The US is in Trouble
I'm a blogger. It's kind of like being a journalist only with fewer credentials and less pay.
According to oral family tradition, I'm part Cherokee. As explained elsewhere on this blog, I get a LOT of shit from White American men that I've never gotten from any other flavor of human male.
Also on this same site, I talk about the fact that men who were Native or part Native helped me recover from sexual abuse because they treated me better than White American men.
I don't currently have any Native friends or associates and I've gotten open hostility on Native Reddits.
I'm in the process of drafting a piece that could be misinterpreted as fomenting revolution and I have no such intent.
My father was career military and so was my ex husband. I'm a patriot who has done everything in my power to support and protect this country though post divorce I can't seem to make my life work and I'm starting to wonder if I should consider leaving.
I had a nightmare about President Trump slamming his fist down on a "table" and it breaking apart, an expression of my fear that the articles I was seeing suggested our country was in danger of breaking apart. So I wrote a blog post with (IIRC) "Mr. President" in the title to express my concern that he needed to lighten up.He did lighten up thereafter and I stopped seeing those articles and stopped having bad dreams.Do I expect Donald Trump to tell planet Earth "Yea, verily, when I was president, I was reading the typo riddled, rambling blog posts of a very ill homeless woman and taking her advice."?Nope. Never. The idea is laughable.
The above is from a different blog of mine. I can't prove that the current madman in office knows I exist and previously took advice from me.
I can say with certainty that the last time he was in office, I had bad dreams that his actions were threatening to tear the country apart and my response was to blog about it in a supportive fashion and try to help him avoid trouble.
I also had a long distance relationship to an Iranian political activist for some years and the CIA never picked me up for questioning though I'm guessing they likely have a file on me because of it.
If the madman in office reads this blog and wants to deport me or some bullshit, please kindly tell him where to stick it. I'm not trying to destroy this country. He and his good buddy Elon Musk are doing plenty of that themselves and I don't have the power to stop them.
This country has been in trouble a long time. In my thirties, the Federal government LOWERED physical training standards for incoming troops because our young people no longer work farm jobs and no longer do construction jobs in the summer and play video games instead of sports.
I was still married and my husband was active duty in his thirties and they didn't lower HIS standards, just that of newcomers, so I heard an earful. (I'm currently sixty, so roughly 25 years ago, give or take.)
The Myth Adventures book series did one that mocked how out of shape Americans are. The main characters went to a place where everyone was fat and out of shape and they accepted a bet or something to play some kind of sport and were shocked that the professional athletes "looked like practically a different species."
I've lived without a car for a lot of years in the pedestrian hostile environment of America. We no longer keep most Americans fit and healthy and instead of fixing that problem, the Federal government caved and lowered fitness standards for troops.
Additionally, US presidents used to be mostly former Generals. Now we let draft dodgers who rigged the election and openly admit it cosplay as president because he is a billionaire.
I haven't studied the death throes of nations in much detail. I have no idea how long a once great nation takes to die.
I think Native American culture is healthier than White American culture.
I think probably our "unique incredibly idealistic GENIUS forefathers" likely stole many of their ideas from the Haudenosaunee Confederation and then trampled the people whose ideas they took credit for.
If you are part of a Native tribe, I hope you begin planning and working towards a better future for your people because the nation that has shafted your people for hundreds of years is merrily cutting its own throat and you may soon find yourself faced with the opportunity to break free without necessarily fighting a bloody revolution, which I'm absolutely NOT advocating for.
A word to the wise: Luck favors the prepared.
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