good morning

hello fellow earthlings...

it is november 10th 2016. donald j trump is the president elect of the united states of america.

as much as i am worried about what all those republicans with power can do at a time like this, i think we all knew intuitively we would have to fight for what we believe even if Hillary was elected. 

As interesting as 4 years of bill clinton memes would have been, we don't need such distractions: now we must be more diligent about getting involved and standing up for others; be that student debt, combatting climate change, health care for all, fracking, the north dakota pipeline, all the pipelines, etc etc.

i'm asking you fellow earthlings to not live in fear.

filled with good intent, fueled by fear, we'll all become monsters.

instead, study and learn, organize and stand up, love one another, and remember when we unite under a common causes there is nothing we cannot accomplish.

liberty and justice for ALL

be free fellow earthlings

-abc

today

restless. undecided. 

i've only a few days left to decide, but at this current moment i do not see myself voting in the 2016 presidential election.

i will vote in local elections. 

i do not make it a habit to live in fear.

to vote for clinton or trump is just that. 

to vote third party in this election feels a waste.

i've voted third party every other election. 

tis that or write in Bernie's name. 

you know if enough people came together to do that it may have made a difference, but we didn't mobilize well enough.

instead we jumped behind 3rd party candidates or jumped behind clinton because we were told if we did not than we were allowing trump to be elected.

i don't know how all this will resolve, but i can't in good consciousness vote for any of the candidates running for president of the united states.

-abc

There's a Debate Tomorrow

I went and listened to Bernie Sanders speak when he was in Portland, Oregon.  

I say listened because the NBA gymnasium he spoke in was filled with 19,000 people so I had to join another 8 or 9000 outside.  

Blah blah blah numbers. 

I've been reluctant to speak about the event on my blog because I needed time to let things summer. Vibe things out.  

People are really passionate at those rallies and I'm a skeptic. 

Bernie Sanders spoke with genuine conviction.  

He called his audience "brother and sisters". 

Those people who say if you don't pay your mortgage or student debt that the economy will crash.  

Numbers numbers.. Blah blah. 

They refer to you as "consumers".

not customers. You are a pawn in a never ending game of a chess or something except there's only so many pieces in chess. 

Focusing... I ask you.. All around the world.. Especially in the United States. 

watch that debate. I don't care if you have to YouTube it a day later.  

There is a corporate machine out there.  

Last election and the one before it was just mumbled about and mostly looked at as tall tale to most. 

now if you read the NYTimes or anything other than Fox News or cnn these names and super pacs are realities. 

I could ramble on this all day but there is a guy with a lot more knowledge and much better worded than I who wants that to change.

I don't know the language of this stuff there is a senator who does and has for a long time. 

I'm not saying he's a saviour. Most the work will have to come from ordinary folk.  

Listen to what he says and if we decide to continue to live in our ignorance than count me out. 

I know a lot of people would like to be ignorant to politics. 

i wish we could be a bunch of small countries and agree to disagree.  

Watch the debate. Then let's talk. Seriously we gotta start talking sooner or later.  

The world is changing. We must adapt. The age of convience is ending whether you like it or not.

-abc

Also if you got this far. This is an interesting article to read.