I discovered this blog the other day, I Could Be Wrong and it gives me some reassurance to read it:
My dog and I most mornings go to this little place along the Intracoastal Waterway for breakfast and a cup of coffee. The sun, most days, has not risen yet so we can sit back end enjoy the birth of a new day. Sometimes we see a dolphin or two. Sometimes the Black Skimmers are feeding. It is a good way to refresh your soul every morning. It is also a good way to realize what is really important in life. The older I get the more reflecting I do. I am closer to the end than the beginning but that’s ok.
History is important to me. I love checking historical facts. A lot of the time I find out what I thought was a fact growing up really isn’t. You can’t stop studying history because our knowledge of history is always evolving. In today’s digital age it is so easy to research any subject and, as new facts are discovered, they are easy to share with the rest of the world. Yes in today’s digital age all history is world history. You can try to burn all the books that you want but because of the internet it is impossible to erase that book from history. Now there is a lot of BS out there on the internet but there is also a lot of truth. It is our job to sort through the BS to find the truth. That is what history is. The search for the truth.
The truth is not being told very much lately. When it comes to vaccines the “my body, my choice “historically does not hold up. It hasn’t held up from the beginning. Dear Old George had his troops get vaccinated for the small pox. Soldiers in the military get vaccinated for just about everything today. They cannot say “my body, my choice”. The people that are telling you that hope that you are too lazy to check for yourself or just too stupid to know that they are lying to you. Because of all the digital evidence history will know who lied and the digital evidence will probably outlast this country. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a mother of three. I wonder if she worries about what her great grandchildren will be reading about her. She will not be able to write her own history. In the end that is what historians do. Take Robert E Lee. I grew up thinking that he was a hero of the south just like everyone else. I thought he was fighting for a noble cause. In the end it has been proved by historians that he was just fighting for a way of life based on slavery. He was fighting for an economic system just based on slavery. Those were not very noble causes.
I have written before that you have to be careful today what you write and say because in today’s digital age it will more than likely outlive your great grandchildren. Can you imagine what history will say when they here Trump bragging about grabbing women by the pussy. He is literally bragging about sexually assaulting women and we still elected that man President. That recording will survive and our great grandchildren are going to think that we were nuts. They will read about people taking animal dewormer instead of a readelly available proven vaccine. All the lying and misinformation will be known as just that, lying and misinformation. How do you think that history will write about Trump, McCarthy and McConnell? You can say what about the lying from the Democrats. I will say what lying? They have not always been right but for the most part they are the more honest of the two parties. I once mentioned Trump’s lying and a Republican friend said what about the lying from Obama. I asked what lying? All she could come up with was not everyone was able to keep their same doctor. There is a big difference from being wrong and lying.
I have also stated many time that the lying and misinformation has weakened this country and has strengthened our enemies. I have asked the question who benefits? America doesn’t benefit. Russia may benefit. China may benefit. The real people that I believe will benefit is the people like the Koch family. The 1% that we here so much about but are always working in the shadows so their faces are not seen. The people that own our politicians are lying to us. They are lying for them. So they keep reaping billions and we fall further behind. They are the real people that do not want to see a free America and many of them are Americans themselves.
I write this blog knowing that someone someday may come across it so I try to make it as truthful as I can. Will it pass the test of time? I don’t know, but it will be honest.
