I have written thousands of articles for print and online publications. Today I write for myself. Although most of my rants have been related to political and human rights issues, I have decided to be more focused on first amendment rights and the responsibility of government to represent the majority. This is the greatest sin of the Trump administration. I will also expose the mainstream media which can no longer claim to be the “fourth estate.”

I am 73 years old. I was barely a teenager when I began to think about feminism. I had no idea what that term meant and didn’t until I was in my early twenties. However, I had already witnessed the abuse of my mother, and I was aware that women were virtually ignored by society and under-appreciated.

Move forward to the 1960’s. The awareness that racism was a far more egregious problem than reported by the media demanded my attention.  And as the illegal war in Vietnam began to grow, I knew that our government was arrogant and unconcerned about the lives of our military and their families.

My generation also learned that older, brainwashed, and uninformed Americans rejected opposition to the establishment as our nation became divided between older and younger Americans; the latter were drafted into a controversial war on the other side of the world. To this day no one understands why our government went to war in a nation no one heard about before.

One fact remains true; “all governments are bad; some are worse than others.” Today the American people have the worst.

I will offer my readers the truth by exposing the lies emanating from our leaders in Washington. I will also reveal the “lies of omission” from the mainstream media; especially “television news.”

A final note; I have decided to boycott Facebook. Not only is it frivolous, it is now posting articles paid for by Trump’s paid liars with the sole intention of obtaining votes under false pretenses in the 2020 election.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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