Social media can be a good platform to introduce and discuss ideas. It’s alsoa good place to be ablr to spread understanding where none may currently exist. I know we all, even myself, beat on how horrible this medium is, but I have to say that it allows me the opportunity to speak to a lot more people than I normally would. The downside is that we’ve become to dependent on our electronic devices and it will be a miracle if we , as a species, survive another 500 years.

So, I’ve been out of pocket for a while, I’ve been ill. Nothing really bad (not COVID). just something that lingered for a while and i really haven’t had a lot of energy until now, to want to return to this blog. I’m ready to get back into the fray and being off a while has even allowed me to consider more topics that I’ve been wanting to write about, but haven’t due to fear of cancellation. mobbing, etc. Now’s the time to take off the gloves and go after those that wish to cancel speech that they disapprove of, bare knuckled. Guess how fast those regressives will retreat if enough of us stand together?

The closer we get to the mid-term elections, the more focused candidates attacks on one another become. Mark Kelly, the Senator from my atate of Arizona, has focused on a single issue against his Republican opponent: abortion. The other ad is a really well prodiuced ad how he is basically non-partisan. Calling out Democrat and Republicans when their agendas don’t help anyone, especially Arizonans. He even states that he’s been building the wall. All by himself I guess since President Biden halted that effort on his first day in office. Like all Democrats running this year, he distances himself from the president by saying he tells Biden when he disagrees. No one here though can figure out when that has been. He voted for adding 87,000 IRS agents but voted against adding 18,000 Border Patrol agents. Want to guess which one border states, like his, would have preferred? Kelly has spent a fortune trying to retain this Senate seat with a war chest of some $55 million. His opponent, Blake Masters, $5 million. Masters, is only a point behind in the polls. Kelly’s war chest is mainly from outside the state. 7.5 million population doesn’t generate that kind of money. Kelly is desperate, trying to become a “man of the people” when everyone knows, he’s not.

When you vote, do you vote on the issues, such as the economy, crime, or education? Or is your vote based strictly on your ideology? Does it matter what your vote is based upon?

Somerhing I’ve been wanting to know is who aree the arbiters of that which is known as disinformation or misinformation? I know Ive asked this very question before and I’ll continue to ask until I see a reasonable response. What this means to me is that there has to be a third party to peruse information that is seen on social network platforms and how do these people know for a fact that the information bad? Okay, thee are some tht just post bizarre information that most people are going to know is fake so there’s no need to anyone to tell us. Those that choose to believe it? We cant fix stupid, can we. But there’s a difference between dis/misinformation and ideology. Most of what we see labeled as one of those is from the platform and they use an ideological rebuttal. Anyone that doesn’t know the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, ABC are not left wing outlets, deserve what they receive. The bottom line for me is no thank you, I am able to think for myself and if i want your help discerning something? I’ll ask.