Imagine this: You meet a person online who sounds wonderful. You stay up all night talking about everything, imagining a romantic life together, and your hopes soar. Finally, this could be the person of your dreams! You fall in love – only to find out too late that he or she believes in something that you passionately oppose. Whether your new flame believes that global warming is only a hoax or that affordable healthcare is un-American, you are forced to realize that you are totally incompatible. The relationship dissolves, and you're back to square one.

Finding your true love is a long and difficult path; if you are passionate about your political beliefs, finding a true romance is even more difficult. When you finally do meet someone who is attractive, personable, and engaging, it's heartbreaking to realize that you have a basic incompatibility in your worldviews. Not only did you get your hopes up for nothing, but you could have spent the same time and effort in a relationship with real potential for the future.

In order to help you spend your time most effectively when looking for your ideal match online, here are five things that will help bring together democratic singles, passionate liberals, and globally-conscious lefties of all types.

1. Dating Services which Attract People who Share your Beliefs. If your heart is set on finding a progressive-thinking partner, a dating site that helps left-leaning singles meet one another will be a more effective way of meeting your soul mate. By focusing on people with the same political tendencies as you have, you will eliminate one of the barriers to meeting your ideal match.

2. Singles Sites that Let you Find People for Free. With so many dating websites out there, it is difficult to know at first glance which one is for you. A site that lets you talk with other like-minded singles for free will give you the chance to test the service before committing to making any payments.

3. Personals Pages that Take a Stand. It's easy for a company to say that it believes in something, but a few actually follow through. A dating site that actively supports Democratic causes with a portion of its proceeds is truly committed to the issues that are important to you.

4. Free Adult Chat. Nothing adds to a sense of community like the ability to chat with other online members. This gives you the opportunity to get to know people outside of their profiles and to build real connections with other Democratic singles.

5. Reasonable Prices for Full Membership. Some dating sites charge an arm or a leg to be a full member, while others provide better service for a monthly price that is less than the price of a cup of coffee.

By following these tips, you can find a Democratic singles website that will help you to optimize the time you spend looking for love, so that you can spend more time enjoying it.

Modern History

Did you know- Present-day Botswana – former Bechuanaland-was a protectorate under the United Kingdom from 1886 to 1966, when it became an independent nation within the Commonwealth. In the subsequent decades, inspired by Great Britain and the United States of America, Botswana became a democratic society, making it Africa’s best democracy. Since the 1970s, it is home to some of the world’s most peaceful societies. No other place in the Third World has had a democratic system comparable to Botswana.Contrary to most nations in the world, the African nation has not had coups d’ etat, guerrillas, warlords, military dictatorships, and Marxist revolutions. Until 1990, ironically, this democratic nation had been surrounded by foreign dictatorships and war-torn countries.

International Organizations

Did you know- The English-speaking nation became a full member of the United Nations in the 1960s.

Louvre of the Desert

Did you know- The Kalahari desert is home to Tsodilo, one of the unknown wonders on Earth. Due to its abundant cave paintings, Tsodilo is part of the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2001. This national wonder contains more than 4,500 cave paintings, making it the world’s highest concentration of rock art.

Famous Persons

Did you know- Botswana is home to some of Africa’s most famous persons: Sir Seretse Khama (former leader), Gaositwe Chiepe (Minister of Foreign Relations), Mpule Kwelagobe (1999 Miss Universe), Ruth Khama (ex- First Lady), and Kabelo Kgosiemang (athlete).

Economics

Did you know- Since the discovered of diamonds in Botswana more than 40 years ago, it became one of Africa’s most prosperous republics. During the 1970s and 1980s, the former British colony boasted one of the world’s highest economic growth rates, ahead of Germany, Japan, and the Netherlands. In the mid-1990s, it also had a per capita income two times that of most former Socialists nations in Europe and Central Asia.

Geography

Did you know- Botswana is a Southern African nation that borders Zambia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Namibia. It is the fourth-largest country in Southern Africa. With more than 1.5 million people and a territory of 600370 square kilometres, the democratic republic is one of the world’s most sparsely populated countries, along with Mongolia, Namibia, Australia, and Mauritania.

Democracy

Did you know- Botswana, a landlocked republic well-know for its notable national parks and deserts, has the best democratic system in all of Africa. Since then, no other country has done as much as Botswana to preserve its democracy. Due to this, it is the only country that has not had a civil conflict on the African mainland.

Botswana & the United States

Did you know- America’s leader Bill Clinton paid a state visit to Gaborone in 1998. He and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton came to Botswana on the six day of a 12-day journey through Africa. Like many foreign visitors, they visited the Chobe National Park, a symbol of Botswana. It was the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the African nation in the past century.

Human Development

Did you know- By 1996, the African country was ranked 72nd out of 170 countries and territories in the UN’ s Human Development Index, ahead of the Peoples’ Republic of China and South Africa. In 1995, it had finished 74.

Minerals

Did you know- By the mid-1990s, the nation was the world’s second-largest producer of diamonds. In addition to diamonds, it has sizable mineral deposits of copper, coal, nickel, silver and salt.

The George Washington of Africa

Did you know- Botswana’s former Head of State Sir Seretse Khama was one of the greatest African leaders of 20th century. After leading the country to independence from Britain in the mid-1960s, he and his wife Lady Ruth Khama, a white Englishwoman, set up a “democratic revolution”, where blacks and whites worked together for a new country without violence. Khama’s legacy has allowed the country to maintain and conserve its liberal democracy in the last decades (unlike several rules in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe). His policies were much admired outside Africa. Over his rule, between 1966 and 1980, Botswana’s government plan focused on improved education and employment, as well as healthcare. Due to these policies, the English-speaking nation became Africa’s most developed country in the 1970s and 1980s. At the same time, the African country maintained excellent ties with London and America. In the latter half of the 20th century, Mr. Khama, who was Africa’s longest-serving democratic President, was identified with the emerging generation of democratic leaders on the Planet.

Chobe National Park

Did you know- The Chobe National Park is one of the world’s most beautiful national parks. Its geography is home to a great variety of water birds and mammals animals.

United Nations

Did you know- By the mid-1990s, the English-speaking country was elected as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.

Mpule Kwelagobe

Did you know- After winning the Miss Universe title in Trinidad & Tobago in 1999, Mpule Kwelagobe, Miss Botswana, led her nation’s battle against the AIDS epidemic.

Invisible Harmful Consequences of High Minimum Wage

The kiosk made its debut in our McDonald’s this week, or at least I saw and used it for the first time. It is almost, but not quite, idiot-proof. There were no cashiers up front, but a kind assistant manager came out from behind the counter and talked me through the navigation.

The big takeaway is that McDonald’s and other fast food chains are almost, but not quite, at the mercy of pandering Progressives who impose their will to enact a higher minimum wage. It appeared that no more than four or five employees were running the whole operation when we visited during the lunch rush.

Thank goodness workers have valiant Democrats protecting us from greedy employers. Unfortunately, that requires protecting some of us from employment itself.

It’s a sad story when a young person never gets that first job, never gets a chance to demonstrate a strong work ethic and punctuality. It corrodes their self-image, and often leads to substance abuse and criminal lifestyles. It’s hard on families and relationships.

As Allie Beth Stuckey has said, work is not a necessary evil. It’s a necessary good. The absence of honorable work creates a vacuum, and that vacuum will be filled by something. If not crime, perhaps political extremism. Or maybe both.

Somebody will pay for creating a class of unemployed and unemployable young people, but it won’t be the cynical Progressive politicians. Unemployed, unskilled young people are unlikely to diagnose the cause of their unemployment unless they’ve taken some upper-level economics in college, and this is the genius of the Democrats’ position.

They’ll demand and receive lavish praise from the beneficiaries of a higher minimum wage, but they’ll never be held accountable for the devastating impact of their legislation on new, unskilled workers and their families and communities. That will be attributed to racism, underfunded public education or the ever-popular “greedy corporations.”

There was a 2012 fast food strike in New York City, but it got limited traction at the time. I would say that the minimum wage groundswell launched from the Progressive precincts of the Pacific Northwest a few years later. Ballot initiatives imposed some of the minimum wage increases, and some were imposed by city councils.

My work took me through Seattle often during that period. In the months after Seattle enacted a stout minimum wage increase, I noticed that several small family-owned restaurants had closed. Kiosks can’t wash dishes and bus tables yet.

But down the coast in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, clever engineers and coders were devising the technology that would save the restaurant industry from unsustainable high wages. Good for them, good for the restaurant owners, disastrous for young, inexperienced workers.

The move to automation, once made, is irreversible. Consider the advantages to an owner: no payroll, no social security contribution, no scheduling drama, no training, no slip-and-fall or back injuries, no embarrassing racial accusations, and no #MeToo claims of sexual harassment. The kiosk offers the employer peace of mind, not just financial advantages.

Of course, the remaining back-of-the-house workers can’t be replaced by a machine. Yet.

The Democratic platform advocates increasing the current $7.25 federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. The majority of Congressional Democrats have committed to the $15 figure, but some have advocated an intermediate $12 wage before transitioning to the higher wage.

Rep. Keith Ellison and Sen. Bernie Sanders have introduced legislation to automatically increase the federal minimum wage from that $15, based on median national wage growth. Ellison’s measure would also outlaw the practice of paying tip employees less than the minimum wage. There are, lamentably, already kiosks at restaurant tables, eliminating opportunities for single mothers and college kids.

Even President Donald Trump has said he favors an increase to $10 per hour. So the handwriting is on the wall. The fast food chain executives aren’t paranoid, just rational. They don’t want to go broke. They don’t want to get fired by stockholders. There will be a lot more kiosks, and a lot fewer employees.

by Bart Stinson

We are talking about the context of the network marketing home business. It is estimated that over 90% of home-based business owners are network marketers versus starting an enterprise from scratch. This unique home business concept is based on the founding principle that average people with above average dreams for success can start a low-capital home business with expert leverage. You start by becoming a member of a successful network marketing company. This gives you access to the product, research, top management experts, replicated website, marketing tools, accounting, and compensation or pay plans.

Your “job” is to help market their product and earn residual commissions.

The keywords are help to market which is the lifeblood of any business.

Three key concepts for network marketing success are duplication of a simple marketing plan for residual income.

The Indivisible Rule: simplicity = velocity = profits

So, your $68,000 question is what kind of marketing plan will I “employ?

One plan commonly touted is known as attraction marketing where you build your personal “brand” so others see you as “the expert” and decide to follow you.

The second plan is termed democratic 3-steps marketing that is designed to work for everyone.

Personally, speaking from experience, I played every inning..took every swing at attraction marketing…..and from a democratic point of view, these strategies didn’t work long-term. As you read this list, I’m sure you’ll know why:

…trade show promotion…new products are the most difficult to educate about

…high spending on corporate marketing CD’s, DVD’s with leaders’ testimonials

…high spending on advertisements in newspapers, magazines, etc

…high mailing costs to send out CD’s and samples

…following up by phone to make appointments with prospects and team leaders

…sending direct mail offers to prospect list

…using auto responder for lead generation with cold calls

…writing articles/blogs to market website thinking virally

…writing informational e-books with updated research

…setting up multiple social network sites in order to brand links and logos,

…listening to endless seminars about networking and how to find that “golden mind-set”

…maintaining daily checklists, weekly “exposures” or monthly promotions

Sure, a “downline” team did evolve but I’m sure you’ll agree that the effort was huge and totally impossible to duplicate. How could anyone realistically expect any team member to follow this full-time track?

The harder I tried to discuss company, products, team, compensation, benefits, the longer the list of prospects grew, along with more objections. It became very evident that:

Complexity beyond 3 facts leads to uncertainty and procrastination

Even I wanted to stop these “branding’ actions, and certainly could no longer recommend this merry-go-round “business” of chasing endless prospects with endless explanations of must-have benefits.

Something better had to be designed such as a marketing system where 90% of people succeed with average effort, not fail. The good news is the change is simple based on the main principles of duplication and multiple levels found only in this business model.

Attraction marketing may work for attractive, self-branded leadership-style marketers with egos, but this home business is not about brilliant “superheroes” but ordinary heroes who can make a difference given the right tools and prosperity mindset. It should be based on as few KEYS as possible on a level playing field…as simple as casting a vote. What about, FIRST, taking into account the “party platform” about what it stands for?

What about first learning the business principles on which network marketing is based?

What about a simple training primer to explain vocabulary, structure, a concept map with all the pieces and strategies that work?

A democratic home business plan would ensure that everyone is educated about what works, then is self-empowered to begin new belief systems, and then is plugged into a way to change..

The reverse..change, empower, educate..is opposite to the learning process and simply cannot work.

A democratic home business plan would have these features

• limits information/ resources/ parts and process..3 steps is all you really need
• reduces time required to learn, train..one hour will suffice to cover main concepts and another hour to learn more about product and company
• provides a game plan where you can see successful results
• measures criteria by 4 simple essential business words I CAN DO IT
• raises expectations for beginners
• increase personal growth and profits based on simple actions not character traits or personal development
• celebrates more success to improve public reaction and interest in a home business based on democratic ideals..not personal brands

In the end, a democratic home business plan will explain clearly four things in how to start a home business:

1. what do I have to do..3 steps marketing plan

2. who will help me..professional tools and team members

3. how much will it cost…start as low as $40 monthly for valuable product everybody needs

4. how much can I make…potential of unlimited residual income

Your questions, comments, opinions are all very important. What are some of your experiences in networking marketing and home business..

Annemarie..no excuses allowed team.

As the economy sinks due to greedy businesses using foreign labor and a government that feeds its pockets off of the greedy corporations the economy dives to a level that the wealthy businessmen and women are satisfied with. These wealthy business men and women do their best to keep the general public that’s not business at a wealth level where they cannot create competition against them and then to boot the general public will have to buy their corporate products exclusively because there’s nothing else. This scenario has been found out to be corporations and wealthy business personalities purchasing democrat politicians and paying these democrat politicians to raise taxes that in fact destroy their “Small Business” competition.

Yes, the democrats are preaching that they want to “Raise Taxes” on the wealthy but the fact of this is the wealthy are paying the democrats to “Raise Taxes” because it destroys small business and diverts all U.S. citizens spending to the corporations and wealthy.

It’s mind bending going on to fool the public because everyone wants the wealth diverted “Away” from the wealthy and corporations. The democrats preaching that they want to raise taxes on the corporations and the wealthy to take wealth away from the wealthy works in the democrats favor to get votes. The reality is the democrats are getting paid by the corporations and wealthy to raise taxes on them that will destroy small businesses and divert “All” the wealth in the U.S. to the corporations and wealthy. By preaching “Higher Taxes On The Rich” that the voters like the democrats get the votes to divert “All” wealth in the United States to the corporations and wealthy under false pretenses for even higher corporate profits.

The problem is when corporations control the public wealth prices rise and wages go down. When businesses talk about growth they do not mean growth of wealth for the working public because the control of public wealth is what businesses want to control. They mean growth in the population through massive immigration and the diversion of wealth to them.

The problem with the diversion of wealth to one group of people is it takes wealth away from U.S. citizens and devalues the items bought and sold in the collectors marketplace because only a certain section of the general population has the money to pay for a collector’s item with decreased competition for it. “The collectors marketplace is based on someones willingness to pay an ever growing increasing price for an object that isn’t so abundant as it trades hands over the years”.

No matter what you enjoy collecting for value or for personal wants when the economy sinks into a controlled environment all collectors values decrease on collected items individually and as a group of items collected.

Millions upon millions of people have a large portion of their saved earnings invested in objects of collectibility that are dependent on a free marketplace filled with collectors that have plenty of expendable cash to pay the higher prices for objects of collectibility as they trade hands.

No matter what you enjoy collecting, “Dolls”, “Sports”, “Trading Cards”, “Comic Books”, “Transportation”, “Politics” or “Entertainment” if all the wealth gets diverted to one body of control being “Government” or “Corporate Entities” the years you spent creating some monetary gain through collectible objects will be time wasted and earnings lost.

The other day, I was speaking with a college student who was right leaning on the political spectrum, something I found refreshing because many college aged kids whether in college or not, lean to the far-left. She explained to me that in her political science class her professor was completely enthralled with President Obama almost to a religious fundamentalist level. She was afraid to challenge his comments and lectures in class, although he encouraged the students to do so, for fear it would affect her grade or he’d attempt to humiliate her in class for her viewpoints.

She noted it had happened to other students so now she just sits there and smiles, without any outward emotion, straight faced looking straight ahead. One might say she has enough emotional intelligence not to upset the professor or her quest to eventually graduate with a degree. She also had an economics class, get this, on the same day, where she felt more at home as her economics professor was very matter of fact in his teaching style, without all the political correctness, and he showed the math and history to back up the quasi-science of it all.

She explained that the dichotomy of those divergent thoughts of far-left and right-leaning economic paradigms were an eye-opener, and admitted that after listening to her political science teacher and then going into the economics class, it’s as if a shroud was lifted, one which was cloaking any sense of reality or even the basic common sense of human behavior. She wished she had more professors like her economics teacher, and quite frankly so do I. In fact, I wish they taught economics to all professors and every student was required to take such courses, even in high-school.

Okay so, let me ask you something. If colleges are brainwashing our kids into left-wing ideology, refusing to teach them any alternative, then they are not teaching them to think, they are just conditioning and limiting their minds. If so, they should pay us for doing so, and pay for any college tuition costs which help propel their true motives for a socialist society.

This story is not unique by any stretch of the imagination, and I’ve had similar conversations with college students across this country – and it is a problem of epic proportions – in fact, if we don’t fix this – we could watch our nation go from a Super Power to a bankrupt socialist state in one generation. Please consider all this and think on it.

Many hours, with many tax payers dollars burned in Lansing’s capitol as democrats work to purpose a new fireworks bill to lawmakers that will surely help Michigan when it approaches Washington for more unemployment benefits. Democratic law makers seem to have no regard to existing small fireworks, business owners operating in the state of Michigan. Small fireworks companies have been operating legally under current law for many years, law makers have lit the fuse. Then KaBoom, they’re gone. Representative Harold Haugh (D) of Macomb county, puts it clear when in his testimony before the appropriations committee, “we will start with a clean slate”, the majority of all small fireworks company owners are now opposing the bill in its entirety, due to the fact that it clearly does not fall under the “free enterprise” system of America, and the foundation on which it was presented was misleading to the committee.

Fireworks have received misleading media coverage for many years in Michigan, law enforcement officials have made public claims on television and radio to the fact that they are not legal in Michigan if they leave the ground or go bang. As presented in testimony before the committee, those very same remarks were made by those for the bill. Unfortunately the media and law enforcement do not completely advertise the law in its entirety or straight up should we say. “Fireworks in Michigan are illegal if they leave the ground or go bang, without a permit.” Permits can be obtained from city, village or township offices for legal aged consumers wishing to display a 1.4 g previously know as Class C fireworks as long as they meet the simple qualifications. Michigan’s small fireworks dealers and companies have been operating under these laws for years. It has supplied for regulations in controlling who displays fireworks and has prevented many accidents and injuries from occurring.

Upon review of the current fireworks laws in Michigan, there is a serious question in regards to Amendment # 8 of the United States Constitution which prohibits excessive fines, purposed fines that are 10X the current rate are in fact excessive.

Many other questions now arise out the controversy over the fireworks laws after testimonies were given by all parties sponsoring and supporting the new fireworks law. Considering with due respect that we “wipe the slate clean” as Rep. Haugh testified before the committee, which could implement that all existing small fireworks companies are going to be put out of business.

Here is where the taxpayers of Michigan have many questions that have not been answered. We have listed them here for public review and encourage any tax paying citizen of the state of Michigan to write, call, fax or email there representative and demand answers:

Question 1: That the purposed law has requirements that call for large investments to be made by business owners so they can continue to do business status quo. What type of financial assistants plan are ready and available to where there are no interruptions in the ability to sustain and maintain there current business and lifestyle. What are the terms, where do small business owners I pick up the check?

Question 2: All laws and programs have a cost factor, no documents have been found anywhere to this matter. Where can taxpayers obtain a detailed break down of all expected cost in regards to each service that is to be provided pertaining to this bill at the taxpayer expense. Where are monies coming from when, in the event of a short fall of business interest due to extravagant upfront fees and possible penalties. What happens as does in many cases if the law fails to generate the revenue numbers that fell out of the sky. How will the state fund this program prior to achieving the desired results? The track record so far on Michigan’s new laws in the last seven years is not a sunny picture.

Question 3: As a tax paying business, where can a citizen obtain a detailed and complete disclosure of the expected cost to operate, which will cover new jobs created, fire fighters, trucks, automobiles, gas, salaries, insurance, retirement funds, and personal effects required to do the job, and what is the burden to taxpayers until the program gets established, how will it be funded?

Question 4: Obviously there has been great interest in passing the bill for it to consume so much time and tax payers monies, where can tax paying citizens obtain documentation in regards to commitments in writing from any individual or retail establishments who have demonstrated a financial commitment to do business in Michigan under this purposed law? How much tax payers monies have been spent so far on the trying to pass a fireworks bill?

As every citizen in Michigan can see, without these answers, the view point is to oppose this bill until a legitimate bill with a solid foundation can be presented that protects both existing small and big businesses alike in Michigan, which also encourages growth in business and jobs for the state. Michigan is in fact Americas example state for the highest numbers of unemployed people.

Previous actions that have cost Michigan jobs and revenues. Recently, Spartan Electronic – 100 years in Jackson, Michigan moved to Illinois, claims Michigan is not business friendly 100s of job gone, huge loss of tax dollars. Whirlpool – World Headquarters, Benton Harbor, Michigan now building plants in Mexico due to the unfriendly business environment in Michigan, loss of 1000’s of jobs to Michigan, massive amounts of revenues, jobs lost in the last twelve months alone due to the little concern for Michigan businesses or the abilities to effectively sustain business, is staggering. HB 5999 and all revisions clearly follow pace as the past. The pennies generated after all cost paid does not weight the dollars lost through simple process. Michigan needs to start recovery now, KILL THE BILL NOW, BAD FOR BUSINESS-BAD FOR MICHIGAN!

While it may, make you feel better, or appeal to your idealistic aspects, merely, articulating programs, ideas, and approaches, which might ensure grasping losing, from a winnable election, won’t create those changes, or improvements, which are needed, and necessary! This is true, in many policy areas, including the most discussed, and argued about, today! Simply, resorting to blaming, and complaining, instead of focusing, on an approach, which may, be more feasible (even if less ideal), won’t position our nation, in the right direction, into the future! Our nation, and, perhaps, Earth, itself, may be, permanently damaged, etc, unless/ until, we take incremental steps, forward, which others, will agree to! This means, seeking a meeting – of – the – minds, for the common good! We must remember, America’s politics, and systems, challenges our ability to make huge, progressive changes, because the majority of the House of Representatives, 60 of the 100 Senators, and the President, must all agree! We have witnessed, the Senate Majority Leader, has not even permitted, over 100 bills, passed by the House, to come to the Senate’s floor. Therefore, if we want to move forward, it’s important to always consider, the political possibilities/ ramifications, and realities, and to use pragmatic idealism, instead of burying – your head – in the sand! With that in mind, this article will attempt to briefly, consider, review, examine and discuss, 7 areas, where common sense proposals, might be beneficial, and significant.

1. Health Care: Democrats must consider, what they are seeking, a specific program, or a realistic path, towards universal health care coverage! Proposals calling for, so – called, Medicare – for – All, not only ignores certain economic realities, and other relevant issues, but, appear to scare – away, many potential, moderate, moderate – left, Independent, and, non – Trump Republicans! Wouldn’t it make sense, to prioritize medical care, and reducing costs, and attract many individuals, who would rather progress, than seek idealistic purity? Doing this, should include: lowering prescription drugs costs (for example, informing drug manufacturers, they may not charge more here, than they do elsewhere); capping malpractice claims (thus, reducing insurance costs for physicians, and lowering overall costs, etc); simplifying the administrative process; and offering a Public Option (to increase competition, etc).

2. Immigration: President Trump appealed to many of his supporters, by articulating a message of xenophobia, and fears of immigrants! He equated border safety, with restricting immigrants, and has ignored many humanitarian concerns, etc. Wouldn’t Democrats be better served, if they addressed the aspects of Trump’s policies, which are opposed to American ideals, etc, while comforting moderates, by informing them, they will maintain border safety, in a legal, moral, ethical manner?

3. Taxes: Clearly differentiate income tax policies, between the one, passed in 2017, which favored the wealthiest Americans, and major corporations, in a Trickle – Down Economics, manner, and a fairer approach, and more attention to reducing irresponsible spending, and inefficiencies!

4. Human Rights: How many deplorable behaviors, has the present occupant of the White House, either endorsed, looked the other way, or articulated a message, which pitted those with opposing positions, against each other? Aren’t most people tired of these treatments, and the increase in hate crimes, shootings, etc?

5. Character: A leader must spend much time, proving he earns his constituents’ support/ trust, while one misstep, and he loses it forever! Choose a candidate, who can clearly demonstrate, he posses a quality of character, which obviously, contrasts, positively, against Mr. Trump!

6. Empathy: Spend more time, effectively, listening and learning, instead of trying to prove, you’re the smartest person, in the room! Determine, their perceptions, fears, goals, and priorities, and prove, you are worthy, of their vote!

7. Environment/ Climate Change: Contrast a responsible behavior, and clear, doable approach, towards protecting the environment, in a responsive, relevant, sustainable manner, against this President’s apparent, denial, of Climate Change, and its imminent dangers!

Which might you prefer, idealistic purism, or making a real difference, towards the future of the nation, and the world? Wake up, Democrats, and use some pragmatic idealism, before it’s too late!

Most Americans appear to have a clear – cut opinion, regarding the current President. They, either, are core supporters, or, seem to be, somewhat, extremely opposed to his so – called, leadership! In order for this nation to benefit, we need leaders, ready, willing, and able, to look beyond their personal/ political agenda, and/ or self – interest, and seek, making a difference for the better, for the common good! However, although public official polls, have consistently indicated, Donald J. Trump has an unfavorable rating, and there are more, opponents, than supporters, Democrats must, if they wish, to regain the office, in 2020, figure out, both, how, to defeat the man, while bringing people together, towards a meeting – of – the – minds. Historically, until the past few decades, we elected Presidents, who, held middle – of – the road, positions, within, approximately five percent, of the political center/ middle. Therefore, it might be, extremely challenging, to defeat, the current leader, of the free world, despite his issues, and degree of unpopularity, unless/ until, the Democratic Party attracts voters, with meaningful/ viable ideas and solutions, which motivate, not only the left – wing, but the independent, centrist parts of the electorate! With that in mind, this article will attempt to, briefly, consider, examine, review, and discuss, 6 essential keys, which must be clearly considered, and focused – upon.

1. It’s not enough to simply, oppose, President Trump!: If they wish to regain control of the White House, it will be essential to do more, than simply, proclaim opposition to Trump, but, also, to proceed, strategically, in a way, which inspires and motivates, potential voters, to support, them, because they are ready, willing, and able to clearly contrast, their positions, and approaches, in a positive manner!

2. Demonstrate genuine empathy: Most people want their leaders, to understand, and care, about citizens perceptions, needs, and priorities, and be willing to effectively listen and learn, from every conversation and experience. Although Trump’s supporters, perceive, he is one of them, and appear willing to overlook his weaknesses, etc, because of that, his potential election opponents, must expand their supporter – base, beyond, merely, Trump – haters, and inspire and motivate, individuals, who share their vision of a more inclusive, nation, and adherence to the Constitutional principles of freedom, liberty, and justice, for all!

3. Create a winnable, relevant platform: Instead of, merely, opposing what President Trump, represents, the Democrats must introduce an inspiring, motivating, relevant platform, focused on making a quality difference, for the better!

4. Broad appeal: Is there any current, Democratic, proclaimed, candidate, who is guaranteed to defeat President Trump, in an election campaign? Remember, it’s not enough to, simply, appeal to a broader base, but to be able to claim a necessary majority of the Electoral College, as well! In order to do so, care must be taken, to avoid, a message, which appeals, merely, to those states, considered, more liberal, but, also, to the swing – states, including, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Nevada, etc, as well.

5. Progressive, but also, pragmatic: The challenge, may be, finding a candidate, progressive, enough, to attract progressives, to cast their votes, while reclaiming, the loyalties, of the more moderate, so – called, Independent voters!

6. Positive/ motivating, instead of, adversarial/ polarizing: If they wish to win, the candidate, selected, must contrast his solutions – oriented, approach, with the more negative, articulation, of the current office – holder! The nation needs, and truly, seeks, a leader, focused on relevant, sustainable solutions, instead of mere, populist rhetoric, and empty promises!

Will the Democrats, follow a meaningful strategy, and maximize the opportunity, to win, and make a positive difference, for the better, or, shoot themselves in the leg, and, be, too smug, to broaden their appeal, while maintaining their focus on viable solutions, and bringing us together? What do you believe, the odds, are, and why?

Part One

Squawking Dem.

With two-thousand years of Christianity behind us all the Democrats can say to their un-conforming rivals, or persons, is: “Watch your step!”

Or to inform them to keep their mouths well shut.

In fact if possible, and in spite of everything, to get into the service of the Democratic Party.

These folks are a cunning line of crocodiles.

Metallic sort of brutes.

Obama is afraid should Mr. Trump, become president, day one he’d do what he did to President Bush, erase all his works.

And he’s right, Trump would.

And that is the very reason he has stopped working his paid job as president to run a rigged election for Hillary.

Rigged, meaning (but Trump can’t say it) billionaires, the FBI, the CIA, all but the NSA, are in line to do whatever it takes, even invent, the unintended, to win.

The NSA said it wasn’t the Russians who leaked the information of her diabolical little tweets, but them.

The NSA is the world’s most informed spy alliance.

Russia says it wasn’t them, although we all know they have them.

However we came to having two such unlikely persons to run for president only God and the Devil knows, but we got them.

Part two will inform the reader what I think of both of them, if one cares to read it.

But no matter who wins, the point of no return has been passed, we are in new waters, we are the new Babylon, and remember, it fell, out of pride, indifference, and polluted leadership; as did Rome from the inside-out, and then from the outside.

The insects, and the rats will out survive us, as they did with the dinosaurs, it’s just a matter of time, unless Christ, himself puts a stop to all this nonsense.

#1022-3-2016

Part Two

The Anathemas

(U.S., Presidential Rivals for 2016 AD)

We have two rivals for President of the United States at present running which deserves special mention with this analogue.

Both I believe are rotting with fatigue-

With Black Rot!

Both on the verge of collapse.

Both appallingly keep going.

Both a vast mangy mole.

If I could make them both healthy and scrupulous with one stroke of the pen, I would.

Both rave or have someone rave for them tremendously on the slightest provocation.

Both talk in circles, from the base of the spine to the top of their necks.

Both have bloody fingernails.

With one free hand left, I must vote, we all must vote, right or left, in the darkness of a booth or wherever…

It turns my stomach sour to have to even vote.

I must pick the least contaminated.

This will be a burdensome job, like carrying balanced on the top of my head a great pannier full of raw rubber-

This is not unusual in the jungles, and we are now in the jungles!

It’s a show, with 650-million goggling eyes.

One side says “Pick up your troubles we’ll keep the ball rolling.”

The other side says, “She’s a devil!”

And the sad thing is, she is!

Soon one will have to bow in defeat!

Here, there is no true law in America to oversee the makings of the roads through the thick of this jungle to the prudency.

The news today on either one-overgrown by the media, will vanish very rapidly tomorrow, and from day to day until the elections in November.

And what will we get with the winner?

I hope it’s better than nothing, in this vanity race, anything is better than nothing.

At present, it is just another form of amusement, as both the DNC and RNC have made it, organized it.

Fever competitions.

It has to be difficult to keep the contest going week to week!

It’s the third of August, 2016 now, four months to go, thereabouts.

Their ratings are going up and down like the temperature in the Congo, “Hey, look at mine… !” (Fox News, catches every clap of an eye)

To escape from all this, where does one go?

So I’m reading, writing, watching the “Game of Thrones,” and occasionally fighting with friends, that were never really friends, otherwise we’d still be friends.

I guess that’s what I normally do anyhow, just now doing less of it.

This election is: overkill!

But who can vote for a she-devil?

#1021/8-3-2016