Democrats do not understand why many Americans will vote for Donald Trump

 

    A professional photographer in the Florida Keys, who took that photo of me in 2006, commented on the upside down American flag in the recent a patriot’s assessment of American presidents, wars and cults post, "That is Trump's flag !!!.” 

     I wrote back, “I’m afraid it’s America’s flag for some time.” 

    He replied, “My American flag flies with the stars on top! Best wishes.”

    He is a Democrat to the core. Based on our many emails regarding posts at my blogs dating back to 2007, he is incapable of faulting Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris, for anything. He represents most Democrats I know.

    Democrats do not get it that the massive immigration they and their presidents have promoted is not good for America. 

    Democrats do not understand that if Donald Trump gets elected next month, in large part it will be because the Democrats and their presidents promoted the foreign invasion of America.

    There is something else Democrats don’t  seem to grasp. Let me use my hometown, Birmingham, Alabama, a blue city that for some time has experienced shootings in black neighborhoods. 

    About two weeks ago, there was a mass shooting in a vape shop in Birmingham’s popular Points South restaurant/entertainment district. The shooters were black and it apparently was a black gang-related hit targeting one black male, who was killed. Innocent bystanders also were shot, and some were killed. I wonder if the people who paid for the hit considered how many white votes they got for Donald Trump in the white Birmingham suburbs?

    In that vein, consider a recent Al.com column by Roy Johnson, who is black and I follow:

B'ham business leaders across region must step into the battle against gun violence — for our children  

 

I didn't notice the label pin. Not at first. Truthfully, not until hours later when I looked closely at the photo I'd taken at Birmingham's City Hall while Mayor Randall Woodfin was announcing his new commission on crime.

 

It comprises leaders from the public and private sectors, from business, judicial, nonprofit, community and education.

 

The pin, nestled on the left label of Carnelle Howell, the gentleman standing nearest me, simply said: "Children First."

 

Children first. That should drive all of our actions. What are we doing or saying that elevates the lives of children, now and beyond?

 

One of my biggest frustrations since moving to Birmingham 10 years ago has been the disconnect between the city and the 30+ municipalities to its south.

 

None are more than 20-odd minutes from downtown Birmingham, yet psycho-graphically they might as well be light years away.

 

They're referred to here as "over-the-mountain" (OTM) communities because they sit just over the hills that buttress Birmingham to the south. They might as well be over the moon.

 

You don't have to be a historian to know these communities are the vestiges of white flight, which splintered the region more than six decades ago. Splintered it geographically but more importantly, splintered its heart.

 

Many OTM residents work in the city but roll back home before sundown (though that's changing with all the new bars and restaurants downtown). Many youth in schools in cities like Hoover and Vestavia Hills never meet a counterpart from Birmingham unless it's through sports. They never venture downtown unless for a field trip to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute or a concert at the BJCC.

 

Last month's mass shooting/killing (17 injured, 4 deaths) in the Five Points South, an area where some of the OTM folks' fav food spots and watering holes are located, may have awakened some who've largely written off the gun violence as "their" problem.

 

Business leaders, after decades of quietly serving on boards and writing checks, began quietly asking: "What can we do?"

 

For starters, come out from behind the curtain, I wrote, and publicly join those charged with creating change. Change that must elevate — and save — the lives of our children.

 

And our neighbors, no matter where in the region they live.

 

On Tuesday, many of them stood before the council and committed to being part of the solution instead of continuing to ignore the problem.

 

"We must all do more," committee co-chair Ralph Williams told me.

 

Yes, we must.

  

Please read my column here and my story on the Woodfin Crime Commission.  

 

    I emailed Roy: 

Unfortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court going back a long time ignored the well regulated militia preface to Amendment 2 and gave Americans the right to bear just about any kind of gun imaginable. That horse is long out of the barn. I live on Highland Avenue on the way to the public golf course. I used to eat at restaurants in or near 5 Points at night with friends. No more. I have flown away and there is nothing Mayor Woodfin can do to change my mind, nor do I think there was any way he and BPD or anyone over the mountain could have prevented the 5 Points shooting. In fact, this week, I am moving to the country north of Birmingham, not because of the 5 Points shooting, but because of a woman I took up with. Yet, where she lives is remote, and although it's MAGA country, it is much safer than Birmingham. The way America is going, I wonder if living in the country will be a bit safer than living in cities? I grew up in white affluent Mt. Brook, and I left it behind in the 1970s. I have left a lot of places behind since then. I wish America was different, but it looks to me that it's going to become more dangerous, and more dangerous, and there is nothing that can be done about it, because it's like a terminal progressing plague. I still address it at my blog and in my podcasts and with people one on one, but I am not blind to just how dire it is. If I were Mayor Woodfin, I would see to it that well armed guards are at the doors to every public school in Birmingham, while children, teachers and school staff are there. Otherwise, I see very little he, or anyone, can do to stop shootings.

    Roy replied: 

Alright, Sloan! Enjoy the country and your new woman! Appreciate you. R

I replied: 

Thanks, likewise!

    During that time frame, this arrived in my Facebook Messenger:

Una White
Hello, is this the best place to ask a question?

Me

it is a place to ask a question

Una White

Awesome, we're actually looking for one lawyer to partner with in Birmingham, AL. We’ll bring you more case opportunities using our system and the first 30 days are free.

Would you be interested to connect and see how we do this for other lawyers?

Me

I dunno. I turned 82 last week and have not practiced law full time since 1985, and right now my Alabama law license is inactive but can be activated fairly easily. For several decades now, I have tried cases and been on trial myself in God’s Court, which is a bit different going than the human courts and jurisprudence systems. Here’s a link brief or complaint of sorts, which I filed yesterday in God’s Court. patriot’s assessment of American presidents, wars and cults

https://afoolsworkneverends.blogspot.com/2024/10/a-patriots-assessment-of-america-nation.html

    Nothing further from Una.

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