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Make America
Good Again. When I was a small child,
growing up in Columbus, Ohio, I believed that I was a citizen of a good
country. It was 1945, I was five years
old and I’ll admit, quite gullible. We
had just nuked two cities in Japan. Two
civilian populations. We had previously
fire bombed Japan’s largest city, Tokyo, to ashes. Without going into Japanese / Chinese
history, our history with Japan was that we sided with the Chinese and placed a
naval blockade around the island nation of Japan. Japan responded with the air attack of a
military base (Pearl Harbor). Twenty-three
years later, I went to Japan and met some of the nicest, kindest, most
industrious people I had yet to encounter.
All of the propaganda against the Japanese people that I experienced in
my youth was just that …. Propaganda.
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We recently
elected a president who is the living symbol of greed, lies and abuse. As a nation, we knew this about him before
his election. He obviously didn’t
receive a majority vote, but it was close enough to fairly represent a stain on
the goodness of our nation. We chose
him. His opponent was not much
better. She only lied 23% of the time,
to his 86%. You would hope that leaving
the truth would be the result of misinformation, held as truth, but that was
probably not the case for either of the candidates. Truth and the unbiased spreading of it is a
major force in producing a good nation. Ideally
it’s called The Media.
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Our nation
spends 56% of its discretional tax income on the tools of warfare. Could this possibly make us a good
nation? Killing folks for financial gain
is hard to justify. In this area we lead
the world and there isn’t a close second.
The old pacifist cliché on this issue is, “Why not spend it on
healthcare and education?” Well …. Why not?
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I don’t
believe that any well-educated, intelligent clergyman believes that the bible
he or she teaches as truth is not in fact, mythology. So we are taught in our places of worship, as
well as in the public square, by hypocrites.
It is called faith. There are of
course exceptions to this, but they are rare.
As for the business world, they are proud of the lies that make them
wealthy, but not proud enough to own up to them.
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So what am I
rooting for? Make America Good
Again. Make it as good as I, a child,
once thought it was. It will never realistically
be that, but let that be our goal. Our
direction. Making our nation become a
better place and helping the other nations of the world become a better place
is good for all human beings. It’s time
to change direction.
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Make America
Good Again, Old Buz
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