A Liberal In The Midst

Luvs and Lovers, I often wake to some pure crap on my Twitter TL.   I have to side-eye much crap. I am seeing a push by Black intellectuals for a protest vote of not voting.   Seriously folks not voting is the plan?   Folks it doesn’t work that way. The 35.9% of eligible votes cast in 2014 made a decision for all of the nation.   Every presidential election we have the cult of personality.   These are the people who either have no idea of government workings or seek to be part of something larger than themselves in every facet of their lives. If you don’t know your local and state elected officials then your voting every four years does nothing.   Your calls for creating a political party’s platform mean nothing.   The true seat of power in the United States is Congress.   That is why we have the upper and lower chambers of Congress. Unlike the GOP, the Dems have been warned of an intent to tear down the Democratic Party.   The warni...

Welcome Luvs and Lovers to another wonderful day.  This morning I awoke to a tweet that my state still had spots for the 2016 DNC.  I immediately sent in my email request.  I then put on  Corinne Bailey Rae to start my blog post about why I desire to be a delegate.  In 2012 I was running for a spot on the Executive Committee for the Democratic Party when I was, in my view at the time, erroneously voted for the 2012 DNC rather than a spot on the Executive Committee.   However, hindsight shows all things previously hidden.  I learned in 2013 the only horse I can not only lead to water but make drink was myself.   I had multiple family events that pushed me to the brink of sanity.  I spent the next two years doing me.  Getting back to self.   Well now I am back and ready to get back into the fray. When I was traveling the state of Mississippi attending various Democratic functions, my stump was about informing ...