Tag: politics

This isn’t about just me anymore

The convicted felon has been in power for a week now.

He is driven to dismantle the government. He and his band of thugs are driven to remove all the protections and safeguards that much wiser men than he have in place to protect the lesser advantaged of us, the minorities, the marginalized citizens of this country.

His ultimate goal is to remove Democracy, the Rule of Law, Ethics, and Hope and proclaim himself the “king” the United States.

Do you think the convicted felon cares about you, America?

He wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire…

The convicted felon is driven by one force. the same force that has driven him since early in his life. POWER and the influence and money that are associated with it.

You are sitting there thinking that you are so very happy that he is coming for all those people that he has told you that are not equal to you. The ones that he says it is ok to hate. You know who they are; the Muslims, the Jews, the Native Americans, the Dreamers, all the People of Color, the people who have married outside their race, the people who have married outside their religion, the families that have biracial children, the families who have children with chronic diseases, the single moms with kids, the “entitled elderly”, The Gays, The Lesbians, all those weird mother fuckers who are part of the LGBTQ group I call my family, just about anyone who doesn’t fit into his collective vision of a sanitized, nice, clean, white, “christian” America. He told you over and over (with the help of elon musk’s money) that these were the people that were holding you back. That it was ok to hate them and to use whatever violence was appropriate to make yourselves feel like better human beings.

Hitler told post World War 1 Germany the same things..

Make no mistake America, you think that the convicted felon is coming for them?

He is coming for you.

It can’t happen here…

I didn’t start my transition until late in life. I was 65 in January of 2015

Barack Obama was president and I watched as he worked diligently on behalf of everyone including people near and dear to my heart, the LGBTQIA+ community.

I have struggled with living in the wrong body since age 4. Some of you may be shaking your heads and asking how I could possibly know I was the wrong gender at that age? How could I possibly know something like that as a 4 year old child? I felt it then just as I feel it now. That my mind and body were always at war with each other. That nothing felt right, fit right, was right. I found an amazing therapist and she helped me see that I wasn’t screwed up, fucked up or broken. So I began my journey.

There seemed to be such an atmosphere of hope during the Obama years, so much optimism about where we were going as a nation. That all changed in 2016 when the orange man was elected.

Which brings me to the title of this blog. In 1935, an author by the name of Sinclair Lewis wrote a book called “It Can’t Happen here”. One might ask, why is the very old book relevant now? He wrote it during Hitler’s rise to power in Germany in the late 1930s. His book, however, told the story of man rising to power in America using the same techniques as Hitler. It’s amazing the parallels that can be seen with Hitler’s rise to power and what is going on in America today. With Hitler, he gave the German people someone to hate, someone to blame all their troubles on, the Jews, the Homosexuals, the Muslims, the Negroes, the Gypsies or anyone who didn’t meet the pure race criteria for Hitler’s plan to make the German people “The Master Race”. He made the German people believe that those people were less than desirable, that they were inferior to the German people, that they didn’t deserve a place at the table that was going to be Germany in the Third Reich. He suppressed and obliterated the Free Press and all Journalism that didn’t tow the Third Reich Line. The Gestapo had free rein to detain, punish, imprison or kill anyone who wasn’t a card carrying member of the National Socialist German Workers party. I’m not sure if Hitler sold Bibles, golden high tops or trading cards. For anyone interested, you can find Sinclair Lewis’ book online at most retailers.

More that half of America watched as he lied about the 2020 election, created insurrection in the Capitol, was tried and found guilty of fraud and deception and most of all rape. And in 2024, they have put him in charge again. Are these people all stupid? No…it’s much easier to live your life if someone else tells what you need to do. Tells you that he can fix anything. Tells that you that your neighbor isn’t as good as you are because you’re white. Tells you hey I’m white, you’re white, I got your back. What about the other half of us who didn’t vote for him? A large part of America decided that they didn’t like either candidate and they chose to stay home on election day. Shame on you all. That’s how Hitler rose to power again in Germany and the orange man is using the Third Reich cookbook to do the same thing here in YOUR backyard.

My goal is to try to tell anyone who chooses to read this what it is like for a 75 year old trans woman living in a very red state and what my fears are for the next four years. I plan to finish my backstory as well. Even if it is from a ghetto in Warsaw.