Supermajority!

Guess what?

Thereʹs a new group in town.  Itʹs called Supermajority.  Itʹs been created by and for women, who—as they point out—already are a majority, and they want to encourage the Democrat, or the sector of women that oppose Trump, to be an actual political supermajority.

There was a meeting in town today, which I did not attend; I should have paid more attention to some notices (which I thought were the usual hysterical announcements about Saturday protests, but they weren՛t.  I found that leading the meeting were a former Democrat congressman, and Democrat county commissioners from two neighboring counties, and the chairwoman of the town՛s Democrat committee.

I hadn՛t thought about the role that women would play in an election.  But it՚s becoming clear that, very possibly, women are going to be a huge factor in the next election. 

To begin with, pres 47 has gypped ripped off women in the worst possible way.  The Magas seem to believe that the thing to do is to deprive women of all political power.  Keep them at home; don՚t let them vote.  They՚re in deathly fear that if women vote, the magats will lose.  (Of course; what do they expect?  After taking abortion rights away, and other women՚s rights—I՚m not up on the entire list—they'll just have to keep women away from the ballot boxes if they want to win.  Though GOP men pretend to despise Kamala Harris, they're afraid of her. 

One of the objectives of the leadership of the Maga is to turn the world upside down.  This would make the world so unfamiliar, that people will lose all their instincts.  (Hopefully.)  But the younger generation has to become more flexible.  They've got to learn to keep their balance in this stupid magat world they've put together.  But the joke's on them, because the older conservatives, who are such a big majority and the spine of the magat party, are even more off-balance in 47's world. 

Kay

Somewhere

One thing the new pope has done is to kick me firmly back into thinking about Christian values.

I got started thinking about these values, and I got distracted.  I started thinking about An American Tail, (Steven Spielberg's legendary animated feature,) in which Linda Ronstadt sang that lovely song: Somewhere out there, in which this little Russian mouse, coming to live in America, gets separated from his family, and finds himself all alone in New York City, being bullied by gangsters.  And his song expresses that, his family is thinking about him, and praying for him, and hoping to find him again!

I was very young when this movie came out, and my thoughts of what the movie was about are probably based on the song.  The feelings I remember about the movie seemed all about immigrants to America, some of whom helped to keep the little mouse safe, and hopeful, others of which were bent on exploiting him, and making him work for them.  At one time, most kids would have identified with the mouse and his friends; nowadays, there are many who would side with the oppressors, and view the weaker characters as losers, weak, and unworthy of compassion. 

At this point, the pope reminds us that Jesus urged us to side with the underdog.  What will the Christian establishment make of this call of the pope's, as opposed to what many preachers are teaching?

Kay