You know, for all the talk about the Russians...

 So, we’re in the middle of this whole Covid 19 thing, right?

Now, when I was growing up and for the first half of my life we were in the Cold War and our foes were the leaders of the Soviet Union. The Iron Curtain had drawn across Europe and we were two of us, nations with nuclear weapons looking across the divide between Communism and Capitalism warily.

The Soviets placed great limits on their citizens. Everything was directed by members of the Party and those party members enjoyed privileges that were not available to the common citizen. Party members had a higher standard of living, they lived in better homes, they were isolated and had security to protect them, they even had more access to food and daily staples where the common citizen had to stand in line and deal with shortages. They handed out directives to the populace that they themselves didn’t follow.

In the United States at the same time, we embraced freedom. Certainly throughout the Cold War we cannot blindly say ours was a perfect society. In fact, our society was far from perfect but change did continually happen. Where there was injustice slowly but surely it was addressed. Also, the competition inherent in the framework our society is based upon (Capitalism) encourages not blindly going down a single path only to discover it is a dead end.

Music and art, science all moved forward because of competition.

The Soviet Union eventually fell. The hulking behemoth is was wound up being crushed by its own weight as it’s citizens decided they could no longer suffer under the yoke of what they perceived is was an unfair and unjust system. The remnants of that breakup were 15 new nations or rather 15 restored nations: Lithuania, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Belarus, Transnistria, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Chechnya, Russia, Kazakhstan.

Some fared better than others... some looked forward as they enjoyed more success having thrown off the yoke of Soviet repression while other who have fared poorly look back upon the Soviet era as some Golden Age.

Today... in the midst of this pandemic and over the last few years we have seen the people in our ‘Democratic’ Party

Anyway, this is another one of those drafts things.

The things I’m seeing out of the Democrats these days remind me a lot more of the good old Communist Party of the Soviet Union days than they do of the Democratic Party of my youth. It’s a focus on divisiveness rather than commonality and unity.

Americans always have differences but the things that unite us are far more important for our future if we are to grow as a nation and I’m not seeing that from a party that can’t even have a conversation with anyone who doesn’t agree with their own worldview.