TheWiseOldFart

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Fact: most of the world’s population is less involved in racism and bigotry than those who hate others for the color of their skin, their ethnicity, their choice of religion, their sex, their sexual orientation, or their economic status. However, at least 40 percent of all Americans support Trump’s position as the leader of the American Nazi Party. He began his war on the most vulnerable Americans on January 21, 2025. Trump and Elon Mush began firing men and women who need their jobs and were the only people in Washington who worked for a living. Hispanics are to Trump what the Jews were to Hitler. Trump ordered the illegal arrests and detainment of thousands of men, women, and children whose only crimes were seeking a better life like every immigrant before them who came to America. The truth you will neve hear on television is that Trump’s detainment, deportation, and the inhumane treatment they receive are in reality “ethnic cleansing.” Less than three ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1950’s and 1960’s was interesting. When I was very young, I, my mother, and my younger brother lived in an area of West Los Angeles which was predominately white. It is fair to say that until I was in my junior year of high school, I was surrounded by and lived in an atmosphere of white privilege. The only time I came in contact with anyone my age who was non-white was in the local parks, and later when I joined a baseball team in a predominately Black area of Venice. I never thought about it then, but playing sports gave me the opportunity to become acquainted with different races, most of whom had a different color of skin than my own. Until my junior year in high school, 1962, and at the age of 16, I attended Catholic schools. At the end of my sophomore year, I was playing varsity basketball in a mostly Catholic summer league. I was certain to be a starting guard the following year. In late summer, I attended an event at St. B...

There are two sides to the story about the murder of an insurance company executive. I am not condoning violence. In fact, it would be fair to label me a ‘pacifist.’ However, most Americans find themselves in a battle with an insurance company when a healthcare emergency becomes a reality. I am 78 years old. During a discussion at a party in my 20’s, I proclaimed that if I were to commit a crime, it would be against an insurance company. They charge outrageous premiums and when a situation arises and they are required to pay for a claim, they fight to deny that claim. They are the most corrupt businesses in America. Millions of Americans continue to survive without any healthcare insurance today. They simply cannot afford it. America’s current “healthcare system” is primarily dependent upon the profits of one industry: the insurance companies. The reason healthcare in our country is the most expensive in the world, and the primary reason for that situation is the greed of the entire ...