When Will We Know?

 msicsaF fo sngiS (don't read this backward)

Using Secret Police (or anonymous terrorist agents)
Denying Human Rights
Controlling Education
Stealing Elections
Using Military Against Civilians
Denying Reality-Constant Lies
Controlling Media
Re-writing History
Appointing Incompetent Loyalists
Rejecting Election Results
Ignoring Due Process
Normalizing Corruption
Using Fear to Gain Power
Labeling Minorities as Enemies
Blaming Other for Their Failures
Claiming to be Persecuted While in Positions of Power and Influence.

When the facts are in, and one chooses to not look away, it can really take the wind out of our sails. I've been along for the ride like all of you. What can we do about it?
Well, the citizens of Minneapolis stood together to oppose the secret police. Two our of tens of thousands paid the ultimate price for what they believed in. Their deaths, as terrible as they remain have led to many, many more American Citizens seeing through the lies we are told on an hourly basis. The tragic lesson all of these traits bring to our attention is that we have allowed our Democratic Values to be undermined by a greedy and hateful few. We are living under a system of taxation without representation right now. The very thing we fought a Revolution over. 

This 250th Anniversary of our nation should not be the swan song of an idea but a re-invigorating threshold to a better nation, one free of malice and selective prosecution (or lack of justice for some...) We need to see through the process of creating a more perfect union and make clear what our government is meant to protect us from as well as what it can offer us when we all work together for positive change. I keep calling and writing legislators and speaking out for new candidates that have ideas about a future we can all believe in. Bernie Sanders has not been wrong yet. When the current guy in charge opens his mouth you know it will be a lie and frequently one designed as an insult.