Post Anthem

I'm going to pushback in a way that won't be popular because as a contributor to politically correct narratives, every now & then it makes sense to be incorrect because the sense of genuine understanding & commitment gets lost. Essentially in the Colin Kaepernick, bait & switch, response every Red Blooded American assumes that racial inequality is a myth and that no one who doesn't live in poverty should come to the aid of people who do. One of the narratives that so called progressive thinkers are using is that Racism is going mainstream. I whole heartedly disagree with that notion because racism has always been mainstream to anyone not white. You see in order to understand bigotry, sometimes you are an innocent bystander. I've never been exposed to overt racism because I stick within the confines of minority population. I have taken it for granted that I can count on people of color to do and say or just simply be the way I expect them. It's when I have to get out of my comfort zone and thrive in environments that aren't usually my typical places of preference or circumstances of choosing that I feel the most racism. Let's use for example the travel industry. I work in the finance industry, so during certain times of the year I have to travel to gathering which are definitely not my cup of tea. I see many people on these trips and most of them are white people. I don't know what it is about airports or cities, but essentially they are dominated by non-minorities that's if you don't count the people working there. Occasionally they're one or two minorities in the Captains seat of the plane or on the flight crew, but all the major positions are Caucasian/Anglo Saxon whatever moniker you prefer. How does this relate to my claim that racism is mainstream? Well to confess, even I'm prejudiced in my thinking about things when it comes to traveling. I go to an airport way before the sun rises and I expect a line of people at the security checkpoint because white people are punctual. In a sea of white faces, I make sure the stewardess or steward makes eye contact with me, so I will get special treatment in the no backlash department because you know us minorities really know how to even the scales. Were on the look-out for racism and in many situations, we expect it. No matter how politically incorrect that sounds, it's true. White folks don't have to mentally locate identification and other critical documents in their mind when being stopped by police. When you walk into a convenience store and see what could be more or less a person of suspect behavior, you immediately make eye contact with them as to say, "Look whatever is going to go down, let me out of here." Minorities know these unspoken communications. I even wait sometimes in large crowds to walk behind the rich uppity white ladies because if someone's going to get victimized, it's not going to be me. That sounds pretty awful. I know it does, but it's because of the "Privileged," assumption I can count on certain things to be true. Recently, I was walking in an affluent neighborhood of a city where I didn't expect danger. The friend I was with was familiar with the area and as we walked they stopped and asked a young man behind me, "What do you want?" It took me by surprise because I was aware that people were walking behind me, but had no idea I was a target for theft. It was in the moment of realization that it occurred to me that my prejudice about safety and the appearance of the area was incorrect. Now I can admit I have lapses in judgment because I wasn't from the city. My point is that in a rich society where we see dominant culture and yes that means non-minority & upscale professionalism, there are people like me who walk the fine line between being mistaken for a minority or mistaken for a white person and I suit all the roles as a matter of upbringing. Now this is where Colin Kaepernick fits in except he has the added privilege of being rich, successful and easily identified. So going against most all sensible judgment he decided to take a stand against racism by not standing for the National Anthem. My personal opinion is of course that he has the right to do that, but I'm also inspired by his sentiment because He knows or at least I assume he is aware of how this will get under the skin of all so-called patriots. What we're getting at is the fact that no matter if your acting to make a point or your taking advantage of a circumstance for your own gain, all that is going to result is outrage. We live in a time where super sensitivity is outwardly projected. Minorities are now viewed as instigators in all situations because of the notion that racism doesn't exist because we elected a black president. Biggest assumption of them all is that America has had eight years of holding it's hatred & vitriol and it's showing more now than ever. Now I called it an assumption because I'm not a professor of minority/race relations, but I've observed this false equivalency that somehow minorities are responsible for their own mistreatment and it's time to move on from this subject. We can only move on from it if it discontinues if it stops. As much as the progressives want to put it behind them and claim racism is coming out of the closet, it's never been in hiding for minorities. Maybe somewhere in social class & status, peers have managed to disguise their revolt for tolerance, but the core of conservatism has always been resist diversity. I'm not blatantly claiming Democrats haven't always been ideal Liberalists or a progressive movement. The term Dixie-crat alone establishes the origins of the Democratic party, but somewhere they were able to become the union supporters and the champions for all ethnic groups. We can debate how and when, but the faces at the DNC this year said it all while the RNC gathering appeared to be a combination of White Nationalism, Fascism & Capitalism all rolled up into one big display of doom & gloom in America. The core of our democracy is not centered on the shared values we have in common, but has been purposely divided to be a contrast of possession of this countries values. Thus we get shouted down for being offended by disproportionate favor in today's society. Referendum on amnesty and affirmative action are mainstream ideas that even the liberals have failed to defend, so now that were at the pinnacle of the failure to enforce truth, we've resorted to debating falsehoods as legitimate concerns. Every single thing the opposing voice in America has said is that this nation is not great and our military is weak. We've been told that our current economic times are catastrophic and that is in complete factual opposition to the truth. It doesn't matter anymore what facts indicate, as long as you can get enough people onboard with your claim. The mouthpiece media of these subjects have moved the goal posts so many times there literally is no common ground anymore. Liberal representatives have yielded all collective progress accomplishments to take up space in what is now a nineties conservative value system. We use to be against Wall Street and Financial conglomerates. Now we speak to them directly for donations in favor for their agenda. This is why Bernie Sanders was able to rise as a third party candidate, but the minute he registered as a Democrat the contest was over and he held onto his current constituency while building an outsiders profile. "Feel the Bern," groups were right to go to the convention floor and protest. That is how we get things done in America, but essentially the flood gates opened when unchecked flows of financial revenue were allowed to enter the political arena. Let's not kid ourselves about money in politics because it's always been there with loopholes concerning political finance reform. Without an audit trail of dark money we've legitimized hate speech as free speech, so to bring everything back to a point foaming at the mouth about a football player, a quarterback who is in the most violent sport, is hypocritical. It's an excuse to go after one more minority by saying he hasn't the right to exercise his belief or opinion because the granted society has not issued approval of those actions. "We want our Country Back," they say or "Were Going to build a Wall." That sounds like a gated community to me only they want it from sea to shining sea. That's just not practical and certainly isn't reasonable or based on reality. The reality is minorities and historically immigrant ethnic groups built this nation's infrastructure. Now that America doesn't make anything anymore, the poor middle class have nothing to do except look for reinforcement that their country no longer resembles a place they remember and they are longing for a return to the good old days. That's a scary thought when one considers it has taken more than a half century to get racial equality or gender bias recognition to the mainstream. Red Meat Americans say soldiers died for your right to acknowledge the Nation's Flag or it's Anthem, but the truth is they died for freedom and that also means having the right to protest American Values if you consider they aren't as just as claimed. I know I'm preaching to the choir when I write these opinion pieces. It's not because I'm afraid of what mainstream opinions will do with something near and dear to my heart which is my belief, but how could I possibly get through to anyone who only wants to see my point of view as offensive to their values? The truth is people are stuck in their ways of thinking because they're insulated enough that they don't have to appeal to anyone else. Think about it how can a billionaire from New York announce his campaign for the president of the United States without some indication that there is enough fear & panic already existing in this country to carry himself this far without ever changing his hate filled message? I'm going to turn now to a familiar line of discussion because I think it's critical to understanding this topic of Liberal and progressive values and how they have fallen short in emphasizing their own failure. We have a certain relationship with this country as its first minority group historically. Before you go, "There he goes again," hear me out on this. You have to realize my Native people weren't always a minority group, we were a majority at one time. We had economic and social values before the first signs of modern society even appeared on this earth. There is historical evidence of this yet today we are a figment of people distant past that only exists in history. Consider that I'm a minority of a minority. That means whatever the greater minority group experiences you have to break that in to fractions disproportionate of those ethnicities and then apply a minor tiny portion of equality to Native Americans. That's portion of a portion of a portion that the other ethnicities have in representation towards speaking on topics in the mainstream, so that's why I don't give up on continuing to write about disparity or equal justice. One day, sometime a Native American will write and in doing so they will search and look back in time to find reference for a subject from a indigenous point of view and they will find this and many other writings like it because I left it here just like our ancestors left us our language and traditions. So it doesn't matter to me if anyone is swayed by these topics or discussions. All I want is for people to know we were here and we never gave up fighting. We fight for all rights of all peoples because unless you have had your ancestors wiped out to the point of extinction, you don't know what annihilation is. It's not just historical trauma and a half a millennia of genocide. We still go through systematic and institutional racism today. Right now my people are in North Dakota fighting a pipeline installment on sacred & historical lands. In greater society people mention that Native Americans claim everywhere is sacred & historical, but to us it is because we have nothing left but our sacred lands. All areas have been devastated by this nations manifest destiny. Our Elders fought in wars for America and even devised a secret code to win a World War. So if our people can thrive amongst genocide and mass attacks on our culture for the sake of profit and decimation, why can't a non-native, non-Caucasian sit in protest instead of stand? Why can't a descendant of slaves with mixed racial blood lines and a future of prosperity recognize and injustice and make a point of bringing attention to it. That's the point I'm trying to make. If we can recognize a member of another minority who has no personal ties to our movement and our goals has in fact made a statement that we support and are committed to seeing through to the end, than why can't all people recognize "What is Right is Right and it's not always White." There are all colors represented in the rainbow and there are all nations watching America right now to see if we really have overcome our original sin of colonialism and were fighting to say, "Yes we can." We've never stopped fighting these injustices. They never went dormant at anytime for us, so if the Liberals want to say racism is now in the mainstream, we will simply disagree with them and point out that it's always been in the mainstream in our experience it's just that they're finally starting to open their eyes. It's not an us against them world in our experience. It's all of us trying to right a wrong and stop perpetuating myths and misunderstanding about any man, women or child's dignity here on earth. We were born equal, we live and we die just like everyone else, so who's to say what is the right way to protest or the wrong way? We're not saying racists speech is un-American, were saying it's inhuman. Nobody should be persecuted for being different.

Midnight in America

All I know is class system or Charlemagne's cavalry and the kingdom of the Franks. We have such western way of thinking today that deduces us to assignments of wealth or status, but the romantic times of Gaul or the mad mission of Don Quixote. Things like the writing of Sir Walter Scot interest me also. I will disclose right now that this entry into what seems to become a political blog for me is highly plagiarized. Since that doesn't seem to matter anymore I put together a number of quotes and recitations to support the essential argument that is being made right now in America. See even though you won't hear me come right out and say it, I've mentioned just about everything I know according to feeders of influence in western society, but I've been very careful to not mention the Moors which I will now. Personally, I avoid talking about them because of the circumstances today. Once people hear the word Arabic, they're more or less immediately suspicious, but as a genuine interest in history how can we not discuss them. In the times of Corsica & Sardinia, The use of the Moore's heads in coats of arms and territories seem to be more or less a mockery of capturing their empire even up to the last pope Benedict XVI, but that is related to crusades of Christian versus Muslim. Now being a descendant of Native American heritage, I could easily point out the hypocrisy of the crusades and back up my debate with numerous recitations in history, but for simplicity let's just discuss the historical influences of the cultural contribution to the things I'm discussing here. I'm not going to attempt to write his name, but it means son of a Gothic woman, Sarah the Goth traveled to Damascus and married an Arab and had a son who wrote the conjugation of verbs. Now this is important because it contributes to the legal interpretation of estates and their descendants. See a lot of people don't acknowledge the fact that Arab Royalty were heralded for their scholarship of dynasty. From Morroco to Mecca, the birthplace of Muhammad, it is referred to as the Holiest city. The Royal Clock tower is the world's third largest building with the largest floor space. This term Mecca is really pronounced Mekkah, but foreigners use the translation to mean a place that draws a large number of people. The reason I bring it up is because in a nearby cave the arch angel Gabriel began to bestow divine knowledge to the prophet which in turn later became Islam. That's where I believe separation begins in determining race & religion because as a Christian one finds the new testament as their guiding principle, but as a follower of the teachings in the bible, one would have to go further back in time to the old testament to locate empires and their rulers. Even the logic of time is kept accurate. It's like I once said previously that studying language is more telling in understanding origination in culture as the split in different dialects is directly parallel to ethnic origin. It is said that they're three original languages, Indo-European, Semitic and Aryan. Nazi's chose the word Aryan to describe a blonde master race, but Aryan's are a linguistic group rather than a genetic group. Same is true for the Semitic family which includes the Arabs and the Jews. Last we have the Finno-Ugric group which is spread out across the map, it's the language of Hungary as well as the Baltic and Estonian tribes. So desensitizing the words Aryan to understand that it's meaning discusses a group of people who speak the same language is crucial to understanding much of the modern science that follows. Things like Flora & Fauna environmentally separated and evolution where Fauna is split into two groups the Ethereal & Aquatic, contribute in understanding that species can use oxygen from the environment or breath it from the air. I went a bit scientific there, but only to point out the positive and negative connotations of language and how it contributes to the consideration of facts. No one person is expected to treat everything as equal as we tend to favor explanations that coincide with our own understanding. Even though I'm quite exasperated by the current republican nominee for president, I can't help but wonder if his heritage has anything to do with his rhetoric. Besides keeping great speeches in his bedside cabinet from the Fuhrer, I can't help but wonder if the connection to Swiss & Austria has anything to do with his self-made importance. We see his interest in Slovenia and Russia at face value. He is involved at many levels with investments in those areas and it's almost as everything right down to his arranged marriage is pointing towards something obvious that Americans just refuse to realize either though lack of sophistication or some sort of color blindness that dims their vision to see his motivation to acquire power. I don't mean to turn this message into a political slam, but it's interesting because the media never brings up these facts and I think it would reduce the amount of confusion into who this man is and what he believes because of the obvious connection to Aryan Supremacy. I ventured into it briefly discussing science, but the essential enigma of intelligence & intellect are wide spread debatable facts. It's not like we don't know about it and haven't been in these arguments before . Before I drop it though, I find it funny that everything it supposedly represents this figure is none of those things, so it defeats the central them of elevated supremacy. I found this book on Amazon. Now bear with me because I'm going to include the detailed notes so you can get a feel for what some of the core values were talking about here because like I said in inner circles it's important to understand what people use as their guiding principles. I also warn you that it's long and hard to follow, but these aren't my words there taken from a best seller for a particular audience. "Earth's biota has already crossed lots of periodical geological catastrophes (apocalypses) every 7000÷13000 years. Early developed Aryans, evolved from the Cro-Magnon people and became the tallest clever people in the world of 8 to 10 feet. First king in the pre-flood world became supreme priest of Lemuria his Excellency Baal, ~15,500B.C. The Aryans founded their settlements over the Eurasian end African Continents and formed huge Empire of Lemuria which destroyed by Atlantis. Planetary Empire Atlantis had been destroyed by last Apocalypse in 10,465bc. Their civil and military (including atomic) vehicles mainly captured by potentate from Delhi. Before the world nuclear war - Nuclear Conspiracy Against Aryan Race, Hermes Trismegistus built up the majestic Giza Complex in Egypt. We've decoded to you the old Aryan and Aryan-Areal alphabets, antediluvian engraved writing in the Libya and Baalbek. In the book is published smaller Aryan-Latin-English dictionary and decoded antediluvian texts. You will understand terrible sensational news – who was robbing sunken Atlantis Isles during the Cold War. Of course here is published conclusive evidence on robbing. Ground-breaking date for the main-streamers on Stonehenge - 10,450B.C. and what is written in the Stonehenge by using planetary coordinates and how the Stonehenge confirms date written on the Giza Plateau. Atlantis Isles sunken in 10,465B.C, but survived many Aryan military nuclear vehicles, including lots of powerful nuclear bombs in the nuclear bases of "Agarthy", within the interiors of rocky mountains. Surviving Aryans created two hostile military groups "Orion" and "Draco". Center of the "Orion" was Jerusalem. Center of "Draco" became "Elephant City" - Delhi.... ...This is an amazing, unique and most sensational book ever written to you…." Now that's real and it isn't a hoax book or paperback for fiction based entertainment. So much for guiding principles!! No wonder conservatives want to do away with science and start teaching creationism according to their references the earth is nine thousand years older than previously proven. People were walking around ten feet tall before the dinosaurs and they had Nuclear power which was used to destroy Atlantis. Well I'll be! Conspiracy theory isn't just a current dementia because it's been alive and kicking even before the first single cell microbe bacteria apparently. Sorry, I just couldn't help myself. Anyway, so yeah facts matter because this fact-less campaign that has been going on for about a decade is getting a little tiresome. There isn't really anything left to say about it all except oh yeah, the Russians are coming the Russians are coming! I'm really going to hit below the belt now. I was reading that the majority of this years supporters, let's pull a number out of my arse, say 43% according to Kaiser Family Foundation & Harvard University are "non-college white males." It goes on to say that these unemployed men between the ages of 26-46 are living at home with their parents. Now I'm no one to mock this because at one time in my day I stayed five months in between school and employment at my parent's house. I have a hard time swallowing the fact that 64.5 percent of the voters in the 2012 election were non-college white males though. The balance between now and then is we actually have more white males in college because of the lending laws they didn't vote for or more precisely that they voted against, so the guiding principle or policy of the platform of the party has more to do with keeping young white men unemployed than anything. This is true even more so because when you add voting regulation that makes it harder to vote for other demographics coupled with economic policies like shutting down the government or holding budgets hostage, you increase fragility into the system of lending, buying and ultimately hiring of these middle aged white males with no college degree and no skills to do the jobs available. This is also the your parties base that you need to vote for you to keep you in power, so it makes no sense and as a result when asked about this the reply is, "the other party is in power." which isn't true because of the majority in both houses, so what gives? That's why the system is broken and why people are unsatisfied with government and a majority believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. It's because of the age old practice of listening to your constituency and caring out their interests instead of running negative campaigns that capitalize on a broken system that you broke. I said that backwards, but it fits because you have to reason backwards to make it work. If that's not confusing enough consider this next point. To understand this next quote, you have to consider this is the justification for hiding the truth. "Open conversation, conducted with the expectation of privacy, isn't necessary for the precondition formation of collective wisdom and consensus. If we eviscerate the possibility of transparency in politics, we decrease the likelihood of poor decision-making." In other words, include Legal Lingo in your parties platform to say the uninformed voter is our base and here is the rationalization for it. This is regime rhetoric and the result of consorting with a third world dictators. Being complacent about rouge attacks within your own borders to use them to fan the flames of hatred, is moral turpitude of essential ethics. It's the compromise of national security for your own benefit. After months of vilifying other people for rigging the system you're engaging in system rigging of your own, to cry foul is a misnomer and often arises because the thing you named, "Crooked," was proven admonished and received its vindication a long time ago. If it were true illegal activity, its true nature would have been discovered by now and would have been brought to light for all to see. You may also be simply using a word incorrectly or misleadingly to deflect attention from your own scandal, but essentially the truth will eventually come out. With the assistance of one particular 24 hour news network devoted to twisting facts into pretzel like contortions of their former selves, we've seen everything from police state references to Jim Crowe dogma and confederacy worship. If I see the likes of Pat Robertson again claiming Rapture & Apocalypse, I'm going to take my ten dollar donation and give it to the first person claiming they can counter his claim to the moral high ground. It's a disgrace to Christians everywhere to see these Machiavellian creatures insisting on promoting hate messages. "Remember it is better to be feared than loved, because those who love you will always expect something from you but those who fear you will be cautious and willing to find a good standing in your standing!" That is straight out of the Prince II the most prominent studied chapters of advisement to keep empirical power. See Donald, they rest of us underlings have the same access to information because we live in a free society, so elitists who are depending on having an edge in the game can also say, "Deal Me In." I’ve run out of words to express my shock and how completely beyond the pale that Donald Trump is as a potential leader of the free world, the commander in chief of our country. This was truly beyond the pale. I mean, he is encouraging Russia, which by all accounts was behind the leak of one of our major political parties, to do more, to go beyond, to try to hack into Hillary Clinton’s server to find missing emails to kind of get in the middle of the scandal. It’s as if this is a child playing with matches who doesn’t understand how badly he and the country can get burned. It’s a very serious thing. And I think that the one thing about Trump is that he is very clear for all to see. He is making very clear what he thinks, how he comes by information, and I think, frankly, the lack of seriousness and the intemperance with which he speaks about important national security matters should certainly give people pause. And I don’t think there’s anybody who would think that was anything but a fair reading of what we’ve seen here. Vladimir Putin is dangerous. He’s been dangerous to a Democratic president, to a Republican president, President George W. Bush who thought he had a better relationship with him. And now this nominee of the Republican Party wants a closer relationship with Vladimir Putin which is what he said. And he thinks that he has the ability to have a better relationship. There’s no evidence to believe that’s the case. “Government governs best which governs least”—have been used by the right wing to wage a war on federal authority while trying to change our perceptions of the past. In the late 19th century, far from wanting to eliminate the power of the federal government, “All the robber barons depended on government and their manipulation of it.” Railroad financiers Collis Huntington and Leland Stanford managed to see “higher purpose” in the bribery of politicians: “If you have to pay money to have the right things done [said Huntington] it is just and fair to do it.” The right has also made ceaseless war on unions, which “did more than any other organized force in American politics to address the concerns of less affluent citizens.” The unprecedented concentration of wealth among the few have built what sociologist Isaac Martin calls “a rich people’s movement.” “Christian conservatism, polarizing right-wing media, and growing efforts by business and the wealthy to back stop and bank roll Republican politics.” The conservative media helps whip their people into line: “If you stray the slightest from the far right.” As early as 1988, Newt Gingrich, in a speech to the Right Wing Heritage Foundation, called for “a civil war” with liberals: “This war has to be fought with a scale and a duration and a savagery that is only true of civil wars.” “speak like Newt.” A Gingrich associate characterized the tapes as “all about how to demonize the opposition, how to use invective and scary language.” And, Democrats are the enemy of “normal [sic] Americans.” I've been a listener of conservative radio. I remember when they use to attack Bush I and W for being centrist republican presidents. Since then times have changed in that we can listen to those same broadcasts, but now they call them podcasts to transform to the new age of digital technology, but it's the same red meat rhetoric. One of the problems of working class American experience is that once Big Business understood that outsourcing their labor was a way to lower costs and boost profits, they all moved over-seas leaving vast amount of Americans unemployed. These things increased financial instability and lead to the Great Recession of 2008. Since then, the Carl Rove associates have been blaming every single symptom of trickle-down economics on Democratic leaders when none held the power to let Wall Street loose on the financial markets. Every single bet that lead to the housing crisis, the tech bubble, the manufacturing exit and finally the Mortgage & Lending crisis was the result of letting the financial managers write their own rules. The Occupy Movement didn't just suddenly appear one day out of thin air. Marchers for equality and racial justice didn't just happen to coincide with national attacks of gun violence and mass tragedies. People are upset and afraid and being left to fend for themselves in a country where 1% of the population holds more wealth than the entire 99% of the country. "Lives Matter!" no matter if you are Blue, Red, purple or Black, everyone matters to this planet. For that matter, Climate Change can be scientifically proven that humans and their actions are affecting the environment. We're not adolescent or uninformed about this phenomenon. It's very obvious that these issues are being politicized for the benefit of already wealthy & powerful companies. In countries where valuable natural resources were discovered: Rather than thriving, such countries often crumbled, economically and politically. The newfound wealth, instead of raising living standards for all, generated violence, as well as accelerating the growth of inequality and corruption. That can be said for material wealth as well, but American exceptialism considers that were insulated from these vulnerabilities and were not. When you take this idea of global economy and apply it to reality, were losing because of our greed. In most cases, you invest, build a market than eventually profit. The only thing were offering the world is our military and that funnels money into the hands of contractors not free enterprise. We grow food for other places, but don't have much of an aqriculture lobby. We outsource are assembly lines than import the products to sell here. You can't just take the consumerism society and expect to grow domestic markets if you don't pay anyone a wage that can spend. Succumbing to trickle-down economics has proven time and time again stagnant markets. It's math folks, basic equations that result in a positive number or a negative one. Let me change the subject and describe the judgment where we begin to go wrong by citing the media's coverage of the republican convention. "I didn't hear a single commentator mention the way Trump, in full furrowed frown and eyes narrowed to slits, would step back from the podium after a pronouncement during his speech and let the roars wash over him. I for one had never seen an American politician make that self-aggrandizing gesture, and I have seen a whole lot of political speeches. Why is this important, and why should some pundit have noted it? Because Trump’s is precisely the posture you see in films of Hitler and Mussolini speechifying. Precisely: The Great One accepting the servile gratitude of the crowd while he strikes the pose of an unappeasable god. We haven’t had that gesture in a democracy. Now we do." That's a vivid reminder to the complacency of the media to do a critique of a legitimate party candidate running for the highest office in the land. Only one journalist made this observance after pointing out that only one on the air journalist made any attempt to solidify how ridiculous the whole spectacle was. One! People are in shock and scared to say anything in fear of being beaten into submission with repetitive tweets or full blown press conferences. Bias is strategy with this candidate and he is using it to demonize a basic liberty. We are supposed to question statements and claims for truth and compare how that fits into reality, but with a reality tv host we won't even do that? In contrast, this is how journalists cover the competitors nomination: " They’re stories of how Hillary has never been able to sit idly by in the face of injustice. Those stories … are all true. That’s why she’s hated. It wasn’t just the people who supported better facilities, genuine opportunities, and greater equality that noticed Hillary. She was just as obvious to the people who didn’t want those things. They started early throwing obstacles in her way, not because she was incapable, but because she was so very, very capable. For forty years, she’s been shouldering aside not just screams of “lock her up” and cries of traitor, not just Bengahzi and email and a hundreds different “gates,” but claims that she did everything from stealing the White House furniture to murdering an old partner." "But if Hillary hasn’t let all those individual attacks slow her, and she’s not going to let the accumulated weight stop her now. She has to move forward without wasting her time trying to fight the fog of lies." "70 percent of Donald Trump’s statements as “mostly false” or worse, while Hillary rates only 28 percent in those categories, Hillary isn’t going to fight on the ground where the Republicans want her to fight. She’s not going to spend three months fighting four decades of lies." On another Note, Thursday July 28th should be highlighted for the definition of Religious Liberty to be clarified. During an appearance at the Democratic National Convention, "Khizr Khan Helped Democrats Take Back Religious Liberty." “In this document,” he said, holding up his pocket Constitution, “look for the words liberty and equal protection of law.” Liberty and equality: Two constitutional guarantees that are intertwined and interdependent, each building on the other, each a critical component of freedom in a democracy. “Have you ever been to Arlington Cemetery?” Khan continued. “Go look at the graves of the brave patriots who died defending America. You will see all faiths, genders, and ethnicities.” In essence, pointing out the fact that people's belief is sacred in that it is an essential freedom to choose the core values that's guides one's own life choices and it has nothing to do with culture or religion. This is a stark and powerful reminder that not only does the current populism component promote a narrow world view, but this type of separatist message is uniquely disqualifying and on the verge of un-patriotic. That is a huge goal achieved in that an immigrant that has acquired citizenship and then lost a child in a heroic act fighting the very enemy proposed by the political opposition can challenge the party's nominee to examine the law which his son gave his life to defend and realize it is the exact opposite in understanding of what the candidate claims it is. This is the dangerous know nothingism of the right that has claimed a real victim today in the form of a political leader and the mass that will follow him to our doom.