Are California Elections Fun or What?!

This will be my second election – not counting primaries – since I came back to California. I don’t recall 2014 having a ballot quite this messy, but California is always interesting for its Propositions.

Propositions are a process whereby the public can address issues that the Legislature doesn’t want to deal with, and there have been some doozies. There are some useful “tells” in the Voter Guide that can help us in our decision process though.

If it’s showing up as a proposition, it’s either a tax issue or an issue that someone can’t get through the legislative process. Remember Proposition H8 in 2008 that banned same-sex marriage? First I look at who’s behind the Proposition and who’s opposed.

Proposition 51 is a pretty straightforward school bond for infrastructure. It’s opposed by a “taxpayer group” that doesn’t want to pay for the infrastructure construction and maintenance that’s been deferred for 10 years because that “taxpayer group” is very good at talking people out of paying for their kids’ schools. Your kids, your call, but I’m okay with it.

Proposition 52 is a bit more complicated, but not seriously. The nut is that, in order to keep all of the health care low-income Californians currently receive, the state has to pick up a share of the cost. The hospitals have been covering the state’s share, and they’re willing to keep doing that. Okay? The alternative is to leave it for the legislature. Opponents think hospital CEOs make too much money, and so do I because the people laying hands on the patients deserve more, but that’s really not the point. I’m okay with this one, too.

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Proposition 54 proposes that our legislators cannot vote on a measure until the lobbyists have had 72-hours to kill it in Sacramento. That’s not how they put it, but I did. By the time a bill gets to a vote it’s been through staff and hearings, lobbied for and against, and generally rendered near worthless, and it still has to go through one more chamber and the Governor’s office. No, it’s stupid.

Let me do 5 propositions today, and we’ll just have an even dozen* to go.

Proposition 55 is for a 12-year extension of a 2012 tax increase on Californians earning more than $250K/year for K-12 and community college funding. It is opposed, of course, by the Jarvis Gang and CalTax. If your kids are blessed to attend one of those nice schools in a well-manicured community you may feel this is frivolous. I used to have to turn away kids looking for work who were only marginally literate, and I didn’t like it so I’m voting “Yes.”

*I live in unincorporated North San Diego County, and your ballots may vary.

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Getting Back to Writing

I was a bit surprised and disappointed to see this morning that I haven’t written anything in so long. In other news this morning, I have realized that I’m not getting much traction in my ambition for personal awareness and growth. I ponder and I reflect but I don’t seem to progress. I’m not a kid anymore, but I have my mind and my will, and I am aware that those could stand some work. I think it’s not enough for me to be so random in my thinking, however purposeful it might be at the moment. I think it would be helpful for me to journal my reflections and goals.

I’ve signed myself up for Stoic Week 2016 which starts Monday in hopes of instilling a little self-discipline into my philosophical practice, and – lo and behold – one of the things I’m encouraged to do is to keep a journal. We’ll see how that goes.
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In the meantime, I want to give fair warning to the reader that I’m going to post on the propositions on the California ballot. I missed California and its somewhat oddball ways while I was in North Carolina. More on that later this week.

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Lives Matter

I believe that nature is cyclical, that history does tend to repeat itself, but I don’t believe that it is inevitable that the same mistakes must be repeated time after time. I believe that, as sentient and rational beings, we ought to be able to recognize and interrupt cycles before their disastrous conclusions. I have no basis for believing that and it almost never happens, but the possibility gives me comfort.

Humanity, or at least the portion of humanity reported by the entertainment press, seems to be passing through an intolerant phase, and that has the potential to go wrong in so many ways in 2016 that I don’t even want to imagine them. Suffice it to say that this cycle is reversible in my opinion, but I hold faint hope that it will be.

First, I want to tell people that all lives matter. It’s not black lives or blue lives because, in the first place, those are artificial distinctions. Human beings are human beings, and our so-called racial characteristics wouldn’t even rate a mention if we were applying them to any other animal on Earth. It has become convenient to categorize and pigeon-hole people along with everything else in our lives, but it is misleading and dangerous, and we need to get over it. I see no happy resolution if we continue to focus on how to separate ourselves instead of how to make room for one another.

Second, we need to talk about the distinctions between black (or white or hispanic or asian, etc.) lives and blue lives. A cop is not a distinct life form; he or she is another human like us who has chosen employment in law enforcement. Now we need to talk about modern law enforcement because I believe that is a reflection of our mood of intolerance.
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I grew up in a time when the motto was “To serve and protect” or something along those lines, but those times are in the past. Officers I worked with recently talked openly about their organization as a para-military organization to control the population, and that’s something completely different; that’s an occupation force. That is not intrinsically “bad” but it is threatening to those of us outside their circle. I was pulled over more than once for riding a Harley back in the day, and when one deputy saw my military ID he said, “Oh, you’re one of those.” Law enforcement seems to want us to respect and like them, but they do not seem to respect or like us very much… and they’re armed and organized. That seems to be a very asymmetric relationship, and those are seldom sustainable.

At the very least, and I get how painful this is, Law Enforcement needs to recognize and address that not everyone with a badge and a gun should have a badge or a gun. (I remember Craig Peyer.) It is true in every profession and they do no one any favors by circling to protect the few who misrepresent them in the community.

In our nominally democratic republic, our institutions are or ought to be a reflection of us and our values. If our institutions are not a reflection of us and our values then that’s the problem, and that’s what we need to fix. If we accept our institutions as they are then that’s the problem, and that’s what we need to fix.

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” – Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)

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Thoughts on Coexisting With Partisan Politics

I believe that my problem is that in my mind I have conflated two separate processes. I sense that I’m not the only one who has made that error. I’ve been ranting because I would really like the opportunity to (finally) vote for the candidate for President whom I feel would best represent me, and it now appears likely that he may suspend his campaign before June 7th; but it’s never been about me.  This has nothing to do with who I want to represent me  as President. Rationally, I need to accept that.

The selection of candidates to stand for election this November is not a Constitutional process. Presidential primary elections are about identifying who will represent the Democratic Party and the Republican Party (and other organized political entities) in the General Election. As a practical matter, unless I believe that either major Party represents my interests, I am always going to be voting for Tweedledum or Tweedledee for President in November. I don’t believe for an instant that either major Party represents my beliefs and concerns.

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I would like to see a truer non-partisan model as we often have elsewhere in government where the money to be made isn’t yet good enough to prevent giving the electorate a real voice. I believe – without proof – that more people might be motivated to participate in the process of choosing their representatives if our government was, in fact, more representative of us. Sadly I see that our government is instead becoming less representative and more partisan at every level.

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What’s to be done about institutional bigotry?

Of course I lived in North Carolina from January, 2010 into May, 2013. I worked with some really good people, some usually good people doing good work, and a few I will never understand how they reconciled their views with the Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross.  In his Essay on the Immortality of the Soul,  David Hume (1711-1776) wrote:

“Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.”

In the New York Times Op Ed pages this morning was a lament: “Why Should My Store Be Boycotted Over a Law I Despise?” and that’s a perfectly legitimate question from the owners of Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe in Asheville, NC.

Asheville – and I do love me some Asheville – is a quirky city in what is really a pretty inhospitable part of the country. Asheville had one of the few Democratic congressmen in the state – albeit a  DINO – until the district was gerrymandered in 2011 to bring it back to the Religious Right. I saw this article on Facebook this morning (“Entire Fucking City of Asheville Moving Out of North Carolina”) , and I could totally see it being true if it was possible to do such a thing.

The problem is that it’s functionally impossible to boycott part of an institution. I’ve been dealing with this for years now, and have never come up with anything better than a least objectionable compromise. If I remember to get gas just before I leave New Mexico, I can get across Texas on I-40 without spending money in Texas,; but, anywhere south of I-40, I’m going to have to support Texas. I always have to support Arizona, too; it’s just too wide.

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I’m aware that I’m rationalizing my tacit support for institutional bigotry. I don’t know if I’ll be going back into Dixie again, but I do need to go at least once and I don’t have time to wait until there’s a sea change in their culture; it’s been at least 150 years already.

 

 

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Pondering American Politics

I lied. I’m going to write some more about Politics, but perhaps not about this particular dysfunctional episode we’re going through. I got onto this track when I noticed that February 5th is the anniversary of the passing of Ronald Dahl who wrote a lot that I never read about political “science.”

I may have shared before that my first experience with politics was in 1964 when I volunteered with the Goldwater campaign. I wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, but by then I had a pretty good idea where I’d be and what I’d be doing after high school and I felt like Goldwater was talking about that more honestly than Johnson. Well, no one wanted to have an honest conversation about the upcoming war in Viet Nam and Goldwater lost.

I was working in the operating rooms at the Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan, in 1968, and voting for Johnson’s Vice President never crossed my mind. Yes, I am to blame for Cheney and Rumsfeld and Rove and that lot. I didn’t know they came with the package, and I didn’t know that Nixon could be so venal and stupid, but I did it.

I was going to go on about the 1976 and subsequent elections; but, for the life of me, I can’t remember if I voted for Carter or Ford. You can blame me for Reagan in 1980, too, because Carter pissed me off and I voted for Anderson instead. The Bushes are all on you folks.

What I’ve noticed and want to explore is that, coincident with our slide toward neo-fascism, we’ve also made uncertain progress toward civil rights and equality for women. What happened to us?

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Bringing it to the present day, we’ve had about 47 years of one party bumbling along and marginalizing itself with factional infighting; and one party apparently deliberately concentrating power on behalf of itself, of course, and international business interests while passing among us as nationalists. This makes no sense to me.

The military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned of is, I believe, part of it, and Big Oil; but after all of that is said and done, Americans in large numbers are consistently voting against their long-term – and often their short-term – self-interests. At least one of these people is not home-schooled or poorly educated, and we often agree throughout the course of a discussion at the end of which she will say, “and that’s why I vote Republican,” and my head explodes. What makes people so frightened – I think it has to be fear – that it makes them blind?

More importantly, what makes 60-70% of the electorate so resigned to the failure of our democratic experiment that they don’t even bother to show up? In 2015 it’s estimated that 114 million people watched the Super Bowl. Three months earlier 82 million of 227 million eligible voters cast ballots for their representatives. I know there are only two viable parties, but how did we come to accept that representing us was secondary to representing the Party? We’ve been tolerating that for 115 years now!

I’m going to try to figure some of this out. I have no hope of fixing anything, but I feel a need to understand it better. Feel free to come along and to chime in.

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Thoughts on Politics

I want to vote for Hillary, but I can’t in a primary. Do you see that political grid over to the right? I’m about as midde-of-the-road as it gets given the issues before us. I recognize that Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed socialist, is significantly to my left, but Hillary isn’t the change that I believe we need to see in America. If elected, Hillary will be another well-intentioned appeaser settling for less than we need so as not to lose or to piss off the Democratic Party hierarchy.

We ought to have Medicare for all. We should have had it with Obamacare. Insurance companies have no interest whatever in our well-being. Their only interest is in making money by using premium dollars to invest in financial markets. You can look it up. Perhaps Blue Shield was originally founded to enable access to physician services and Blue Cross to enable access to hospitals, but that was 1929 and 1930. In my lifetime, it’s just been insurance not unlike any other insurance. Consider that they expect to make more from you than they expect to pay out for your care. Consider that the reason Medicare Advantage Plans can provide all of those little extras is that Medicare pays them more to manage your care than Medicare expects to pay to manage it themselves. It’s stupid!

Eisenhower warned America of the military-industrial complex, but we didn’t listen. “National Security” demands arms research and development and procurement. The simplest thing in the world is to find a enemy to defend against. Congress demands a VA Medical Center by built in every district, but staffing them… well, there’s no photo opportunity in that, and no contractors to support – just more mouths to feed.

We fought the entire Iraq War off the books with an “all-volunteer” force of kids to whom a 5-figure signing bonus looked like the brass ring. For the rehabilitation of the survivors we rely on charity. None of this is Hillary’s fault, but what is she going to do to get us anywhere near back to where we ought to be? She going to fight the fights she knows she can win.

My generation is weak. Our parents survived the Depression and fought two wars while we watched “Leave it to Beaver” and grew up to be weak with an overblown sense of entitlement. VietNam was a bitch so the military draft was halted so future conflicts would be fought by kids for whom the military looked like a step up. Since then it’s been hyper-nationalism, no questions asked on military equipment spending, and penny-pinching on anything that wouldn’t benefit a corporate sponsor.
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Hillary says we can’t afford Medicare for all which is code for “Hillary won’t fight for it.”  She’s telling us up front that she’s going to fight the fights she knows she’s going to win, but she’s not going to jeopardize her reelection much less her legacy by suggesting anything unpopular with the Party and its supporters. I respect her candor to the extent that she’s being candid.

I can’t say now that I believe Bernie has a chance to win, but his legitimate candidacy absolutely improves the debate. We have such a long way to go, and I am reminded of when Schwarzenegger was running for Governor. So many people told me that they knew so-and-so would do a better job, but Arnold was going to win and they didn’t want to “waste their vote.” I’m sorry, but voting for Hillary would be a waste of my vote.

I’ll try not to write any more political posts.

 

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Trivial Pursuit

I find it disturbing that so many of us seem to believe that entertainment is the most important aspect of our experience. I’ve been listening to the coverage of the absence of people of color among Oscar nominees. At first I thought perhaps people of color should make better movies that more people want to see, and then it occurred to me that I had bought into a non-issue.

Of course discrimination continues to be an issue all through mankind, but this fuss is about millionaires of color not being recognized by other millionaires for excellence in entertainment. I suppose I’ve been boycotting the Oscars for years because it’s several hours of coverage of a subject that is, almost by definition, meaningless.

I’m living in San Diego County presently and the biggest issue being talked about at the moment is whether or not the Chargers will move to Los Angeles. A big part of the issue is how many hundreds of millions of dollars local government will commit to guarantee construction of a new stadium for the multi-millionaire owners to hold games between very well-compensated players. These are games (football, baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, etc.) that kids play every day all over the world in dirt lots.
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Meanwhile, a representative of local government said just now (again) that they were hopeful (again) of finding private money to house homeless veterans by the end of this year (again). The stadium stands a much better chance.

Of course it’s Big News that Donald Trump has been endorsed by Sarah Palin! We’ve lost our freaking minds!

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Thoughts on “The Corporate Takeover of the Red Cross”

Propublica came out with another screed about the American Red Cross and its leadership,; and a) I was starting a 3-day training with FEMA, and b) I knew when I thought about it I’d have more to say. I said I’d think about it and respond here.

I want to preface my remarks here by saying that I’ve never met Gail McGovern, or Richard Reed, Senior VP for Disaster Cycle Services. Several people might have overheard my opinion that Richard Reed clearly doesn’t have a volunteer partner, but one of the perks I do enjoy about being a volunteer is that I get to choose the opportunities I want to engage in.

I also don’t know Justin Elliott, the author, nor do I have any more or less respect for his reporting than I would for anyone else. Okay, stating at the outset that Red Cross leadership has “presided over a string of previously unreported management blunders that have eroded the charity’s ability to fulfill its core mission” sounds a little like bullshit hype. I have no idea whose interests he serves beyond his own and getting a paycheck.

There were two fires in Northern California in September. The response I worked on had been started beautifully by local and regional staff and volunteers (a goal of reorganization) with augmentees from nearby and then more distant regions as needed to staff the response as quickly as possible while limiting travel delays and expense. Working with partners in the impacted communities, including a Native American rancheria, clients were sheltered, fed, and assistance centers were opened quickly. Obviously I can’t speak to every response in every region from Maine to Saipan, but I’ve never felt hamstrung by “National.” I don’t think “National” even goes out anymore.

I was never under the impression that we were going to maintain a physical presence “in every single community.” When I first volunteered at the end of 2007 there were chapter offices in many more communities, but many of them were unsustainable and standards of service varied widely from chapter to chapter. I understood that two of the major goals of that phase of reorganization were to standardize the brand and the services provided across the country (Unity) and to centralize financial responsibility for Red Cross assets. As much as it pissed me off to have my local chapter close, I can’t say that it was a bad call.

When I first started going out on responses my boss at the time asked me what we provided and, when I told her, she said: “Is that all!?!” Well, no, it’s not all, because Client Casework (I don’t do Client Casework anymore) works in partnership with each impacted family using whatever resources are available in the community until the client’s disaster caused needs are met. I don’t necessarily love Direct Client Assistance, but it’s much easier to deliver and easier to teach to new responders, and we still partner with each family through the recovery process.
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My body doesn’t do cots in staff shelters as well as it used to, so now I deploy with a little air mattress. Yes, I’d much rather be in a motel, even with that guy who watches ESPN to fall asleep (but barely), but I’m pretty sure most donors don’t intend to put me in a motel while evacuees are on cots. I believe that many volunteers who leave the Red Cross because the perks are changing have taken their eye off the mission: so long as we’re safe, voluntary service is never about us but the clients.

Volunteers come and go all the time, and the few employees whose job requires them to lead volunteers are woefully overworked and underpaid. Recently staffing levels have been standardized across the nation based on population served and, I believe, on how common disaster are in a Region. I don’t know what else to say about that; I don’t believe most donors intend to support a lot of non-responding paid staff. (I do want my employee support replaced, please.)

The mission of the Red Cross, although it was changed somewhat a few years ago, remains supportable: The American Red Cross prevents and alleviates human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors. I’m good with it.

As an afterthought, I haven’t said anything about Gail McGovern.  I don’t know her. I really don’t care about bosses. Once I have the direction I need, I’m pretty much done with them. I wish her, and all who love her, a long and happy life. The same is true for Richard Reed, although he seems to create more issues for my employee partners and he might benefit from a volunteer partner.

 

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I Think We’re Over-Thinking or Not Thinking At All

Okay, about all of this killing we’re doing… and I totally get that it’s different when we kill them, but I bet it doesn’t feel different to the ones being killed.

First I think we need to look in the mirror because we do act on our prejudices, and you can’t base a rational strategy on an irrational premise. Crazy is going to stay crazy.

I don’t say that we’re bigots or whatever, but let’s admit that the deaths in France hit us harder than the deaths in Africa because we’re of European ancestry. It’s not fair and it pisses off people of African ancestry, but the attacks in Paris happened to people like us. Let’s own that and put it aside for at least a while.

I’d like to see us put aside the religious rhetoric. I’m convinced that religion has very little if anything to do with terrorism if only because everybody does the same damn things regardless of their religious cover story. They do this crap for the same reason that Capone wanted to take over Chicago. Luciano wanted to take over the mob, and (pick a dictator) wanted to take over the world: a lust for power.

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These are crimes. We have cops. The whole world has cops and some of them, many if not most of them I’d say, are pretty good at what they do. Find out who engineered these crimes and where they are and take them out in as surgically precise a manner as possible. Don’t piss off every innocent civilian within a thousand miles just because they have different beliefs and wear man-dresses instead of pants.

Will my approach stop “terrorism?” No.

Has anything stopped crime so far? Is there any population in the history of mankind where everyone has stayed in their lane and followed the rules? We don’t have to stop trying and we don’t have to be stupid about it. The dumbest person I know had to admit that you can’t kill all of your enemies, especially when you go around making new enemies everywhere besides the widows and orphans.

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