make me feel sadness when I see them acting in their primitive ways. I would much rather see people like the young man with the "Free Hugs" sign. Seeing stuff like that makes me feel good inside. Promoting love for all humanity is an advanced trait. So I promote the love and joy. I want to feel good and not bad. I do not want to be one of the primitives. There is the logic in the emotion.

Feel good inside by laying away all hate. The people who have embraced the hate and succumbed to the leaders of hate's diatribe, don't have to suffer any longer. Not if they don't really want to. They can choose love instead, and feel good inside.

Many great philosophers have pretty much said the same thing all throughout history. You know the people of whom I speak without me even saying their names. If people once believed what the wise ancient elders said, why do they abandon that now, and take up the cause of their adversary? Material Wealth? Things that "moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal." only pile on more hate. Not only do they have hate in their heart caused by the struggle for wealth they feel they might gain, but also they have hate in their heart for them who they think will come and steal. So in the end they make the poor because of their lust for material wealth, then hate the poor because they fear that they may steal.

Hate piled upon hate. Like a vicious self destructive cycle, only ending in death as it does for us all. Why not lay in your assured last minutes of life thinking of a life filled with love and joy, instead of image after image of hate, violence and death. To me the latter would be akin to going to the mythical hell. It is a choice we make. I choose love.

That's one of the biggest reasons I support Bernie Sanders. Instead of the hate, which causes people to have turmoil in their minds and lives, and to project their suffering onto others, Mr. Sanders promotes the things that cause joy and love. Things like full bellies and secure futures for everyone, and not just the few.

We only get one shot at this. We only get one life. Shall we construct a hellish life here on Earth for our species, or shall we construct a life of happiness and joy. Shall we as a species become enlightened advanced thinkers of progressive thoughts, or shall we sink back into animal barbarism? It really is a choice we make. Choose Love.

If Superdelegates Value Equality, They Give Up Their Title

The superdelegate issue is bugging me. The use of them by Hillary is very telling too. Remember when she went around gathering endorsements from the supers? The media made a big deal of it. What went through her mind each time?

Maybe something like "I have doubts I can win the election without an ace in the hole. I don't have enough popular support, and even if I do, why take chances? I want this to be in the bag." So without much regard for the will of the people she gathers endorsements from superdelegates, who are not bound by the will of the people. A proper servant of the people would rebuke the concept of superdelegates and shun their support as an anathema.

It bothers me greatly that our citizens and candidates have to ask privileged persons for favors in order to become elected. "Oh please Mr./Mrs. Superdelegate. Please follow the will of the people." Then a super responds like Texas congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, who said "I want voters to be at ease that their votes truly count. But I also want them to respect each of us [superdelegates] individually for how we have perceived America's future to be.""

I can certainly respect how a person "perceived America's future to be.", but their version of America's future may not be the one the people favor. There is only one entity who has a right to dictate the future of America, and that entity is the American voters in mass, in total. Not some privileged person who's only real function is to rig an election. Ask the Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz why the Democratic Party has superdelegates and she will tell you "Unpledged delegates exist really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don't have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists."

Any Human Being who values Liberty and Freedom will oppose the concept of the superdelegate. If the superdelegates were true lovers of equality, they would rebuke the title of "superdelegate". The ones who embrace the undemocratic principle of superdelegate should have a badge with that word to show their statue. They also should have a badge that reads "Elitists", and another that says "I'm better than you.", and another that says "Your vote doesn't count unless I say it does."

I'm finding that my participation in the Democratic party just to get Bernie Sanders elected is leaving a bad taste in my mouth. After the general election, I'll have to join a different party. Not the Repugnant Party either. A 3rd party. A wild party. One that actually represents the people, and puts the people before even the party.

The New Mexico Coup d'étate; Taking Control

Here is an issue I would like to bring up for the consideration of all my fellows. It is the State Central Committee, its function and membership to that body. I think this is an extremely important area that must not be ignored, or we will not go far in our Political Revolution.

I attended last years SCC meeting here in Albuquerque. At that meeting the most notable thing to me was the endorsement of Hillary Clinton for nomination as candidate for President. On April 23rd there will be this years meeting and I plan on attending again.



Getting to the point, at that last meeting everyone cheered for Hillary Clinton, and so did I. A lot of water has gone under the bridge for me, and I would imagine for a lot of the SCC members who were in attendance that day. The political scenery has changed radically in the last 12 months. With the rise of the Political Revolution of Bernie Sanders, and the threat imposed by the fascist Trump, I'm sure a lot of people have been and are rethinking their position. I know I sure have.

At the next SCC meeting there will be a gathering of members who will now be a mix of Bernie supporters, and Hillary supporters. I don't want to venture a guess as to the ratio of the mix, but we know what the mix looked like at the Pre-Primary convention.

Each faction will be fighting and arguing for their agenda. The SCC and its members set the course for the direction of the Democratic Party in our state. We must fill that membership with like minded individuals. Then we can set the agenda, and get this revolution to start producing fruit. Just like all the offices of government, we have to purge them of undesirable elements, and replace them with like minded progressives and Democratic Socialists.

We have to plan to take control of all of these positions of power. So the first thing we must do is attend the ward meetings. We must get our people elected as ward chairs and precinct chairs. Then about a month later there will be a meeting to elect a County Chair, two Vice Chairs and well over 100 members to represent Bernalillo County on the State Central Committee. If we can take control of all, or a majority of the County Central Committees in New Mexico by electing our people to chair wards and precincts, we will have total control of the Democratic Party of New Mexico.

We will have to wait until February 2017 to elect as ward chairs and precinct chairs our people, thus starting the peaceful, political coup d'étate.

What is the function of the State Central Committee?

1. They can change the rules for the DPNM. "These rules may also be amended by a two- -thirds (2/3) vote of all the members of the State Central Committee who vote on the amendment at a meeting that has as one of its purposes amendments to rules."

RULE 4. STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE 

4--1. Powers and Authority.

A. General The State Central Committee is the supreme governing body of the DPNM when regularly convened in the absence of a convention in session. It shall have general supervision and control of the political affairs of the party. Members of the State Central Committee shall serve as automatic delegates to all State Conventions, in addition to those state delegates duly elected at the County Conventions, unless prohibited by the rules of the Democratic Party of the United States.

B. Financing The policy of the DPNM is that its business shall be financed primarily by contributions from each of its individual members as their means allow. The State Central Committee has the responsibility of fulfilling that policy by maintaining a systematic program for soliciting and collecting such contributions. It shall have the authority for appropriation of state party funds.

C. Assessments The State Central Committee shall have the authority to levy dues or assessments upon the various recognized party organizations (Rule 24--1) on an equitable basis proportional to the representation such organizations have on the State Central Committee.

Bernalillo County Party Information

"The controlling body of the Democratic Party of Bernalillo County is the County Central Committee, which consists primarily of all the ward chairs and precinct chairs, plus additional elected members from at least 2/3 of the precincts. These members are elected in local ward meetings early (usually February) of odd-numbered years and serve a two-year term.About a month after they're elected these CCC members . . . possibly up to nearly 1,000 of them . . . meet to elect a County Chair, two Vice Chairs and well over 100 members to represent Bernalillo County on the State Central Committee, all to serve two year terms. Other party officers include the Secretary and Treasurer, who are appointed by the County Chair.In addition to the County Central Committee, which is obviously too large a body to meet regularly, some authority is delegated to the Executive Committee, which consists of the five county officers and all the ward chairs. There are two other committees specified in the county rules: The Resolutions & Platform Committee and the Credentials & Rules Committee. These two committees each have one representative from each ward, and are chaired by a committee member selected by the County Chair. The County Chair also has the authority to create additional committees as he or she determines are necessary."

RULES OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO 

"4--2. Members The State Central Committee shall be composed of the following:

A. The Chairperson and First Vice--Chairperson of each county:

B. If the average of the number of votes in a county for the nominees for Governor and President in the most recent election for each office exceeds 2500 then additional members shall be added to the State Central Committee for that county.

B.1 Calculation of State Central Committee Membership

The total number of members of the State Central Committee including the Chair
and Vice--Chair is calculated as follows: Divide the average of the number of
votes in each county for the nominees for Governor and President in the most
recent election for each office by 1000; if the decimal portion is greater than or
equal to .50 then round the result up to the next largest whole number – this
result is the total number of members. Since the whole number obtained includes
the Chair and Vice--Chair subtract 2 from it to obtain the additional members to
be elected to the State Central Committee.

The DPNM Staff’s re-calculation of SCC member allocations must be completed
in each odd-numbered year before the first day of the New Mexico Legislative
session. The DPNM Staff shall inform all County Chairs in writing of their
respective county’s SCC member allocations by that date.

B.2 SCC Elections for County with only one Congressional District
For a county totally contained within a Congressional District: Additional
members shall be elected by the County Central Committee according to Rule
19--5.B.2. There shall be equal numbers of men and women (within a variance of
not more than one) among the members of the State Central Committee from the
county; and the voting procedures of Appendix A relating to equal division of men
and women apply.

B.3 SCC Elections for a County with more than one Congressional District
For a county that has been apportioned into multiple Congressional Districts: The
total number of State Central Committee members calculated in 4--2.B.1 above
shall be apportioned to each Congressional District based on that districts
percentage contribution to the average of the number of votes in the county for
the nominees for Governor and President in the most recent elections. After
adding up the whole member numbers calculated for each district: if the county is
entitled to one more member then the district with the largest fractional part of a
member shall receive an additional member; if the county is entitled to two more
members then the two districts with the larger fractional parts shall each receive
an additional member; etc.

Before electing the additional members to each district the Chair and the Vice
Chair shall be subtracted from the additional members required for the district in
which they each reside.

The County Central Committee within each district shall nominate and elect their
own additional State Central Committee members according to Rule 19--6.B.2.
There shall be equal numbers of men and women (within a variance of not more
than one) among the members of the State Central Committee from each district
within the county; and the voting procedures of Appendix A relating to equal
division of men and women apply.

C. Such other members appointed by the State Chairperson with the consent of
the State Central Committee only as necessary to achieve equal numbers of men and
women, within a variance of not more than one, after the election of members of the
State Central Committee by the respective County Central Committees.

D. National Committeeman and Committeewoman, the State Chairperson, Vice-
-Chairpersons, Secretary and Treasurer.

E. Two members from each of the New Mexico Senate and House of Representatives who shall be selected by the Democratic caucus from each legislative body.

F. Two members selected by and from the New Mexico Young Democrats
affiliated organization.

G. Two members selected by and from the New Mexico Federation of
Democratic Women.

H. Two members selected by and from the Native American Democratic Caucus
of New Mexico affiliated organization.

I. All statewide elected Democratic officials and United States Representatives.

J. Two members selected by and from the Democratic Labor Caucus of NewMexico.

Deductions for Charitable Contributions to Churches are Unconstitutional

I was reading this article "Is Trump’s Tax Plan Revenue Neutral?" By Robert Farley Posted on October 1, 2015 at http://goo.gl/r5ji9L . In it I found the mention of tax deductions for charitable contributions. I wondered if donations to religious organizations are allowed deductions? I found that indeed they are.

"A church, synagogue, or other religious organization;" [sic]

I object to this except under one condition. In my opinion, allowing a tax deduction for religious organizations amounts to the government promoting religion except if all of the funds are used exclusively for charitable purposes, and without any hint of the promoting of the religious organizations faith who are engaged in charitable activities. I've been on the street a few times. I've ate at soup kitchens a few times. I've slept in the safety of a shelter for the homeless a few times. I've seen how the ones run by religious organizations work.

When you go there, you have to go through the routine. Most people most certainly would not go to a soup kitchen or homeless shelter unless you were really in need, so they take advantage of that need with their routine. The first part of it is to have you sit and listen to a sermon before you get a meal. This requirement, whether real or implied, is a tax payer funded promotion of religion. If even one slice of bread is obtained by the monies donated, and deducted, then it is taxpayer supported religion in that case.

Some of them pass out fliers to their captive hungry audience. All of this is really nefarious use of the human motivation to take care of their basic needs. About the only motivation Humans have that is stronger than the motivation to eat and drink is to breath. I wager if some religious persons could figure out a way to use the motivation to breath as a tool to convert, they would do it in a heartbeat, and even if the breather suffocates as a result. The use of hunger and homelessness to promote religion is not the allowance of humans to use their free will in these matters, and should never be publically funded. It is manipulation of a most heinous kind.

I remember sitting there hungry and cold waiting for the long winded preacher to finish. I surely was not thinking about any of the words coming out of his mouth. His diatribe did remind me about people who like to hear themselves talk many words. I guess they feel important in at least that part of their lives. Maybe pumps up their ego a little. I'm sure there are a lot of reason for the preacher to go on and on while we sit there hungry. Indeed, I was not taking in the words he offered of Gods and spirits. The only thoughts going through my mind was that my belly hurt from being empty for too long. I only wanted him to get done, and shut up. I'm hungry, please give me food soon.

I think if they would just go ahead and feed people without the sermon first, people would actually listen to the sermon they VOLUNTARILY attended using their FREE WILL, after their basic need was fulfilled. That is not the way the givers of charity, who use that to promote their faith operate or think.

They think that if they feed the hungry first, they will not stay for the sermon. They are partly right too. I think if they feed the hungry first, some will enter their chapel to hear their words, and some will not. It is wrong though to give charity with the expectation of a return. If even one got upset because there was no "thank you", then it no longer is a charitable act because in your mind there was the expectation of that payment of a "thank you". When I see that type of thing, I have to ask for whom they do the charity, the needy or their own gratification?

I would disallow charitable contributions to religious organizations unless they comply with a few rules, and prove it first. Their charitable activities should be separate from their religious activities at all times. No requirement of attendance of a religious, political, or any other indoctrination session or meeting in order to receive charity. No passing out of fliers, or the posting of religious promotion posters within or outside the building in which the needy receive any services offered.

Only if the needy/hungry person approaches the religious organization under the guidance of their own free will, and with absolutely zero coercion or manipulation, may the organization give them the offering of their faith. Otherwise, no tax deduction as a charity.

Obama Halts Sermons during Soup Kitchen Meals

Friday, November 26, 2010

"Faith-based organizations that accept federal funding cannot proselytize while providing social programs to the needy, under a new executive order signed by President Barack Obama. The order changes the original initiative, adopted by President George W. Bush in December 2002, which allowed faith-based social programs to receive tax dollars." [sic]

Do your job McConnell and you jerk wad Republicans, or get the hell out

I wish the Republican party would quit treating the people as if they all were morons.

It is as plane as the nose on our faces why the GOP will not do their job when it comes to SCOTUS nomination by Obama. The reasons are twofold, the way I see things.

First off,and to get the most obvious out of the way, the GOP doesn't believe any person is qualified to be in the White House unless they are a man, and white. So for the last 7 years they have done everything in their power to make impotent, and to delegitimize Obama's Presidency. They want to make his Presidency a non-Presidency.

RNC Rules: Insiders Speak Out on Contested Convention

The second reason is they hope that one of their Republican, white, male, bigot, sexist, fundamentalist Christian, corporatist, war monger, elitist, Plutocratic, Oligarchy loving, thralls (not Trump) get the white house so that the creeps can install yet another white, male, bigot, sexist, fundamentalist Christian, corporatist, war monger, elitist, Plutocratic, Oligarchy loving, thrall for a Supreme Court Justice, and further their anti-Democratic, anti-Liberty, anti-Freedom, anti-Environment, anti-everything that is good, policy.

Sorry for that run on sentence. It couldn't be avoided. Just like WWIII if Trump gets elected, or Wall Street favors if Hillary is elected.

Now let's disband and outlaw the Republican Party, and arrest the traitors within. Do your job McConnell and you jerk wad Republicans, or get the hell out.

Race & Gender Based Voting is Wrong! Hillary Energy Used Up!

Note: After writing this I decided to advise people that they may not like what I've written. This is an observation. I don't know if it is true, but it seems like it is. So don't get bent out of shape. Use logic and reason, and let us solve these damn problems.

Hillary Has Used Up Her Last Energy. The Firewall is Now Behind Her.

It seems that the firewall was made of Black people. I hope the Hispanic folk don't mind me making a "Bernie Western Bulwark" out of them.

I really don't like what I think is going there. All the injecting of race into this election disturbs me. It is not the addressing of racial problems in this round of elections that bother me. It is the pandering to the races as a tool, or the presumption of ownership of the racial groups mass vote are the things that bother me. Even the presumption of people saying Bernie Sanders owns the White vote. I'm sick of it.

There are things that make a person qualified to be a voter, and to run for office. None of those qualifications have anything to do with race or gender. I find it most upsetting when I hear people make blanket remarks like, "All (insert group) should support (insert candidate) because of gender or race." or "All candidates should address (insert group) because of gender or race." I find it divisive.

I find it divisive because more often than not candidates and voters will justify their choice of a race or gender to back by pointing to wrongs committed by other genders and races. It doesn't matter if only a portion of the accused race or gender is guilty of crimes. The user of divisive techniques will make blanket statements that demonize all persons of the accused group.

When politicians promote their cause, or voters consider those causes, the only place race or gender should come into thought is in order to find remedies to ills caused by racism or sexism. The race of the candidate and the gender of the candidate should be put out of mind by the voter. For the candidate they must remember the race and gender of the voters, but form policy that cures the ills of our primitive past, and lift all people up equally regardless of anything other than skill, ability and the simple fact of being Human. Never pandering to one group, demonizing in mass the other. That is the methods of people like Trump, or Hitler.

I'm afraid that is what happened with a Southern Firewall. I sure hope this is wrong what I'm about to say, because if I'm right we have way more work to do than I originally thought. The thought comes to me in the form of a question.

"Are southern Blacks, and a lot of females of all races, voting for Hillary Clinton because Bernie Sanders is a White Male? Let's not sweep under the rug the fact that White Males have been demonized most effectively for the transgressions of some of their people. For a long time it has been acceptable to use White Males as the brunt of jokes that would otherwise be deemed offensive if said in reference to any other group. It was IMHO a period of releasing frustrations in mass.

But let us not throw out the baby with the bathwater. We know there are creeps inhabiting the ranks of all groups and genders. So let us not vote as if all of one is the same as all of the others because they are not. Voting like that, or having those types of thoughts are just as unjust and despicable as bigoted and sexist thought. All of it is born of primitive thought processes that the enlightened person will endeavour to suppress, and eliminate.

Let us not consider any other thing besides policy when choosing our champion, or when running for office. Human policy that cures the ills of our civilization, and not exacerbates the problems so that a few creeps can profit from it. The only thing that matters is gray matter. We are one, and people better not forget it, or there will be trouble.

My Mind Tweaks When People I love Support Hate

It grieves me. It grieves me greatly and puts a burden onto my heart that so many of the people I love so dearly reject a message of love and hope for one of hate and despair. It is like a crushing weight on my spirit. Nevertheless, for them, I must endure. No matter how much it hurts, I must never give up.

Some of the reasons I follow Bernie Sanders is because of lessons taught to me by my dear mother. It was her 76th birthday yesterday. I remember the day she taught me to tie my shoes! She also taught me other important lessons too. Like not being a bigot. I remember when I was 8 years old when we lived in Milwaukee, mom always took us over to her friend's house, and my brother and I played with their children. We loved going over there and had loads of fun. Oh yeah! I almost forgot to mention they were Black folks. It didn't matter back then either. They were, and still are just folks.

There were times when we struggled too! There were times when we didn't have a stick of furniture in the house, and bread was the meal of the day. There were times of seeing national guard troops and rioters in the streets. Of going to George Wallace rallies. All kinds of things I've seen, and good things being taught to me as I grew up causes my mind to get kind of tweaked out when I think of the people I love supporting people like Trump, or any of the Republican party for that matter.

How can people who were raised being taught love support the purveyor of hate? How can people who have felt hunger and want deny the hungry and wanting? How can my very own people who have seen despair and misery allow that, and even condone it in others?

We shall not talk of it. Remember the old adage? "Never discuss religion or politics" they say. What a handy statement! I'm sure it has been the preventer of a lot of fights. I bet it has stifled logical/reasoned discourse, and thus Human advancement for many years too! That goes for a modern favorite too. "Agree to disagree." is another so called adage I despise. All too handy for corrupt individuals to use these tools to stifle thought. The corrupt ones in the clergy or in politics don't want you discussing, much less giving serious thought to anything. They want you to faithfully keep the blinders on, listen to their diatribe and follow orders. You can bet your ass those orders are not going to turn out well for the ones carrying them out.

Why we need Bernie Sanders, 2016.

So why do people I love so much support a position 180 degrees going the other way? Why do these people support persons who will cause them harm in the end? Why do they not listen to any other discourse other than that which reinforces their own flawed logic? What will it take to cause all of them to come to reason, and abandon the purveyors of hate, and promoters of unfettered corruption and greed?

I have an idea of what it will take, and I do not want our nation to have to endure that. Our nation met a bloody split in unity many years ago. I do not want to see a revisiting of that type of barbaric problem solving. Others seem to disagree. Some people seem to think that the use of violent force against a fellow is an acceptable means to an end. Their actions are deplorable, but yet people I love are supporting him. My mind starts tweaking again because of a lack of understanding of how anyone can support such barbaric jerks like in the Republican party.

When 1/2 our nation is on the other side of the fence, the wrong side, my mind starts tweaking. Then I set the consternation aside and persevere for my family and friends. I keep on keeping on even if they end up hating me for it. I know they will never be able to say I am doing what I do because I hate them. Indeed not!

I do what I do out of love for our great nation. That's right Trump. Our nation is still great, so take your diatribe and stick it where the sun don't shine. Maybe with love and hope, some of the people who support the hateful ones will snap out of it soon, and support progress.