Project Logic Ga

For me, there are no political epiphanies. An epiphany is an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. I think my guardian angels are so tired of in the angel locker room but they whisper the epiphanies in my ears.

They might say, “Without action, America could end.”  I see it as plain as day.  The American experiment in Democracy is at a crossroad. The experiment that began with founding fathers planning a new nation on land stolen from the Native Americans and with labor stolen from Africa.  My Republican sister Dr. Condoleezza Rice says that slavery was America’s birth defect. 

During Watergate, John Dean famously said there is a cancer growing on the presidency.  Today, the cancer is Donald Trump and I don’t trust Democrats voting to address it. The same voters who sat on aluminum, wood or concrete bleachers for hours Friday night watching high school football and the same people (like me) who will watch over nine hours of college football on Saturday and more hours of pro football on Sunday, need to take 10 minutes to early vote for local, state and federal candidates in the Republican and Democrat parties who say no to Trump’s tone and action.  That’s one long sentence but I’m no Hemingway—Ernest or Nakita.

Denounce

Remember, presidential candidate Donald Trump said the election was stolen when Republican Senator Ted Cruz beat him in the Iowa Caucus. To win elections on all levels and to stack the Supreme Court with conservatives, normally reasonable Republicans ignored Trump’s childish behavior as a necessary evil in the same way Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers accepted slavery.  Georgia’s Governor Brian Kemp, Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger caught hell from Trump for not creating 11,708 votes so the president could steal Georgia.  However, Duncan is the only one of the three to say Trump is bad for America.  Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney says candidates who support Trump’s Big Lie of a stolen election are “unfit” for office.

Action: Ask every candidate for every office on every level if they believe Trump’s stolen election claims.

Ounce

The War on Drugs can be wrong at times.  People can’t function in a constant haze but let the people decide what they want between marijuana and alcohol.  Classifying an ounce of weed with hardcore drugs seems to benefit the big pharmaceutical companies who can’t profit from opioid pain drugs if Americans could grow their own organic weed pain relief.  Opioid drugs like morphine, codeine and oxycodone being abused has some folks walking around like zombies.  Oh, they need treatment said then President Trump but when crack was an epidemic it was lock them up and toss the key.  In my opinion, weed should be treated like liquor but the Democrats aren’t discussing their support for reform of marijuana laws. Earlier, I mentioned Nakita Hemingway and most Georgians would ask who is that? 

Nakita Hemingway is an urban farmer who is running for Georgia Agriculture Commissioner.  She won the Democrat primary over seasoned lawmaker state Representative Winifred Dukes.  Dukes wants to use legal weed revenue to fund Pre-K and Hemingway is a strong supporter of legal weed (most statewide Democrat candidates are and the Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives passed a legal weed bill.)  Most of agriculture policy in Georgia is bipartisan but the Republicans treat grown folks like children: no legal recreational or medical weed while they have a well-stocked liquor cabinet.  

If Hemingway had a half million dollars in her campaign account, she could inform the under 30 voters about legal weed and the over 30 voters about possible expansion of medical marijuana.  She could pull out enough infrequent voters to tip the scales for Abrams, Warnock and every Democrat candidate but she doesn’t have the funding.

Action: Ask candidates where they stand on legal marijuana.

Pounce

The attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, facilitated by Donald Trump almost ended America.  Hold up again, a hostile, armed mob with Trump flags and Confederate flags beat police officers on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, entered that bastion of democracy and sought to hang the Republican Vice President for certifying a fair election.  I can’t make this up.  In the movie A Time To Kill, Matthew McConaughey’s lawyer character told the court of the unthinkable crimes committed against a brown child then he said “Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she’s White.”

Imagine a Black or Brown mob attacking the U.S. Capitol.  The authorities would have pounced so fast.  They would have been dead before they hit the ground.  I worked as a congressional staffer during the Million Man March so I know the grounds.  Blood would have flown down to the Botanical Gardens west and to Union Station north.

Action: Ask local candidates if Trump was complicit in the January 6 attack and how can they support him as leader of the Republican Party after that?

Trounce

Trounce means to defeat heavily in a contest.  Of course, you should vote for whomever you like.  As a Moderate, my position on the political spectrum is an equal distance from craziness on the Far Right and Far Left.  However, the angry tone of Donald Trump’s Republican Party could lead to a Civil War if we aren’t careful and if we don’t vote.  The November elections are pivotal because we are electing state house and state senate officials who might continue to make it harder for people to vote.  Georgia needs a Secretary of State who will stand up to Trump during the next election.  If every adult in our community doesn’t vote, we could be on a path to Georgia 1952. 

Action: Make sure everyone over 18 years old in your family registers now and early votes so Democrats wouldn’t be trounced by Trump’s team in the November election.