“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” -Thomas Jefferson

The power of democracy and the American dream is the myth that all can partake in the feast, all can through hard work and ethical behavior reach for the stars and settle for the planets. However increasingly, the deck is stacked against us. The game is rigged. The odds, always in favour of the house, are seemingly only in favour of the house. When the people demand fairness and accountability, the politicians must be answerable to those calls. Or as we are seeing early in the presidency of Donald J Trump, revolution is abound. In a place where there is one gun for ever man, woman and child, this is no peaceful sentiment. But thus far those in protest are being peaceful. So far. The real rebellion will occur in 2 years if the momentum is conserved across time and distance. If it is, then this will be the first rebellion in history fought not with guns and bombs but with the ballot and a stroke of the pen. The question can only be what is to happen if the elites and business tycoons who own the politicians fail to take heed of the coming storm. Will they brush it aside as they have in the past, ignore the Lilliputians once more and grant themselves even more of the collective wealth by government tax breaks and outright hand outs? Or will the dawn arrive where the rich notice the unsustainability of their constant actions. Where people are burdens by debt for health care, Imprisoned for lifetimes for minor crimes, all because some herb is deemed illegal? Traffic tickets as revenue agents and road piracy targeting out of state visitors travel on highways as a means of seizing cash to fund cash strapped police forces? 240 years ago, the rallying cry of “No taxation without representation” cause the Colonies to take on the world’s only super power and win their freedom. Are we seeing that once again the people have found their backs to the wall and are taking action, organizing and prepared to backlash against the republicans and democrats alike, who only favour their rich donors. A president who has more skeletons in his closet that he shares with Putin’s Russia and a court system that allows for some social progress but is firmly in the interest of business? Can we see the tide is turning? Can we see a new wind blowing in a wind of change? Or is it, just a new tempest in a tea pot. The last such wind from the right paid for by the Koke brothers, blow in the ill wind of right wing do nothing to help people only help ourselves. Will this new wind blow the dust off the new deal; bring in progressive socialist legislation on health care, taxation, and new amendment to get money out of politics? As of this writing, the next election is some 19 months away. Where in politics a week is an eternity, where will we be then so long into the future? Hopefully, the time will be used to gather money and people. Mobilize a work force dedicated to introducing progressive legislation and enforcing the electoral choices above the whim of the representative. In one insane statistic; Americans overwhelmingly support background checks from the low 80 to a high in the 90 percentiles. Yet, lobbies like the NRA prevent any sort of waiting period at all. And actively resist to the point of targeting people that dare vote in such measures. This is a democracy? This is a Republic? Jefferson was right; it is time to shed some patriot’s blood and the blood tyrants upon that tree of liberty, in a death by a million votes, one ballot at a time.

In President Donald Trump’s world, were the grasp on truth is tenuous, alternative facts and outright lies are abundantly clear as being the message, a feature not an occurrence. One is constantly seeing the pundits in the news media question how people can support him. Seemingly, with each day, some new lie, some new scandal, some new revelation that would have derailed another president, is brushed aside for the next tweet, the next press conference, the next thing to send the nagging chorus of bird song to an even greater, higher pitch. From fake massacres, to “Pee-Gate” to sheer laws on the amount of people attending his inauguration, it is day by day insanity. Chicken Little had but to cry once the sky is falling, to awaken the barnyard but by the third, the other animals rolled over and ignored him. This President has not had three times, or even three times three. Nope, not even 300 times 300 times shocked and outraged the world or what should have done so under any other president. So what is going on? What do the 40 percent of the American population not get in their continuing support of Donald Trump?

The answer is depending on who you ask. Trump and the White House don’t care about anyone else is opinion. They won. And you don’t matter. So to the victor goes the spoils and let the hog feast begin. Some pigs are more equal than others. In the Hour and Senate, they don’t care either. In a Republican controlled Congress, they only need some idiot who will sign into law whatever they pass. So it does not matter what is the latest scandal issued from the lying White House, so long as Donald Trump signs whatever is put in front of him, without question, they won’t care either.

The last party involved is the people of America, those voters who voted for the man himself. The pundits who think they are all so smart, have no clue what is happening out there. They are told they are less smart, less sophisticated, less informed or else they would have long turned against Donald J Trump. Except, it is impossible to not see all those things. From Saturday Night Live to the internet to network talk shows and Cable new services, all of them are aglow with the merits of everything done by President Trump. So what are the people not getting about this conman shyster in office who is more than likely a Russian agent? We return to the first question, what are these people not getting? The answer is they are getting it, they are getting it all. What the 4th estate is not getting is this. Trump is a clown, and even the dumbest of person can see that but he is upsetting the smug self righteous elite who run the news media. He is causing them to run around like a chicken without a head. As they scurry hither and fro, the media is being mocked in the mockery, they are being laughed at by those in the laugh. The joke is on the media. The good job Donald Trump is doing is not governing the country but in upsetting the media. Drive the frenzy of the 4th estate. Dragging them to the absurd as they try to sound impartial when faced with nothing but childish taunts. Donald J. Trump is doing a fabulous job challenging the professionalism of the journalists of every sort. In that challenge lays the reason he is supported. Over the years, the dumb people, the absurd people, those who the New York Media Elites have turned down their nose to, they became the majority. They control democracy and even if they only won by a hair, it was a fine hair indeed. They won and if they want the clown to entertain them while Rome doeth burn? Then they are the will of the people. Welcome to democracy. Sometimes the good guys don’t always win the polls. 3 years and 11 months to go. Get plenty of sleep; there is no sign this is going to slow down any time soon. Bread and circus in the twenty first century, thy name is Trump, all hail (spelled Heil?) to the new President.

A new law in Sweden proposes that a man may opt out of being a father in the same way a woman having an abortion might do so and opt out of having a child. The man before the 18th week of gestation can vote to terminate all of his parental rights to the child and forgo any other privileges in being the mere sperm donor to that child. This is in effect the male abortion bill. The man would no longer be responsible or have any parental or legal input to the child’s life. This sounds like a fair proposal for the man, who no longer would be liable for child support, parent responsibility or even simple affection for said child, the fruit of his loon. Sounds like a win, err, no not a win-win, but more like a win-“go fuck yourself.” The woman has an absolute right to an abortion before the fetus is viable. Until a fetus is viable, it is not a person and as such abortion is universally allowed in most states and countries. This is biology. However at some point the women must either accept or prevent the pregnancy. The man has the absolute right to be responsible and wear protection before impregnating the women.  The normally resulting condition from such behavior is having babies?  The man has to prevent it before hand. Otherwise they are stuck with the bill. Except for a few things; what about the child? Where do their rights fit in? What about the child in question, produced by the act or acts of irresponsibility by the couple and then further betrayed by the state to allow for yet another act of take no responsibility? What about that child, forgotten in the shame of standing up for the male and being fair.

Many children living in poverty are there because of one parent families. Mostly, the father having absconded and forgone, child support , a duty of love and care, and just being there for the child as they grow to adulthood. The child has a right to know the other side, i.e. the father’s side, as in who they are and where did they come from. Claiming this is not fair to the man, considered an adult in such matters, the women may always abort is her slice of fairness. The man is without options under current law. This neatly forgets the man had all the freedom in the world to wear the condom in the first place. Why then is the disproportionate burden thrust upon the male to provide for an unwanted child without any say in the matter upon conception? Even if said child may be force to grow up in poverty, in an emotion desert, wondering why they were abandoned in the first place, what had they done to deserve such a fate? Who is equally thusly deprived of their father emotional support, legally, by law? Such an act by the government betrays the child in favour of irresponsibility. If a man, wishing to not be burdened by parental responsibility, they then have the sole responsibility to wear a condom.  Something rather simple to do, especially considered in light of the burden they force the child into a life time of living. For the state to pass such a law, allowing for such male abortion, then the state must ensure that there is no child poverty, unlimited access to psychological support, and generally impose an additional burden on the clearly shrinking moral, responsible adults within society to yet again take care of the legal cast off by an irresponsible state.