“That the American people are allowing this wannabe dictator-king to waste millions of taxpayer dollars to appease his nationalist base speaks volumes about what we've become.”

“Elect a ringmaster and allow him to appoint a bunch of clowns… You usually get a circus.”

“Language is very important. It's how we communicate. But when you don't want to communicate with everyone, well, you change the words of the language to confuse those you want to keep in the dark.”

“Are our social and religious morals and values only applicable to those who follow traditional norms and believe as we do?”

“Are we so enamored with this small-minded, wanna-be dictator that we are willing to be his accomplices in the destruction of the Ukrainian people?”

“You get the government you elect. Therefore, you get the government you deserve.”

“The days of ignoring politics, living only for self, and leaving it to others to mind things have passed.”

“One of the flaws in the mental behavior of Homo sapiens is that, over time, we forget or ignore the reason we created a fix to solve a problem and then recreate the problem by removing what we did to fix it.”

“What has happened to the people of America? What have we become?”

“Let no one convince you that God's Word belongs to a chosen few. It does not. It belongs to us all.”

“Our current scientific knowledge and understanding of our shared reality have far surpassed that of the philosophers, prophets, sages, and scripture writers whose ideas and works we study.”

“How does humanity resolve its myriad divisions to prevent its eventual social destruction?”

“That the rights for all Americans are just and equal is an illusion.”

“…put on your clown face, party clothes, your dancing shoes,

and get down to the beat.”

“To love the incorporeal nested within our beliefs more than we love the tangible active within our experience leads to division. And ulitimately, to humanity's social destruction.”

“Regardless of our race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or citizenship, ours is to live in a manner that prevents humanity’s social destruction and the human-caused ecological devastation of this planet we share.”

“Consumed by the fear of losing control of what they no longer control. And their longing for a time in an idyllic past that never was, right-wing conservative Republicans would rather destroy America than share it with all its citizens.”

“No matter the religion we practice, our philosophy, or our concept of God, the state of the world within our shared reality is the same for us all.”

“We’ve got the power to shape our lives. No magic wands or wishing on stars. We’ve got to get up and put in the work!”

“Our senses, our experiences in this world, that’s how we make sense of things.”