When I was a teenager, my mom, my little brother and I took a trip to Washington, D.C. to see the city and visit my late, great Aunt Crystal. I loved her. She was energetic and lively and very smart. She had been a civil servant most of her life. She knew DC better than anyone in my family. In part, she made me what I am today.
We visited so many wonderful places, the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, the Supreme Court (which she had some not-so-great views of), the Natural History Museum, and, of course, the White House. It was a marvelous visit and one that I will remember all of my days.
But, one moment in particular keeps popping up in my head. It was either during our visit to the White House of the Supreme Court that she pulled me aside a little bit and gave me a piece of wisdom that has stuck with me to this day. She knew that I would be voting in the next few years, and she leaned over to me and said…
“You vote for a party and not a person.”
Truer words have never been said.
I know some of you might be kvetching still about the President’s debate last month. I get it. But you also have to look over at his opponent, someone who right now is in hiding playing golf. The 34-time indicted, convicted rapist who definitely had sex with a porn star isn’t pulling away. As a matter of fact, as it looks right now the race is close and more events will dictate where it will go in the next 4 months.
I have recently started reading Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation blueprint for completely rearranging government to embolden certain elements of the Republican Party. I say embolden because the leader of this Foundation has some anger-management issues.
In an interview on the right-wing Internet Web site Newsmax, said leader, Kevin Roberts, said the following…
“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,”
Kevin Roberts, President, The Heritage Foundation.
In other words, “Don’t make me hit you.”
This man is a standard bearer for the Republican Party and far-right conservatives in America. He is white, rich, entitled and angry. Just read his preface of Project 2025 and you will see what I mean. He uses Marxism to describe our current government 3 times. Lots of references to “environmental extremism, Wilsonian hubris and other loaded phrases that scream, “Look at me, dammit!” Someone needs to ask him, “When was the last time you beat your wife?” and see how he reacts. I don’t think he will simply brush it off.
I will post other things about Project 2025, because it’s almost as long as “War & Peace” and more tedious but suffice it to say that we need to remind ourselves of my Aunt Crystal’s words.
“You Vote for a Party and Not a Person.”
