Let me make this clear. I took the liberty of changing the name of a character in the story below from the way it originally read to reflect the reality of who is telling is that the grass is blue when if comes to the economy, the January 6 insurrection, inflation, the pandemic, and a host of other ills that are currently ravaging humanity and the planet. The truth is the faux evangelical elephants and their capitalist gods have crashed American ideals and tell you they will do nothing for you, but that those governing to fix the problem are incompetent.
Think about that point again, every major economic downturn during was caused by the greedy overreach of capitalism mixed with fake patriotism, religious inspired racism, sexism, and autocracy. Now with major tax cuts for the rich, which were designed to shackle good governance for the majority of citizens, we have a relative small group of wealthy people and corporations that position themselves to profit in good times and economically challenging times. It’s the return of the ‘Robber Barons’ on steroids.
While capitalists profit, they have faux-religious leaders who also feed well at the trough in the name of bogus spiritual doctrine. Today its Q-anon and the DJT loving MAGA evangelicals who believe that he and or Mike Pence are ordained by the god they worship to reboot ‘White Nationalism’ and put America back in order.
But Don’t think it just those on the right. I remember Bernie Sanders wanting to primary President Obama before the 2012 election. Later he extended the 2016 primary season, his supporters blamed HRC’s loss on what they referred as low information Minority voters while they stayed home. Bernie himself took the position that Democrats lost because their constituency is too broad and excludes ‘Working Class Voters’. More precisely, he said that democrats need to move away from ‘Identity Politics’ Translation::Democrats :need to move away from their minority constituents and toward White Males and religious influenced White Females.
Oddly enough, it took a strong but unreliable coalition of Black Women, Young progressive minded educated people, Progressive minded Hispanics of aboriginal descent, Progressive minded White Women, Progressive minded members of the LGBTQ Communities to garner a razor thin win in 2020. While the win was stunning because a Biden Presidency was not expected in the media, despite the total incompetency of DJT, When Democrats also won control of the Senate by electing two Senators from Georgia it was even more of a surprise.
So what is happening now? Well we’re being told that the Democrats are facing strong headwinds coming into the 2022 midterm elections. Never mind that the real level of corruption and designs by the Republicans to install a theocratic authoritarian government that will force citizens bow to the likes of DJT, Q-anon, White Racists militias, corporate oligarchy, individual oligarchy and an out of control SCOTUS.
All these elements are telling us that the ‘Grass IS Blue’! The real shame is that many in the media and on the left side of the political ideological band are telling us that Democrats have a messaging problem. That Democrats are not doing enough to get us to engage, participate, and vote our own self interest. That is a false narrative. Citizens have been told since 2000 that the Supreme Court matters and the President makes the appointments to that court, but the citizens didn’t listen to the other of that equation, the Senate has to confirm that appointment.
You folks allowed a Senate that was controlled by Mitch McConnel to steal a SCOTUS seat from Obama and to control the Senate during the DJT term, Now we’re wringing our hands worried that democracy itself hangs in the balance. Democracy, a form of governance that must have the informed engagement of its citizens to hold elected officials and the tools of government enforcement accountable. You folks got apathetic and came to think, “Well maybe, just maybe the grass really is blue, at least for now.”
This outcome is ‘Orwellian’ it’s ‘Brave New World’ like, It is as successful as the playbook of ‘Hitler’s Third Reich” Are you allowing others to tell you the grass is blue? Are you now accepting as your religious beliefs, things that your icons never spoke to? Jesus, never spoke on abortion, or same sex marriage for that matter, but some how those that tell you the grass is blue know what god thinks,. a god that would allow a ten year old child to be sexually molested, then force a female child to risk her life carrying the resulting pregnancy to term, who them is suppose to care for both of those children? Surely, the twice traumatized will be a good parent right?
Read the story below and I ask you, Who is really telling you that grass is blue
A faux-evangelical elephant told the tiger: The grass is blue and I am not referring to the blue artificial tuff of the Boise State football field.
The tiger replied: No, the grass is green.
The discussion became heated, and the two decided to submit the issue to arbitration, and to do so they approached the lion.
Before reaching the clearing in the forest where the lion was sitting on his throne, the faux-evangelical elephant started screaming: ′′Your Highness, isn’t it true that the grass is blue?”
The lion replied: “True, the grass is blue”.
The faux-evangelical elephant rushed forward and continued: ′′The tiger disagrees with me and contradicts me and annoys me. Please punish him”.
The king then declared: ′′The tiger will be punished with 5 years of silence”.
The faux-evangelical elephant jumped with joy and went on his way, content and repeating: ′′The grass is blue, the grass is blue. “..
The tiger accepted his punishment, but he asked the lion: ′′Your Majesty, why have you punished me, after all, the grass is green?”
The lion replied: ′′In fact, the grass is green”.
The tiger asked: ′′So why do you punish me?”
The lion replied:
That has nothing to do with the question of whether the grass is blue or green. The punishment is because it is not possible for a brave, intelligent creature like yourself to waste time arguing with a lying manipulating fool, and on top of that to come and bother me with that silly question!
The worst waste of time is arguing with the fool and fanatic who doesn’t care about truth or reality, but only the victory of his beliefs and illusions. Never waste time on discussions that make no sense… There are people who for all the evidence presented to them, do not have the ability to understand, and others who are blinded by ego, hatred and resentment, and the only thing that they want is to be right even if they aren’t.
A Reasonable Point of View 