Often times I’ve shied away from writing too many political blogs for a number of reasons. One, everyone seems to have some sort of opinion and the discussions always turn too extreme; two, I like to try to focus on things that are a little more intimate with your daily life situations. But, I also have to remember that politics is really an extension of daily life, just controlled mostly by old White men who talk in circles and don’t really do shit to solve the real problems. I’m amazed at the level of vitriol spewed by the mostly White congress, that Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t visit the Southern Texas border, as if her appearance will cause something to change immediately. It’s like they forget that their policies in regards for foreign aid to those impoverished nations to our South are in part responsible for the crisis that we have. When we try to give significant aid to those countries in order to help them build their own economies and countries, those entitled White men, usually bitch and complain, get control and strip away the amount of funding we give them. And they wonder why we constantly have this issue of hundreds of thousands of immigrants willing to take the journey to American borders for freedom.

Lets take what I just said and break this down into what happened this year. We had throngs of mostly White, prejudiced, some racist Americans raid the United States Capitol in the name of former President Donald Trump. They committed Insurrection. They committed Treason against this nation and those same entitled and prickly White men have done their damnedest to rewrite the narrative of that day. They tell you that it was nothing more than a normal tour of the Capitol. They say that all they was peacefully protest the results of the fairest, most secure election in American history. That’s the bullshit they want you to believe. Never mind that they found bombs outside both the Democratic and Republican National committees. Lets also not forget that they severely brutalized police officers that day. They found ammunition to the level that it would have done significant damage if they had the chance to use those weapons. They destroyed and defaced the Capitol. They broke into the offices of the Congress men and women and destroyed their offices. They potentially had access to sensitive, classified information. They tried to stop us from certifying and ratifying the fairly contested election.

And if that isn’t enough, since the inauguration Republicans all over this country have gone full sail to restrict Black people mostly, and brown people from having easy access to voting. Why is that so important? Because we all know that this country is not a White mans country anymore. This country is diverse and more colored that it is White. More progressive and diverse views are prevalent in this country and that means those old, tired White men are worried because they’re aware that the more people who vote, the less likely they get to hold on to the power and that means they don’t get to keep fucking this country up. I have a question, why are so many Republicans worried about Kamala Harris visiting the border, but they’re concerned with our bridges crumbling, our roads being all fucked up, we still have relatively slow ass train and rail service. Why are we still vastly underpaying teachers in this country. Why do they get so upset when we discuss cancelling student loan debt? Money that keeps people struggling for years and years. They care soo much about the Education system becoming more equal by teaching true American history. But, they don’t care about all the schools that still don’t have enough textbooks, that don’t have strong support systems for public schools.

Rich ass White people in that party care more about saving businesses from paying taxes and the uber rich, more than they care about making sure the American people can have true living wages. It’s dumb as fuck that so many people believe that Republicans are actually for the average American person. While at times they seem to stumble into supporting policies and legislation that work more for the middle class, regular person than the rich elite, it is far more likely that they’re going to do everything possible to protect their own. Meaning rich men and women like them and not the average person, or the Black person struggling to get to the next level in life. Maybe one day we will wake up and elect officials who really want to make this place better for the regular guy. Who wants to initiate policies that make so much sense that they won’t do it because it would upset their money train.

As I close this out, let us not forget what is really important. We have an Ozone that we’re burning through. We have global warming getting worse and worse. We have a public school system that is under attack and vastly underserving it’s students on the whole. We have laws passed that are restricting the ease of voting for people of color. We still have elements of Jim Crow at work all throughout the South. We have our highways, bridges and railways crumbling and lagging behind. We have a completely rigged tax code that favors rich people. We still have police unnecessarily killing, murdering Black people. We still have a justice system that isn’t working for all. We still have corporations charging more for their products and services, but not raising wages sufficiently. We still have a government that would rather keep wages suppressed, rather than making wages more livable. All these things and more are present, and a lot of them would have you thinking that Critical Race Theory is the most pressing issue of the day. That people being woke and attune to the social injustices are the most important. Remember what matters and what’s really important.