Oct 23 2020
Why I’m no longer included on the Register-Mail Community Roundtable.
For those who followed my responses to the Register-Mail Roundtable over the past few years, I just wanted you to know why I’m no longer featured there. I was informed recently that I was being rotated off the Roundtable to make space for new voices. My last response was on Oct 2nd, with my opinion of Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to SCOTUS, which I’m guessing really pushed someone’s buttons. I have since noticed that Gruner, Urban & Bulkeley still remain, though I believe all three were on the Roundtable when I first came to it. I did more than simply opine there; I researched topics & tried to give real-world facts & background information in my mere 150-word Roundtable limit. I almost never missed a week’s ‘assignment’, no matter what was happening in my life. I’ve also written a near-weekly, 400-word Letter to the Editors, as some of my fellow ‘passionate, concerned, constant’ contributors do, during this contentious, crucial time in our nation’s history. I hope to continue to be published in that forum & share my political commentary.
Many have dropped their subscriptions in recent years, as we’ve seen big price increases for our local paper; and that is one reason why I publish my blog writings: political, astrological, sociological — to Facebook, to share with a larger audience …. to bring food for thought. I’ve had people I didn’t know, around town, recognize me, stop me and tell me they enjoyed reading my Register-Mail responses; and I thank you all for your kind words, interest and respect for diverse ideas, whether or not you agreed with me. Most of us are very concerned about our upcoming election; the elections are about our future, and our progenies’ future. It behooves us to do our research on the candidates on our ballots, weigh the facts carefully, and VOTE as if all we care deeply about matters. If 2020 has shown us anything, we can see that what we took for granted in life, our health, our jobs, our schooling, our homes, our loved loves, attending weddings, funerals, birthday parties, spending time with our friends …. all of it, can quickly be cast asunder. Keep in mind …. ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES! Get out EARLY & VOTE! VOTE for sane, compassionate leadership, for draining the corrupt SWAMP, for respecting Science, for instituting necessary reforms, for restoring relationships with our allies, and respect in the world, for BUILDING BACK BETTER! And EVERYONE …. try to stay safe & keep others safe until we can hopefully, all, see better times.
Trish Forsyth Voss
Oct 27 2020
Most consequential election of our lifetime! Domestic terrorist groups on the rise!
In early October, the FBI, thru confidential informants, thwarted a plan by right-wing extremists, who plotted to kidnap & kill Michigan’s Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The FBI arrested 13 men, “who were involved in various plans to attack law enforcement, overthrow the government and ignite a civil war”. The disturbing increase in anti-govt rhetoric & emergence of extremist-groups have upped their recruitment numbers in these times of civil unrest. Coronavirus shutdown-restrictions, fear of minorities, or fear of social change can serve as their excuses for resentment, but these mostly-misogynistic men form misfit male-oriented, social groups wherein they enjoy drilling with firearms, playing with explosives & pondering visions of grandeur, but they are domestic terrorist groups, planning acts of violence; some had contemplated targeting police in their homes; so much for Law & Order! They should join real military service if they want to be heroes! These groups are also fueled by the Divider-in-Chief, with such tweeted rallying cries of: LIBERATE MICHIGAN, WISCONSIN & VIRGINIA! On 10/18/20, a man was arrested for criminal threats in his plot to kidnap & kill Wichita mayor, Brandon Whipple. Trump, on his warpath rallies, threw out criticisms of Whitmer, (newly the target of a terrifying murder-plot) to which his frenzied cult-members shouted: “LOCK HER UP!” Trump criticizes Dr. Fauci, whose entire family has been under threat of attack.
Trump is ‘power-pressuring’ William Barr, to announce charges against Joe Biden, before the election. The New York Post (not the N.Y. Times) recently ran a new version of an old, overworked story on supposedly hacked-emails of Hunter Biden (since that ploy worked out to Trump’s benefit in 2016, against Hillary). Our intel-officials have declared this story: a Russian disinformation campaign maneuver against Joe Biden, cooked-up between Rudy Giuliani & Andriy Derkach, a known Russian-agent. This upcoming election is the most-consequential of our lifetime. Too many guardrails have been overrun by the Executive branch. Trump’s appeals to the vigilantism of illegal-militias, his support of the full-blown, crazed cult-conspiracy theories of QAnon, his attempts to strong-arm the Congress & the Justice department, his overtures & compliance to autocratic leaders & his attacks on our allies, threatens the very fabric of our social, civic, legal construct of Democracy. Trump has invoked militia to Watch The Polls. Voter disinformation campaigns are aimed at suppressing minority votes. Over 221,000 & counting Covid-deaths in America, Covid soaring, millions of jobs lost, fellow-Americans are hungry, evicted, terrified. Opportunities squandered. Herd-mentality?
Trish Forsyth Voss
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