(3:22) 

It’s the same old song 

With a different feeling {now my words} cause it’s been so long

Seems like almost daily that criminal Trump or one of the mini-Trumps like Ramaswamy or Pence or DeSantis goes on some rant that includes the now nearly century old epithets of “communist, fascist, socialist blah, blah, blah Democrats.” Republican scare words that mean nothing. Would bet if you asked a Republican what they mean he or she would have no idea.

But they know that Democrats are them because some Republican said so. They would be comical if they weren’t so dangerous.

The truth is of course that the United States was founded by some real liberals. One of the founding ideals was that we can and must work together to achieve what we need to achieve. At one time  the goal was simply splitting from Britain. Some time later it was ending slavery. Today we have many challenges and we need everybody to help.

As Ben Franklin once said “We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” Said another way we just work together to meet great goals and if we don’t we will fail. 

The extremist MAGA party does all it can to sow divisiveness in this country. All it achieves is to make the rich richer and the rest of us more miserable. And they want to scare you into voting against your best interests by scaring you into thinking that working together is bad.

Funny thing, though, when they wanted to overthrow the government a couple years ago they put together a plan to bring their disciples together in one spot at one time. See it is ok for them.

As a nation we are looking at some of the greatest challenges we have ever faced. This is a time when we need to work together. As President Biden heads to the G20 this weekend it is time for the US to come up to the standards of even the lowest of first world nations in health care and education. Why do we accept less? We have the money but those bent on turning the US into an autocracy have turned this country into a divided mess.

While Democrats work to bring the country together to achieve, extreme right wing MAGA leaders work to weaken our country. Look at what Ron DeSantis has done in Florida where working people are leaving in droves. Canada has issued a travel warning for gay Canadians to be careful in traveling to the US.

Even the NAACP has issued a travel advisory for people to stay away from Florida. States like Alabama and Idaho (and others too I am sure) have decided that they can punish women and any people who help them leave their states for an abortion. Just like the pre-Civil War Fugitive Slave Act. OhMyGawd!

And just to cap it off, who has done more damage to the vaunted US military than the obscure and extremist right wing senator from Alabama, Tommy Tuberville? No doubt enemy dictators like Putin, Xi and Kim Jung Un smile at the mention of Tuberville’s name. 

Why do Americans vote for people like Tuberville? Do they hear “socialism” and start quaking in their boots.

Look what Kim Reynolds has done to Iowa. A couple of decades ago Iowa was at the top of the heap in education – Kim fixed that. No more socialist education here. Nope we’ll just take what privatized schools feel like giving us.