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Lefties hurt the poor

This fact is a horrible reality that I am forced to confront nearly every day.  The Left is always hurting the poor.  People who know demographic data know this.

What got me so steamed up recently is that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors have banned the sale of flavored tobacco in San Francisco.  That impacts menthol cigarettes.  Who smokes menthol cigarettes?  Disproportionately Blacks and poor people.  The law won’t impact vape smoking which is already underground.

How many examples will it take to show everyone that the Left punishes poor people?

Blacks and poor people are disproportionately heavy users of alcohol and cigarettes.  The most heavily taxed retail goods on the market.  

They also drive older cars that use more gasoline, heavily taxed gasoline, and have expensive smog checks annually.  The poor get disproportionately more parking tickets which are expensive.  

The poor pay regular utility rates which subsidize rich people’s electric cars, solar panels and car charging stations.

Second hand children’s toys have been taken off the market because used goods stores are required to have expensive machines to check for lead in every single children’s toy, stroller, blanket or crib.

Blacks and poor people die much earlier so they get fewer years of social security support.  

Blacks and poor people start jobs at lower wages and stay at lower wages longer.  So minimum wage laws eliminate jobs for blacks and poor people first.  Also for young people who need starter jobs to learn working skills.

Blacks and poor people live in the most dangerous neighborhoods.  They need guns for home self-defense.  Consistent with everything else Lefties created, gun laws that the poor need to deal with are almost impossible to navigate and very costly for each transaction.  

I could go on but the point should be obvious.

The Left hurts blacks and poor people most with nearly every piece of legislation and new tax they pass.  

There is an emotional problem with being sympathetic to blacks and poor people.  They vote 90% Lefty.

Zen and enlightenment

I am enlightened and disappointed with enlightenment.

For nearly 40 years I have sat zazen, which is the Zen Buddhist practice of sitting on a pillow (zafu) cross legged, without moving, for 40 minutes every morning with eyes slightly open.   There are many variations on this in Buddhism and several major categories of Buddhism.

I became enlightened within the first few years of sitting including several weeklong sessions of all day sitting, and didn’t recognize it until I was sitting outside in the fog (covered with a blanket) on a cruise ship.  

To be enlightened is to see the world in front of you with clear open eyes.  Just seeing the world in all its detail and splendor.  No ideas, no dreaming, no TV stories… just what you see, hear, smell, feel and sense.  As long as you can do that fully, for minutes, hours, days you are enlightened.  I can be ‘present’ pretty much indefinitely.

What can I say about Zen practice?  I like it.  I’m glad I don’t live in my mind, my fantasy world any more.  It gives me great power to deal with the world and emotions.  Most of all it has allowed me, personally to see the world around me more clearly than I think most people see it.   I also think it is good for my health.

What is disappointing?  It doesn’t seem to have much serious impact for most other people.  I know seven Zen abbotts and dozens of other Buddhist practitioners. All of them have the same view of the world they had when they were 17 years old.  They are squishy peaceniks who have the same trite Marxist view of the world.  Life has not taught them anything of consequence.

We have lived to see the total collapse of Marxism in the USSR, Mao’s China and several other national communist disasters.  So have these Zen practitioners.  But it never had an impact on their worldview.  That is disappointing.

I have observed that humans, like other primates, are able to learn voraciously when young and we totally stop learning when we reach adulthood (about age 23).

I find that only 1 out of 250 humans is capable of new thought after age 23,  I am disappointed that Zen meditation and probably all meditation does nothing to change that.