Simply going out your front door and walking or rolling down the street and daring to exist is a political act when you have a disability.

The trajectory of my recovery alongside the political sphere in America I’ll talk about. It’s the backstory to the prior posts I published here.

What has happened to me was the deciding factor in not writing about politics anywhere at all going forward.

Early in my recovery getting well was my prime focus. Helping others was put on the back burner shut off.

In college in the 1980s I wrote an 18-page term paper for an Economic Geography course on the effect of sanctions on apartheid in South Africa. In the 1990s I was aware that what was going on in Rwanda was genocide.

Only that was the extent of my foray into politics. Until 2011 when I attended an MLK Candlelight Vigil for Peace in January. Innocent I was in giving the host of the event my email to find out about the gathering in the future. She gave my email address to other political organizations. Who then gave my email to scores of others fringe groups.

I’ve had to shut down that email account and open a new one precisely because the old address was overrun with junk mail from people attacking the current president and what’s going on in the government.

After this I chose not to write about politics anymore in the blogs or elsewhere.

I’m here to tell everyone of my followers that your recovery from whatever illness trauma or injustice you face should be the number-one priority in your life.

I see where America is heading and it’s not in the continuation of a zero-sum game where a few people of privilege win and everyone else loses.

In America today anyone–be it the media darlings spreading attacks against you and me and others; the anti-racist folk like Kendi and di Angelo; or anyone who either feels entitled or passed over by immigrants or Black Americans succeeding–who wants things to be given to them should think twice about expecting a free lunch.

It’s clear to me that in the age of authoritarian rule there’s no snowball chance in hell of ever going back toi how life used to be.

I’m writing a second recovery guide that I think I must publish after all in lieu of what’s going on. In the book I list over 100 ways to save and earn money in the new America.

I see the writing on the wall. People who collect SSI or SSDI can earn extra money “under the table” and also with taxable income from a part-time job.

I’ll end here by saying that the fact that I or you or any other peer chooses to make our own health wealth and happiness a priority is not shameful. It is not selfish. It is not a sin.

In fact we will not survive in America unless we take our recovery into our own hands. The new normal is not normal.

In the blog coming up I will write about ways to earn money under late-stage capitalism that don’t involve selling our souls or doing emotional labor for pennies on the dollar or breaking our backs.

Sorry if I upset others with the force of the last post. WordPress lists me as having only 28 followers now.

Either WordPress hit a glitch or 72 people ended following me after the last post. I’ll be the first to say that I regret having voted for some of the dangerous clowns I pulled the flapjack for or slid the ballot into the machine for.

Did I upset people by recounting what Allen Frances, M.D. wrote? Only algorithms fuel antagonistic clickbait that keeps Americans juiced up and judging each other. No one can deny that this falls under the rubric of a collective psyche that has become business as usual and could be considered pathological. Attacks go viral in nanoseconds. So does the hearsay about what other people are doing and saying that the original writer posted in a malicious attack.

Everyday American life shouldn’t be like this. No one benefits from scrolling this kind of social media two hours a day. If there was a WordPress glitch that ended 72 followers to this blog then I’m sorry too that the readers who left are missing out on competitive career advice.

We can’t deny that Americans get who we elect. Not every Democrat president has been OK either. In the coming blog entry I’ll talk about my choice of not getting political in the blogs anymore.

It begs the reality of the popular vote versus the electoral college. As things stand no elected leader has a vested interest in doing away with the electoral college.

You could say Kamala Harris won the popular vote. Only the election night map that I saw was red red red all over the United States. This led me to believe that the majority of Americans voted for the president.

A woman told me that she thinks Elon Musk rigged the election. Funny how no Democrats claim election fraud when a Republican wins. No Democrat slandered Georgia election officials.

You see why I refuse to write about politics in the blogs any more. It detracts from the focus of health and fitness and of career advice and of beauty and fashion and book reviews.

The next blog entry will be about why exactly I choose not to get political. And why I think followers and other peers should keep politics out of our play.

Because really Americans hating each other and attacking each other has been not normal. Putting our faith in whatever political candidate comes around every four years promising us the sun moon and stars hasn’t always been to our advantage.

Like I said: there have been Democrats that I wish I hadn’t voted for too. Now is the time to hold our elected leaders accountable for doing what they said they will when they campaign for us to vote for them.

Again I want no part of writing about politics any more. Zero. Zip. Nada.

In my career guide Working Assets I make one specific positive distinction:

It’s possible to have a job you love. Even if you’re not doing what you love on the job.

To wit:

You might not want to become a professional chef in a kitchen with all the demands. Instead you can bake cakes for coworkers to bring to your job to share in the staff kitchen.

I think everyone should buy and read a copy of Working Assets by the way. It’s on Amazon. The competitive information tells readers everything you need to know.

In my view it’s foolish not to ask for professional help when creating your resume. Ninety-five percent of the first draft resumes other people create to give to me for a review are terrible.

With 2 simple changes the resume can go from awful to AWEsome. Trust me. Staff at a public library are often trained to help patrons create resumes and conduct job searches.

It’s a FREE service that doesn’t cost you a dime. Unless you donate money to the library as a charitable contribution.

So–how can a person find a job they love. It could take trial and error. Yet it shouldn’t take 9 years like it did for me to realize that I shouldn’t be working in corporate offices!

In Working Assets I talk about creating a short-term Action Grid to figure out what kind of job you’d like to work at.

In a coming blog entry I’m going to focus on non-traditional workplaces.

In a future blog entry like I referred to before I will write about working hard the right way on a job.

My recent blogs posts I think were too graphic.

I’ve taken off the last 3 blog entries I posted here. My original intent in posting them was that I wanted to speak out about the current injustice. Sadly it’s too far gone in what’s going on. A friend and I were talking about this turn of events.

Here’s the real deal: If you want to understand the root of income inequality in America read the book Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America. It exposes what happens when Amazon sets up warehouses and distribution centers in rural areas in the U.S.

Read books. End of story. Read current nonfiction to become aware of what’s going on. The one thing I will revive in this blog entry is what I did write in one of the deleted missives: Americans hating fearing judging and shaming each other has to STOP.

This is what’s gotten out of hand: that some of us–too many of us–use skin color alone to assess a person’s competence or character.

Too like I said I’m not a fan of either side of the government. I dislike Liberals the same way I detest Conservatives.

I’m going to post blog entries coming up about how to get a job in 2025 in the current political climate. I will write about this in a measured and considered way instead.

The friend I talked to [and I do too] knows the whole neoliberal economic system in America started in the 1970s. This inequality is nothing new. It’s been around for at least 50 years.

Anyone who knows American history knows that during Jim Crow there were separate water fountains in the South for White and Black Americans. This is as far as I’ll go to resuscitate what I wrote in the deleted blog entries.

As well the last reference I can use is the idea of Merit alone being the reason a person gets a job offer. In a future blog entry I will talk about Merit in more detail. Then give workarounds for competing to get a job when allegedly today Merit will be the only factor.

I’m taking a detour from the blog entry I was going to post coming up.

A faithful friend is gone and I feel the need to honor his memory. He was a peer who brought joy to everyone whose lives he touched.

Riding home in a private car after hearing the news two lines from the famous Marianne Williamson quote streamed into my head over and over: You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

Might we dare greatly to take up space even when the media darlings, the anti-psychiatry cranks, and countless others hate judge and shame us. What irks them about us is their problem not ours.

Here is the full Williamson quote with the pertinent lines in bold:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”

This week I had my new article published on the Mental Health Affairs blog website. I’m going to give readers the link to the essay here.

What should be added here as the corollary to what I wrote in the piece is that “geography determines biography.” Where you are born can determine your personal history and where you go in life. Or whether your opportunities are limited forever.

The failed trajectory of obtaining the American Dream is a reality for the very people shut out of the thriving cites in the Northeast corridor or elsewhere.

What I’ve been thinking about is how to best aid individuals living in rural or Rust Belt areas. They are the very ones the government can help out by giving every American a $1,000/monthly Universal Basic Income (UBI).

Sadly, elected leaders resist creating this option. They’re selling billions in arms to Saudi Arabia to fight wars in the middle east.

Where has that money been going once America gets it?

Here’s my See Who We Are article.