This is becoming normal

To be the bearer of bad news, ladies and gentlemen, we have some major issues going on, more so than nazis dancing in the streets, and running people down with cars. And while many are all about punching nazis in the face, and impeaching Trump, we have lost focus. We cannot seem to see the forest for the trees, and it will be our undoing, if it hasn't already undone us already.

Did you know, that in some states (~cough~Virginia~cough~), anything that happens to you in a doctors office, clinic, hospital, or any place involving medical care is considered malpractice? Just think about that for a moment... Several years ago, a woman was raped by a doctor while he was performing an examination, court ruled that it was malpractice. Virginia is not alone in that belief, and personally as someone who lost a family member because of assault in a hospital, it is beyond disturbing. Its not the fact that my Dad died as a result of an assault which broke a vertebrae in his back (the T-6 vertebrae) and damaged a rib (the tenth medical rib) which caused not only severe pain, but an inability to cough, its the truth that he will never see justice. You see, the statute of limitation ran on his case, two years on malpractice, according to the court system. Yeah, the court acknowledges that he was egregiously harmed, that as a result of what happened to him we had greatly suffered, but there is a prescribed time to get justice, and that time had ended. The court also seemed to feel that, and this is a real kick in the gonads for everyone in the community, that he was likely not the only person to suffer egregiously, or that we were the only family that would not see justice for their loved one. But thats okay, we have statues to remove.

There are power companies ripping people off, literally raping customers bank accounts every month. Charging huge fees just to keep the lights on. Back in the day, we had constant rolling brownouts, you know where the lights grow dim, but the power doesn't go out. It plays hell on anything you have turned on, or even plugged in because it starves those items of electricity. God knows the times I've had to replace a computer, monitor, appliances, televisions, or food (as a result of frying a refrigerator) out of pocket because the power company proclaimed “Act of God.” Also you should check out your local laws, because I am pretty sure most places have laws regarding inhabiting a structure without electricity, water or sewage. IE: If you don't have all three you cannot reside in them, or if you cannot secure all three, the property will be condemned and/or seized. We have slumlords charging more rent than many people would have for a mortgage payment. Seriously, there are people paying several hundred dollars a month for a place smaller than Harry Potter's under the stairs hole in the wall. I myself pay almost $700 a month for a little 800 square foot house that was built in 1942 and had Ivy growing through the walls. I shit you not, the walls in my bedroom are secured by duct tape. Move you say, but all the better houses cost way more money than that. Costs to eat are continuously rising, while wages remain the same, and we have more jobs, but they are part time jobs, at the lowest minimum wage. But hey, we have nazis to punch, right?

Hey, if we impeach Trump, we can do something. No, not really. You see, Trump is a political idiot. He doesn't really understand the ins and outs of things in DC. For him “Quid Pro Quo” is more along the lines of “I give you money, you do me favors,” not the “I am going to do something I don't really like for you, because in the future you are going to do something you don't like for me.” For Trump, he wants it his way, all day, on every issue, and once Trump is gone we will have Pence. Trump might know how to play the game, but is unwilling to do so at this time. Pence, definitely knows how to pay the game, and is willing to play it, the worst of both worlds. A guy who is politically dangerous, and knows how to, and is willing to play. Trump talks, Pence quietly acts. And while we are at it, I will also say that Pence staying close to Trump, not rocking the boat should scream at you all. Pence is not so willing to cast Trump away, because Pence realizes that he needs all those Trump supporters for his run for the White House. He knows that he will need Trump's blessing, and the best way to have Trump's heart, be his BFF, to not anger him in any way.

As with all things, there is more. Our legal system has been perverted, not that this is a new development. Our system has been perverted for decades, people use and abuse it everyday, and the truth of the matter is, our elected officials have contributed to it. As we continue to move forward into the newly minted election cycle, go online, find your states legal code (they are all online now), find a law that makes little sense to you that was recently written, research deeper, find where the laws actually contradict themselves (they often do because of exclusions and exemptions) and then go to a forum where you can ask questions of those running, have them explain it to you, then point out those contradictions in the laws, where they say contradictory things. In some laws it is a blatant contradiction, as I pointed out previously, rape is rape, unless it happens in a hospital, then it magically becomes malpractice. I personally love this one, in every state you can sell your own home, but in many states you cannot represent or act as a real estate agent. Speaking of which, if you sell your own home, you have to follow the same guidelines as a real estate agent, which means in various states you have to give a full disclosure of any potential faults with the home unless you file a specific type of deed of ownership. I say this again, our legal system has become overly complex, to the degree that even a clear cut malpractice case requires legal counsel.

As we stand here today, we see that income inequality in the US has reached that of some third world nations. We have corporations sucking the life out of people, as costs for even the most basic of things spiral upward into obscurity. We have a militarized police departments running amok in our streets harassing, assaulting and murdering people in the streets. We have people working two or more jobs just trying to survive. and I stand here in shock that our priorities are once again out of kilt. It is sad that at this moment our highest priority is removing statues, and punching nazis. Fine, I agree, the statues need to go, they serve no real purpose in the world today, not that they ever really did. The nazi problem, well, that is more difficult to solve, only because of our skewed priorities. You want to get rid of the nazis, punching them won't solve the problem. Fix the other problems in our nation, ensure that people have a job they can live well on, that they aren't being financially raped by corporations, that our legal system is repaired and that it isn't contradictory, that it is understandable to the majority of people. Stop worrying about Trump, yes, the man can do a lot of damage, but only because we have given him the tools to do so. If we take the state and local offices back for ourselves, we can limit some of his damage, if we can wrangle the federal offices back we can further limit the damage.

Eh, what am I saying? We have nazis to punch, statues to remove, and a president to impeach. Those are the three things that will fix everything... Then we can go back to the good ole days, right? Where these people fester underground, rarely seen and rarely heard from. But that is the problem, just because you don't see or hear them, that doesn't mean they are gone, it just means they are being quiet, it just means that the problems aren't actually going away. It just means they are being ignored. This nazi problem we have right now, its been festering and ignored for decades. Yeah, the white nationalists and supremacists were here even back in the 90's, but when people pointed them out, they were ignored, because they were a fringe group. In the Obama years, people said their movement had died, and when people pointed them out, we were once again told that they had no power, or we were panicking about something that no longer really existed outside of very isolated pockets.

On a side note, while I have no use for nazis, as they are currently being called, I have some real issues with punching them in the face. I am not saying that we should go back to ignoring them, that we should not stand against them at every possible chance, I just feel that they should be labeled for what they are, a hodgepodge of terrorist organizations. That is what they really are, terrorist organizations. They should be shouted down at every avenue, they should be counter protested, and protested at every exchange. They should be investigated, rounded up, incarcerated or fined for their actions of verbal or physical intimidation, assault, and any other crime they commit. Their speech in regards to race, gender, religious orientation, sexual preferences should be limited when it potentially incites violence, are otherwise meets the criteria of hate speech. But punching them, not so much. What those who advocate punching a nazi fail to realize is that many of these people have been taught from a young age to deflect or obscure their actions, and to spin the consequences. Rather than be the perpetrator who got what they had coming, they obscure or deflect their actions by saying “Mah free speech,” while spinning the consequences. Think about it, they say something hideous, someone takes exception and punches them. They say “But the First Amendment allows me to say it,” which it probably doesn't, you have their ilk nodding in agreement, and ignorant apologists also agreeing. You then have them come along and say, “I used my first amendment rights and got punched for it, see, I'm the victim here. They want to do away with the first amendment.” The media steps in, and they have a panel debate the merits of the whole affair, with one or more people saying its a clear cut case of the first amendment being stripped away. Then you have people who aren't familiar with the entirety of what happened making a snap judgment about this mess, and suddenly you have more people siding with the nazis. Everyone loves to point out that few people actually worried about the nazis in Germany back in the day, but what they don't realize is that the nazis played the system, the same thing they are doing here. But hey, you can punch them to your hearts content, if that is how you want to play it, be my guest, you are the one that will pay the consequences for that, well, at the start anyway. The way I see it, by punching them, by resorting to their tactics, you are helping to create a bigger meaner monster. If you want to kill it, start fixing the problems, start taking away their weapons. You will have hold outs, but in time, they will be the outcasts. Don't throw gas on the fire, don't continue to fuel it. There are many ways to call out bad behavior, if you wouldn't strike a child because its wrong, then you shouldn't strike an adult for their behavior. Reason with the ones that can be reasoned with, there are some out there, call out and embarrass those who cannot. All that aside, resist, fight back, shout down, make them look like fools, or pricks, or whatever else, but do not sink to their level. Once again, I am reminded of about debating an idiot, they drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. But once again I am sitting here thinking about being rational, in a world where irrationality seems to be king.