So, the Dictatorship of Donald I begins

The strange thing about the election of Donald John Trump is the one thing his supporters did not believe is when he told how crazy anyone was that would vote for him when he said “I could shoot someone on 5th Ave and they would still vote for me”.  I still think he never wanted to be President during his campaign for the Republican nomination he first attacked Mexicans as criminals, then the Vets when he insulted John McCain, and a Muslim soldier both war heroes, and said he wanted a purple heart without earning it. Then he said he would ban all Muslim from entering the country and start a Muslim registry. He called blacks in the country’s cities as criminals living in poor conditions.

Now you would think after insulting all those people he wouldn’t have a chance to get elected, but many saw him as a strong leader so they gave him the Republican nomination.  He ran against Hillary Clinton who the Republicans had piled up a lot of lies about her, that most conservatives believed. So, thanks to the Electoral College Trump was elected President even if three million more Americans voted for Hillary.

Even before he took office Trump showed how bad a President he would be by appointing the worst cabinet in American History. Trump appointed people that hated the departments they were to head. He appointed Steve Bannon as his chief White House advisor a man who ran a White supremacist web site and was once a neo-Nazi. Trump appointed Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary who doesn’t have a degree in education and hates Public Schools in favor of private schools that take the smarter students and rejects those with learning disabilities unlike the public school that must take all students. Trump appointed Jeff Sessions Attorney General who has a very poor record on Civil Rights. Trump Appointed Rick Perry who didn’t even know what the Energy Department was all about. It was much the same with his other Appointments.     

Robots not Undocumented taken jobs

I remember when I was just entering the work force around 1958 there were hundreds of thousands of workers in factory when they closed or moved. Then around the time I retired 2002 there were about twenty to thirty thousand, but recently they are only talking about a thousand or less. So the job lost is NOT because of cheap labor either overseas or undocumented aliens, but by Robots.

The biggest part of the problem of getting people to work at jobs they and families can live on, is Robots have taken 90% of those jobs away. Workers are no longer needed that is why factories are coming back to the USA. Right now, the jobs they take are mostly repetitive jobs, but what happens when they develop AI Robots that think for themselves then you can kiss the rest of jobs goodbye. Society most solve the problem of too many people and not enough jobs or the whole Society falls apart.

Republican repeal of the ACA

If you must replace the ACA please put a cap on insurance premiums and prescription cost. I still think the best way to go is a National Healthcare system because for one thing it would help businesses for their biggest cost is their healthcare benefit costs. Another is by spreading the cost through the whole population it would bring down the cost for everyone.

Replace ACA with a National Healthcare System like the rest of the world enjoys. You complain that the premiums have gone up under ACA, but that is the fault of the Healthcare insurance companies, not ACA or the government in general.

My bet is that they make small changes then call it Trumpcare instead of Obamacare. I sure the deplorables will believe it for they believe anything Trump says. 

2016 Thank God it's gone

Looking back on the year just past the big thing of course was the election, which Trump won even with only about twenty-five percent of the American citizens voting for him. Now contrary to what most people believe the United States of America is not a democratic country it is a Republic in which the elite Corporate leaders select the President, and Senators. This year there was a little twist the Russian elite helped the American elite select our new President Trump.

          The people that did vote for Trump were fewer, but in the right places. Now I had thought that they were all voting for Trump for just White superiority and that was a big part of it following our first black President. When talking to some of Trump supporters most of them say they voted for Trump because he spoke his mind, but that they didn’t believe he meant what he was saying. So all you have to do to get their vote is say nutty things with a strong voice.       

          The Media especially the twenty-four-hour news networks put on Trump contently which went along way into making 2016 annoying year. The Media did a lot to get Trump elected and the fact that the media is owned by the Corporate elite is very telling.     

          Other than politics there seems to be a lot of Celebrities that died including Carrie Fisher with her mother dying just one day after her, so you can die of a broken heart    

Working together or not!

There seems to me to be two basic systems of human society, first one is where the many work to benefit the few. The other is where we all work to benefit the whole society. I know that is way over simplified, but as I said that is only the basic principal. One of the problems of people working together for the benefit of the whole is that people are not born equal some have more talent than others. So, the question most asked is “Why should I work for the benefit of someone that does less” that is a good question.

The way most societies have answered that question is by going with the first option, most people working of the benefit of Royalty with just enough to keep the rest happy enough to keep benefit Royalty. Now the Corporate elite have replaced Royalty, but the effect is the same give the people just enough to survive and direct the blame for their plight on others that are different than them.

The second option is not perfect either, but it benefits more of Society so I think it is the better of the two options. One thing people don’t like about the second option is that it comes with Rules, lots of Rules. Rules to govern human behavior which has we said is not perfect. Everyone must be made to contribute per their talents and everyone gets the benefit of the whole work force. Now no one has come up with a system yet that will not work without leaders to directed it, that is another reason for rules passed by a consent of the majority.   

Trump is just another bump in the road forward

The discussion among leaders of the later part of the eighteenth century was between one-person rule or some form of democracy would work. They all agreed that in the past there were some great rulers and that letting the people rule would end up in chaos. So, they came up with a plan of pretend Democracy which would still be rule by an elite class, but let the people think that they have a voice, that is the Republic system we live under today.

Maybe this was in response to what was happening in France in the early days of our republic where they ended up with Napoleon. When Germany finally got a democracy, they voted for Hitler in the 1933 elections. So, turning people against their own interest is quite easy like Hermann Goering once said “Naturally, the common people don’t want war, neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood, but the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy, all you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”

I am still optimistic that democracy can work, but it won’t be easy for we must get it through to all people on this planet that they all belong to the same race, humanity. This is not a new idea humans have been trying to make it happen since we came out of the caves. Those attempts were usually along the lines of if only everyone had the same beliefs there would be peace in the world, that is where the universal church idea came from or for others just through power like the Roman empire today I am hopeful that communications between people have improved to the point the in a few generations the people of this planet may come to understand one another.  

  We are entering a new dark age in that the working class has been told to blame and fear the workers from other countries and that they need their rich masters to tell them what to do about it. All Trump told his followers is to fear Mexicans, Muslims, Gays and that the “others” are taken over their country and he will make America White again. The Progressive movement must organize to fight this backward movement. Then move forward with Public Education from Kindergarten to two years of college, Socialized Medicine, reorganize unions to be more effective against the modern global corporate world.      

Babylon Long Island in 2012 Photos

Babylon Long Island

by Richard Boyle

Babylon was named after the ancient city of Babylon in the middle east in 1803 by Nathaniel Conklin. Babylon became a town in 1872 and is one of the five towns in Suffolk county New York.

Montauk Highway 27A is called Main Street as it runs through Babylon village with its littles shops it is one of long Island's nicest places to visit.

Presbyterian Church of Babylon on Main Street Built in 1839

Yorkshire puppy in the Window of one of Babylon's Main Street shops

 The main intersection of the Babylon Village in Main Street 27A and Deer Park Ave

 The Tidewaters Tavern on the corner of Main Street Route 27A and Deer Park Ave Babylon

Deer Park Ave in Babylon Village Photo taken in 2012

 Looking down Fire Island Ave from Montauk Highway (Main Street) 27A Babylon

Movie house in Babylon with price like $8 for Adults, $7 for Seniors and $6 for Children

The Old Town Hall for Babylon Township before it was moved to Sunrise Highway (27)

 The Chase Bank in Babylon Long Island

 Movie house in Babylon with price like $8 for Adults, $7 for Seniors and $6 for Children

 Babylon Main Street Dinner turned Asian restaurant.

 Babylon Village Historical Society Building on Main Street

 Babylon Village Historical Society Building on Main Street

 Babylon Municipal Building on Main Street Route 27A

The Coldwell Banker Building on the corner of South Carll Ave and Main Street (27A) Babylon

A Statue of Robert Moses Who did a lot for Long Island like building State Parks with Parkway leading to them 

 Flower Bed near the Babylon Municipal Building on Main Street in the Village of Babylon

 Flower garden of the Babylon Municipal Building on Main Street (27A) in Babylon Village

 The Astoria Savings Bank of Babylon on Main Street

Babylon Villiage Memorial Garden for the people who died in the Attacks of 9/11/01 

Babylon Village Memorial to the People who died in the Attack on the World Trade Center in Manhattan

 Revolutionary War Memorial for Capt. Joel  Dook in Argyle Park Babylon

Argyle Park with Argyle Lake and mini waterfalls in Babylon 

Another view of the Argyle Park with Argyle Lake and mini waterfalls in Babylon 

 Mini waterfalls from Argyle Lake Park in Long Island Village of Babylon

 beautiful home that boarder the Argyle Lake and Park in Babylon Village NY

 Across Montauk Highway (27A) from Argyle Lake Park  is a Canal going out to the Great South Bay

Argyle Lake with play grounds along its eastern shore line.

 The western shore of Argyle Lake Park has beautiful homes of the more fortunate Babylon citizens.

Pathway around the beautiful Argyle Lake Park in Babylon Village Long Island 

 A Swan likes the beautiful back yards of the Argyle Lake homes in Babylon Village.

 There are little narrow streets on the western shores of Argyle Lake with some nice homes

 along the narrow streets of Argyle some of the home have beautiful gardens

Spring is a colorful time among the Argyle Lake homes of Babylon NY

 New York Telephone (Verizon) Company's Central Office providing phone service to the Babylon area.

 Another View of the Verizon's New York Telephone Company Babylon Central Office which provides phone service to the Babylon area

 The old New York Public Works Building is the home of the Greeman Pederson Inc in 2012

The First Baptist Church on Montauk Highway (27A) 

 Outdoor concert area across from Argyle Lake Park in Babylon Village NY

 There are some beautiful tree lining Montauk Highway/Main Street (27A) in Babylon Village NY

 The beautiful Mini Waterfall have become a symbol of Babylon Village

 An old store on one of Babylon's side streets, Looks abandoned, but hopefully someone will restore it to its former glory

 Saint Joseph Roman Catholic Church and School in the Village of Babylon Long island NY

 Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in the Village of Babylon Long Island

 The Babylon High School in downtown Babylon Village Long Island.

 Deer Park Ave Babylon with the shops open for business

 Looking North on Deer Park Ave Babylon Village Long Island NY.

Looking South on Deer Park Ave Babylon Village Long Island NY