#douggiestyle began in October 2012. Running as in independent for the state house representatives seat in my district participating in a 'candidates night' in the truly amazing state of Delaware. Small Wonder.
The esteemed candidates talked about everything from being in Vietnam, to kicking in people's doors in the war on drugs, to puppies.
Cut the two minutes to 90 seconds and closed with "remember in November to send me on over to Dover because it's been a while since they had it #douggiestyle" and that was quote of the night in the next local edition of the "Dover Post".
Your respondent be considered a journalist by any standard, including the modern one that says you have to schill for donkeys or elephants. Here is my journal.
On the Turning Away. Great song by Pink Floyd and maybe just for loony old boomers and apt description of what is continuing to happen to civilization. The Pax Romana is tenous.
The Peace of Rome wasn't just fee or even considered normal. It was something that was won with laws and order. Modern people have a clue to the concept becuase in two thousand years we still haven't come up with better bullshit.
The society that some of us have been privileged to experience, sheltered from some of the other ways of life in our nation, is declining.
We fucked up.
Naturally after VietNam and the turnoil and exposing of inequity and injustice we wanted to do better. We wanted to change.
Change is what we got. We didn't change enough to get what we wanted. No war, everybody treated equally.
Welcome to world that is still increasingly polluted, always at war, and anything but a place of equity.
In Vino Veritas and our president drinks diet coke. His opponent has had kids on coke after voting on and promoting laws that got people of color locked up at alarming rates, the highest in the world.
Whether we love or hate number forty five there must be a way to live without Trump because all of us are temporary residents on this rock before we must be composted in some fashion.
Now as elections near, we can see the turning away. Pitched battle in media, on the streets with people being shot for driving the CHOP or wearing the wrong hat, or being armed and detaining a motorist in the middle of the street.
People at each other's throats over politics, spectacle. Eventually bread and circuses witll return in some form, and we will presumabely go back to sleep? Doesn't matter what you believe in, somebody is pushing your buttons.
Or is this the great awakening?
Your respondent doesn't pretend to know. We are turning away from compassion, dignity, and what made America great the more we tried to achieve it. Treating each other respectfully.
We are turning away from decency.
The recent decline in many places around the globe reflects this. The turning away. We all know the way out. Will we take it?
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