My Life Between the Dimensions

2019, THOUGHTS ON PARTY POLITICS AND THE WALL   Because I rarely if ever allow politics to be my reason for existing on any social media, I limit my thoughts on the cesspool that it has become to but a few times a year.   I began 2018 with a few opinions and I follow suit in 2019.  But since even many in my extended family and circle of friends do not get the weekly Keith Ragan insight into every subject politically relevant to the headlines of the week, I go on record with some thoughts and feelings on this subject of discourse now.  As always, you are entitled to yours, and I will defend to my death your entitlement to them.  Because that’s always been at the core of what this great country stands for. The number of people I have known in my life that I would testify for, as to sound character and reasonable intelligence, seem to diminish in number when politics are the subject of conversation.  The blithering regurgitation of the party speak of the ...

Photo attributed on Twitter to Mary Todd Since when has political affiliation been more central to self-identification than being, in every sense of the word, an American? The Conservative agenda has at its fringe a fraction of people that identify as such, but do not represent in any way the majority of the party membership.  I am speaking of the depraved individuals that identify as white supremacists.  There is no denying their right to believe that way based on the facets and core values of our republic.  I say that with the caveat that that belief may be a right, but promoting, enacting or in any way condoning violence to the other Americans of this country--of every creed, race, life choices, and religions is abhorrent and a disgrace to the American creed.  Further, it is illegal and immoral. Most of the fine people I have known over the course of my life on this planet that identify with the Republican Party are of like mind as I am.  Yet racists are amon...