Reflections: Why Michael Moore Nailed It

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Do you know why Michael Moore was right, when almost nobody else was? It's because he pays attention to those people who voted against the system that has been screwing them for decades by voting against HRC.

Moore knew where they had the numbers and that they would turn out to vote. Democracy is dangerous. The classical Greeks found that out. And the Founding Fathers established this nation based on that premise.

So I was wrong: the fix was not in. The election was not rigged.

And now look.

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Reflections: Trump Wins the Presidency

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This is worse than any conspiracy theory I had imagined.

We should have believed the message sent by the GOP primaries.

Those of us who have been living in comfort and security and ignoring our neighbors for whom life has been growing more and more precarious for decades have no one to blame but ourselves for the rise of a demagogue.

We have been repeatedly told that the middle class is dying and that the numbers were with those for whom the system has stopped working, but we looked away wrapped in our sense of smug superiority to "the rubes out in fly-over country."

Well, guess what? They still have their pitchforks. And they have spoken.

We have learned that need and anger in the present and fear for the future trumps identity politics. Now the anger is ours; the fear is ours; but we don't have the numbers: Hoist on our own petard.

And finally: Thanks a lot, Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

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Reflections: Existence, a Tough Place to Be

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Nobody ever does what they say they're going to do, except by coincidence. All human action is motivated by forces the actors choose either to deny or to ignore. To awaken to this is to know existential nausea. To overcome it is to know enlightenment.
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Rodak's Writings: a Very Short Story

Sick Transit

Gloria Monday vomited half way into Manhattan on the uptown D train. Never had she been so humiliated.

The next morning, the stick turned blue.

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Reflections on the Elections: HRC Still Dissing Millennials & Others

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Hillary Clinton's campaign to-date seems to be directed with laser-like precision right at those who were automatically going to vote for her anyway. It more or less just pats those preconditioned voters on their collective heads and tells them how very *bright* they are for recognizing HRC to be the *most experienced* and *best qualified* presidential candidate EVER.

But for those potential voters who should be voting Democratic, but who are, at this point, still taking a knee to Hillary's theme music, she offers little-to-nothing. How DARE they question her supremacy? Did she not bring both Sanders and Warren to heel? Is that not proof enough for these idiots? Will they not come around now and be *useful idiots*? Time is running out!

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Reflections on the Elections: Hillary vs. Trump

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If I were a Hillary supporter, I would very much hope that the Donald isn't somehow disqualified as a candidate, because I don't think she could beat any normal Republican candidate at this point. My God, she's barely staying ahead of Trump.

 "At least she's better than Trump" becomes inoperative if Trump is suddenly gone.

Which is to say, they'd better stop merely attacking Trump and start convincing people that Hillary is actually a good choice on her own merits.

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Rodak's Writings: a Poem

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The Way the Music Died

I’m pretty sure

the fragment of mind

embedded in this

particular clot of mud

is near disintegration.

I have not learned much

about the Ground of Being,

obsessed as I’ve been

about being in the ground,

probing the receptive mud

for groans and giggles.

There was issue from these strivings

and all was well until those I got

commanded me stop whistling along

with the chiming of the spheres.

Finally, then, the white noise reigned:

the lovely music guttered out

and died between my ears.

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