Tactics
Let us listen to the sound.
Let us let the future worry about itself.
Let us take the time to be in the now.
Now.
Silence the mind…
Back in the day, our nation was at a crossroads, as it is today.
Liberty and freedom faced a test of resolution.
Could the idea of freedom stand against the dark tide of prejudice?
Like a slow change of season, the people did not recognize that the nation had a growing divide.
Like finding frost on the lawn overnight, summer had turned and fallen into fall.
Searing fear, coupled with divine instruction, informed one side.
Fervent ideals bonded with modern practicality informed the other side.
The divide grew.
Freedom was only for the White man.
Freedom was for all men.
Each side planted a flag and pitched their tents on the battlefield.
Two camps.
States' rights to determine what's best for their people versus Federal rights to determine what's best for all the people.
Tactics were developed on both sides of the question of who would be a slave or free.
Words versus action.
Words versus violence.
Violence versus violence.
War.
Once the war was over, the side for freedom for all won.
The defeated side never accepted the outcome.
A man could never tell them what was right when it went against the word of their God.
Tactics…
I used to be an Orderly back in the day.
I worked at a suburban hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.
Brentwood Hospital.
I learned how to take a pulse.
You put your hand on the stranger's wrist, and you time how many beats in the artery you feel in the wrist.
You measure the beats in 15 seconds and times that number by four to get the pulse.
Most of us don't think about our heart rate or our pulse.
Our nation has a heartbeat, a pulse.
It doesn't take a particular skill to find it.
Or to listen to it.
To measure it.
Our Republic is demonstrating that it has an ongoing cardiac condition.
It has an irregular pulse.
A blockage…
You won't get a genuine sense of it through your local news.
You won't get it each night on your national news.
You have to get against the wrist of the nation, against its bones, to feel that there isn't something right going on.
A way to get to the pulse of our nation is to listen to the voices.
It takes a little time.
But you'll soon hear there are two camps in our nation.
One who wants our world to do better…
The other wants to kill the better world people as soon as possible…
They make them uncomfortable...
Tactics…?
There is a malice in our nation driven by fear and hatred.
It is eye-opening to the degree of aggression the President's supporters are willing to be vocal about.
Mostly, the left advocates making things work better.
Yes, I know, some use violent, angry, foul language against this President.
But there is no movement on the left where they are actively arming themselves to take on this Presidency.
However, on the right, there is a steady drumbeat to kill all the liberals.
Kill the libtards.
On the one side, you have "save the turtles"; on the other hand, you have "kill all the queer lovers?"
Change versus genocide.
Is that really a tactic?
Is that really where the GOP and Republicans, along with their supporters, are pitching their tents?
That's the flag they want to follow?
Tactics…
Elizabeth Warren has been offering some tactics on how to grow and protect the middle-class economy.
Beto talks about LGBTQ equality.
Sanders' tactic is to promote democratic socialism.
Biden cheerleads about how we can do better.
Harris talks about immigration and fairness.
Buttigieg promotes better voting rights protections.
These are all political tactics aimed at appealing to the voter's potential for Reason.
I'm the best person to do the job for you, the thing you are most concerned about.
I'll get it done.
Tactics…
Yet, on the other side, a call for mental and physical destruction of the opposition?
Put all those Democrats into military prison camps.
Diport all the immigrants, legal and illegal.
There is, from my limited health experience but excessive political knowledge, that the nation as a whole has a heart blockage.
Our Republic is on the verge of another heart attack.
We need a doctor…
We need nurses, medical technicians, cleaning staff, laundry services, and food services; damn, we need to get our ass to the emergency room pronto.
It is just plain flat-out wrong for any portion of the leadership on the Right to allow such sentiment and rhetoric to be promoted in social media.
We are witnesses to the pulse, the blood flow of bad ideas between fearful people.
But hold on…
Attacking fearful people will not help them overcome their fear; it will only make them worse.
You can't beat a person and expect them to love you afterward.
A great sin of neglect was committed in this nation after its war between the states.
Our nation's leaders and its people should have come together and worked to heal the nation's mind and spirit.
Instead, everyone went to their corners, where they nurtured their resentments and fears.
They let God sort them out, and he/she/it didn't do a good job of it.
That ugly disease of the American heart called racism still clots our arteries.
We're on the verge of a cardiac malfunction…
We need a stent put in to open our compassion artery.
We need to put our people to work to grow strong.
We need to dream again together.
We need a steady diet of hope.
We need to lower our blood pressure through the exercise of justice.
These are good, sound tactics.
Silence the mind…
Listen to the people.
Drop hate, lift hope.
Peace.
Daniel J Frey aka Toby