I Have Informed You Thusly

Here is the thing, I was raised by a car mechanic and a clerical worker in the government. My Mom's parents were a machinist and a school lunch room cook. My Dad's parents were service industry workers and farmers. All of my great grandparents were farmers/commercial fishermen/day labor.  None of these people possessed more than a high school education. Almost all of them did not possess that. However, not a single one of any of them was stupid. There is a false correlation that we seem to draw between education level and intelligence. Education is earned, intelligence is native, you are born with it.  However, even high intelligence, unharnassed and uninformed by education and a breadth of experience and outlook, cannot be relied upon to cure all ills. What is the point Joe? Well, I listened to three different interviews done yesterday with Trump voters. A farmer in Iowa, a commercial fisherman in Louisiana, and a coal miner in the mountains of Kentucky. Vastly different ...

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph..." December 23, 1776 Thomas Paine The Crisis Imagine you are pulled over for speeding 6 mph over on federal land. They take you to jail for an indefinite period while your case goes through the court system. They take your kids who were with you, and put them in a detention facility, because they were with you. It is the same level of misdemeanor as the people seeking asylum at the border are being charged with. They are not imagining it, they are living it. There are 7 month olds in that HHS facility with the North Korean style mural of Donald Trump at the front door. It does not matter to me w...