Let's Talk About DACA and Immigration

Congress establishes the rules for immigration, that is their job. Congress has not changed the immigration laws which prohibit people coming to the United States to live without approval by the federal government. Immigration is not a state's rights issue, it is a federal issue. If Congress wanted they could eliminate all immigration laws and allow for open borders.

Imagine for a moment what would happen if we eliminated all immigration laws. If you want an example of what it would look like, look at Europe. Few openly call for open borders. Hillary Clinton was exposed by WikiLeaks for calling for it in private while she denied it in public. The reason is pretty simple, the vast majority of Americans do not want open borders.

Instead of passing laws to outline what is and is not acceptable in order to move to this country, Congress left it up to Obama to institute the policy of not enforcing immigration laws. President Obama instead instituted a policy known as "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" or DACA. The biggest problem was that it didn't change the immigration "laws" one bit. Congress did not pass DACA which means it was never a law to begin with, merely a policy of not enforcing the law for the moment, that is what deferred means.

Now lets look at some other facts. It is estimated that there are millions of people in the United States illegally. Some call them undocumented but that is just word play. They are undocumented because they haven't sought or obtained legal citizenship. Children who are not citizens of this country; but, came to this country when they were under 16. In fact, you may recall the influx of minors who came to this country after Obama instituted the DACA program.

YouTube - Why So Many Migrant Kids are Coming to the U.S. alone.

The fact is Mexico allowed these people to come here from central America; but, did not allow them to immigrate to Mexico. This is a fact that the corporate mainstream media chose not to address.

The DACA program has actually exacerbated the problem by adding even more confusion over what the countries immigration policy is and that is the single biggest problem with it. DACA was never the law of the land. Because of that, President Trump is not and never has been bound by it. DACA gave an out to congress so that they did not have to actually address the issues or change the immigration laws.

With all the discussion in the media about Trump ending DACA, there is practically no discussion about what our immigration policy should be and that is a problem. We should be openly discussing it and if changes need to be made, congress should make them. That is how laws work. While the media would have you think the questions are difficult, they are not.

Lets start with the basics. Should we have immigration laws? Most people would say yes. Should those laws allow people from other countries to move here and become citizens? There are those who say we should allow people to move here; but, not become citizens. The corporations would love to have them come here to reduce wages; but, would say these immigrants should not get any benefits. In fact, our tech and business leaders have not offered to pay more in taxes to provide benefits for immigrants. They are unwilling to put their money where their mouths are. That is hypocrisy.

When Trump announced his run for President, he stated he wanted to stop illegal immigration. He announced he would enforce the immigration laws passed by congress and remove people who are breaking those laws. People seem to believe in immigration enforcement and that is one of the reasons Trump was elected whether you like it or not. It should be noted that our laws allow for making asylum seekers citizens. I know, I worked with people at the church who were seeking asylum because otherwise they would be killed for being gay in their home countries.

The options available to us are vast. We can totally open our borders and give full citizenship upon people reaching this land, we can open our borders and let people come here but restrict which rights they have, we can change our immigration laws permanently allowing anyone under 16 that gets here to automatically become citizens or allow anyone under 16 that comes here to stay; but, receive no benefits or limited rights. Yu can have any combination of these things.

It should be noted that Mexicans account for an estimated 6.5 million illegal immigrants to the United States, yet, Mexico does not contribute to their well being here. Mexico sends no money to care for their people who are here illegally. Again hypocrites unwilling to put their money where their mouths are.

The media seems to think that enforcing immigration laws is wrong; but, is not willing to openly call for ending all immigration laws. Perhaps they would be willing to pay additional taxes to support those here illegally. Nope.

Living in California, these questions are not new to me.

YouTube - Harvest of Shame is the video above. It is from 1960. I recommend that you go to 49 minutes into the video and you will see that these issues are far from new, yet we continue to defer making a decision on immigration policies.

A question to be considered is one of illegal immigration and crime; but, the answer may surprise you. We do know that a large number of illegal immigrants become drug dealers. You may think this is an outrageous thing to say; but, you might want to look at the type of crime they commit. It is estimated that 80% of the 50,000 or so members of the notorious 18th Street gang are illegal immigrants. Rather than being innately bad people, selling drugs is a way to earn an income when you cannot obtain benefits or legal employment. Telling minors that they can come here; but, not receive benefits guarantees this. The question is not just one of what should our immigration policy be; but, what do we do with poor people who come here. That is not being addressed at all and DACA did not clarify it. I blame that on Obama.

The economist Milton Friedman discusses illegal immigration from an economic perspective. His conclusion was that immigration only made sense if it is illegal.

You will find that agricultural states love illegal immigration; but, they are unwilling to provide benefits to these people. It's been that way in California for as long as I have been alive. Nothing has changed and those promoting illegal immigration don't address it now.

Another question has to do with people who say that we are overpopulated and need to reduce our carbon footprint; but, then say we should allow unfettered and uncontrolled immigration. Hmmm. Lets think about this, our birthrate is negative and sperm counts in the west are down over 50%; but, we want to allow millions of people into the country that have much higher birth rates. I guess we are not really that concerned with global warming or overpopulation.

If we consider the environmental treaties that are being promoted by globalists then let me ask this. If we increase our population by 10% will we be able to increase our carbon footprint by 10% too? No, the Paris Climate Accord had us as the only country committing to decreasing our climate footprint, not China or India who are now the biggest industrial producers and don't regulate their pollution with the same technologies that we require in the west for our own industries.

Let me explain this to everyone in the simplest terms I can think of. The establishment wants the United States to agree to never use more resources in the future than we do now. That is why they talk about carbon limits. At the same time they want us to take in millions of immigrants which would otherwise increase our carbon footprint; but, they have a solution. They want Americans that already are citizens to give up what they grew up with. The tech gurus such as Zuckerberg know that there will not be any jobs for the immigrants or the current Americans so they are willing to share the table scraps with the useless eaters, the middle class and working class. They now refer to them as the precariat. You should look that up and look up the last Bilderberg meeting where it was discussed. I already wrote about it. They anticipate a world where most people have no job and live in 150 to 250 square foot rooms with virtual amusements to simulate a meaningful life. What was it the Democratic National Committee email from Bill Ivey said to John Podesta? Oh yeah he said, "And as I've mentioned, we've all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry." Read the actual e-mail at this link, WikiLeaks.

An Open Letter to Stefan Molyneux

I was watching a video by a man named Stefan Molyneux. He openly states that he is an Atheist, nothing wrong with that; but, his reason for being one is a little weak and not that uncommon. As my long time readers know, I am a Christian and even preached for five years receiving not one penny, not even for gas for my car. In fact, preaching cost me thousands of dollars which went to the church and a food pantry. In fact this blog began as a discussion of reality which eventually became a proof of God. That version of this blog was deleted years ago as was the second iteration of this blog.

The current version of this blog does not focus on philosophy or religion, it mainly focuses on technology and social, economic and political corruption. This third iteration of this blog is more about the lies we are told than the truths that are out there.

Mr. Molyneux is an intelligent and articulate person seeking the perfect moral code while arguing there is no God. I usually do not address such people because I am not evangelical. I believe that if God wants your attention he can get it without my intervention. I believe it is my job to have an answer for the hope that is within me when asked. As for my blog, it is just where I express my beliefs and all are free to leave a comment telling me I am an idiot or don't even bother reading it. My blog is not my mission and I still have that many readers. Currently I have approximately 120,000 views is 7 years or so. Hard to say how many when I deleted the first two versions. I do not advertise, monetize or promote this blog anywhere. Never have.

The video I watched of Mr. Molyneux made it clear to me that he would like to know if there is a God. In the video he discussed why he became an Atheist. It wasn't because he did not see the world around him. He did another video where he said the greatest proof for God was our sentience, what our thoughts do and are capable of. He became an Atheist because he could not understand how a God could let us be so evil to each other and how people who claimed to believe in him could ignore the morals of the bible. His discussion was very sincere and deeply personal and emotional for him. Perhaps I am wrong; but, I think he wants to believe. He also wants to believe we will get better here on earth, we will not. People have not improved over time, the same follies, the same corruption and the same selfishness exist side by side with the love and selflessness. We each make our own choices and none are bound by the decisions of the past by others.

Life is very much about seeing how the range of people, emotions, deals with a range of environments. Life is about defining ourselves, not having God define us completely. That is the thing about free will, it is a gift that allows us to choose who we will be and we only really know ourselves when tested to the fullest extent and we only really know others when they are too. Each person's test is individual. The people that have it easiest in life tend to be the most smug, selfish and heartless; but, not all. It is harder for people to find true empathy for the pain of others when they have been raised believing all others are here to make their lives better. That is the mistake Mr. Molyneux makes. My brother used to say that if he was born on earth to make everyone happy, he sure did a bad job of it. It was a joke he used to explain that it was not his job to please the world and it is a pretty good one.

Where does the concept that God is your personal concierge come from? Where is the reasonableness in saying I won't believe in God unless he turns the world into a gigantic fricking Disneyland where all are happy all the time come from? Not the bible, not history.  If we only focus on the evil men do then we miss the good that they do. Jesus said to focus on the good.

This is a video about one of the greatest chefs in the world, Thomas Keller. He is the owner of "The French Laundry" a world renowned restaurant in California. It is my ambition to go there one day, one of the few things I would like to do before I die. Mr. Keller lives to bring joy to others through his cooking. The four going to taste his food are famous food people who other chefs look to; but, Mr. Keller blows their minds and they say his food is perfection. His response it perfect, you cannot attain perfection because as soon as you do it is gone. He is not a philosopher by trade and may not have said it perfectly; but, he is right. Perfection is not one thing, one result or even one concept. Perfection is a process, a progression which results in ongoing change. Perfection is not a rock, it is a process. It is seeking a simple question, what is the best that I can be and what is the best we can be, one question because in the end we are all connected and we all effect the world around us. Learning that simple answer takes a lifetime. I had to die to learn it.

The second heart attack was different than the first. The first was scary and I was alone. My wife at the time had filed for divorce and was having an affair with another man, not her first. It was Christmas and our tradition involved seeing an aunt of mine. I wasn't feeling well. I told the kids and their boyfriends and my wife at the time to visit my aunt as usual but that I could not make it as I was not feeling well. While nobody knew it but me, my aunt did not want to see my wife at the time as she knew about her adultery and our impending divorce, so did my kids but they were adults almost or mostly. After they left, I felt the pains and dizzy and confused and everything I was taught I should expect when having a heart attack (which doctors had said I would have for years). I lay in bed by myself while everyone else is celebrating Christmas and had my first heart attack. I didn't bother calling anyone, not ever 911. As it occurred I could only feel fear. I was absolutely terrified, embarrassed and didn't want to call anyone. Maybe I just couldn't feel any worse than I already did.

The second heart attack happened in Baker, California. I think it was about a year later. I was headed to Las Vegas from Los Angeles and it began, or at least I knew it was coming for some reason, about three miles out in the middle of nowhere. I knew I had to get off the freeway or I could kill someone. I drove into Baker and parked in the Starbucks parking lot. It was worse than the first one, it hurt more physically and I went away for a moment. I was between here and there. I was just as scared as the first time; but, something else happened. I had to decide how I wanted to leave this world and I decided that I wanted to leave it with no excess baggage. I was happy with my choices and results except one, the divorce. I resented her deeply and what she had done to our family. I forgave her and the man she was cheating on me with, in front of our kids. I believe that was the moment I was saved, at least I immediately got better and my blood pressure went back to normal. Well, normal for me at the time, it was still dangerously high. I didn't see a doctor for a few years later and he told me that he could tell from my tests that I had a heart attack. He also didn't think I would last a year; but, I have lasted a few.

A couple of years after the second heart attack, or at least one I think, I had a different kind of experience. God communicated with me. I wasn't on any  medication at the time. After the second heart attack I saw my first doctor and he put me on a whole bunch of pills for my high blood pressure. I stopped taking them before I had my God experience. I won't call it a "religious" experience. It was just me communicating with a higher being, another sentience that was vastly more expansive than me. I call that being God; but, God never told me his name. Well sort of. I asked him his name and he said he didn't have one, I pressed the question (the only time I remember pressing any question, hmmm) and he said I could call him Jaime. I laughed because the only Jaime I could think of was on an old comedy show called "Get Smart". Months later I got the joke, Jaime sounds like "I am me". He told someone else that was his name and I knew that. I laughed like nobody's business when I figured it out months later.

My regulars know my writing is usually a mess until you get to the end and see the conclusion I draw. Mr. Molyneux was talking to a person who believed in God because he had an experience. I don't believe in God because of the experience I had, I was believer before. One of the things that occurred to me while I was my experience was that we can only reach so high, to meet God he has to want to reach down to us and that means that we see something really scary to us. When yo meet God you see just how imperfect you are and it hits you hard. I don't believe anyone who says they spoke to God and didn't immediately feel shame for their imperfection. That shame is then overwhelmed by how much he loves us.

People tell me they would like to hear from God, NO they wouldn't. I didn't away from experience that I can at least prove to myself, thinking that I was holy. LOL. I didn't walk away thinking how great I was. I walked away wanting to do better and he didn't tell me what that was or what to do. That is the God I met, the one that told me it was okay to choose who I wanted to be. Mr. Molyneux wants a vengeful and controlling God. That is my answer to those who say they cannot believe in a God that allows evil in the world.

People don't want proof of God's existence, their existence is proof, sentience is proof, the universe is proof. God said it in the old testament, he doesn't need to talk to you to prove he exists, his proof is everything around you, all you observe and all you feel. God is the greatest sentience in the universe and he made us sentient and free to chose who we become and continue to become. He is the process that lets us grow, that lets us say I am me.

I believe spiritual experiences are individual and not proof that God exists except for the person who has it. I don't believe most people that claim to have them and I didn't believe the guy that Mr. Molyneux spoke to. I believe Mr. Molyneux wanted to believe the person in the video, I believe Mr. Molyneux would like proof of God. He already has it. Sentience is the proof of God, not what you see or experience, the fact that you see and experience. To prove there is not God, one must prove that they are the only sentience in the universe or prove they do not exist. Good luck with that.

I amazed when people try and control God or define him. I cannot and I met him. He joked with me and it took a couple of time to even believe that he told jokes. He deals with us as we able to be dealt with and only when we are able to deal with him. I think that means when we no longer hate. That's a tough one.

I will say this, if you wish proof of God to the extent where you need to communicate with him, you have to forgive every harm ever done you first and everyone that has cause harmed. That sounds difficult; but, it is only after that that you can forgive yourself for everyone you harmed. You have to accept that you are not perfect to accept that neither is anyone else, it is a paradox. You have to forgive all sin to help you to forgive your sin so that you can communicate with God. Why seek a world where forgiveness is unnecessary if forgiveness is the only way to accept all sentient beings as being of importance? Why believe that the only that can exist is Santa Clause bringing only joy to good little boys and girls. Why not accept that we chose to be good or not and that carrots and sticks used to make our decisions for us is preferable to choosing for ourselves?

I am amused by Christian and Atheists that believe that being chosen by God for anything means good times. LOL. I think the Jews are the chosen people, how is that working out for them? They were chosen for the concentration camps, they were chosen to be hated by the world. Even black Africans don't accept the Jews. I went to college with the educated blacks from Africa and a couple of them wanted to nuke Israel and had never met a Jew in their life. The Jews have been welcomed and thrived in three places, New York, Los Angeles and Israel. To be chosen by God is to be tested not given unlimited cookies. Jews give more to charity than other groups as a percentage of income.

Why do bad things happen to good people. There is none good but God. Show me that you are good or tell me a story like the Masons do how about you can become perfect, the unobtainable/ Show me how you are perfect and have never caused harm to another before you tell me how the world is bad because we are not all perfect or don't stop all imperfection.

We all wake up to a slap on the butt. We breath our first breath and try and figure out what it all means. We grow and begin to question. We are immediately beset upon by people trying to manipulate us to their advantage. Those benefitting the most from how things are spend the most effort trying to convince the rest of us that the world is fair, it is not. We can se that but try to find an explanation for it, to justify the world or figure out what needs to change. Nothing needs to change and it is unfair while we are growing. Growth is about defining ourselves faced with an unfair world. One does not grow when one is not tested and challenged to make real choices.

You can go 60 minutes into his video to hear what I am responding to.

Trump is Not a Bad Person Even if I Disagree With His Economic Policies in Part

My longtime readers know that I supported the Occupy Movement and Bernie Sanders. Nothing has changed. Antifa was not part of the occupy movement, they are scum. People in the corporate media and academia talk about white privilege, yet fail to notice where it really is. People that join the Klan don't come from white privilege, they come from poor and rural. 500 or so white nationalists marched in Charlottesville, a bunch of poor dumb hicks. They tend to be the poorest and dumbest amongst us. They know they are hated, they know they can't win and can't get ahead. I knew some people who wanted to be Klansmen when I was younger. I confronted their beliefs in a direct and non-confrontational manner. I figured every challenge I changed over was worth the effort. Hate is evil. It is our job to love our neighbor as we loves ourselves. Not left, not right, Christian. Real Christianity, the words Jesus used.

For my longtime readers, you know I always referred to President Obama as President Obama. I thought he was a mediocre President as best. I detest President Clinton and the Bushes, yet, I always referred to them as President. There are people who claim Trump is not their President; but, he is and deny reality is insanity by definition. President Trump has all the authority of the office whether you like him or not. It is insanity to claim Trump is not your president because you believe he is a bigot, Jefferson was our President and owned slaves as did Washington. Beyond that, Trump is not a bigot.

Lets start with some simple stuff. Trump treated women better in his organization than anyone else in the same industries. He is not a misogynist. He promoted minorities and gave them more authority than others in his industries, he is not a bigot. He married eastern Europeans, he is not a xenophobe. He was one of the first to congratulate Elton John when he married his longtime lover, he is not a homophobe. His daughter converted to Judaism and married a Jew, he is not an anti-Semite and Israel actually likes him a lot. Those are facts, not opinions. He is also apparently a very nice person and the people that have worked for him haven't had bad things to say about him, not the women, not the gays, not the blacks, not the Hispanics.

President Trump visited the Houston area where the flooding occurred and the media chose to belittle his wife Melania for wearing high heels while walking to the plane taking them to Texas.

Yahoo - Melania Trump mocked for her 'storm stilettos' as she heads to Texas for Hurricane Harvey relief.  I said a day would not go buy where the corporate mainstream media did not find something to say negatively about Trump.

While the corporate mainstream media blames everything on Trump, the fact is people know better. Even true progressives can see how manipulative and deceitful the media is being. They don't think people can see it because they don't respect the average person and to a degree they are correct. The average person does not have the time, training or intelligence to look beyond all the lies. I want my readers to focus on the lies so that they can see beyond them.

I think the establishment misses what President Lincoln said, "You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time; but, you cannot fool all of the people all of the time". That should be real close to what he said if not exact. The problem with the corporate media is that they are attempting just that and failing. Every week the media grabs on to some nonsense attack on President Trump and has to drop it the following week because they are made up stories. People see that, even the ones that hate Trump.

We have been told that fewer blacks voted for Trump than Hillary. How would we know that as fact? You do not say you are black or white when you vote and your vote is anonymous. Not even the people getting your ballot know how you voted. I had that job once. We do not know the race or the sex of who voted for Trump, it is based on polling. What the polling does say is that more blacks admitted to voting for Trump than for McCain. It is possible that not a lot of blacks were willing to say publicly that they voted against the first black president; but, felt freer to say they voted against Hillary.

Texas is very much a Republican state and I watched the video of Trump helping out by handing out food at one of the shelters. There was whole bunch of blacks in those shelters who seemed gleeful to take their picture with him. They understood that they were meeting the President of the United States of America, their President, and they know that means. They still this country cares about it citizens; but, are coming to realize that neither party cares about this country. They can see that it only benefits the in crowd. They get that. It is why they voted for Trump and would have voted for Bernie.

Consider this. Trump supporters saw him saying that he was with the working and middle class while Hillary's motto for her followers was to say that they were with her, that she was what mattered. For Hillary to have a motto that said, "I'm with her" is the most narcissistic statement ever. While campaigning, Hillary actually failed to make appearances in some of the most important mid-west states. She lost those states and they didn't have large numbers of Russians in them either. They were states losing jobs overseas and she had nothing to offer them except more of the same and they knew it. These are the same states that had voted for Obama twice and she called them racists and the media agreed. Detroit has an 82% black population and Trump won Michigan.

Here is what the establishment no longer understands, we are all upset with what is going on. Not Trump, with our establishment abandoning this nation in favor of their own personal interest. President Trump's support within the military and with veterans is higher than I have seen for any other president, except perhaps Reagan. The people that die so that we can have freedom of speech support President Trump. I would bet that he has more support from Black veterans than Obama did. If he didn't believe me the media would be talking about it.

I support the working class and middle class. I support border control and requiring people to apply for citizenship. I support killing international trade agreements that deny us our constitutional rights or turn over the judicial power to corporate entities, like the TPP did until Trump killed it. Trump has NOT moved against gay marriage, abortion or sought to increase the regulation of people in any way.

I'm a frickin socialist and have proudly stated such for decades. My readers are pretty much evenly split between the left and right, my friends are mostly conservatives. I was a preacher in a church of gay Hispanics, many of who were seeking asylum from their own countries where they would be killed for being gay. I have known two gay nuns, one who left Mexico and another that is still there and hiding her homosexuality.

IF President Trump does something truly racist or anti-gay or anti-black, I will be the first to call him out and I will shred him for it. Nobody gets a pass from me, not even me. What upsets me is that the constant negative and deceitful messaging from the corporate mainstream media will drown out when Trump actually does evil, if he does.

Does anyone really believe that the same corporate media that failed to inform the public about the outsourcing while it was happening now cares about them? This is the same corporate media that said the economy was great right up until the crash and then said it would be a "soft landing", I wrote about that at the time. It is simple, the corporate is media owned by six companies IS the establishment and they are looking out for themselves. That is what is being exposed. As George Carlin said, there is a big club and you and I are not members. Trump is not a member and neither is Bernie. It is Members Only and Trump is not a member. That is the problem they have with him. He is more concerned about the middle and working class then he is about the establishment and they know that.

99 Degrees in My Home

I have to correct my last post which I ended up deleting. Turns out my air conditioner broke or at least it looks that way now. I have now been without air for 4 days or so. In fact, it is about 112 degrees outside and 99 degrees inside my home.

I literally called 10 different air conditioner repairmen and they were basically all booked for the next week. Fortunately, it seems I found one that can come out tonight. That's the good news. The bad news is that if I need a new air conditioner it will cost a few thousand dollars and they will probably have to order it.

While I can deal fairly well with high heat being an old desert rat, my little dog does not handle it as well. My solution was to take him for a ride in the car with the air conditioner on max. After our ride I put a wet thin shirt in front of a box fan to create a makeshift swamp cooler. He is laying in front of it and barely moving.

I believe the only thing to do is buy a portable air conditioner until my central air is fixed. This is going to get expensive. Oh well. Wish me luck.

UPDATE:

Well, I got very lucky, the technician came out and fixed the air conditioner. $500 and my dog can relax in peace. I called multiple Home Depots and Lowe's to purchase a portable air conditioner and not one had any available. I was actually considering renting a hotel room until the air conditioner was repaired because I honestly was getting really worried that it was too much for my little dog. My dog is not well behaved and has mental issues. He was abandoned by his owner because of his temperament and given to me because the people that took him in couldn't deal with him. When I first got him he literally barked at everyone and hated men. The first month I had him he would eat, poop on my floor and hide under the bed. It took a bit of time; but, I gained his trust. There is nothing better than being able to help a dog to reconnect with people. They are the only animal I know that loves us more than they love their own species. It is important to respect that.

Homelessness, Housing and the Future

Breitbart - Los Angeles County to Pay Private Homeowners to House Homeless. While you might think this is just being discussed in Los Angeles, it is not.

KFVE - Could homeowners be the answer to Hawaii's homeless crisis?

Los Angeles Daily News - On LA County’s remote north end, the homeless are stuck. Is hope on the horizon?

Some simple little facts to consider. During the housing boom (2003 - 2007) people began building bigger and bigger houses even though families were getting smaller and smaller. While touring new developments at that time I began to say that they looked like boarding houses and that is what they will become.

Imagine paying people $75,000 to build a small home in the back of their property, what is the effect? Well, first and foremost it means that the idea of zoning for single family residences is destroyed. Once destroyed, people will be allowed to rent out rooms, again, a violation of the zoning regarding single family residences. Trust me, this "pilot program" is intended to fail and instead people will get paid to rent out rooms and it will start in the Antelope Valley and Moreno Valley.

If you want to see what is coming, start by looking at the infrastructure that is being built.

Who is Killing This Country? Nazi's or the Wealthy and Powerful?

Lets look at some really basic facts. There are Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists and Klansmen still left in America. There are still also communists; but, you know what, they all had or have political parties of their own. The largest non Democrat or Republican party is independents. The membership of the Communist Party (established 1919) is 5,000. The Nationalist Socialist Party shows not one person elected to federal or state leadership or even representation. Their numbers are too low to even count.

Neither Communists nor white supremacists can manage to get elected to any federal or state legislature. Neither the Democrats nor Republicans have racist or supremacist policies on their party platforms and haven't for a very long time. The media is focusing on groups that have zero political influence and couldn't get someone elected if they had to. They smeared Bernie Sanders as a Communist and Donald Trump as a Nazi.

I'm retired; but, I remember when Democrats in the southern states passed laws called Jim Crowe laws. I lived when that was going on, I remember when blacks were not allowed in certain restaurants and people were not allowed to sell their houses to blacks. I had a relative, a New England Democrat who told me that he thought the blacks were getting too uppity and he worked on getting Democrats to support Kennedy for President in Massachusetts. Declared Neo-Nazis and Klansmen couldn't get elected dog catcher. If there was a Neo-Nazi mayor the media would be all around it. Think about that.

Please show me ONE congressman currently in office who has openly stated that they support the Klan, the Nazi party or the communists. Wait, you might be able to find one that supported communism; but, it wasn't Bernie Sanders. There are more Libertarian Party and Green Party members than Nazis, Klansmen and Communist Party members combined.

Why is the corporate media telling you these groups are growing when they are not? Why are they saying that they saying these people present a clear and present danger requiring the elimination of the first amendment right to free speech when there is not. More people attend Furry conventions (people who like to dress up as small woodland creatures and have sex) than attend Nazicon if there even is such a thing. There are more Wiccans than there are Neo Nazis. There are more Satanists than there are Klansmen and to tell the truth, the Satanists are less reviled.

There are 85 people that own as much as the lower half 3.5 Billion of people in this world. Please, tell me which of them are Nazis supporting the Nazi party or the Klan. Those 85 people see the rest of us as scum regardless of what we believe in. You know what you have to fear? What you need to fear is what those 85 people think and thy think that you should be muzzled and that Democracy is evil.

Did you know that most of the Confederate soldiers that fought in the south never owned a slave in their lives? Rich men owned slaves, not the poor. The civil war was not fought over slavery, it was fought over economic independence. It was fought over which wealthy group would rule America. It was a fight over farming versus the industrial revolution.

We like to think that it was a war over slavery and that the north was against it; but, even Lincoln did not go into that war planning on freeing the slaves. You can look that up and comment. Remember when the billionaire said that they thought the wealthy were being treated like the Jews in Germany? No, here is a link.

YouTube - The Young Turks - Rich Asshole Tries To Apologize And Makes Things Much Worse.

The traditional enemy of the communists was the wealthy, now it is 3,000 to 8,000 Klansmen. What useful idiots Antifa have become. Communist, Socialist and Progressive agendas were always focused on economic issues and now the Neo-Communists and Neo-Socialists and Neo-Progressives seem to be focused on social issues. At least according to the corporate media.

Lets see. The Occupy Movement comes along to go after income inequality and is violently put down and removed from public spaces and later the media refocuses their attention to social issues, like how many Nazi's does it take to screw in a light bulb. The Occupy Movement came about in 2007 and the Democratic party has sought to direct all their attention to the threat of far right national supremacist wack jobs. There is just one problem, most people on the left get this and the progressives certainly do.

How effective has this been? Well not one of the corporate Democrats has one a seat since Trump got elected. They have lost control of national and state offices. Most amusingly they are failing to get any donations. The Republican party has raised $85 million for the coming elections and the Democrats have raised about $35 million.

YouTube - Shocker: Republicans Now Dominate Democrats In Small $ Donations.

Back 60 years ago the Democratic Party was the southern bigots. It was southern Democrats that made the Jim Crow laws and enforced segregation. Parties change; but, money doesn't. The one thing the Democratic party will not let go of is it's political donors. Corporate Democrats offer transgender bathrooms in exchange for open borders. Corporate Democrats offer gay marriage in exchange for NAFTA and the TPP. They offer fascism (corporate control over the government) in exchange for protecting you from Nazis.

Point of note, the guy who said that the wealthy were being treated like the Jews in Germany (the Young Turks video in the link above) contributed to Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign and also said that the wealthy's votes should count more than the poor or working class. There are more gays in the United States than Neo-Nazis and Klansmen combined. There are more millionaires in the United States than there are Neo-Nazi's, White Supremacists and Klansmen combined. Here lets simplify even more. How many millionaires and billionaires attended the right wing rally in Charlottesville in support of the far right? That would probably be zero.

It is estimated that there are 10.4 million millionaires in the United States and perhaps 200,000 white supremacists of all types. Which group do you think controls the corporations and government? Yeah, it's pretty obvious.

Elitism is anti-democratic.

TTIIY - The Continuing Failure of the Establishment to Get Rid of Trump. On December 9, 2015 I wrote the linked post. At that time I wrote the following, "There are a lot of pundits writing about why they believe people support Trump and none of them seem to get it. Now the media has gone as far as to compare Trump to Hitler, that is irrational hysteria and demonstrates their fear of Trump; but, more importantly their fear of American opinion." Nothing has changed

For the past two years I have been pointing out how the media lies and manipulates in order to achieve political goals and those goals are anti-democratic, authoritarian and pro-globalism. In 2016 the corporate mainstream media began saying that if Trump were elected they should immediately impeach him for basically any reason and nothing has changed except for the excuse, which changes every week based on each new claim they make.

The truth is that I didn't vote for Trump. In fact, back in 2015 I pointed out that because of superdelegates and rigged primaries, Sanders, my preferred candidate, would lose. For the past two years I have pointed out that no matter what Trump says or does, the media will call for his impeachment and they have. The attacks are not really about Trump, the attacks are on the idea of people choosing to change the establishment. The real fear is that people will stop going along with the media and the establishments controlling public opinion.

Over the past two years I have written numerous articles about corporate mainstream media saying that democracy was bad. Over the past two years I have pointed out numerous articles that said that the people were too dumb and evil to pick their leaders. The calls for Trump's impeachment for using Twitter to get around the media and for his liking his steaks well done as proof that he is unfit for office and the desperate cries of the media to make sure that populism does not rise any more. Remember the opposite of populism is elitism.

Here is a prediction, I bet next week they find a new reason to impeach Trump and they will continue doing that every week until the next Presidential election. Who wants to bet that I am wrong?