Living On the Diagonal

democratic debate FELL SHORT ON URGENCY  It is a good thing the Democrats chose last night to hold a debate as opposed to a Friday the 13 th coupled with a full moon. Had the debate gone past midnight some would still be left howling? The three-hour Democratic Debate left voters wanting less and more . Viewers want less of the fight over healthcare; and more sustentative discussion of the present not the tenuous promises of the future. This is pressing issue of mass murders and election security. The first hour became a freefall over universal healthcare. Candidates became entrapped arguing the merits and details of the individual plans for universal healthcare. Voices were raised; hands held aloft and fingers pointing leaving the discussion incoherent.  PETE BUTTIGIEG A tempered Pete Buttigieg rose above the fray pointing out “this is what turns people off about debates.” So why get caught up arguing the minutia of the details? Comprehensive and univer...

July 31, 2019 (Revised, Expanded FB post) DEMS BATTLE IN DETROIT, AN UNDECLARED WAR ON McCONNELL Last night Pete Buttigieg stood with a resolve, looking straight into the lens, delivering a challenge to members of a Republican Party that surrenders to a lawless President. Mayor Pete gave warning. At the “sunset of their careers” the individual  legacy to be written will focus upon a lack of courage, fear and a failure to uphold the rule of law and the twisted view and adherence to a false narrative of Christian values they espouse. With that Mayor Pete  harnessed the attention of Republicans and their base. And then a diminutive MARIANNE WILLIAMSON with courageous resolve awoke everyone with her gut wrenching punch to her counterparts of a “truth” that a “dark underbelly, a psychic force” of   institutional racism, the command and control of corporate America.   In essence , she gave warning that multi-mega corporations continue to und...