A supermoon deserves respect as my need to  express my frustration with an appropriate sense of sarcasm

The decision to drive this model of governance by a majority of electors removes all faith I had in the checks and balances o

To expect, to wait, and to hope are all meanings for the Spanish word, esperar.

I’m grieving the death of the final remaining illusions I had of the inherent value of a republic, or an electoral system where the minority actually got to rule.  The success of the racist divisive party to achieve the control they now have over our nation, and the threats to our human rights, education, labor unions, women’s rights, gay rights, and national health care, not to mention corporate deregulaltion and deglobalization.  Then there's to complete disregard for life on earth, or the future generations with no viable path to success.

These threaten the foundations of all I was taught as a student becoming a citizen of America in 1960 as an immigrant kid from Holland.

Obama gave us some hope.  We expected more, but now we shall definitely simply have to wait.

My gut tells me we’re on the threshold of a new era in human relations, and I fear it may be a reversal of the humanism of the past.

The globally intertwined world is trying to sever some ties by propagandizing nationalism and by appealing  to the tribal gene.  Divide and conquer.

I sense the feelings that my Dutch parents must have had when Adolf Hitler came to power…a man who used  the crowd tactic and hate to gain power over others with the superman German propaganda.

I myself have found tears draping forth, despite my seven decades of political disappointment, and can only compare these feelings with the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated, or  the news of 9/11.

Certainly the lack of respect, abuse, civility in American politics has been trumped by this candidate, the worst in American history, and yet the uneducated white males of our more rural regions were able to overcome the actual majority of Americans .

I have definitely had anxiety with every election and rarely have things been as on edge as they are now, as our society is already lashing back at those fighting for equality, but rarely has a president sponsored racial and ethnic divisiveness so directly in his words.

It is the end of my own American dream, as a child immigrant to America, in the McCarthy era and patiently watch equality spread to every race, culture, and gender…finally recognizing women as equal humans, and struggling to implement the ideal of the American Dream ‘equal opportunity and respect for all’  which our teachers tried to implant in our values.

Every step forward and backward has been observed, and just as we thought we had reached respect for every sub-culture in our society but are working on giving equal opportunity to all.  

We have gotten caught up in the overpopulation, globalistic economics, resource diminishing, climate change, and the results are sparking the tribes and clans to claim their own turf, culture, life style...

Uncertainty drives innovation, and innovation in times of crisis is to hook up with locals and neighbors and share resources.

The future has always had a dark side, from the atomic bomb, to immigrants taking over Americ from the natives.  Consequences are not always understood until they take affect...Karma is the term for that...our generation has had some of the moste prosperous and luxurious life styles, mostly white, educated and preferred.  Now we shall have to account for those who do no longer see themselves as members of the same society.