Why do Americans (Article) - 1/6/2022 10:30:01 PM
You both seem to think that the left is a wonderful party that only cares about the people. No, I don't think so. I used to vote democrat, but since Trump took office, I discovered who and what the left are. He has exposed them all. And they have gone nuckin futz, since he took office. They are American Marxist Communists. They are laundering our tax to enrich themselves, and selling us and our country to the CCP. Biden is and has been sleeping with the enemy. A traitor.
So thank you for the review of my work, but I tend to disagree with you entirely.
Why do Americans (Article) - 12/20/2021 11:07:22 AM
You seem to be referring to an earlier time, in this poem form of an article. Perhaps after the 2008 or 2010 downturns. But the things you are crying out about have been increasing for some time. When the Republicans saw they were losing their grip on the people and started to work from local and state government to incorporate laws that would allow them to stay around for a long time… About 40 years ago during the downfall of Nixon and the rise of Ronald Reagan, basically an actor to advertise "trickle-down economy."
Your premise is even stronger today and should be heeded by the fearful who easily swallow the hype about conspiracies and "liberal" threats rather than spending enough time to find out the truth.
We can insist on honest people as our representatives at the lowest level where politicians start before they rise to stardom. We can write petitions without charging for donations and send them to Congress.
As someone who has relied on computers, they are not easily hacked. But they can be audited and I have found many flaws in data in my career. By taking the human element out of counting, errors can be detected more easily..
Edward Phillips has offered several economic tax based and simple solutions to solving the income equity problem without any harm to anyone. But, he has predicted that there will be another civil war and certainly, a crash in the stock market worse than 1929 if nothing is done. Just like the Coronavirus pandemic is proving to be much worse than the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Ron
Why do Americans (Article) - 12/18/2021 8:40:52 PM
You need to narrow your focus. A huge change has swarmed the political scene since 2008. We could send the entire Republican party home and replace them with a rubber stamp. The imprint for their name would suffice as MINDLESS LEMMING, or just IDIOT. FEMA has also cleaned up its act. They are now organized, well-staffed, with lots of emergency equipment and mobile homes. Otherwid=se, it's the same old, same old. Even "Concerned Billionaires" cannot break up the huge money machine that drives our politics.
Stranger than Fiction (Poetry) - 4/18/2026 1:40:35 PM
How convenient to create a story. One thing is sure, AI will not let you miss the facts if you write a story using it.
We just have to write on and expose the lies and liars.
Ron
Shall We Dance with Polarity? (Poetry) - 4/18/2026 1:32:57 PM
That was quite a dance of words! Every wine a new high point.
Ron
Power of the Wizard (Poetry) - 4/18/2026 1:26:29 PM
Perhaps, wizardry could change the world. But the Wizard would have to be very wise.
Ron
Peace Within, Peace Without (Poetry) - 4/18/2026 1:20:30 PM
Quite a tumbling of words and emotions. I hope by writing them, you become better.
Ron
Everything Woke Goes to Sh (Poetry) - 1/11/2022 3:57:10 PM
I would rather sleep than be "Woke". Those who live under socialism want to escape it. Stand strong America. Your poem speaks powerfully.
Everything Woke Goes to Sh (Poetry) - 12/18/2021 9:36:56 AM
Some very strong sentiments. You are throwing out terms like "woke" and "crt" as though they are major impediment to equality and the American way.
As an individual who, at 20 years of age, found myself in a new minority where I could be called by the rest of the American population, "cripple," and pitied or being told that I was now, "God blessed," for my "infliction" and joined the poor downtrodden "handicapped" (implying that I was now relegated to primarily Christian charity waiting on the sidewalk with my cap in hand collecting change from Samaritan passersby). Or, abandoned by my family and friends and put in the local institution where I could be with, "my kind of people."
That is the shitload of experience that I've had ever since, even though with a little government money for my rehabilitation, I excelled in college and at work in spite of these kinds of continuing prejudice right up until I gladly retired from all of that and am now, in retirement, totally free of the constant idiocy for my condition and not the value of my character.
Throughout United States history, the leaders and most of the citizens repeatedly committed atrocities towards minorities of all kinds, including those with disabilities, and then buried them in stories like nursery rhymes andnot the truth.
Even the Americans With Disabilities Act, so hard-fought, has not given people with disabilities fair employment based on our abilities. The civil rights movement has not given Blacks and other minorities an equal playing field when they are charged more for basics as part of free enterprise and have a much lesser chance for work opportunity or housing.
I experienced while riding and driving with color, at least 10 times being stopped for no damn reason except being "profiled" with suspicion of wrongdoing that wasn't happening.
The hero worship of slaveowners who tried to keep the country operating with slave labor and then rebelled against the rest of the country by seceding and going to war, do not deserve continued worship by statues. I agree that some of those statues should be placed in museums as examples of the wrong way that history went during Jim Crow, but those statues are an example of injustice continued after it was properly stopped in a bloody war and proclamation.
The 21st century is moving forward, regardless of those who have a single-minded thought that the past is better than the future. I'm all for the future where everyone is created equal and given an equal chance in everything.
Ron
Have you read Marx? Have you read Mein Kampf?
Statue in Your Garden (Poetry) - 3/19/2012 9:34:25 AM
This is not a love poem, it's a love lost poem. Love is open and free flowing. There is no hurt in love. When love is lost, it's time to move on.
Ron
Statue in Your Garden (Poetry) - 3/18/2012 2:47:17 PM
having gone through the pain of a failed love affair...i understand completely that you are still looking for answers, i have mine. i was blind. i thought bitter was sweet and dark was light and nothing less than this experience could give me my 'sight'. thanks for sharing.
asa
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Statue in Your Garden (Poetry) - 3/17/2012 4:21:35 PM
Maylynn
This sounds like a torrid affair of unrequited or forgotten love. The romance, yearning and anguish just drips off the page.
Exquisite and passionate writing.
Peter
Exquisite (Poetry) - 3/17/2012 3:10:38 PM
Thank you Jerry for your review.
Exquisite (Poetry) - 8/13/2011 5:57:26 AM
. . . and those are the words we dream of . . .
Welcome to AD.
