Are you registered? It is now more important than ever to do so, and since today is National Voter Registration Day, I think it is time to reblog this poem written three years ago. Person by person, vote by vote, we need to get some balance into our government. We have come to an age where lack of leadership has led to our needing to be led by children! If they can’t shame us into caring about the world we are handing over to them, then the world is lost. I think this poem is as valid as it was when I wrote it, so here it is again. And remember, it is possible that the current administration might withdraw the U.S. from the international postal system, so if you are registering to vote from abroad, arrange to do so via email. (If you don’t believe me, Google it.)
Blind Judgment
“Macho” by Judy Dykstra-Brown, jdbphoto
Blind Judgment
Wielding words like bludgeons, they stumble through our world,
supporting fools as their gods, confederate flags unfurled.
Motivated more by hate than any rational thought,
they’d have no more spices added to our melting pot.
Hooligans wielding bludgeons as simple as a vote
cannot see the truth of what their voting might denote.
A businessman with ethics determined by the dollar
seems to have convinced them he’s the friend of the blue collar.
Bankruptcy and divorces, rash words and rasher actions.
Tax-dodging obligations, like a child in his reactions.
His minions yielding weapons, be they cudgels, guns or mallets,
now have it in their power to trash the world with ballots.
So all these bleating sheep with their lovely little daughters
will feed them to misogyny, like lambs led to their slaughters.
What leads nations on in these times of mass delusion?
Tomfoolery and hate and fear can lead to mass confusion.
We’ve seen it down through history with Hitler and Pol Pot.
Attila and Idi Amin, Gaddafi and Sadat.
All the blind majority led onward by a dunce.
All the dark sides of the world coming out at once.
Please, fathers love your daughters and mothers love your sons.
Protect them from the hatred of bigots wielding guns.
From politicians inventing facts and changing history,
leaving devastation wherever they might be.
We’re taught that justice must be blind to shield in its detection
of prejudice, and yet that selfsame blindness in election
may lead to faulty judgment that leads to foolish acts.
We should not cast our ballots when blinded to the facts.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
This is brilliantly relevant to the world today. So many countries are teetering on the edge of an abyss.
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Scarily so. Yet you have your private abyss to deal with every day in terms of the system’s inability to take your son’s needs into account. The week of the Twin Towers bombing was the last week of my husband’s life. His first day of Hospice visitation at home was the day of the bombings and the hospice volunteers had the radio on and were rapt because their boss’s son had an office in the tower. After they left Bob asked me to turn the radio off and we never listened to it again. We were dealing with our own disaster that took every bit of our time and concentration. What the world was going through we were going through on our own on a private level. That must be how you are feeling. That lack of regard for “everyman” is what you are going through with your school system, just as the world is going through it in terms of climate change and in the case of the U.S., immigration and gun control. These people in power simply don’t care. They have their own finances to think about and seem to be making bad decisions across the board–be it Brexit or our Presidential fool wanting to withdraw from the World Postal Service, to turn our missile production over to the Saudis and to ignore the climate crisis. They simply do not care…
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‘We should not cast our ballots when blinded to the facts.’ So many votes are cast in ignorance. The media comes out with bullshit which leads the ignorant by their noses. It sickens me that hordes of people vote for candidates who will continue to destroy both us and the planet. .
I’ve just deleted a long rant. No need to preach to the converted. I hope the elections over there go better than the negative predictions I’ve heard. The U.S. and the U.K. need to get rid of that mop haired, two headed monster – I’m sure Boris and Trump are the same person, but I don’t know which is the real face and which the mask.
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So frustrating. I’m doing a lot of ranting myself, Jane. And a lot of spontaneously bursting into tears. I just can’t believe it. It is like watching a horror show you can’t turn off.
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I’ve felt that way since the 1970s, when that evil war-criminal Margaret Thatcher took power and encouraged the Brits to be greedy and selfish… but things have hotted up since then. The whole world needs a strong, compassionate American President. I don’t suppose the guy I’d back if I was American stands a chance.
Huh! The human race… the human race toward extinction…
I’m sorry; this isn’t cheering you up.
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But it is backing me up. Just how I feel.
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