Little fish, big pond

Donald Trump should be in jail. Instead, in about a week, he might be voted in to the most powerful position in the world.

This is Democracy in action. The will of the people. People who are scared and poor and gullible, able to look beyond all the bluster and find a savior. People who are wealthy and selfish and hopeful that their pile of money will only get bigger. People who are tired of pronouns and wokeness and trans issues because they do not see the value in any of it. People who relate and aspire to the bravado, the machismo, the message. And people who believe that gas and food and life will become more affordable.

Us versus them or Us. It’s really a simple choice. And each side knows that they’re right so let’s stop arguing and evolve. Do what teachers do and back plan from where you want to be to today.

The kids do this, David Hodges has been explaining on the talk show circuit about his generation coming of age and getting ready to work toward peace love and understanding. 20somethings see the mess that 60somethings are ignoring. A planet in crisis, wars killing innocent people, nuclear buildup, an education system unable and unwilling to keep up with technology, problems that need attention right now while the two candidates spend 16 billion dollars on… What?!?

Back planning is simple, think about where you want to be in 1, 5, 10 years then create the curriculum which will get you there. Want to solve climate change? Homelessness? Wars? Nuclear buildup? Guns? Move toward caring not killing? We already have a plan for all of it but four more years with a leader who simply does not care will only keep us arguing while the issues grow.

Donald Trump believes that Climate Change is a hoax. That the homeless should just get jobs. That we should not get involved in any any wars outside our boarders and get to fighting “The enemy within” which means me and anyone else who thinks freely. Nuclear buildup, good, guns, good, caring not killing, sorry boomer, Capitalism has winners and losers.

And how about this for a scary potential scenario, the National Guard driving a bus down Lucas Avenue in the springs, knocking on doors, “Do you have papers? No, then get on the bus.”  

I have hope for the next generation. We just completed a unit on AI and realized, just like smartphones, it’s really just a fancy new pencil. The key is in how we use it.

Cell phones have ruined the world, it’s been my mantra for years but what I really should say is our use of cell phones as entertainment has ruined the world. AI is on that same page, amazing potential to make us smarter, but we will probably end up using it wrong and create more problems. Why find a cure for cancer when you can watch AI Taylor Swift porn.

One of my favorite activities during the AI unit was asking one of the platforms how to solve climate change and it came up with the simple answer to just get rid of all people which was true but kinda scary. AI will be good at solving problems but not so good at understanding the complexities of the question.

Solutions? Sure, start with leadership that values Us instead of Us versus Them. Listen to the next generation as they fumble and try and fail and try again and move forward in a world with a lot of broken parts. And maybe look at those broken parts and see what you can do about them before your very short time on earth ends.

Or don’t. Continue the struggle, continue to hate, continue to believe that the bad people just have to fall in line for society to work. Winners and losers, empathy is for the weak, strength through superior fire power, blah, blah, blah.

If Donald Trump wins next week, he will cut the corporate tax rate from 21% to 15% to thank all the billionaires who got him elected, erase all pending litigation against himself, cut all social programs and end the department of education, and it won’t be long before we see those busses coming down Lucas Avenue.

Believe in Us America, make America smart again.