Liz here. Mike is no longer blogging. He doesn't read or proofread my blog posts any more.
During the 2016 presidential primary I made calls for Bernie Sanders. After he was defeated I advocated for Hillary Clinton. Her qualifications were superb. She was expected to win by a large margin.
After Bernie lost I donated to candidates that Bernie recommended. His candidates do not have vested corporate interests.
Our Resistance
Monday, Dec. 19, 2016
Trip to State Capital to show electors that they must not cast ballots for Trump. Mike and I went to Phoenix via light rail.
Saturday, January 21, 2016
Women's March. We went to Phoenix with Rhonda and Paul Kesten of Mesa and Nancy Fawcett from Louisville, Ky. She winters in Gold Canyon.
We attended an Apache Junction "listening session" with staff of Senator Jeff Flake (a.k.a. Fake) with Rich Kass, age 87 a retired city manager from Milwaukee and again Nancy Fawcett, a French teacher. They both eat whole foods, plant-based like I eat.
We attended kick off for an Indivisible group at Rhonda Kesten's house. 24 RSVP'd. 38 attended.
We protested twice against Congressmen who did not hold town hall meetings for constituents during their President's week winter recess. They were Andy Biggs in Mesa and Paul Gosar in Gold Canyon. 150 people attended including a busload from Prescott, Az. No one from our RV Park attended that we encountered. I invited Geri and Dick Hamilton who had a big Hillary sign in front of their park model. Geri felt overwhelmed. We expected an after-the-election break and could not get a break. We know one couple who considered going. Instead he being a psychologist authored perhaps or at least signed a letter from a group Iowa psychologists stating that Trump is mentally ill and unfit for office.
For me November 8, 2016 is equivalent to September 11, 2001 and worse, to the rise of Hitler in Germany. My mother Irmgard Miller was a native of Germany. Her family came from Simbach. Across the River Sim is Braunau, Austria where Hitler was born. My great grandmother Anna Hitzenaur admired Hitler. That's the same as saying she admired nationalism, xenophobia and racism. My mother married an American soldier with paranoid schizophrenia. Initially, in courtship my father looked good in his uniform and owning a red convertible. He worked for American intelligence in Munich. He compiled a map of Budapest based on interviews of border crossers that was a key tool during the failed Hungarian uprising in 1958. I was a confused child, with low self esteem in racist North Carolina so by working as a mother's helper in New York I escaped. By age 17 I immersed myself in a Jewish family and converted to Judaism. I had a Bat Mitzvah and raised my son Ben as a Jew.
I was born in Furstenfeldbruck, Bavaria on an American air force base near Munich in 1956. Being born on American soil meant that I could become President unlike my 18-month younger sister Vonnie who was born at a German military base.
In 1980 after Vonnie's suicide David Landsman my Jewish husband and I visited Germany. Trip included seeing my beloved godmother Frau Hutfliese. She was a widow of a photographer. Her daughter lived in California where greatest threat is earthquakes. She told us how her house was bombed during WWII. The bomb not only put a hole through the roof of their pleasant suburban home but the bomb spewed tar all over the walls and surroundings inside the second story. David laughed saying the way to get Germans to surrender is to bomb them with dirt. The only organization that usually broke David would donate money to was the Simon Wiesenthal Foundation, Nazi hunters.
I cannot rest or relax due to election of an evil man. His mental disorder is a throwback to my extensive time with mentally ill family members. Narcissistic personality disorder is his diagnosis. I know more about paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Trump promulgates xenophobia, racism, sexism and corruption. He is a pathological liar that leaves me utterly upset with my fellows for tolerating this. Even last August in Dubois, Pa. when the White children visited I was loosing my temper because Trump was constantly being referred to on morning television. Normally I do not listen TV which was only on because the White children turned it on. It is very hard for me to care about people who are so misinformed.
Escape
We escaped the nightmare of the news by first binge watching Game of Thrones. We loved it. We got each season through season 6 from the Apache Junction Library.
Then I heard on the radio critics discussing the 5 best TV shows including The Wire. So we watched Season 1 of The Wire with some difficulty. By Season 2 we were hooked and by Season 3 we were shouting to the characters because we had become immersed in a whole new world.
Now I am looking for a college course on The Wire and planning to visit Baltimore. I want to imagine an additional season of The Wire that includes the story of the GM full sized van plant in Baltimore.
During the 2016 presidential primary I made calls for Bernie Sanders. After he was defeated I advocated for Hillary Clinton. Her qualifications were superb. She was expected to win by a large margin.
After Bernie lost I donated to candidates that Bernie recommended. His candidates do not have vested corporate interests.
Our Resistance
Monday, Dec. 19, 2016
Trip to State Capital to show electors that they must not cast ballots for Trump. Mike and I went to Phoenix via light rail.
Saturday, January 21, 2016
Women's March. We went to Phoenix with Rhonda and Paul Kesten of Mesa and Nancy Fawcett from Louisville, Ky. She winters in Gold Canyon.
We attended an Apache Junction "listening session" with staff of Senator Jeff Flake (a.k.a. Fake) with Rich Kass, age 87 a retired city manager from Milwaukee and again Nancy Fawcett, a French teacher. They both eat whole foods, plant-based like I eat.
We attended kick off for an Indivisible group at Rhonda Kesten's house. 24 RSVP'd. 38 attended.
We protested twice against Congressmen who did not hold town hall meetings for constituents during their President's week winter recess. They were Andy Biggs in Mesa and Paul Gosar in Gold Canyon. 150 people attended including a busload from Prescott, Az. No one from our RV Park attended that we encountered. I invited Geri and Dick Hamilton who had a big Hillary sign in front of their park model. Geri felt overwhelmed. We expected an after-the-election break and could not get a break. We know one couple who considered going. Instead he being a psychologist authored perhaps or at least signed a letter from a group Iowa psychologists stating that Trump is mentally ill and unfit for office.
For me November 8, 2016 is equivalent to September 11, 2001 and worse, to the rise of Hitler in Germany. My mother Irmgard Miller was a native of Germany. Her family came from Simbach. Across the River Sim is Braunau, Austria where Hitler was born. My great grandmother Anna Hitzenaur admired Hitler. That's the same as saying she admired nationalism, xenophobia and racism. My mother married an American soldier with paranoid schizophrenia. Initially, in courtship my father looked good in his uniform and owning a red convertible. He worked for American intelligence in Munich. He compiled a map of Budapest based on interviews of border crossers that was a key tool during the failed Hungarian uprising in 1958. I was a confused child, with low self esteem in racist North Carolina so by working as a mother's helper in New York I escaped. By age 17 I immersed myself in a Jewish family and converted to Judaism. I had a Bat Mitzvah and raised my son Ben as a Jew.
I was born in Furstenfeldbruck, Bavaria on an American air force base near Munich in 1956. Being born on American soil meant that I could become President unlike my 18-month younger sister Vonnie who was born at a German military base.
In 1980 after Vonnie's suicide David Landsman my Jewish husband and I visited Germany. Trip included seeing my beloved godmother Frau Hutfliese. She was a widow of a photographer. Her daughter lived in California where greatest threat is earthquakes. She told us how her house was bombed during WWII. The bomb not only put a hole through the roof of their pleasant suburban home but the bomb spewed tar all over the walls and surroundings inside the second story. David laughed saying the way to get Germans to surrender is to bomb them with dirt. The only organization that usually broke David would donate money to was the Simon Wiesenthal Foundation, Nazi hunters.
I cannot rest or relax due to election of an evil man. His mental disorder is a throwback to my extensive time with mentally ill family members. Narcissistic personality disorder is his diagnosis. I know more about paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Trump promulgates xenophobia, racism, sexism and corruption. He is a pathological liar that leaves me utterly upset with my fellows for tolerating this. Even last August in Dubois, Pa. when the White children visited I was loosing my temper because Trump was constantly being referred to on morning television. Normally I do not listen TV which was only on because the White children turned it on. It is very hard for me to care about people who are so misinformed.
Escape
We escaped the nightmare of the news by first binge watching Game of Thrones. We loved it. We got each season through season 6 from the Apache Junction Library.
Then I heard on the radio critics discussing the 5 best TV shows including The Wire. So we watched Season 1 of The Wire with some difficulty. By Season 2 we were hooked and by Season 3 we were shouting to the characters because we had become immersed in a whole new world.
Now I am looking for a college course on The Wire and planning to visit Baltimore. I want to imagine an additional season of The Wire that includes the story of the GM full sized van plant in Baltimore.
