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When I first started doing blogs, my intention was to express myself on many things and not just politics. However, with the world becoming in more disarray and the U.S. being torn apart by the misjudgement of Socialist politics, I don't feel I should stand silently by and watch the world be taken to Hell by an incompetent man such as our current President is.
Growing up in Canada during the latter part of the Great Depression is not a pleasant memory. It was a learning lesson that prepared me for facing politics in the future. Having an alcoholic father who never really recovered from being a machine gunner in WW1 made it more difficult. Welfare was next to none and with him never making it home with a paycheck caused a lot of grief and desperation for my mother with 11 children to raise on practically nothing. But she did it, Being of American pioneer stock before getting married to my Canadian Dad and raised in Eureka, Mont. by pioneering parents from Jackson, Minnesota. My mother was 4 in 1904 and they traveled by Wagon the last 85 miles of their journey. It took them 3 days to do it. She graduated at 18 and there she met my Dad.
It was a damn tough life in anyone's estimation. Often times we were so stretched out for food that the Quaker oats we had for breakfast was made into paddies and fried in bacon grease to enhance the flavor to be served to us for dinner.
There were more times than once my mother sat in our large kitchen by the window gazing out at the street, watching us eat while she herself went without. She was basically a strong lady but every once in a while she would burst out crying and wouldn't tell us why. It would hurt us as much as it did her.
But needing her strength the way we did, It also frightened us. She was our only post we had to lean on, since our Dad was never home to help. When he seldom showed up either drunk or hung over anyway, he was just another mouth to feed.
As the children grew up they left that town and only returned for short periodic visits. They all entered the U.S. with the dream of bettering themselves and they did. At the age of 39, I came too.
I was successful enough in Canada but since I had always yearned to know what it was like to be out from the shadow of the Queen's rule and live in a true Democracy with a Constitution and Bill of rights, I left it behind. So here I am.
Several years before though, knowing that the CBC had a very Labor oriented, Socialist point of view, I would get up early in the morning and tune in to the Spokane radio station for their news and to listen to Ronald Reagan's morning show. It was several years before he became a Republican Presidential candidate.
Reflecting back I remembered the Socialist NDP rhetoric that was used on CBC (owned by the Queen of England, I learned later) during election campaigns.
Darned if I wasn't hearing the same Socialist rhetoric being used by the Democratic Party down here. It wasn't difficult to decide who I was going to vote for.
I also realized that during the first 20 yr'.s here, there were no radio stations to tell the other side of the story in the Northwest either. NPR was a carbon copy of the CBC.
I felt awfully alone during that period with no media to defend the right or Conservative side of politics. So 15 years ago Fox News came on the scene to actually tell the other side of the story,
I was overjoyed to hear it. I'll bet anyone who lived in a Socialist or Communist country on the underprivileged side will reiterate what I've pointed out. Thank you Fox News for 15 enjoyable years in the Northleft West. I ask that anyone who reads this will at least listen to the "Other Side of the Story" Just sayin'.
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