SALUTE TO ALL VETERANS ..
(USA wars are fought in name of all citizens)
A Tribute always and especially to WWII Veterans
---our nation would not be here today -- free as we know it -- if not for them.
T H A N K Y O U !
* * * * *
A NEW COUNTRY ? NEW CALIFORNIA
CALIFORNIA is the biggest economy in the U.S. and the sixth largest in the world.
CALIFORNIA population racial demographics already reflect what those of the United States of America are expected to be in 2044 -- a diverse nation of people -- based on the
Census Bureau's projection:
"By 2044, the United States is projected to become a plurality nation.While the non-Hispanic White alone population will still be the largest, no race or ethnic group is projected to have greater than a 50 percent share of the nation’s total."
Some Californians are considering options for the state to secede from the United States.
Such an action is partially based on the rhetoric which the U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has previously directed toward various Silicon Valley business leaders and their enterprises, including media ownership. Specifics may be read at this link to the
Guardian article describing current seceding issues.
Here is a link to the official site for
California secede.
NEW INFLUENCES
The 2016 Presidential Election outcome has increased the impetus for more California residents to give serious consideration to supporting our state becoming our own country.
The degree of actual support for California's secession remains to be seen. Other states in past years have had residents suggesting seceding for their own various reasons, most recently as described in
Texas. (by Phillip Bump, Washington Post.)
Inquisitor includes comments that select social media is suggesting some Californians may see if other Western states such as Oregon, Washington, Nevada may be interested in seceding.
MY PERSPECTIVE
I presently think this grand experiment of our democratic republic is best successfully perpetuated if California remains within the union of our fifty states plus Washington D.C.
Citizens responsibility is to consider the current needs required as we continue to
-- sustain the viability of our way of government with thoughtful voting choices
-- refine, define, change, alter and correct our mistakes by demanding officials act only
within the parameters prescribed by these three USA documents known collectively as
The Charters of Freedom:
Declaration of Independence
The Constitution
The Bill of Rights
The Great Questions
Has "the establishment" (including the President-elect, House of Representatives and Senate members) received, correctly processed, determined to rectify the existing inequity situations -- including the economic gap described in "The Rich and the Rest" by Christina Pazzanese?
How long can our nation's way of government survive as we strive ethically and morally to provide liberty and justice for all -- to be a positive force in the world and for humanity?
* * * * *
ELECTION PROTESTS developed as I began this post......
This is the United States of America. Traditionally the hallmark of our democracy has been a peaceful transition of one administration to another. In fact, current President Obama has initiated transition arrangements following candidate Hillary Clinton's earlier concession of the 2016 Presidential election to Donald Trump.
However, the offensive nature associated with President-elect Trump's conduction of his campaign has resulted in eliciting strong emotions from voters. That coupled with the election's outcome triggered citizen protests which began earlier Wednesday afternoon in New York City outside his Trump Tower residence --- he was the winner when the Electoral College votes were tallied, but received fewer popular votes than his opponent.
This is the second time in the past five elections the Electoral College winner garnered fewer popular votes than the opponent. In 2000 Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the election to George Bush following the U.S. Supreme Court's intervention to terminate controversial vote-counting in Florida. A candidate designated to be President based on winning Electoral College votes but not the nation's popular vote had occurred only three times before in the 1800s.
Most recent developments are that protest groups in cities from coast to coast have amassed, saying in reference to President-elect Donald Trump, "He's not my president!", stressing Trump did not win the popular vote. Regrettably, vandalism, disruptions, freeway traffic blockage and some arrests began to occur Wednesday night around midnight necessitating law enforcement response here in Los Angeles as I wrote this.
Typically, only a few protesters are responsible for violence in such events -- always a risk they'll infiltrate the peaceful groups, but with their own destructive motivations -- such as looters, anarchists who desire and will instigate crowd chaos for their own agenda toward overthrowing our way of government.
Fascists, too, benefit from inciting violence as often citizens will relinquish their rights and freedoms to leaders/law enforcement for promised security -- only to eventually find themselves living in an autocratic form of government, a dictatorship presided over by a demagogue systematically depriving them of their rights.
Undermining freedom in a democratic government can be a many years lengthy process, achieved in slight, incremental, sometimes seemingly innocuous small steps. Systematic attacks and discrediting other government branches -- judicial, legislative -- also The Fourth Estate (the press) -- to create mistrust in all systems are part of the fascist pattern documented throughout history.
(Legitimate shortcomings in the branches and press must be addressed and corrected, but citizens must guard against being seduced by a leader's conspiracy intimations, intentional distortions of truth through innuendo, deliberate falsehoods.)
These, hopefully, primarily peaceful protests in additional cities around our nation continue Thursday -- they include many high school, college students of the most populous millennium generation who may be most concerned about their future. Those of us who are older care about the younger generations and the world in which they will live long after we've departed this earth. We must pay attention.
After Trump's weeks, months of vitriolic diatribes, misogynistic, racist, sexist, name-calling directed toward his opponents and others, his sudden measured adoption of rational manner the final week or so of his campaign, and his speech after the election may have aroused suspicions and mistrust in the minds of many citizens -- they may be wondering:
-- who is this allegedly prevaricating, narcissistic, sociopathic, fascist-sounding person?
-- what are the ethical and moral values of Donald Trump?
-- what does the real Donald Trump truly believe?
-- who is the real Donald Trump?
Most of our citizens do not take lightly a leader whose behavior throughout much of his presidential campaign was insulting and boorish, to say the least. Some citizens might also even be inclined to interpret his tactics and some language he has used as mirroring that of fascists whose similar activities, words and actions are described in histories of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Fascism is not compatible with the U.S. Constitution.
Let our republic have a peaceful democratic transition to the legally elected new leadership.
Let us actively oversee all actions of those we've entrusted to occupy government positions.
Let us use our votes and all legal means to ensure governing individuals each actually fulfill their
Oath of Office.
Let us guard and protect our privacy, rights and freedoms.
