Ethnic And Racial Minorities

Two Democratic Senate Nominees With “Liberal” Christian Views: James Talarico And Adam Hamilton!

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The general view is that “religious” Americans tend to vote Republican, siding with right wing, hardline, harsh views promoted by evangelical Christians, Catholics,Orthodox Jews, and other “religious” people of any other faith.

Sadly, most of these right wing “Religious” people are not pursuing the teachings of Jesus and other prophets, which promoted an open minded, “liberal” view toward people of all backgrounds, including racial minorities, all religious beliefs, women, gays and transgenders, and also the poor seeking safety and the opportunity to improve their lives (immigrants).

But lo and behold, the Democrats have nominated “Liberal” Christians in two Senate races:

James Talarico in Texas, Presbyterian Pastor in Training, seeking a Master of Divinity at Austin Prebyterian Theological Seminary. He is challenging Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who won the Republican Senate nomination over Senator John Cornyn.

Adam Hamilton in Iowa, Methodist Pastor–head of the United Methodist Church, the largest Methodist church in America, located in the Kansas City metropolitan area. He is challenging Republican Senator Roger Marshall.

These two states have a history in recent decades of being “Red” states, but the indications are that both Talarico and Hamilton have a good chance at winning the Senate races, and would represent a more inspirational view on the treatment of so called “marginal” groups who have faced great discrimination by pastors and ministers and politicians who promote discrimination and prejudice against these various groups.

And both Talarico and Hamilton pursue the same goal of openness and tolerance that Pope Leo XIV promotes as leader of the Catholic Church.

DC National Mall Day Of Prayer A Farce On American History And Its Founders Belief In Separation Of Church And State

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Yesterday, Sunday, May 17, on the DC National Mall, there was a so called “Day Of Prayer” to celebrate 250 years of American Independence, organized by Freedom 250, a subsidiary of the National Park Foundation.

This was a total farce, as it was simply an evangelical right wing Christian event, ignoring Catholics, mainstream Protestants, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and other religious beliefs.

It included involvement by Trump Administration leaders who are total hypocrites in their so called religious beliefs, and do not lead lives that are models for others.

But, very revealing, was the fact that Trump did not even participate personally in the long hours event, preferring instead to go golfing.

And it goes against the Founding Fathers who promoted total separation of church and state, and would condemn a right wing extremist version of Christianity, and the concept that America is a so called “Christian” nation, when that was not the purpose of the American Revolution.

The idea that Donald Trump is promoting extremist Christianity is a total falsehood, as he has no belief in religion, and only exploits it for his own aggrandizement.

Instead of promoting the love and compassion represented by Pope Leo XIV and religious leaders of many denominations, instead the goal is to divide and stir hatred of anyone who does not accept the extremist views of pastors and politicians who see religion as a way to promote greedy acquisition of wealth, at the expense of the vast number of Americans who struggle to advance themselves in a society which worships money above all.

If left to this extremist white supremacist Christianity, women, immigrants, and racial minorities would be subjected to discrimination, and represent a reversal of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, which promoted an expansion of American democracy.

“Red” Rural States To Suffer Most From Increases In Health Care Premiums!

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The Democratic Party in Congress has refused to sign off on the continuing resolution, leading to a federal government shutdown, due to the reality of the horrendous effect that the cutting of federal subsidies for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and Medicaid will have on millions of Americans, mostly poor or lower middle class, and most heavily in rural states that are “Red” states.

The Southern States and rural Midwest and Western States, that are strongly Republican in voting patterns, will be harmed the most.

While racial minorities will be greatly affected, so will white rural Americans who voted for Donald Trump in 2024.

This includes states such as Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, and Wyoming.

The Republican Party, by its refusal to move to restore health care subsidies, is undermining its own electoral future!

The Greatest Criminal President Promoting “War On Crime” To Keep Support Of MAGA Base, While Undermining American Domestic Tranquility And Threatening National Security!

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Here we are, 250 days after the Presidential Inauguration of 2025, and we have never had any Presidency quite like the present situation.

Yes, Franklin D. Roosevelt had tremendous intervention in the Great Depression in his first eight months and beyond of his “New Deal”.

But now, Donald Trump has managed to conduct the greatest “Criminal” Presidency, way surpassing Richard Nixon by massive amounts.

He has utilized more than 200 Executive Orders in eight months, an all time record, and higher than almost all past American Presidents.

He has promoted a so called “War on Crime”, which is victimizing thousands upon thousands of immigrants, racial minories, and citizens as well, ignoring due process and establishing what could be considered a non death series of “concentration camps” to hold the victims.

But there is the horrifying possibility that an unhinged Donald Trump, in league with his corrupt Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and his corrupt Attorney General Pam Bondi, and with the support of other Cabinet officers, and other aides, including the extremely dangerous Stephen Miller, Thomas Homan, Russell Vought, and a multitude of others, could go further and decide to utilize summary justice, meaning executions!

It is not beyond the realm of possibility in the lunatic world we live in now, and undermining American economic security, our national defense, and our position in world affairs!

Danger Of Charlie Kirk Becoming Martyr And Provoking Political Violence! :(

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The unfortunate assassination of Charlie Kirk is leading to threats to various groups who he constantly attacked in his statements and appearances, with the financial support of billionaries who wish to control the future with their right wing extremism.

So the Democratic National Committee, various Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), and a multitude of others who were not in agreement with his extremist rhetoric, are now being theatened.

Charlie Kirk is becoming a martyr for so called “good Christians”, who are anything but that, but simply those exploiting his death to promote their agenda against the rights of women, racial minorities, immigrants from Latin America and Africa, gay and transgender people, Muslims, and even Jews (except in regards to the Gaza War).

Violence and intimidation are being utilized, and Donald Trump is talking about retribution and revenge, an excuse to continue his quest to promote authoritarian tyranny and destroy our American democracy and the rule of law.

Trump Systematically Destroying All Reforms From Progressive Era Onward!

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Donald Trump is systematically destroying all reforms from the Progressive Era onward, with particular attention to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has been a willing participant in this reversal of all of the great changes that promoted equality and justice, which became about after nearly a century since the Civil War of continued violation of basic human rights to African Americans and other minorities, including women and gay and lesbian Americans.

This is a very emotional time, as Donald Trump is moving full stream ahead, to return America to the late 19th century Gilded Age, where multi millionaires dominated the economy without any government regulation, and where racial discrimination and lack of basic human rights to anyone other than white male Christians predominated.

Trump and his supporters in the most despicable and corrupt Cabinet in American history are actively destroying

the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Era reforms that he initiated, through his Square Deal and New Nationalism proposals and actions.

the reforms of Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom legislation.

undermining the social justice reforms of the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt ;

and the Fair Deal of Harry Truman;

and the civil rights advancements of Dwight D. Eisenhower;

and the ideals of the New Frontier of John F. Kennedy;

and the overwhelming reforms in so many areas of public life of the Great Society of Lyndon B. Johnson;

and the many initiatives of Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, George H W Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden toward major reform initiatives.

Trump has declared war on common decency and humanity, and has ushered in an American Fascism, reminiscent of Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco, Juan Peron, and other right wing dictators.

The danger that there will not be free and fair elections, and the attempt to promote midstream Texas gerrymandering to weaken an opposition Democratic Party challenge to the authoritarianism taking place, is totally horrifying and depressing!

Difficult, Challenging Year Ahead In 2024!

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America is facing the likelihood that 2024 will be the most tumultuous year imaginable, as the nation faces the following:

A Presidential Election in November where the likelihood is that we will have the first time since 1888 (Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison), that a former President (Donald Trump) is challenging the sitting President (Joe Biden).

A Supreme Court that seems hellbent on moving further to the Far Right on many constitutional matters, despite its tremendously low public opinion rating, making it the most right wing in a century.

A likelihood of new climate crises continuing, and unlikely that much will be done to deal with it, as many people around the nation and the world become victims.

A growing crisis on issues that divide the nation, including voting rights, abortion rights, gay and transgender rights, gun control, antisemitism, civil rights and ethnic and racial minorities, immigration reform, political chaos in Congress, and growing religious extremism, among others.

A world crisis of war in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, with the potential for greater US involvement, and the constantly growing threat of China, North Korea, Iran, and other autocracies, along with the Russian threat to the stability of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with the continuing war in Ukraine.

The South Of Slavery And Racial Segregation Now The South Of Denial Of Health Care And War On Women’s Rights!

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The American South, the area of slavery and racial segregation in its past, is once again demonstrating that it is the area of denial of civil and human rights.

In the past, it was the Democratic Party that worked to deny human rights and dignity.

Now it is the Republican Party, the party that had fought for civil and human rights in the mid 19th century.

A total switch which remains startling, but now the emphasis is on denying health care to millions of poor whites and minorities, and taking away the right of women to control their own bodies and reproductive life.

The Medicaid Program enacted into law by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 now is being denied to help the health and safety of poor Americans, most particularly in Texas and Florida, but throughout the American South, as well as other Republican controlled states.

The section of the nation that demands that all fetuses be born, no matter what condition they are in, or how the woman became pregnant, is only too willing to deny health care, which undermines and shortens the lives of their less fortunate constituents.

This is so mind boggling, and it is as if the American South is still fighting the Civil War a century and a half later, continuing to be lacking in humanity and common decency.

Growing Nativism, Antisemitism, Misogyny, White Supremacy On Social Media: A Threat To American Society!

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Social Media has become a threat to American democracy, as it has permitted all kinds of hatreds to be spewed regularly without any thought of the effect on the American people.

There is growing nativism, antisemitism, misogyny and white supremacy that has promoted many of the gun massacres that have been occurring nearly daily recently, including the tragic Allen, Texas Massacre of a week ago, but also so many other such horrendous incidents.

The mental health of millions of Americans is becoming a national crisis, and particularly among women, racial and ethnic minorities, and younger people in general.

Freedom of expression is a cardinal principle of our Constitution, but there needs to be some development of a monitoring system in which social media companies, who are making money on hate, are held accountable!

April 4 Commemorations: NATO Formation And Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination

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Today is an historic day more than just normal.

It is the 73rd anniversary (1949) of the formation of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), an alliance that began as 12 nations and is now 30 nations, formed in opposition to the Soviet Union, to defend democracy in western Europe, but now also including the former Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe as well.

In this itme of the horrors of the Russia-Ukraine War, NATO is even more important, and may soon be engaged in World War III, if any of the NATO nations are being attacked.

It is also the 54th anniversary of the tragic death by assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968, a loss that has had a dramatic effect on the issue of race and civil rights in America, and more of a crisis yet again in the time of Republican and conservative attacks, including the Supreme Court, on women, immigrants, racial minorities, and the gay, lesbian, and transgender communities.