Interesting that AI is the future but it is only able to draw from what we've learned in the past.

After all, it is all about Us

For years now I've hoped Dems would be seen as the party of We where the Rs are the party of Me.

Problem is, we are now seen more as the party of Them.

And not just as a trans issue (they/them), but as in, we are seen as being way more interested in everyone except, to be blunt, straight white males, and not thinking in terms of Us. That's part of why I believe we have to keep any language related to individual subgroups out of our speeches, and talk about Us, not them (gays) and them (African-Americans) and them (Trans) and them (women) and them (Latinos), etc.

To focus (obsess?) over those groups in our language - our speeches, our messaging - sends either obvious or even subliminal messages to the majority of voters that we care more about the Thems than about the Us.

My Annus Horribilus (and no, that doesn't mean My Horrible Anus)

 

I need to write more in this dang thing, if only to unload. This has been...I'm tempted to say one of the worst years of my life, but really, the worst year that I can remember.

- I can't go into detail about this here, but there are two people I love dearly, who are really really hurting emotionally right now. And there is nothing I can do to help.

- Four people who have been a big part of my life, anywhere from 6 years to my entire life time, have died this year: Ed Peabody, cousin Sandy Fitz-Henry, John Rudibaugh, and Nancy Aigeldinger. And another person I adore is fighting for his life.

- I got a random CAT scan and the results showed that I have such high calcium volume, that I am at serious risk of a cardiac event. I took a follow up stress test and passed with flying colors, so the concern is somewhat muted, but regardless, I've changed by diet and lifestyle considerably, and have lost around 15 pounds this year.

- I am so beyond discouraged by our political situation that I have stopped reading any news about it, well, 90% of it anyway.

No wonder, for the first time in my life, I find myself tearing (teering, not taring) up repeatedly during any given day for months now.

Or maybe I'm just upset because the Phillies are on the verge of elimination from the playoffs, the Eagles lost for the first time in almost a year and Penn State had one of their worst losses in the school's history.

But I don't think so. 

My next post, or soon, anyway, will be all the wonderful things in my life...and there are way way more of those than the bad things, too many to mention really.