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Transgendering Trumpisms

Trump started it, with his arguments against transgender people in the military violence business of nationalism. He seems to think trans-thinking could not be sufficiently focused, disciplined, willing to accept ego-sacrifices as necessary for successful long-term peaceful outcomes. While this does seem to be an issue, this lack of focus and self-discipline, for some in the long-term healthy peace achievement business, anyone who is transgender and yet willing to gamble on thriving in a military culture is not likely to suffer in those ways, unlike lack of congressional climates for health care outcomes, and far removed from a Trumpian, late-decadent Victorian, All Supremacist WhiteHouse. It is ever so much easier to retain a stiff upper lip, and shut your over-twitterish hatefilled mouth, when thou art Queen Bee of the Hill, than when one of the many transgender soldier bees, defending your right to lay really tragic not-funny eggs in full view of a not skeptical enough Republic. Perhaps we would all be better off if we only nominated for President people who had successful experience not only as Governors or Senators or even Vice Presidents, but also some successful transgender experience. For to become Trans is a lifespan progress. Not only unity of focus and discipline of bilateral selves, but also an intuitive feel for balance between the virulent egocentric and the viable possibilities for cooperative eco-centric diversity, and a sense of appropriate and inappropriate use of color. Color, not only variations on yellow with red with blue, not only black and brown with diverse hues and textures of white and pink flesh, but also colorful language pattern and rhythmic texture, tone, ranging scales of operatic drama but also peaceful romantic moonlit nights here in this focused, balancing, colorful spacetime place transgender celebrates as a peaceful, yet fertile, diversely promising womb of Earth. Perhaps we could also improve leadership for all Earth's health care giving and receiving, by closing the Senate to straight white males of any age. We employ far too many of those in the incompetent House of NonRepresentatives to achieve successful unity, balance, and color. Bullies focus on their monoculturing intents and violent purposes, as necessary, as self-justified, so are not known for skill sets involving polyculturally balancing ecopolitically healthy outcomes, much less any Commons sense of polyphonic color, much less any politically liberating sense of humor. For this full design package, we could more successfully turn to society's transgender victims, soldiering on with and without us if we could just keep up with their divinely inspiring senses of and for balancing peaceful yet radiant colors of integrity, both inside and out.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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