Tuesday, December 13, 2016

“If you are not outraged, you are either not paying attention or you are complicit.”


The President-elect, head of the NSA and Secretary of State (an Oil Executive) have NO experience for the huge jobs they will do, but more alarmingly are ALL friends of Putin, the autocrat of Russia.
We are in trouble because of the fact that they have no experience, alone!
We also have now a Government built on Hatred, Ignorance and Greed.  This administration is a Coalition of the Hateful, Ignorant and Greedy.
The Attorney General is a known racist.  He was refused a judgeship because of it.
The President’s chief advisor is a White Supremacist. 
His other advisors share his desire to deport millions of resident aliens, namely Mexican immigrants.
The head of the NSA hates Muslims, denies them as a Faith and sees them all as political extremists.
The President-elect and other advisors are misogynists.
The Vice President-elect hates LGBT folk and actively discriminated against them as a Governor.
The Labor Secretary opposes raising the minimum wage and disparages the poor.
The Speaker of the House wants to eliminate affordable healthcare, Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare.
The head of the EPA denies climate change and wants to dismantle the EPA in order for a few to make profit through the waste, pollution and destruction of our environment.
The Secretary of Education hates public schools.
The HUD Secretary has no experience in housing or urban life.
The UN delegate has no foreign relations experience.
And so far, BEFORE taking office…

    Instead of “draining the swamp”, they have loaded the cabinet with Goldman-Sachs execs who were at the center of our Great Recession because of their dubious business practices, aided by the de-regulation of big investors.
    The energized white nationalists and fascists have perpetrated record levels of hate crimes.
    A few hundred jobs were saved in Indiana, but many more sent to Mexico at the cost of millions to that state.
    The President-elect met with Argentinian delegates and later announced that he is building a hotel in Buenos Aires.
    He met with Japanese delegates and later announced huge banking investments by one of their riches citizens.
    He is using government as his own negotiation platform for personal business, while postponing any announcement on how he plans to avoid conflicts of interest in his presidency.


We have seen all of this before.  The 1933 rise of fascist sentiment in Germany led to World War.  The Gilded Age led to the Great Depression from which FDR had to bail us out.  Reaganomics led to a Recession from which Clinton had to bail us out, and the GWB de-regulations led us into the Great Recession from which Obama had to bail us out.  Must we repeat these unlearned lessons yet again?
Where is the outrage by the "Christian"  right?
Where is the outrage by folks who claim to be Patriots?
    They are getting what they wanted... the intolerance of some they consistently hate.
 
Where is the outrage by the denominations?  Bishops?   They are just going along...
   
Where is the outrage by those who did not vote?   They are still sitting in their temper tantrum or in their apathy.
 
Only the HATEFUL, IGNORANT and GREADY will benefit from this political disaster-in-the-making.
 
If you are not outraged by what you already see and hear, you are either not paying attention or you are among them.
 
NOW is the time to demand recounts, electoral college interventions and investigative results...
    BEFORE they take office and irreparably destroy our Democracy, Economy and Society...
    After will be too late.
 
Then, your voice will mean next to nothing, after they have hurt those you love and destroyed your life. 
 
NOW is the time to speak, write, call, demonstrate and ACT.
 
Pastor Jamie
 
 

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