Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: You Only Have One Choice Today

Tuesday, November 08, 2022

You Only Have One Choice Today

Vote Democratic for the future or vote Republican for the past!

I normally on voting day just write about going out to vote but today it is different, today you can prevent an authoritarian takeover of government.

Let me list their sins:

The Republican party has packed the Supreme Court and the federal court system with justices who put their Bible before the Constitution.
The Republican party has placed evangelical Christians above all other religions.
The Republican party has gerrymandered states so that they always win.
The Republican party has moved voting places and closed other voting places making it harder to for minorities to vote.
The Republican party cried falsely of voter fraud and placed excessive voter ID requirements that make it harder for minorities to vote.
The Republican party has demonized immigrants and created hatred of them causing an increases in hate crimes against Asians.
The Republican party has criminalized the LGBTQ+ community making it illegal to say anything about LGBTQ+ in schools and limited First Amendment rights.
The Republican party has stepped between a woman and her doctor and banned abortions.
The Republican party has stepped between a trans child and their doctor banning proven medical treatment.

The Republican party wants to control your lives.

The choice is clear today… Vote Democratic.

2 comments:

Anonymous11/8/22, 7:30 AM
Excellent! I think that this quote applies. "Never forget that the least fascist among you is still a fascist." Rogue Dalton
That quote sums up what the republican party is and has become.
a note to you Diana.
Thank you for this site. Your site is one of the most important in Ct. during this dreadful period. I do hope that others are reading your postings, talking about these attacks against the Trans community and other communities and planning to stop this by any means necessary. Pushing ahead and voting is one way. But let's remember that we must continue to question the very system, and work towards ending all abuses. We must question why some have so much and many other have so little. We must question war and those who make war. We must question those who profit off the destruction of the earth again by any means necessary. I have always believed that in our turning and turning we will finally come out right. (I think that idea was in a Shaker hymn)
To everyone in the Transgender community know that this old queer man has your backs, always have and always will. When the push comes to shove, I know what side of the barricades I will be standing on.
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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers