Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Saturday, July 9, 2016

How I Really Feel

I don't know about you but I've heard about all the ridiculous (spoken as truth) I can stand. This morning when reading the blog Murmurs I laughed, and then I had a serious thought.

She said "Strange times. We have it on good, or at least loud, authority that Hillary Clinton is planning to have some of our troops massacred just for the thrill of being able to lie about it to the American people. That Bernie Sanders keeps a sperm sample from Karl Marx in a locket on his person at all times to keep it warm and viable. That Barack Obama is going to make us all pray to Allah five times a day just so he can look at men's butts. People will say anything about anybody. They really don't care much about the truth anymore."

My serious thought was, there actually are people so mind warped these days they would jump to believe these things. Have we ever lived in a time when so little regard was given to truth?
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Yesterday Olga at Confessions of a Grandma commented "The news lately hurts my soul." That's exactly how I feel these days. Perhaps that's why I'm having such a hard time making myself engage with the news of the day.
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Have you noticed how often people share items on Facebook you're pretty sure, if you could have a conversation with them, you would find they didn't actually read it, or certainly gave very little thought to what they were sharing? I am appalled by some of the things people I'm very fond of share. Makes me wonder if I really know that person.
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How are we going to get this run away train called America back on track?

13 comments:

  1. I'm amazed at how many people will accept 'stuff' that appears on conspiracy sites and in rumors but will not accept proven facts these days from multi, reliable sources. Even with video proof. I've actually lost respect for some relatives who I thought were smart enough not to do that. People like the Sandy Hook deniers get me the most, like you could actually get an entire town to pull off a mass false flag event like that without someone admitting it was all a playacting. Give me a break. Social media has allowed a lot of borderline personalities to feed off one another to the point you can't keep up with sorting fact from fiction. How is this all going to end?

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  2. I think I'm most annoyed by the pious Christians. Talk about Jekyll and Hyde. All that holy and righteous talk and they're the most vicious out there. They apparently don't stop to think through what they're saying. What they claim to be and the poison they publish and speak are at total odds. Very disappointing.

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  3. I'm downright frightened at what could happen to America - The trajectory we're on would have been unimmaginable (or so I like to think) years ago, and the spectre of the fallout from a world with Trump is truly terrifying.

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    1. It makes me cry if I think about it much. I feel so helpless and to some extent vulnerable. I feel like my civil rights are being threatened.

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  4. Well, it's not going to be easy and it won't happen quickly. How's that from a far way Canadian?

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    1. I have no doubt you are right. I just wonder how much more it will take to make things begin to turn around. I have to hope things will change for the better.

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  5. Remember McCarthyism? Remember Red of Dead? We have been through stuff before and common sense finally won out. We have to stand firm and affirm what is true and call out what is false. I too have relatives whose Facebook sharing appalls me. I am in danger of causing a rift in my family, so I back off with them, but still stand firm on expecting truth and fact. I don't know how many times I have been told that "facts are biased". Good grief. But we will persist and we will win.

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    1. We have no choice but to take a stand. If we don't right will not prevail. It's hard to remain quiet when family members are posting such awful things. Our Texas family is awful. I heard Paul Begala say Texas is not a red state, it's a non-voting state, ranking 49 out of 50. I try to remember that and hope our Texas family is all talk and no vote.

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  6. There is a fault line under our society. It runs deep and wide. It is racism with significant offshoots of xenophobia. I like Linda Reeder's line: affirm what is true and call out what is false. I would say affirm what is right and just and call out what is wrong and unjust.

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    1. I love your comments. I quote you often. I agree with both you and Linda on this, but it is hard sometimes to call out what is false. That said, it must be done. Otherwise truth loses. Onward and upward. We must take a stand.

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  7. We are really in head shaking times. I like to think there are more of us than them but enough of them can really make our wheels wobbly.
    Getting verbal with our law makers via mail, phone calls and votes can't hurt.

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    1. We must send a message to Congress by voting them out of office.
      Unfortunately Democrats only vote every four years. Republicans vote every two years. That's have they've gained control.

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