The Christian Fight for Democracy's Survival

I have not wanted to blog, because I don't want to be a broken record.  "Tick, tick, tick," same song, same story.  The American story we are experiencing is a broken record.  The remnants of our federal, state, and local leadership are stuck in a sycophantic groove ensuring their own political and financial security.  Nothing can be more metaphorical than the city of Fayetteville (in Cumberland County) continually hemorrhaging money to local favorites in a nepotistic bacchanal.  Thirty million tax payer dollars lost when Kirk Deviere cancelled the downtown performing arts center project.  This berzerk amusement park ride for the citizens' tax dollars is criminal.  A half-built new fire station on Bragg Blvd., like the Performing Arts Center, is being canceled and deemed uninhabitable.  It is being blamed on the city.  (I can't keep straight whether it is the Mayor, City Manager, City Council, or the County Commissioners) who keep fumbling and lateraling the ball in the worst "Da Ville" cup match ever.  The contractors proclaim it is the fault of the inspectors.  Their original plans for the station are not at fault.  It is the job of the city to police the project.  Meanwhile the money continues to flow out to the pet projects of the local brass.  Market House renovations.  A world class tennis facility.  A multi-million dollar Civil War Museum.  The Cape Fear Regional Theater, under the auspicious co-leadership of Mary Catherine Burke and Ella Wrenn, procured their own steel.  With the most savvy and forward thinking creative and business acumen in decades, these two formulated a plan to expand what began as the Fayetteville Little Theater in Leonard McLoud's living room.  Artistic director and founder of the theater, Olga "Bo" Thorp, achieved a similar renovation and expansion with the help of a state grant acquired by attorney and statesman, Tony Eden Rand.  I remember personally when this took place, and it was transformative for the theater and the local artistic community.  This newest phase is awe inspiring.  The pair chose the best and most appropriate company with which to contract.  History will show the scope of this choice, and how Mary Kate and Ella conceived, planned, and implemented this much needed expansion that brings both glamour and earthiness to Haymont.  The Methodist University and Cape Fear Valley Health's presence cannot be denied when driving into Fayetteville from I-95 South via Owen Drive.  The mirrored facade of the new medical school and additions to the hospital shine like the Eiffel Tower.  The new and improved Cape Fear Regional Theater achieves the same as you drive up Haymount Hill from downtown Fayetteville.  It is no wonder Mr. DeViere cancelled the downtown performing arts center but leaving thirty million dollars unaccounted for.  I hope the the steel for the new Civil War Museum is this lost steel.  The grifting continues, and why shouldn't it when the President of the United States is setting the quintessential example of forsaking the majority of the American citizenry?  It is borderline fascism, and it just keeps coming.  There are so many issues at stake in what has now become a blatant exploiting of the peoples' money.  Trump has nothing to lose, so he just continues to take.  Am I pacified that my own street, Westchester Drive, is slated to be paved in the next year?  Seeing that this modest thoroughfare has become the on ramp for Vanstory Hills Elementary School, and it is plagued with pot holes, cracks, and actively growing vegetation, I would revel in a new smooth asphalt surface upon which to skateboard.  As the city so candidly told me, "The price of asphalt is high right now."  We know why.  My biggest pet peeve is traffic lights.  Since the hurricanes flooded most of Fayetteville and destroyed the traffic control center, logical traffic flow has ceased.  Some new paving has occurred with new trip wires, but the lights are not intelligently programmed.  Everyone will tell you the biggest problem intersections.  First on the list?  McPherson Church Road and Morganton.  It is plausible you will sit at this light for three minutes and nary a vehicle will move.  I have yet to plan my shopping to avoid this area, and always I suffer burning fuel while my car sits in the scorching sun.  Now the Mayor is covering up the city's plan for unwanted data centers, certainly at the behest of a massive Amazon warehouse near Fort Bragg.  In a nutshell with all facets of government being uncooperative of the needs of ordinary citizens and now blatantly exploiting and embezzling tax revenue, and a President who has waged a terror campaign on the populace dismantling regulatory agencies and settling lawsuits with paltry payouts, it is beginning to feel like the only way forward to democratic governance will be resistance violence.  This will manifest itself in small acts of rebellion that will be equivalent to grievous disservices imposed upon the American people.  If prices continue to rise, wages remain stagnant, services are suspended, and people continue to struggle to survive, it will not seem criminal to fight back against political and economic tyranny.  Not unlike the historically active political parties Sinn Fein and the Black Panthers, civilian political activists openly and aggressively began to resist governmental injustice often with violence.  While at the moment the nation has been numbed into subservience, it is becoming evident  only civil or revolutionary war may preserve American democracy.  Donald Trump may crave martyrdom in the vein of vicious dictators, but like the Christian nation America always has been, there comes a time when good people must take up arms and fight.  We are dying at the behest of our own government, and it is time for it to stop. 

Overvoltages

 What is an over voltage?  I googled this word, and surprisingly GOOGLE (with or without the help of AI) gave me an authoritative response citing the many irrevocable damages created by over voltages?  I won't go into them here, but I did save that response for future reference.  Our lives as modern Americans continually are subject to over voltages.  The major over voltage is our President Donald Trump.  Whether the horse is leading the cart or the cart is leading the horse, it is challenging and punitive.  Why do the American people deserve to be punished?  What have we done other than live mundane ordinary lives to be subject to the extreme agenda of Donald Trump?  Is it because we are immigrants?  Are we illegal immigrants?  Does the U.S. immigration policy need to be overhauled?  The truth is all of Donald Trump's policies, whether it is rounding up illegals and incarcerating them in illegal camps, or deporting them to heinous foreign prisons, or imposing tariffs or duties or sanctions on private industries, all of these things have had negative consequences on Americans, the U.S. economy, and world stability.  It is clear the only ramifications of this extreme agenda, including starting a new war with Iran in spite of having said emphatically, "No new wars," is the Trump Organizations is profiting.  They are raking in billions of dollars through cryptocurrency, insider trading, and doing the bidding of the American oil and gas industries and the leaders of Russia and Israel.  Is it possible a corrupt and murderous leader sits sheepishly in the White House dismantling American from within?  It has happened in other nations, and it is common.  America is just one nation in a lineage of democracies that have been rendered moot through various inside means.  Perhaps it began with the Covid outbreak, when notorious pharmaceutical companies created their own new money manufacturing vaccines to treat a deadly pathogen unleashed on the world.  The Sackler Family has been recognized and mitigation has been attempted, but as we acutely are aware the courts have become compliant in the Trump doctrine.  As the vicious and vituperative legal battles continue, it is a daily flip flop of good versus evil.  It is difficult to read the headlines, because each day there is a new grievous assault on the pillars of American democracy.  Rest assured it has been one continuous OVER VOLTAGE.  Our minds, bodies, sensibilities, spirits, and emotions are wrought with anxiety and fear making our everyday lives dire.  This tirade continues not just through politics and the economy, but into our everyday physical lives through our devices.  Aberrant electricity courses through our world unmitigated confusing our machines and taxing our appliances forcing us to upgrade.  My blood pressure has been off the charts, and I am afraid to monitor it.  Soldiers training in the field at Fort Liberty monitor our every move through complex surveillance and radar systems using sound and microwaves.  Our lives have become a surreal movie like that crazy film where you are better off compliant and not making noise.  In our case the squeaking wheel does not the grease, it gets the "Ray."  Now a portable transportable nonlethal weapon can be carried in a backpack and unleashed on anyone, and it was manufactured in the United States, not Russia.  (although our "intelligence" community paid millions for it!)  The American "SS" is here, and we have no peace.  We have been neutered into compliance.  The rebellion of Americans effectively has been reversed, and the Trump Regime has inflicted authoritarian rule.  The government has bought up the news media, so clear factual information is naught.  Big Brother is right here, indoctrinating us into an innocuous existence of nothingness.  If I wasn't less then a decade from death, it would bother me.