Opinion
In reading the postmortems for the Harris/Biden failed Presidential campaign, democrats and progressives are quite concerned about the possibility of RFK Jr. overseeing the safety laws on food production and point to his mythical antivax positions. Oh what a horror! In my way of thinking, this comes down to three major issues, those being food safety, Covid (mRNA) vaccines, and childhood vaccines. If democrats believe this is a negative for the Trump administration, they should think again. My reasoning is that Bobby Kennedy is likely correct, and that his efforts could easily result in positive outcomes for the American people.
Before I explain further, I moved to Thailand in 2022 as a result of Trump and the MAGA crowd that follows him.
There are a lot of news articles speculating about what could happen to immigrants under a Trump 2.0 administration. Let’s hear some first-hand accounts of what did happen during Trump’s first term. These are the family separations that didn’t appear in the national spotlight.
“My skin itched of the mud stuck to my body, drying.”A woman working at Corso’s Garden Center in Sandusky buried herself in a flower bed to hide during the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at her workplace in 2018. What started with an offer of donuts in the break room (a ruse) turned into a dystopian nightmare for people who were working and trying to take care of their families. “I never expected anything like this to happen. When I saw them coming, I ran. And I ran and ran and ran until I hid under a bed of flowers, and I buried myself under the dirt and cried in silence. All I could think about was my kids, I have three. A lot of us have some children who need us.”
A pair of quotes, separated by eight years, spotlight a chronic political mentality at the top of the Democratic Party:
“The path to victory in a state like Michigan, Harris campaign officials are betting, is through suburban counties that are home to many college-educated and white voters,” the New York Times reported three weeks ago.
“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia. And you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin,” Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer said in July 2016.
The same basic approach of Democratic Party elites that first opened the door to the White House for Donald Trump has done it again.
I was asked by a friend and Progressive Democrat of America (PDA) Fellow Traveler to share my thoughts on how PDA will respond to yestersday's election results. Here's what I wrote:
Tuesday’s election results were dire, but now is not the time for progressives to retreat. American society will be best served by a progressive movement that plays strong defense and offense.
Progressives must continue to be vigilant in defending democracy, the rule of law, and the constitutional republic. In order to be most effective on these matters, we should maintain our recent alliance with liberals and conservatives of conscience.
We must also lead in protecting the environment and vulnerable communities, both at home and abroad.
Before you pose the question to America again, "Why do Muslims hate America?" Take it from this retired veteran: the short answer is that they do not! They do resent what you did and hate U.S. bias and its misguided foreign policy.
In the event you have forgotten what you have done to Palestinians and the rest of the Muslim world since you became President for the first time in 2017, you should ask yourself, "What have I done for Muslims to have them resent me and America?" And since we say in Arabic, "A camel does not see his hump," allow me to tell you all about your misdeeds since I kept a tally sheet. Please read:
In the event you have forgotten, I did Jerusalem, violating US and International laws.
* The first executive order you issued in 2017 when you took office the first time was a call for a “total and complete ban on Muslims entering the US.”
* You recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. This was a betrayal of the Palestinian dream
* You cut off ALL $390 million in annual aid to Palestinians.
* You closed the PLO office in Washington, D.C.
