TheWiseOldFart

I am not certain that this is the fifth article I have written about why I am proud to be a liberal, or the fourth or the sixth. I only know that on occasion I find it necessary to explain how I learned right from wrong, and how I became aware that the past is only good for one thing: it is a place where the most important things I learned were from my mistakes, and the mistakes of my government.   As an original “baby boomer,” born in July of 1946, I began my life in an atmosphere of patriotism, and rebirth. The war to defeat fascism had been won, and America was changing quickly, attempting to leave the horrors of war behind us and move our nation forward with changes which no one could have imagined just a few years ago. Millions of women who had become workers in our factories in support of the need to create weapons of mass destruction stepped aside, allowing America’s returning heroes to secure employment in the private sector. Factories were re-tooled, manufacturing eve...

Since 2017, the label “conservative” has become synonymous with “right-wing extremism,” and more recently “fascism.” Trump and his anti-American supporters love to call real Americans “radical, liberal leftists.” Let me offer the facts, one more time. I am proud to be a liberal, or, if you prefer, “progressive.” I have many reasons, but two of them clearly define my beliefs. I cherish the principles contained in the Constitution, and I care about other Americans as much as I care about myself. Conservatives are first and foremost liars and hypocrites. They tell the American people what they want to hear: pandering to the worst. Their only goals in the 21 st century are increasing their own power and wealth by serving their masters: our nation’s 756 oligarchs/billionaires. America was not always this fucked up. In 1968, at the age of 22, I was planning to vote in my first national election. Like all men and women my age, who were in high school when John F. Kennedy was elected, voting ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart History proves that for the last nine years the mainstream media allowed Trump to lie to the American people in front of the television cameras without demanding any admission of falsehood or retraction from the orange buffoon. History also proves that the tale of Trump’s life begins and ends with a pattern of lies and playing the role of a con man. Although Trump’s “basement dwellers” refuse to accept the truth, others, like me, have followed “the real Donald Trump” and what we learned is based on fact not fiction. Over the last 78 years Trump has struggled to create an illusion. However, facts prove that if he had not received assistance from leaders of foreign nations, he would have never received notoriety or credibility. He would have become penniless and the events of the last nine years would never have happened. THE DISEASE IS MALIGNANT NARCISSIM From birth until today, Trump’s history reveals a desperate need for attention and validation. Notable mental...