The dust is settling post election

I have refrained from commenting about the 2016 election until now. I wanted to wait until things settled down. Now that the recounts are basically over, and Trump gaining votes in Wisconsin as a result...thank you Jill Stein, it's time to start moving things forward.

Liberals have no one to blame for Donald Trump becoming president, except for themselves. After pushing the working class, especially the white working class, down for the past 50 years, the proletariat finally rose up against the bourgeoisie. Just like Marx predicted would happen. Hear that liberals? Guess what you educated types that wear your moral superiority on your sleeves, YOU are the bourgeoisie, and you just got handed your asses on a silver platter. You can whine all you want about how Trump is an embarrassment, and guess what? We don't care. We don't care about your global citizenship, we don't care about your education level, and we don't care about the fact that you hate the fact that we don't care about your opinions. You dissed us, we will continue to dis you. Donald Trump is going to be the president of the United States of America. Go have your cocoa, color in your coloring books and see your therapists.  End of discussion.  

Is A Military Coup Possible In The United States?

In regards to my post about where this country could be headed, I think that there is a possibility of a military coup that would "fundamentally transform" this county. People are looking for strong leadership, and are sick and tired of a government that is becoming more and more corrupt every day. Enter Donald Trump. More to follow on this...What would life be like in the United States if our corrupt government was overthrown by a military coup? I don't know exactly, but I do have an idea of what things would be like. After all, I served in the United States Air Force for 26 years.

 I've lived on base, and off base. I rose in rank from an E-1 Airman Basic, to an E-8 Senior Master Sergeant. I've been junior enlisted, and a senior non-commissioned officer. Because I am familiar with military culture, I would not have a problem adapting to the United States being run by the military. I would survive just fine. However, there are a lot of people that would have a hard time with it. It would definitely be a rude awakening for some people. Many aspects of society would "fundamentally change." Enter the "special snowflakes." The so-called free spirit types, who call for more government control over other peoples' lives, would be the biggest whiners, because more government control over other peoples' lives would also mean more control over their lives too. You can't have it both ways.

The first thing that would change would be the make up of the government. We would no longer have three separate parts of the government, checking and balancing each other. Everything would be under the control of the military. Our legislative branch of the government would be dissolved. Even the judicial branch of the government would be under the control of the military, just like the military courts martial system.

Everyone from the Commander In Chief to the lowest worker on the totem pole would have a military rank. There would be two rank structures just like the military...officer and enlisted. Only 15% of the working population would be allowed  by law to become officers, which means that at any given time, only 15% of the school age population would be allowed to go to college. You must have a college degree in order to become an officer. Everyone else would go to some sort of trade school based on the needs of the military governorship. Personal ability would be considered, but personal desire would be secondary. There would be options for a small select number of enlisted personnel to become officers, but the criteria for qualification would be the same: You would have to have earned a college degree, and you would have had to earn it before you reached a certain age and rank.

We are in the process of a great sorting right now, and there have been times in this country where this has occurred. We went from an agrarian economy to an urban industrial economy during the Industrial Revolution. We are now moving from an industrial based economy to an information age economy.

The Rationing Of Public Transportation

This is kind of a continuation of my December 30th post. As most people know, I'm an urban kind of person. I have no desire to live in the country, or in a small town where you have to be reliant on an automobile to transport you everywhere. I love riding public transportation. I only drive when I have to, and many times that driving is driving to where I can catch public transportation to my final destination. Currently, I live in the inside the Beltway suburbs of Washington, DC.

This is the point of this blog post... Convenience, and how things are made inconvenient in order to force a certain demographic into their cars, despite all the environmental bleating from the Left. Why would these environmental types and the local governments want to force a certain demographic into their private vehicles? Because, doing so generates tax revenue.

I live in Prince George's County, Maryland. Let's look at the demographics of the county: Black professionals, middle class, working class, and poor; White working class, lower middle class, pink class, and a smattering of White professionals, and a small smattering of Asian lower middle class, middle class, and professionals. With exception, many of the people that live in this county work in the suburbs, and don't commute into the city, except for some of  the professionals and a smattering of non-professionals like secretaries and such. Some commute county to county, but the majority commute both to work and live here in PG County.

Many of the residents of PG County have a problem riding public transportation. It's not part of their culture. Dan Reed of Greater Greater Washington wrote an article a while back describing this phenomenon pertaining to the Black middle and upper classes. Many of them grew up in DC and before they started making decent money and moved to the suburbs, they were poor and were reliant on public transportation. Once they arrived, so to speak, they distanced themselves from the trappings of the working poor, and the ghetto poor. That meant driving everywhere, even if there was a bus stop feeding the Metro right across the street from their house. Another demographic that won't use public transportation are the working class whites and lower middle class whites. For them, even though they won't admit it, it's racism. They are not going to ride bus public transportation with those "little brown people," and those N word types. They will ride the Metrorail if they work in DC, but not the buses.

It's sad, but that is the reality of the situation. Hopefully, as this part of Prince George's County becomes more gentrified things will change. Maybe then, Metro and the PG County Council will reach an agreement to increase the bus service serving the Metrorail, as well as bus service as an alternative to the rail system. I hope so.

2016 Election

I'm really enjoying the circus of the 2016 election. I have seen nothing like this in my lifetime. Working in Montgomery County (MC), Maryland, I get to hear the opinions of self-righteous, elitist, upper middle class or wealthy, Bethesda or Potomac living, college educated white liberals on a regular basis. It's amazing how much disrespect they have for the white working class. Isn't tolerance a wonderful thing. Along those lines, Donald Trump scares the livin hell out of them, because he has woken up a sleeping giant.

I'm going to make this short and sweet. First of all, I am not a huge fan of The Donald. That being said, I'm enjoying the fact that he has stirred up a hornet's nest. It's a hornet's nest that should have been stirred up a long time ago. The establishment politicians from both parties are squirming in their seats between pants wetting sessions. Also, the upper middle class and wealthy liberals from MC are doing the same. They are scared, and they are lashing out. After all, many of them are beholden to government money, either directly or indirectly. Under a President Trump administration, their gravy train would go away. It will no longer be cronyism business as usual. What I'm really enjoying is watching the liberals' underlying ideology coming to the forefront: their direct, like the residents of places like Takoma Park and their employment with various non-profit activist organizations, or indirectly, like the contractors and government contractors that commute from Gaithersburg, Marx said there would be a revolution in which the proletariat would rise up against the bourgeoisie. Well guess what it's coming true. The white working class non-educated, proletariat scum are rising up against you. You are the bourgeoisie. They are ready to take you down. Let's hope that there will be a quiet revolution at the ballot box, and not one where the peasants start climbing over the wall with their torches and pitchforks.  No matter who is elected president this year, things are changing. I'm just sitting here laughing and enjoying the circus.

Public Transportation

This is going to come as a shock to many of my Conservative friends, but I really love public transportation. Now before you call 911 and ask that they send those "very nice men in their nice white coats," with a straight jacket to haul  me to St. E's...Wait, Saint E's is really not working anymore. It's going to be the new home of the Department Of Homeland Security. OK, so much for that anecdote.

I'm basically an urban type of person. I love the convenience of the city. Part of that convenience is the reliance on public transportation. I would love to see Metro and all the bus service here in Prince George's County, Maryland, run 24/7 in 15 minute increments. On Fridays and Saturdays, Metro runs Metro Rail until 3 AM, but the last bus on Friday to get me home from the College Park station, is at 10:20 PM, and the last bus on Saturday, when Metro Rail runs until 3 AM, is at 9:19 PM, and on Sunday at 5:41 PM. Not only that, the 83 bus runs every half hour, and the 86 bus, which brings me closest to my house, runs once per hour. So much for encouraging people to use public transportation. Yes, I can park at a Metro station for free on weekends, but I still have to drive there. Because I'm only driving about 2.5 miles from  my home to the College Park Metro station, my car doesn't get a chance to warm up completely. Therefore, it burns a lot of fuel in that 2.5 miles. If I drive to the Metro on weekdays, it costs me $5.10 per day to park, in addition to the Metro fare.

I was informed by a Metrobus driver, that it is not Metro that determines where the bus stops are, nor service times and frequency. It is the county and city councils that determine service. What is wrong with the Prince George's County Council? I have an interesting theory on this. It has to do with the gasoline tax. As cars become more fuel efficient, there is less tax revenue. As more people take public transportation, there is less tax revenue. As people switch to electric vehicles, there is less gasoline tax revenue. A large percentage of the citizens in Prince George's County are tradesmen who drive big vehicles for work, and many of them drive pickup trucks as part of the redneck culture. They are gas hogs. SOMEONE has to pay the gasoline tax, if you catch my drift. It is a discriminatory tax directed at the White working class. I'm sure the elitist Prius drivers approve. I just don't want to hear them complain when the plumber charges $200 to walk in the door, and another $200 to fix the toilet. Sometimes payback time is sweet.

Metro

I am a big fan of public transportation. Unlike a lot of liberals, I am willing to make some time sacrifices to ride the buses and rail systems, and I am a conservative. What it really boils down to too, is I really don't like driving in the DC area. I would rather have it take a little longer to get there by public transportation.

I recently joined a Metro community group called Amplify By Metro. I received a survey from the new General Manager yesterday, and I took the time to fill it out. There are some definite improvements needed in the Metro Rail, and Metro Bus systems.

My biggest beefs are the price of parking at the Metro stations, and the fact that here in Prince George's County, there is very limited feeder bus service after 10 PM, and even less on weekends. Forcing people to drive to the Metro stations, and then pay $5.10 per day to park there, is no way to encourage people to use public transportation. Metro Rail is expensive enough during rush hour. When you add the price of parking, it is more cost effective for many people living in the suburbs to drive and pay to park in the city, rather than use public transportation.

I am hoping that as College Park, where I live, redevelops, with the addition of many high rise apartments and condos along the Route One corridor, that the bus service servicing the College Park Metro station will improve. If you live in the city, public transportation is effective. Montgomery County also has late night bus service feeding the Metro Rail System. Prince George's County does not. I would hope that this would change soon.

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