Making a Choice

It is not as though anybody who knows me doesn't realize that my politics are far to the Left and environmentally I am very conservative.    There is obviously only one choice I can make for this upcoming election.  Obama has made some pretty big mistakes but he has also done some serious good.    It certainly appears like this is a contest between the 1% and the 99%, with Obama representing the latter.

A Republican president at this time would roll back already fragile environmental laws to benefit business interests for the very wealthy.  Then there are women's rights for health care, as in Planned Parenthood, which the Republicans would eliminate along with other social programs.  I don't even want to think about what will become of Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security, which are absolutely vital to many Americans.  Veterans were not even mentioned at the Republican Convention.

I have been watching Free Speech TV lately with Thomas Hartmann and his various guests.  He is very knowledgeable about politics and history and I have been learning a lot.  For example, I now understand exactly what fascism is.  It is the merging of government and corporatism; represented by greed for money and power from monopolistic corporate cartels.  They are stronger now than ever.  They are the 99%.  Romney is a Corporatist.   Their tactics include a deliberate perversion of Truth & Fact.  They are trying to pit commoners, like you & me, against each other,  (via race, religion, gender) and therefore keep the commoner in eternal subjection.    I also learned that the richest Americans are stashing  21 TRILLION Dollars off-shore.  These people claim to be patriots and claim to be religious and they are actually parasitic.   Tom Hartmann urges us all to become active and to Occupy Something!

At the same time I want to do the Zen thing and be unemotional about it all and leave it up to The Great Spirit.        

Here is a pencil drawing I did inside my house.