Another gorgeous spring morn in my valley. Almost 7am and the sun is on the valley floor. Its is a very nice, pleasing morning. The day is going to be hot. Summer is coming…
We are heading quickly towards those 4am sunrises I do enjoy so, so much… Years back, visiting QLD, I marvelled at the very noisy sunrises. Like Aussie’s in general, the birds-life here is often quite large and very often quite noisy. Very boisterous. Boisterous is a good word. Being an Aussie is very, very guud…
Elections season(s) loom large on the globe. We have a State election here in QLD this month. Of course the USofA has its big, every 4years-election coming in a month.
Aus is much more sedate about its elections. Here there is less, much less constant rhetoric and electioneering. And, here in AUS it is compulsory to vote. Yep, in a democratic land it is illegal to not vote. You shall be fined for not voting.
Very democratic in my mind…
Gracie and I do postal voting. And, yes, an ID is required.
Years back I always thought the elections were about who had control of the $$. The communal purse-strings. I now see the election is to decide who has control of the POWER, noting how much $$ is spent to get into power. The amount of $$ being spent is ridiculous. Shameful. Sinful. So the main goal has to be power, The Power!
I find it telling, important to note, imperative in many ways to watch, see, understand how the USA incumbent administration is treating the recently ravaged areas hit by Hurricane Helene. its gives us an example of who these folks running the show are. And it aint a pretty picture…
Helene cut a swath through what is very much “Red territory”…
So why should the “Blue Elite” waste their time in Red-Country?
Even though citizens are very much suffering. They shall be additionally punished by the Liberal Elite for being conservative.
A joke (sorta) from years past… Why are Cuban refugees sent back to Cuba, and Mexican refugees let in? Because Cubans vote Republican…
I wrote about the fact that traditionally conservative areas in the US are being punished for their belief in God, Guns, and Family… https://nativeiowan.com/2024/03/22/2024-v3-lets-dilute-the-middle-classes/
I was reminded of something St. Barack said a number of years ago… “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
It makes me think of the Electoral College and how clever the Founding-Fathers of the US Constitution were. They knew that the urbanised elites would trample and politically enslave the rural constituencies, if they could. Years back I made a study of the Electoral College, originally not a supporter, I came to understand how important it is to the rural god fearing, gun owning, family oriented “yokels” that are a part of the democracy of the USofA. Here is some of my words… https://nativeiowan.com/2012/12/18/the-us-of-as-electoral-system-for-dumbassesv1-0/
I have the MLB playoffs on the tube… Mets v Phillies… I do not really watch baseball anymore. Dont know any of the players, but it strikes my fancy to see the Mets in the playoffs. Go Mets…
Big UFC on today. I like blood-sports. A big day of blood-sport always guuud.
My dogs are making noise. The wind chimes make happy sounds… time to get moving…
More later
The Native Iowan 
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