Red State/Blue State

    After sitting and watching C-Span for a few minutes, I decided to take notes on what's playing for one week on their channels. What I found was a wide swath of interesting topics that will inform voters and citizens about the state of our current Political System as well as giving viewers a rudimentary understanding of American History.        All this tells me that on any given day on C-Span, one can learn more about the American Constitution; the history of the United States and our future by simply sitting and watching and taking notes the way we did when we were in class. We can learn about the alleviation of hunger globally. This is not “pie in the sky” but something that the United Nations says is achievable in our lifetime. There is a plan, where the major industrial nations pledge a certain amount of money to make this an entirely achievable goal. In connection with global hunger is a book about life in one of Kenya’s Refugee Camps, discussing

      The fight is on! Little did we know it was going to be between younger vs older women. Words like bring out the vote, suffrage, the Voting Rights Act, Equal pay for equal work, Women’s Lib, Women’s Equality, the Lilly Ledbetter fair pay act…all of these resonate with women “of a certain age.” But not with college women. They are with Bernie.       And then there’s Barney Frank. Speaking of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, Frank had mused once, “ Where were these young people when we were trying to pass Dodd-Frank?”   The next musing is from me: “Do they know how laws are passed? And do they really want a Revolution?” Because the candidate of Hope & Change that did cause quite a bit of political upheaval was Barack Obama. His hard-fought contest with Hillary ended with his election, and a contentious battle over Health Care (Obamacare), and the passage of Wall Street reform that became the Dodd-Frank Bill.   Barney Frank again talking about th

    1)       The Real Silent Majority is found to be in Camp Hillary. The excitement for the first woman President is palpable when you talk to older, middle-aged women   who want their voices heard!     2)       Campaigning in Poetry : Nothing makes Democrats madder than hearing the phrase, “Start all over again” or “Repeal and Replace.” Everybody knows that there is no alternative to Obamacare and Repeal and Replace is just another way for Republicans to say “Kill the Bill!.” Practicality does matter. Governor Cuomo said it best, “You Campaign in Poetry, but you Govern in Prose!”       3)       Hope & Change is still the Mantra. Trump offers fear and division. In the end, American voters still want to believe in the future. We are a nation of Cockeyed Optimists. Dems offer hope, GOP offers fear…We’ll see which one prevails.