The Democrats made me Due it In the end only Tempted bribery In awe I did In competence My soul motive Buy partisan ship A condemn nation urned As just US done With all the fix ins Sow what’s the big deal Surely you don’t want A nation of nancies And immigrants [insert off color joke hear] Whatever Accost
With the nearly seamless conspiracy and cover-up by senate Republicans, I feel that our nation is disabled and half of the country is making fun of it. Of course, Donald Trump, this half-ass satyr of a president, is leading the way by being the satire.
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POEM: Innocence — An Owed In A Sense Her innocence Was immune to their dis ease As be wilder And a tempt However tempered Only to be Dis missed As just A guile His innocence Deified awe bravery In the face Of accusations summoned As subdude As never a cur to them Posing the quest in Guise will Be guise Her bosom leaped […]...
POEM: Breath of Fresh Heir Each mourning Brings that which is light Though wanting to rest As the whirled spins under my feet I am Still Razed Too my feat Standing on Perhaps a singular word Mysteriously helled Together In God-ordained gravity Until that thirst Breath of fresh heir As awe is knew This poem is about coming out of […]...
This free poster is another installment in my “Parity or Parody in Democracy” series. This poster features Sen. Rob Portman as Partisan Man, yet another white man. This political cartoon was inspired by Sen. Portman, white man among white men, in the exclusive group of Republican senators appointed by Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader, all of whom are white men.
Sen. Portman, an alleged moderate, has recently weakened his role as a critic of the profoundly ironically named Better Care Reconciliation Act. Sen. Portman was handed his shorts over his pet advocacy project, preserving opioid treatment while decimating overall health care for the poor, addicts, and mentally ill; they included less than 5% of what he asked for! Despite this insulting result, Sen. Portman has weakened rather than strengthened his opposition to the bill. He missed the opportunity of joining other Senate Republicans in challenging the rushed process without adequate legislator review or public hearings. Sen. Portman appears ready to collapse into whimpering partisanship, neither demanding a transparent, democratic process nor a bill that even resembles improving the health of Americans. Ohio’s elected so-called representative is looking more and more like a compliant minion of Senate Republican bosses. He can blame it on Mitch McConnell with a proverbial “Mitch McConnell made me do it,” but Ohioans did not elect Mitch McConnell as their representative. His hiding behind is another version of covering one’s ass. The Republicans, led by their megalomaniacal president, can’t hide behind their big PP, Partisan Politics, in this presumptive Trumpcare debacle. You may note that the American flag in this poster is upside down; this is because and upside down flag is a distress call. Let’s up right this topsy turvy nation of ours and reject the pathetic machinations of Republican health care so-called reform. It is time for health care for all — everybody in, nobody out! It doesn’t get any less partisan than that!!
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If you knot for me You agin Me Oh my They would halve US Believe In a New York minute Weather 60 second ads Or master debating in public For ours To won party Or buy partisan ship That teeming lode When in realty Wee are left harboring To a T Our weariness In the wake Of the dearth of trust And in the daze Long after The election Has Petered out There are know More mock promises And crock tears Until hour rejects Sow board their ship And bring about See change
This poem is about partisanship and weather we should take any partisanship from anyone. The is nothing like — nothing like — a presidential election campaign to stir up partisan emotions and partisan posturing. As someone who is chronically politically active, and someone who has frequently experienced the short end of long partisan sticks, I have become increasingly aware of my deep distaste for partisanship. In America, the conventional wisdom would have you believe that political activity and partisanship are the same thing. This is not true, and the seemingly inescapable enmeshment of politics and partisanship is distinctly dysfunctional for humanity. In my view, both the spiritual and political project of life is to ever expand our consciousness and participation in our collective life. Our spiritual enlightenment is necessarily communal, and political freedom is only authentic when our participation in our collective life is shared equitably. As Martin Luther King, Jr. so aptly observed, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Partisan in-groups, that parcel out power based on membership in anything other than our shared humanity, is a barrier to our spiritual and political evolution. This mine-blowing realty is the ground for radical politics as necessarily counter-cultural and, as a rule, marginalized by the status quo and powers that be. Nobody likes to be marginalized, which is precisely the shared basis for such a radical politics! A paradoxical corollary to this is that marginalization, by happenstance or design, is the engine for radical politics. It is no accident that marginalized people are typically the leaders of radical political activity, just as it is no accident that inasmuch as anyone stands in solidarity with marginalized people, they too will be marginalized. Working through our own marginalization is synchronous with working through all of humanity’s marginalization. The consciousness of intersectionality, that all areas of marginalization and injustice are inescapably linked, forms the antithesis and antidote to partisanship.
There are many overlapping in-groups and out-groups jockeying for power. This is interest-based politics, and often identity politics. For better or worse, each of us is marginalized in one way or another. Hopefully, this can serve as leverage to increasing consciousness to the marginalization of others, especially those currently in an out-group. The tricky part is that empathizing with out-group members is decidedly more dangerous than making any variety of internal criticisms intended to make an in-group a better in-group. Making better in-groups is the lifeblood of partisan politics, though the seemingly easier job of undercutting out-groups, often scapegoating or even demonizing them, is what truly makes politics a bloodsport. Haters hating haters is cause for plenty of bloodshed. Nevertheless, to add insult to injury, and injury to non-violence, love of enemy prompts much bloodshed as well, though it is the lovers who are crucified, their own blood spilled. Transcending narrow self-interests and in-group privileges is a costly endeavor exceeded only by the pricelessness of justice for all.
Beyond Democratic and Republican partisanship, is a unifying in-groupism, that corrosive beast called nationalism. That ever-popular divide between Team America and Team Non-America (or Un-American). As a nation, we are blind to the hubris-ridden assertion that what’s good for America is good for the world. On occasion we may see clearly, yet we are at least as likely to fall for similar hubris-ridden assertions that are in fact against even our narrow national interests, such as “what is good for General Motors is good for America.” Such endemic blindness is what Jesus was referring to when he spoke of the blind leading the blind, caught in a bind of our lack of awareness or consciousness. Only higher consciousness of our shared humanity can overcome such lower ordered thinking and partisan warring, which is doomed to eternal, unsolvable conflict between “competing” interests.
Partisans inevitably think that anyone not for them is against them. This is not the secret of the spirit of unity. Interestingly, welcoming as, with, and for the least (those marginalized) is the greatest — “For whoever is the least among all of you, he is the greatest.” and “for whoever is not against you is for you.” [Luke 9:48,50]
May we be willing to pay the price for unity among all of God’s children, which is breaking free of being beholden to in-group power and privileges, and fervently welcoming all good things for the least among us.
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